Pima County Medical Society Minutes

The collection contains the minutes of the Pima County Medical Society for the years 1904-1954. The 1904-1925 minutes are handwritten; the 1926-1954 minutes are typescripts. The 1904-1920 minutes were entered into a notebook with numbered and lined pages that was subsequently bound (or rebound). The 1921-1925 minutes are handwritten entries in a bound notebook with numbered and lined pages; this binding is now in poor condition. The 1926-1954 were kept in four loose-leaf binders.

Comprising approximately 1,250 pages, the collection includes minutes of regular meetings, executive committee meetings, board of directors meetings, and special meetings. It also includes membership lists, membership applications (1926-1939), constitution and bylaws, articles of incorporation, financial reports and some miscellaneous inclusions (draft notes, vote tallies, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, etc.).

For many of the dates after November, 1947 there are two sets of minutes -- one for an executive committee or board of directors meeting that was held in advance of the regular meeting and one for the regular meeting. In addition, for both the executive committee/board of directors meetings and the regular meetings, there are often two versions of the minutes. Sometimes there are clear differences -- such as a long and a short version -- and sometimes there are very few, if any, differences between the two versions.

Lacunae: In the 1904-1920 volume one leaf, representing numbered pages 141 and 142, is known to be missing. In the July 18, 1919 minutes there is a reference to an attached letter which also was not found in the minutes. A discoloration on blank pages 10 and 11 of the 1904-1920 volume indicates that some item, now missing, was filed between those two pages at one time.

A digital version of this collection is available at the Arizona Health Sciences Library’s website (see http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/search/pcms/index.cfm) and at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records’ Arizona Memory Project web site (see http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php?CISOROOT=/pcmsmin).

This collection is part of the Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), a collection that focuses on the University of Arzona College of Medicine. It was transferred to Special Collections in 2018. Formerly collection number HT 0002.