This collection consists of handwritten speeches presented at the 1875-1877 meetings of the Augusta Library and Medical Society.

The Philip Dow papers contains personal, research-related, and professional correspondence; drafts and final copies of research papers; Medical College of Georgia memos, committee minutes, administration plans and procedures, and Commencement files; Physiology lecture notes, class lab experiments, and exams; research grant reports and applications; American Physiological Society correspondence; and two plaques.