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Organized according to interview and visit, Vincent talks to various professionals in the field of public health and discusses projects and proposals. As President of the Rockefeller Foundation he steers the focus toward supporting the war effort and making the world a better place through public health funding. The 1917 diary includes the China Medical Board developing a comprehensive medical system in China, the International Health Board focusing on preventive medicine, and camp and community plans for the welfare of American soldiers. Includes Memorandum to Members of the Executive Committee. Washington Interviews, May 26, 1917; and Memorandum of an interview with M. Hovelacque, A Member of the French Commission, at the Plaza Hotel, Made Tuesday, May 29, 1917.

Organized according to interview and visit, Vincent talks to various professionals in the field of public health and discusses projects and proposals. As President of the Rockefeller Foundation he steers the focus toward supporting the war effort and making the world a better place through public health funding. The 1918 diary documents Vincent overseeing and getting updates on Rockefeller Foundation projects from various other officers. A focus of this diary is the war effort particularly concerning war camps. Includes: Memorandum of a Conference Held at 61 Broadway, monday Afternoon March 25, 1918 at 3pm.

Organized according to interview and visit, Vincent talks to various professionals in the field of public health and discusses projects and proposals. As President of the Rockefeller Foundation he steers the focus toward supporting the war effort and making the world a better place through public health funding. The 1919 diary documents Vincent overseeing and getting updates on Rockefeller Foundation projects from various other officers, compiling of a hookworm bibliography, and a trip to the Far East to survey and tour medical education and public health facilities in Asia. He oversees construction of Peking Union Medical College.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. Edwin Embree is the secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation and has various interactions with researchers, staff and professionals in field of philanthropy.

Arranged by interview and visit, this diary documents the meetings and conferences Embree had with various professionals in the field of public health. The Rockefeller Foundation participates in public health and medical education.

Arranged by interview and visit, this diary documents the meetings and conferences Embree had with various professionals in the field of public health. The Rockefeller Foundation participates in public health and medical education.

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. While the first part of Gunn's diary records his activities and meetings while based in the Paris office of the RF, the later half of the diary records his tour of Eastern Europe, specifically Prague, Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia, and Bucharest. In each of these nations, Gunn and his associates met with the chief medical officers of the local Public Health and Hygiene Institutes as well as having audiences with members of the royal families of these countries to discuss combined RF and governmental investments in Public Health and Medical Education improvements.

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. The diary also records Gunn's extensive travels throughout Southern and Eastern Europe and his extended trip to Turkey. In each of the nations he visited, Gunn often traveled to the capital city and/or second largest population center with senior program officers of the RF to inspect existing or underway public health institutes, sanitary engineering measures, medical schools, and nursing schools. Gunn's trip to Turkey includes a detailed description of the state of the RF's construction projects underway at Angora and his official visitation of Istanbul.

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. The diary also records Gunn's trips to Southern, Eastern, and Northern Europe as well as a brief trip to New York and Boston. In each of the nations he visited, Gunn often traveled to the capital city and/or second largest population center with senior program officers of the RF to inspect existing or underway public health institutes, sanitary engineering measures, medical schools, and nursing schools. Gunn's trip to the United States describes his meetings and deliberations with the International Health Board's senior staff in New York and his inspection of medical training and laboratory facilities in the Boston (M.I.T.) and elsewhere. Also records Gunn's movements throughout France and the movements of other IHB officers throughout Europe, including trips to Germany and Russia.

This diary records Mr. Mason's interviews and meetings with researchers across the United States, meetings with Rockefeller Foundation fellows and native administrators from Chinese universities, and memoranda of internal discussions among staff on Rockefeller Foundation natural science research projects around the globe.

This diary records Mr. Mason's interviews and travels between January 2 and December 30 1930. The diary shows that he met with and interviewed natural science researchers and university administrators both in the United States and Europe, and coordinated with the Rockefeller Foundation's senior staff to ensure funding of projects to a maximum number of candidates at the earliest part of the Great Depression in the United States. While the depression is never directly referenced, the diary contains a copy of the "New Mexico Tax Bulletin" of 1930, a 23-page report which provided figures, estimates, and conclusions on the size and scope of the state's bonded debt in 1930. On a separate note, more than half the diary appears to be handwritten notes penned (almost illegibly) by Mason spanning several weeks and topics.

Organized according to interview and visit, Marshall discusses the current state of higher education in the humanities at universities in the United States, Ireland, England, France, and Belgium. He speaks with professors and university librarians on the development of RF programs in classical & modern literature and the education of professional librarians in the United States during the fall of 1933 and early months of 1934. He notes the names of promising graduate students deserving fellowships, as recommended by interviewed faculty members. Marshall also gives a detailed account of a meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago (Oct. 20-22, 1933). Marshall then gives a detailed account his tour of Ireland, England, France, and Belgium during April - June 1934.