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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to read the enclosed memorandum that Surgeon General Presley Marion Rixey drew up after Roosevelt’s meeting with him and Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-17
After meeting with Surgeon General of the Navy Presley Marion Rixey and Surgeon General of the Army Robert M. O’Reilly, President Roosevelt has concluded that regulations for the medical corps in the Navy should be analogous to those in the Army. It appears to Roosevelt that the Navy Bureau of Navigation has not been efficient in their dealings with the medical corps. He asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to speak with him about the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-09
The letter from Charles E. Magoon, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, both impressed President Roosevelt and made him uneasy. Roosevelt is thinking of appointing a commission of experts to visit the Canal Zone to compile a report on what should be done to avoid outbreaks of illness, and asks for Magoon’s opinion on such an action.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-03
Alexander Lambert informs President Roosevelt that he has accepted an invitation from Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly to serve on a board to evaluate whether inoculations against typhoid should be given to soldiers in the army. Lambert asks if he might be able to stay with Roosevelt while he is in town. He additionally congratulates Roosevelt on the recent victory of Harvard’s football team over Yale, and mentions a pair of books that he thinks that Roosevelt may be interested in reading. Lambert recently saw Robert Harry Munroe Ferguson, and comments on his health.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-01
Secretary of War Taft sends President Roosevelt a memorandum from Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly regarding the case of Army surgeon Aaron H. Appel, and personally opines that “Major Appel is a man whose presence in the Army is a detriment to it. He has been more trouble than all the other Surgeons in the Army put together.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-18
R. P. Schwerin asks that Edward Henry Harriman intercede for the appointment of Eugene Ames to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Eugene’s father, Dr. Howard E. Ames, is a Naval Medical Inspector with an honorable service record, including having served in the Greely Relief Expedition. Dr. Ames has acquired letters of recommendation for his son from many prominent military officers and greatly desires that his son be appointed to fill the last vacant position of naval midshipman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-15