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Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D.

Introduction

Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D. Gilbert Burnett Forbes (1915-2003) was a member of the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center from 1953 until his death forty-nine years later. Known internationally for his work on pediatric body composition and pediatric nutrition, Forbes was also a distinguished clinician, educator, and journal editor. He was the author of 150 articles, forty-four book chapters, and a classic text entitled Human body composition: growth, aging, nutrition and activity, published at New York by Springer-Verlag in 1987.

The Papers of Gilbert B. Forbes reflect the various aspects of Forbes’ long and productive career. The collection includes extensive correspondence, research data, publications, oral presentations and personal diaries. It also includes material pertaining to his father, Gilbert D. Forbes, M.D. (Boxes 66-72). The greater part of the Forbes collection dates post-1970, indicating that at some point Forbes discarded parts of his earlier files.

Although Dr. Forbes had begun the transfer of his papers, the bulk of these materials were presented to the Edward G. Miner Library in the summer of 2003 by his daughters, Constance Citro and Susan Martin, and by Elizabeth McAnarney, M.D., Chairman of the Dept. of Pediatrics. The processing of the Papers of Gilbert B. Forbes was completed in August 2005. The collection is contained in seventy-two boxes and occupies thirty-one linear feet.

Biography

Gilbert Burnett Forbes was born in Rochester, N.Y. on 9 November 1915. He was the seventh generation of Forbes in America dating back to William Forbes, who emigrated from Scotland to New York City in 1713 (see the genealogy in Personal Diary, Box 56, Folder 4). His father, Gilbert de Leverance Forbes (1881-1943), was a 1909 medical graduate of the University of Buffalo and a physician practicing in Kendall, N.Y., where G.B.F. grew up. G.B.F. attended Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1932. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester in 1936.

Forbes graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry in 1940. Subsequently he was:

Intern in pediatrics, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY, 1940-41
Resident in pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO., 1941-43
Instructor in Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 1943-46
Pediatrician at the Los Alamos Hospital, Los Alamos, NM, 1946-47
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 1947-50
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 1950
Chairman of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas; Medical Director, Texas Children’s Hospital, Dallas; Chief of Pediatric Staff, Parkland Hospital, Dallas, 1950-53.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 1953-57
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 1957-68
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Radiation Biology & Biophysics, 1968-81
Professor of Pediatrics and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 1981-92
Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 1992.

Gilbert Forbes, M.D. Forbes’ research focused on body composition and devising techniques for measuring body composition. Of particular importance was his development circa 1960 of K-40 counting techniques to determine lean body mass, and by subtraction, body fat. Forbes' pioneer work in the study of human body composition deepened our understanding of nutrition, and established the significance of body fat content as a prime factor in determining the response of the body to both nutritional deficit and nutritional surfeit. Forbes' research contributed greatly to understanding the components of adolescent growth and the nutritional requirements necessary during adolescence. As one Forbes' colleagues has stated, "It is in large part through his efforts that human body composition is now established as an important feature of the science of human biology.”

Forbes was not only a medical scientist, but was active in editing scholarly journals. He served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Diseases of Children (AJDC) from 1964 to 1973; was associate editor of the AJDC from 1964 to 1972; and chief editor from 1973 to 1982. He was also associate editor of Nutrition Reviews from 1961 to 1971; and was on the editorial board of Pediatrics from 1984.

Forbes was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Nutrition (1956-62; 1973-79); several subcommittees of the National Research Council (1959-66); the Nutrition Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (1963-67); the Nutrition Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee (1964-66); the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (1966-79); and NIH's Human Embryology and Development Study Section (1967-70).

He was recipient of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Research Career Award beginning in 1962; the Borden Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics (1964); and the Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society (1992). Forbes was also president of the Society for Pediatric Research (1960-61) and vice-president of the American Pediatric Society (1975-76). In 1970-71 he was Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University; and between 1974 and 1976 was co-chairman of the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Gilbert B. Forbes married Grace Ann Moehlman (d. 1994) on 8 July 1939. The Forbes had two daughters: Constance and Susan. Gilbert Burnett Forbes died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. on 26 June 2003.

How the Forbes Papers are Organized

GENERAL (Boxes 1-8)

This series contains materials pertaining to Forbes' involvement with various organizations, i.e., scholarly societies, medical societies, academic institutions, hospitals, etc. It also includes materials generated while he was editor or on the editorial board of various scholarly journals. The files in the General series are arranged alphabetically by organization name.

PUBLICATIONS (Boxes 9-24)

The publications series includes four kinds of material: manuscripts of journal articles, miscellaneous correspondence with publishers, bound reprints, and books.

Besides the original manuscript (or a photocopy), folders containing manuscripts (Boxes 9-17) may include different versions of the same article, correspondence with the editor of the journal(s) to which it was submitted, correspondence with colleagues regarding the article's content, research material, and illustrations. This subseries includes articles both published and unpublished, and is arranged chronologically.

Box 18 of the publications series includes requests for reprints of articles written by Forbes, and miscellaneous correspondence with publishers.

A complete set of bound reprints (1943-1992) of articles, letters to the editor, book chapters, etc. written by Forbes is contained in Boxes 19-21. Reprints for articles published after 1992 are not present. For these the researcher should consult the manuscripts in Box 17.

Boxes 22-24 contain copies of books that Forbes edited and/or to which he contributed a chapter. Included here is his 1987 book: Human body composition, published by Springer-Verlag (Box 23).

ORAL PRESENTATIONS (Boxes 25-30)

This series includes oral presentations made at national & international conferences, local or regional medical society meetings, named lectureships, seminars, post-graduate courses, etc. The folders in this series may include the text or an abstract of the presentation, correspondence with the organizer of the event at which the presentation was delivered, meeting programs, etc.

The oral presentations subseries is arranged chronologically. Folders are headed with the name of the host institution or organizing body, not the title of the presentation, which often is not provided.

RESEARCH (Boxes 31-40)

The research series includes laboratory notebooks; graphs, tables, etc.; correspondence with funding agencies; and copies of grant applications. Many folders include correspondence with colleagues. The researcher should bear in mind that other research correspondence may be found in the correspondence series, and to a lesser extent in the publications series.

Forbes' research material had no order of arrangement in the office files from which they were removed. They have been rearranged chronologically - retaining original folder headings - to reflect the focus and direction of Forbes' research over the course of six decades.

CORRESPONDENCE (Boxes 41-50)

This series includes correspondence written to and from Forbes. The bulk of the correspondence is professional, though some personal correspondence is mixed in. Forbes discarded his earliest correspondence files sometime in the 1980s. Though some earlier correspondence has survived, the bulk of this series dates post 1970.

The correspondence series is arranged alphabetically, as it was in Forbes' files. Here, however, separate files have been created for individual correspondents if there was a sufficient volume of letters and accompanying material to warrant separation from the rest of the file.

The final two boxes in this series (Boxes 49-50) are closed to the public. They contain copies of letters of recommendation (1953-83) and memos Forbes wrote regarding the outcome of his interviews with prospective house officers between 1953 and 1976.

PATIENT MATERIAL (Boxes 51-52)

Both boxes of patient-related documents in the collection are closed to the public. They include hospital cases histories and discharge summaries (St. Louis, 1940-49); hospital case histories (Dallas, 1950-53); and documentation of pediatric grand rounds at the URMC between 1953 and 1967.

PERSONAL (Boxes 53-72)

This series encompasses a wide variety of materials, including curricula vitae. newspaper & magazine clippings, etc. (Box 53); Forbes' medical school syllabi and class notes (Boxes 54-55); personal diaries that Forbes maintained between 1945 and 1979 (Boxes 56-59); personal account ledgers for the years 1936-1981 (Boxes 59-60); daily appointment books (Boxes 61-62); materials pertaining to his 1970-71 sabbatical in England (Boxes 63-64); diplomas, licenses, certificates & awards (Boxes 65-66); and six boxes of material generated by his father, Gilbert de Leverance Forbes, M.D., a 1909 medical graduate of the Universty of Buffalo and a practitioner and school health official in Kendall, N.Y. (Boxes 67-72).

Inventory of the Collection

Box One: General

Folder 1: American Academy of Pediatrics (1957-58)
Folder 2: American Academy of Pediatrics (1979-90)
Folder 3: American Academy of Pediatrics. Borden Award (1960)
Folder 4: American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Nutrition (1971-79)
Folder 5: American Board of Pediatrics. Residency Review Committee (1983-87)
Folder 6: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Comments as reviewer (1985-89)
Folder 7: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1963-68)
Folder 8: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1969-71)
Folder 9: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1972)
Folder 10: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1973-75)

Box Two: General

Folder 1: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1976-78)
Folder 2: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1979)
Folder 3: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1980)
Folder 4: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1980)
Folder 5: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1981)
Folder 6: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1982)
Folder 7: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1982)
Folder 8: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1983)
Folder 9: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1983-90)
Folder 10: American Pediatric Society (1976-92)
Folder 11: American Pediatric Society. John Howland Medal (1987)

Box Three: General

Folder 1: American Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (1972)
Folder 2: Association of American Medical Colleges
Folder 3: Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award (1984-93)
Folder 4: Center for Research in Clinical Nutrition (1991-93)
Folder 5: Dallas Southern Clinical Society (1951)
Folder 6: Eastman Dental Center
Folder 7: Europe. Travel receipts (1967)
Folder 8: Excerpta Medica. Advisory Board (1982-83)
Folder 9: Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va. Pediatric grand rounds (1987, 1991, 1998, 1999)
Folder 10: Food and Drug Administration
Folder 11: Genesee Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.
Folder 12: Genesee Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. Grassi litigation (1977)
Folder 13: Hartman, Alexis F. Festschrift (1963-64)
Folder 14: Health Association of Rochester and Monroe County. Health and Religion Committee (1958-60)
Folder 15: Journal of the American Medical Association (1974-79)
Folder 16: Journal of the American Medical Association (1980-82)
Folder 17: Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (1972-73)

Box Four: General

Folder 1: Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (1975-79)
Folder 2: Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (1980-86)
Folder 3: Los Alamos (1946-47)
Folder 4: Los Alamos Hospital (1947)
Folder 5: Mead Johnson Research Laboratories (1945-59)
Folder 6: Monroe County Medical Society (1954-67)
Folder 7: Monroe County Medical Society. Ad hoc committee on guilds (1972)
Folder 8: Monroe County Medical Society. Ad hoc committee on guilds (1972)
Folder 9: National Board of Medical Examiners (1955)
Folder 10: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (1966-71)
Folder 11: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (1978-80)
Folder 12: The National Foundation (1962-76)
Folder 13: National Institutes of Health (1975-91)

Box Five: General

Folder 1: National Institutes of Health. Nutrition study section (1963-67)
Folder 2: Newark-Wayne Community Hospital (1973-76)
Folder 3: Nutrition Foundation (1963-69)
Folder 4: Nutrition Reviews (1960-78)
Folder 5: Nutrition Reviews (1986-91)
Folder 6: Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (1956)
Folder 7: Pediatrics. Editorial board (1956-73)
Folder 8: Pediatrics. Editorial board (1983-87)
Folder 9: Pediatrics. Editorial board (1988-90)
Folder 10: Physicians’ Council on Information on Child Health (1957-58)
Folder 11: Rochester Eye and Human Parts Bank (1975-83)
Folder 12: Rochester General Hospital

Box Six: General

Folder 1: Society for Pediatric Research (1950-60)
Folder 2: Society for Pediatric Research (1961)
Folder 3: Society for Pediatric Research (1965-76)
Folder 4: Southwestern Medical School (1950-53)
Folder 5: Southwestern Medical School. Lectures given to students (1950-51)
Folder 6: Southwestern Medical School. Alumni reunion (1985)
Folder 7: Thompson Hospital, Canandaigua, N.Y. (1972-90)
Folder 8: University of Rochester Medical Center. Letters of appointment.
Folder 9: University of Rochester Medical Center. Alumni association (1950-61)
Folder 10: University of Rochester Medical Center. Internship advisory committee (1954-64)
Folder 11: University of Rochester Medical Center. Committee on the the teaching program. Steering committee (1956-57)
Folder 12: University of Rochester Medical Center. Medical alumni library committee (1958-62)
Folder 13: University of Rochester Medical Center. Rotating intern committee (1959)
Folder 14: University of Rochester Medical Center. Medical alumni association. Gold medal award (1959-60)

Box Seven: General

Folder 1: University of Rochester Medical Center. Curriculum committee. Study group 3 (1972)
Folder 2: University of Rochester Medical Center. 50th anniversary symposium (Apr 1976)
Folder 3: University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientific symposium in honor of GBF (5-6 Jun 1981)
Folder 4: University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientific symposium in honor of GBF (5-6 un 1981). Letters of congratulation
Folder 5: University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientific symposium in honor of GBF (5-6 Jun 1981). Letters of congratulation
Folder 6: University of Rochester Medical Center. In celebration of Gilbert Forbes (11 Jun 1982)
Folder 7: University of Rochester Medical Center. Advisory group for nutritional support service (1983)
Folder 8: University of Rochester Medical Center. Nutrition and eating disorders committee (1988-91)
Folder 9: University of Rochester Medical Center. Study group on human lactation and breastfeeding (1988-91)
Folder 10: University of Rochester Medical Center. Medical dietetics advisory committee (1989-94)
Folder 11: University of Rochester Medical Center. Class of 1940 50th reunion (1990)
Folder 12: University of Rochester Medical Center. Kornberg research award (1997)
Folder 13: University of Rochester Medical Center. Miscellaneous
Folder 14: University of Rochester Medical Center. Memorial service for GBF (3 Oct 2003)
Folder 15: University of Rochester Medical Center. Medical Center advisory committee (1966)
Folder 16: University of Rochester Medical Center. Campus disturbances (1969)

Box Eight: General

Folder 1: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Survey of former pediatric house officers (1963?)
Folder 2: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Departmental retreat (30 Dec 1969)
Folder 3: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Acting co-chairman (1974)
Folder 4: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Acting co-chairman (1975)
Folder 5: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Acting co-chairman (1976)
Folder 6: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. David Smith (1983)
Folder 7: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Bradford memorial fund committee (1984-86)
Folder 8: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. Clausen-Bradford fellowship (1987-88)
Folder 9: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. GBF's annual reports (1958/59-1971/72)
Folder 10: University of Rochester Medical Center. Dept. of Pediatrics. GBF's annual reports (1972/73-1998/99)
Folder 11: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (1941-49)
Folder 12: Western Human Nutrition Research Center (1983-84)
Folder 13: X-Club (1966-74)

Box Nine: Publications

Folder 1: "The effects of thyroxine injections on tissue metabolism in the rat” (1938)
Folder 2: “Preventive medicine” (1940)
Folder 3: “Mediastinal emphysema and pneumothorax following certain operative procedures on the neck” (1943)
Folder 4: “Chylothorax in infancy” (1944)
Folder 5: “Further observations on post-tracheotomy mediastinal emphysema and pneumothorax” (1948)
Folder 6: “Science and child health” (1951)
Folder 7: Total body sodium manuscripts (1951)
Folder 8: “Glycogen storage disease” (1953)
Folder 9: “Bone sodium analysis by cation exchange chromatography” (1954)
Folder 10: “The management of tetanus” (1955)
Folder 11: “On the clinical manifestations of spontaneous hypothyroidism in children” (1955)
Folder 12: “Some thoughts on returning to Rochester” (1955)
Folder 13: “Effect of age on radio. Na exchange in bone (rats)” (1956)
Folder 14: “Effect of age on sulfonamide toxicity” (1956?)
Folder 15: “Staphyloccocal pneumonia and empyema” (1956)
Folder 16: “Total sodium, potassium and chloride in adult man” (1956)
Folder 17: “The Department of Pediatrics” (1957)
Folder 18: “Clinical features of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism in children” (1957)
Folder 19: “Isotope dilution as a measure of body composition in man” (1957)
Folder 20: “Nutritive plenty for the child” (1957)

Box Ten: Publications

Folder 1: Letter to Science (1961)
Folder 2: “Methods for determining composition of the human body” (1962)
Folder 3: “Nutritional implications of the whole body counter” (1963)
Folder 4: Letter in Pediatrics (1965)
Folder 5: “Aims and methods in the study of body composition” (1967)
Folder 6: “Changes in body composition during growth” (1967)
Folder 7: “Lean body mass in obese children” (1967)
Folder 8: “Vitamin D and infantile hypercalcemia” (1967)
Folder 9: “Effects of body size on 40-potassium measurement in the whole body counter” (1968)
Folder 10: “Effects of body size on 40-potassium measurement in the whole body counter” (1968). Data
Folder 11: “The great denial” (1968)
Folder 12: “Impaired response to calcium loading in infantile hypercalcemia” (1968)
Folder 13: “Body composition as an interdisciplinary science” (1969-70)
Folder 14: “Skinfold thickness and body fat in children” (1969)
Folder 15: “July country” (197?)
Folder 16: “Adult lean body mass declines with age” (1970)
Folder 17: “Impaired response to calcium loading in the infantile hypercalcemic syndrome” (1970)

Box Eleven: Publications

Folder 1: “Obesity: the likelihood of an inherited tendency” (1970)
Folder 2: “Weight loss during fasting” (1970)
Folder 3: “Weight loss during fasting” (1970)
Folder 4: “Impaired calcium homeostasis in the infantile hypercalcemic syndrome” (1971)
Folder 5: “Prediction of body fat in women and girls” (1971)
Folder 6: “Relationship of lean body mass to height in children and adolescents” (1971)
Folder 7: “Some impressions of the British National Health Service” (1971)
Folder 8: “Rise and fall of the LBM” (1972?)
Folder 9: “Long term administration of antiepileptic drugs and the development of rickets” (1972)

Box Twelve: Publications

Folder 1: “Another source of error in the metabolic balance method” (1973)
Folder 2: “Stature and lean body mass” (1973)
Folder 3: “Response to calcium infusion as a function of age” (1974)
Folder 4: “Adult decline in lean body mass” (1975)
Folder 5: “Biological implications of the adolescent growth process” (1975)
Folder 6: Nutrition chapters in Hoeckelman book (1975-91)
Folder 7: Review of a paper submitted to Metabolism (1975)
Folder 8: “Urinary creatinine and lean body mass” (1976)
Folder 9: “Arm muscle bone cross sectional area as an index of lean body mass” (1977)

Box Thirteen: Publications

Folder 1: “Bed and breakfast, and a bit of Boswell” (1977)
Folder 2: “Body composition in adolescence,” chapter in: Human Growth (1978)
Folder 3: “Disturbances of water and electrolytes,” chapter in: Pediatric Neurology, 3rd ed. (1979)
Folder 4: “Loss of body nitrogen on fasting” (1979)
Folder 5: “Testosterone and testosterone-estrogen binding globulin in puberty” (1979)
Folder 6: Human Body Composition: circulars, correspondence, etc. (1980-82)
Folder 7: Human Body Composition: circulars, correspondence, etc. (1983-86)
Folder 8: Human Body Composition: circulars, correspondence, etc. (1987-90)

Box Fourteen: Publications

Folder 1: Human Body Composition: permissions
Folder 2: “A note on the mathematics of ‘catch-up’ growth” (1981)
Folder 3: “Some influences on lean body mass” (1981-83)
Folder 4: “Body composition changes during recovery from anorexia nervosa” (ca. 1982)
Folder 5: “Nutrition and hyperactivity” (1982)
Folder 6: “Obesity,” chapter in: Ambulatory Pediatrics, 3rd ed. (1982)
Folder 7: Pediatric Nutrition Handbook: correspondence (1982-85)
Folder 8: “Body composition in adolescence,” chapter in: Human Growth, 2nd ed. (1983)
Folder 9: “Fetal growth and body composition,” chapter in: Infant Nutrition (1983)
Folder 10: “Unmeasured losses of potassium in balance studies” (1983)
Folder 11: “Body composition as affected by physical activity and nutrition” (1984)

Box Fifteen: Publications

Folder 1: “Body composition changes during recovery from anorexia nervosa” (1984)
Folder 2: Brozek chapter in Martin’s Handbook (1984)
Folder 3: “Deliberate overfeeding in women and men” (1986)
Folder 4: “Lean body mass and fat: concordance and discordance” (1986)
Folder 5: “Nutritional needs in adolescence,” chapter in: Pediatrics, 18th ed. (1986)
Folder 6: “Arm muscle plus bone area” (1987)
Folder 7: “Bone mineral content in infants” (1987)
Folder 8: “Composition of milk produced by a galactosemic mother” (1987)
Folder 9: “Genetic factors in abdominal obesity,” letter to NEJM (1987)
Folder 10: “Lean body mass-body fat interrelationships in man” (1987)
Folder 11: “Protein nutrition for infants” (1987)
Folder 12: “Energy needed for weight maintenance in man” (1988)
Folder 13: “Hormonal response to overfeeding” (1988)

Box Sixteen: Publications

Folder 1: “Nutritional adequacy of human body milk,” chapter in: Textbook of Gastroenterology, 2nd ed. (1988)
Folder 2: “The abdomen:hip ratio” (1989)
Folder 3: “Body composition,” chapter in: Present Knowledge in Nutrition (1989)
Folder 4: “General variation in plasma testosterone” (1989)
Folder 5: “Vitamin D and the breast fed baby,” letter in Journal of Pediatrics (1989)
Folder 6: “Children and food,” editorial in New England Journal of Medicine (1990)
Folder 7: “Exercise and body composition” (1990)
Folder 8: “Inheritance of body fat distribution: the abdomen-hip ratio” (1990)
Folder 9: “Inheritance of body at distribution: total body fat and lean body mass” (1990)
Folder 10: “Nutrition, growth ad development,” chapter in: Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2nd ed. (1990-99)

Box Seventeen: Publications

Folder 1: “Osteoporosis: a new morbidity for dieting adolescent females?” (1990)
Folder 2: “The significance of body composition in infants and children” (1990)
Folder 3: “Weight loss during fasting” (1990)
Folder 4: “History of body composition studies,” chapter in: Nestle Nutrition Workshop series (1991)
Folder 5: “Is bioimpedance a good predictor of body composition change?” (1992)
Folder 6: Letter to the editor of Nutrition Reviews (1994)
Folder 7: “Lean body mass in twins” (1995)
Folder 8: “Body fat content influences the body composition response to nutrition and exercise” (1999)
Folder 9: “Longitudinal changes in fat-free weight” (1999)
Folder 10: “The companionship of lean and fat” (2001)
Folder 11: “Perspectives on body composition” (2001)
Folder 12: Book review of Child and Adolescent Obesity (2002)
Folder 13: “Some adventures in body composition” (2003)

Box Eighteen: Publications

Folder 1: Requests for reprints of articles by GBF
Folder 2: Miscellaneous correspondence with publishers (1951-59)
Folder 3: Miscellaneous correspondence with publishers (1961-79)
Folder 4: Miscellaneous correspondence with publishers (1984-94)

Box Nineteen: Publications

GBF’s bound reprints, 1943-1951
GBF’s bound reprints, 1952-1957
GBF’s bound reprints, 1958-1962
GBF’s bound reprints, 1963-1967

Box Twenty: Publications

GBF’s bound reprints, 1968-1972
GBF’s bound reprints, 1973-1977
GBF’s bound reprints, 1978-1982
GBF’s bound reprints, 1983-1987

Box Twenty-One: Publications

GBF’s bound reprints, 1988-1992
Publications: 1997, 2003

Box Twenty-Two: Publications

American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Nutrition. Collected reprints, 1956-1962. Evanston, Ill.: The Academy, 1963?
American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Nutrition. Collected reprints, 1963-1967. Evanston, Ill.: The Academy, 1969 (2nd printing)
Body composition in animals and man. Proceedings of a symposium held May 4, 5, and 6, 1967 at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1968, pp. 80-86
Human growth. 2: Postnatal growth. Edited by Frank Falkner and J.M. Tanner. New York: Plenum Press, c1978, pp. 239-272
Mineral metabolism: an advanced treatise. Edited by C.L. Comar [and] Felix Bonner. Volume II. The elements. Part B. New York: Academic Press, 1962, pp. 1-72
Modern nutrition in health and disease. 9th ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, c1999, pp. 789-809
The Pediatric clinics of North America. Recent clinical advances. Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D. editor. Volume 13, Number 2. May, 1966. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company.
De Samenstelling van het menselijk licham. Boerhaavecursus “Body Composition,” Leiden, 2-4 maart 1967. Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp., 1968, pp. 3-16 [in Dutch]

Box Twenty-Three: Publications

Activity, energy expenditure and energy requirements of infants and children … Proceedings of an I.D.E.C.G. workshop held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 14 to 17, 1989. [Lausanne: I.D.E.C.G., 1990], pp. 71-81
L’Alimentation des adolescents: colloque internationale … Paris: Maison de la Chimie, 26 mai 1988. [S.l.]: CIDIL, [1989], pp. 47-52
American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric nutrition handbook. 2nd ed. Gilbert B. Forbes, M.D. editor. Elk Grove Village, Ill.: The Academy, c1985
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volume 110 … September 26, 1963 … Body composition. Consulting editor Josef Brozek. [New York: The Aademy, c1963], pp. 255-263, 264-270
Body composition measurements in infants and children: report of the 98th Ross conference on pediatric research. Columbus, Ohio: Ross Laboratories, c1989, pp. 3, 112-119
Child health, nutrition, and physical activity. [Ed. by] Lilian W.Y. Cheung [and] Julius B. Richmond. [Champaign Ill.]: Human Kinetics, c1995, pp. 45-53
Diet and exercise: synergism in health maintenance. Editors Philip L. White and Therese Mondeika. Chicago: A.M.A., c1982, pp. 75-90
Forbes, Gilbert. Human body composition: growth, aging, nutrition, and activity. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.
Forbes, Grace Moehlman. Conrad Henry Moehlman: the man and the message. [Rochester N.Y.: The Author, 1978].
Human body composition: in vivo methods, models and assessment. Edited by Kenneth J. Ellis and Jerry D. Eastman. New York: Plenum Press, c1993, pp. 1-14
In vivo body composition studies. Edited by K.S. Ellis … [et al.]. Proceedings of an international symposium held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, on September 28-October 1, 1986. [London]: Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine, c1987, pp. 33-38
Infant and child feeding. Edited by Jenny T. Bond … [et al.]. New York: Academic Press, 1981, pp. 213-222
Nestle Nutrition. History of pediatrics, 1850-1950. New York: Raven Press, c1991, pp. 249-256
New techniques in nutritional research. Edited by Roger G. Whitehead [and] Ann Prentice. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1991, pp. 318-329
A Symposium: adrenal function in infants and children. Lytt I. Gardner, editor. Syracuse, N.Y.: SUNY Upstate Medical center, 1954, p. 47-51
University of Rochester. Medical Center. To each his farthest star: University of Rochester Medical Center, 1925-1975. Rochester, N.Y.: URMC, 1975, pp. 417-450

Box Twenty-Four: Publications

American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric nutrition handbook. Evanston, Ill.: The Academy, c1979, pp. 26-40, 322-332
Human Growth: a comprehensive treatise. 2nd ed. Edited by Frank Falkner and J.M. Tanner. New York: Plenum Press, c1986, pp. 119-145
International symposium on body composition studies. [S.l.]: Pergamon, c1998, pp. 571-575
McAnarney, Elizabeth R. Textbook of adolescent medicine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, c1992, pp. 68-74
Nutrient requirements in adolescence. Edited by John I. McKigney and Hamish N. Munro. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, c1976, pp. 57-103
Pediatric and adolescent gynecology. 2nd ed. [Ed. by] Joseph S. Sanfilippo … [et al.]. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., c2001, pp. 139-149
Pediatrics. 18th ed. Editor, Abraham M. Rudolph. Norwalk, Ct.: Appleton & Lange, c1987, pp. 166-169
Primary pediatric care. Editor-in-Chief, Robert A Hoeckelman. St. Louis: Mosby, c2001, pp. 171-184

Box Twenty-Five: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: Lecture to nurses at the Isolation Hospital, St. Louis (Oct 1941)
Folder 2: Lectures to students at Washington University School of Medicine (1941-44)
Folder 3: American Academy of Pediatrics (Nov 1944)
Folder 4: “Determination of the circulating blood volume with radioactive phosphorus” (ca. 1944-49)
Folder 5: American Academy of Pediatrics (Apr 1949)
Folder 6: Washington University Medical Society (Nov 1949)
Folder 7: Children’s Medical Center staff meeting (Jan 1950)
Folder 8: Lecture notes (Mar 1950)
Folder 9: Baylor University College of Medicine. Pediatric post-graduate course (Apr 1950)
Folder 10: Houston poliomyelitis conference (Jan 1951)
Folder 11: Faculty club lecture (Feb 1951)
Folder 12: Little Brothers Journal Club (Mar 1951)
Folder 13: Texas Medical Society. 2nd District annual meeting (Midland : Mar 1951)
Folder 14: Texas Medical Society. 2nd District annual meeting (Midland : Mar 1951)
Folder 15: University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Post-graduate course (May 1951)
Folder 16: Society for Pediatric Research (Atlantic City : May 1951)
Folder 17: Address in honor of resident staff (May 1951)
Folder 18: University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. Pediatric post-graduate course (Dec 1951)
Folder 19: Faculty journal club (Jan 1952)
Folder 20: Tennessee Pediatric Society. Annual meeting (Knoxville : Apr 1952)
Folder 21: Parkland Hospital staff meeting (May 1952)
Folder 22: Post-graduate pediatric conference (Dallas : Sep 1952)
Folder 23: Pediatrics-pediatric dermatology post-graduate conference (Dallas : Sep 1952) + Northwestern Pediatric Society (Minneapolis : Oct 1952)
Folder 24: Northwestern Pediatric Society (Bayport, MN : Oct 1952)
Folder 25: Texas State Pediatric Society (Oct 1952)
Folder 26: Blacklands Area Hospital Association (Denton, TX : Nov 1952)
Folder 27: Dallas Pediatric Society (Dec 1952)
Folder 28: Post-graduate course (Feb 1953)
Folder 29: Texas Medical Society. 2nd District meeting (Big Spring : Apr 1953)
Folder 30: Post-graduate course (Dallas : May 1953)
Folder 31: Children’s Medical Center staff meeting (June 1953)
Folder 32: Joint meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, New York chapter and the Central New York Pediatric Club (Syracuse : Oct 1953)
Folder 33: Society for Experimental Biology. New York section (Ithaca : Nov 1953)
Folder 34: University of Rochester Medical Society (Mar 1954)
Folder 35: Rochester Regional Hospital Council. Post-graduate course (Mar 1954)
Folder 36: American Pediatric Society (Buck Hill Falls, PA : May 1954)
Folder 37: Society for Pediatric Research (May 1954)
Folder 38: New York State Medical Society (Rochester : Sep 1954)
Folder 39: M & R conference (13th : Syracuse, NY : Nov 1954)
Folder 40: Rochester Pediatric Society (Dec 1954)
Folder 41: Society for Pediatric Research (Quebec : Jun 1955)
Folder 42: Tri-City Pediatric Club (Sep 1955)
Folder 43: United Church of Pittsford (N.Y.). Layman’s Sunday address (Oct 1955)
Folder 44: Cincinnati Academy of Neurology and Psychiatry (Jan 1956)
Folder 45: American Society for Clinical Investigation (Apr 1956)
Folder 46: American Pediatric Society (May 1956)
Folder 47: Gordon Research Conference (Meriden, NH : July 1956)
Folder 48: Dental research seminar (Nov 1956)
Folder 49: Joint meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, New York chapter and the Central New York Pediatric Club (Syracuse : Nov 1956)
Folder 50: Tri-City Pediatric Club (Jan 1957)
Folder 51: Society for Pediatric Research (May 1957)
Folder 52: Jefferson Medical College. Pediatric seminar (Oct 1957)
Folder 53: American Academy of Pediatrics (Chicago : Oct 1957)

Box 26: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: Conference on Human Nutrition (Ohio State Univ. : Feb 1958)
Folder 2: National Dairy Council research conference (Philadelphia : Apr 1958)
Folder 3: American Pediatric Society (Atlantic City : May 1958)
Folder 4: Society of Nuclear Medicine. 5th annual meeting (Los Angeles : Jun 1958)
Folder 5: Gordon Research conference (Meriden, CT : Jul 1958)
Folder 6: American Society of Dentistry for Children and the American Academy of Pediatrics (Chicago : Oct 1958)
Folder 7: Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Western New York section (Rochester : Apr 1959)
Folder 8: International Congress of Pediatrics (Montreal : Jul 1959)
Folder 9: New York State Society of Dentistry for Children (Binghamton : Oct 1959)
Folder 10: Northside Hospital conference (Dec 1959)
Folder 11: Society for Pediatric Research (1960)
Folder 12: Continuation course in pediatric neurology for specialists (Minneapolis : Feb 1960)
Folder 13: Tri-City Pediatric Society (Rochester, NY : Apr 1960) and American Pediatric Society (Swampscott, MA : May 1960)
Folder 14: American Pediatric Society (May 1960)
Folder 15: Dallas Southern Clinical Society (Mar 1961)
Folder 16: Society for Pediatric Research (May 1961)
Folder 17: American Pediatric Society (1962)
Folder 18: University of Wisconsin. H. Kent Tenney honorary lecture (Sep 1962)
Folder 19: University of Buffalo. Human growth and behavior lectures (Nov 1962)
Folder 20: New York Academy of Sciences. Conference on body composition (Jan-Feb 1963)
Folder 21: American Pediatric Society (May 1963)
Folder 22: West Virginia University Medical Center pediatric conference (Nov 1963)
Folder 23: New England Pediatric Society (Boston : Dec 1963)
Folder 24: Rochester Academy of Medicine. Pediatric-dental section (Feb 1964)
Folder 25: Gordon Research conference (Meriden, CT : Jul 1964)
Folder 26: Chicago Pediatric Society (Mar 1965)
Folder 27: National Dairy Council research conference (Atlantic City : Apr 1965)
Folder 28: Milwaukee Pediatric Society (Apr 1965)
Folder 29: New York State Dietetic Association (Apr 1965)
Folder 30: Rochester Academy of Medicine. Remarks made at Kaiser Medal ceremony for Wm. Bradford (May 1965)
Folder 31: National Institutes of Health. Nutrition Study Section (Sep 1965)
Folder 32: Bonehead Seminar (Nov 1965)
Folder 33: University of Rochester Medical Society (Dec 1965)
Folder 34: Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City. 5th annual Darrow Lecture (Mar 1966)
Folder 35: Kansas City Southwest Pediatric Society (Mar 1966)
Folder 36: Remarks made at dinner for Wm. Bradford (Chicago : Oct 1966)
Folder 37: Hamot Hospital, Erie, PA (Nov 1966)
Folder 38: University of Florida College of Medicine. Pediatric seminar (Nov 1966)
Folder 39: University of Florida, Gainesville. Post-graduate course (Nov 1966)
Folder 40: Universiteits Leiden. Boerhaave course for post-graduate medical education (Mar 1967)
Folder 41: Universiteits Leiden. Boerhaave course for post-graduate medical education (Mar 1967)
Folder 42: X Club (Apr 1967)
Folder 43: American Academy of Pediatrics. Missouri chapter (Lake of the Ozarks : May 1967)
Folder 44: Dept. of Pediatrics retreat (Canandaigua, NY : Jun 1967)
Folder 45: Novena Assemblea Medica de Occidente (Guadalajara : Nov 1967)
Folder 46: Bonehead Seminar (Dec 1967)

Box Twenty-Seven: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: George W. Corner History of Medicine Society (Feb 1968)
Folder 2: Society for Pediatric Research (Apr 1968)
Folder 3: Genesee Dietetic Association (Rochester : Apr 1968)
Folder 4: Bonehead Seminar and Gordon Research conference (Jul 1968)
Folder 5: Food Industries Advisory Committee (Naples, FL : Jan 1969)
Folder 6: Toronto General Hospital (Mar 1969)
Folder 7: Bonehead Seminar (Jan 1970)
Folder 8: Metabolic-endocrine seminar (Jun 1970)
Folder 9: Bone Research Laboratory (Oxford, Eng. : Nov 1970)
Folder 10: British Paediatric Association. 42nd annual meeting (Scarborough : Apr 1971)
Folder 11: European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (Zurich : May 1971)
Folder 12: International Conference on Growth Hormones (Milan : May 1971)
Folder 13: European Society for Paediatric Research (Jun 1971)
Folder 14: International Congress of Pediatrics (Vienna : Sep 1971)
Folder 15: Nutrition symposium (Mar 1972)
Folder 16: Detroit meeting on bone metabolism (Jun 1972)
Folder 17: International Congress of Nutrition (Mexico City : Sep 1972)
Folder 18: International Sugar Research Foundation (Mexico City : Sep 1972)
Folder 19: International Sugar Research Foundation (Mexico City : Sep 1972)
Folder 20: Airlie Foundation. Growth and development conference (Airlie, VA : Jun 1973)
Folder 21: International Meeting of Endocrinology (Marseilles : Jul 1973)
Folder 22: American Medical Writers Association (San Francisco : Oct 1974)
Folder 23: University of Rochester Medical Center. Spring teaching workshop for nurse practitioners (May 1975)
Folder 24: Pediatric Congress (Rotterdam : Jun 1976)
Folder 25: Arthur Tuuri symposium (Flint, MI : Oct 1977)
Folder 26: International Congress on Obesity (Washington, DC : Oct 1977)
Folder 27: American Pediatric Society (Apr 1978)
Folder 28: Rochester Academy of Medicine. Remarks in honor of Ruth Lawrence (May 1978)
Folder 29: “Michigan symposium” (Oct 1978)
Folder 30: International Symposium on Infant Nutrition (Buffalo, NY : Jun 1979)
Folder 31: American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Niagara Falls, NY : Apr 1980)
Folder 32: Symposium on Adolescent Nutrition (New York : Jun 1980)
Folder 33: American College of Nutrition. 21st annual meeting (Bethesda, MD : Sep 1980)
Folder 34: Maternal and infant nutrition (Rochester, NY : Nov 1980)
Folder 35: Pregnancy and childbearing during adolescence (Canandaigua, NY : Oct 1980)

Box Twenty-Eight: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: Essentials for growth (Ft. Lauderdale, FL : Jan 1981)
Folder 2: National Dairy Council. Nutrition update workshop (East Lansing, MI : Feb 1981)
Folder 3: Conference on Growth Retardation (Reston, VA : Mar 181)
Folder 4: Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital, St. Louis. Danis Lecture (Apr 1981)
Folder 5: Neonatal Nutrition Conference (Cleveland : Sep 1981)
Folder 6: W.H.O. Energy and protein requirements conference (Rome, Italy : Oct 1981)
Folder 7: Symposium on Diet and Exercise (Lake Buena Vista, FL : Nov 1981)
Folder 8: Nutrition in Contemporary Medicine (Park City, Utah : Mar 1982)
Folder 9: Conference on Parenteral Nutrition (Washington, DC : Apr-May 1982)
Folder 10: International Symposium on Infant Nutrition (Niagara Falls, ONT : Jun 1982)
Folder 11: American Academy of Pediatrics (New York : Oct 1982)
Folder 12: International Congress on Obesity (New York : Oct 1983)
Folder 13: MIT seminar (Mar 1984)
Folder 14: Nutrition conference (Lake Buena Vista FL : Apr 1984)
Folder 15: Mead Johnson symposium (Washington, DC : Jul 1984)
Folder 16: Conference on Maternal and Infant Nutrition (Rochester, NY : Nov 1984)
Folder 17: Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Wellcome Visiting Lecturer (Nov 1984)
Folder 18: Rochester Pediatric Society (Sep 1985)
Folder 19: Southwestern Medical School. Moore Lecture (Oct 1985)
Folder 20: Women’s Nutrition and Health Issues Symposium (Rochester, NY : Oct 1985)

Box Twenty-Nine: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: Society for Adolescent Medicine. Gallagher Lecture (Boston : Mar 1986)
Folder 2: Baylor Universty. Blattner Lecture (Apr 1986)
Folder 3: Great Lakes Regional Endocrine Society. 10th annual meeting (Rochester, NY : Oct 1986)
Folder 4: Remarks made at memorial service for Lytt I. Gardner (Syracuse, N.Y. : Oct 1986)
Folder 5: Studies of Growth Hormone in Obesity (San Francisco : Jan 1987)
Folder 6: Upper limits of nutrients in infant formulae symposium (Iowa City : Oct 1987)
Folder 7: International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies (Toronto : Jun 1989)
Folder 8: Diary Council Inc. and Nazareth College (Rochester, NY : Jun 1989)
Folder 9: Workshop on In Vivo Body Composition Studies (Swansea, Eng. : Apr 1991)
Folder 10: Endocrine Society. 74th annual meeting (San Antonio : Jun 1992)
Folder 11: International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies (Houston : Nov 1992)
Folder 12: Massachusetts General Hospital. John D. Crawford Visiting Lecturer (Apr 1993)
Folder 13: University of Rochester Medical Center. Remarks on Chloe Alexson’s being awarded the Alumni Gold Medal
Folder 14: Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Symposium on the Composition of Growth in Beef Cattle (Aug 1996)
Folder 15: Proposed conference of the International Dietary Energy Consultancy Group (Nov 1996)
Folder 16: International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies (Malmo : Sep 1996)
Folder 17: Food and Drug Administration. Clinical trials for the treatment of secondary wasting (Bethesda : May 1997)
Folder 18: National Institutes of Health. Conference on AIDS wasting syndrome (Bethesda : May 1997)
Folder 19: International Conference of Auxology. 8th annual meeting (Philadelphia : Jun 1997)

Box Thirty: Oral Presentations

Folder 1: International Conference of Auxology. 8th annual meeting (Philadelphia : Jun 1997)
Folder 2: Body composition symposium (Dayton : Apr 1999)
Folder 3: International Congress of Auxology. 9th annual meeting (Turin : Sep 2000)
Folder 4: New York State Nutrition Council (Rochester : Jun 2001)
Folder 5: International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies (Rome, Italy : Oct 2002)

Box Thirty-One: Research

Folder 1: Literature on hyperthermia (1940)
Folder 2: Renal acidosis (ca. 1941)
Folder 3: Urine bi-carbonate acid-base studies (Jan 1944)
Folder 4: Miscellaneous projects (1945)
Folder 5: Salicylate studies II (Oct 1945)
Folder 6: Studies on the administration of ammonium chloride intravenously I. (Feb 1945-Jan 1948)
Folder 7: Blood volume studies (Jun-Dec 1948)
Folder 8: Blood volume studies (Dec 1948)
Folder 9: Sodium24 summary (1948)
Folder 10: Sodium24 III (August 1949)

Box Thirty-Two: Research

Folder 1: Atomic Energy Commission (1951-56)
Folder 2: Atomic Energy Commission (1957-58)
Folder 3: Atomic Energy Commission (1959-60)
Folder 4: Atomic Energy Commission (1961-62)
Folder 5: Atomic Energy Commission (1963-64)
Folder 6: Atomic Energy Commission (1965)
Folder 7: Atomic Energy Commission (1966)
Folder 8: Atomic Energy Commission (1968-72)
Folder 9: Change in total body chloride during growth (ca. 1953-58)
Folder 10: Total body sodium in rat (after 1954)
Folder 11: USPHS Grant 555-4-034: Metabolism of bone sodium (1956-61)
Folder 12: Low sodium; rabbit cartilage (Summers 1958 and 1959)
Folder 13: Cats (Sep-Nov 1958)

Box Thirty-Three: Research

Folder 1: Salicylate poisoning data (1958-73)
Folder 2: Beef bone Na experiments (1959)
Folder 3: Sloth fossils, human tissue, rabbits bones (1959)
Folder 4: Bone Na experiments (1959-60)
Folder 5: Skeletal sodium. General (1959-80)
Folder 6: Skeletal sodium. Na fluoride, rats (Sep 1959)
Folder 7: Skeletal sodium. Bone Na data
Folder 8: Skeletal sodium. Acute experiments
Folder 9: Skeletal sodium. Chronic experiments
Folder 10: Skeletal sodium. Cat bones
Folder 11: Skeletal sodium. Data sheets
Folder 12: Skeletal sodium. Data sheets
Folder 13: Skeletal sodium. Data sheets

Box Thirty-Four: Research

Folder 1: Skeletal sodium. Reprints
Folder 2: Skeletal sodium. Reprints
Folder 3: Skeletal sodium. Reprints
Folder 4: Chemical growth (196-?)
Folder 5: Chemical growth (196-?)
Folder 6: Nitrogen growth in man (ca. 1960)
Folder 7: Rabbit bone experiments (1961)
Folder 8: Potassium 40 (1963-75)
Folder 9: Fasting data. AFFM/AW vs. % body fat (ca. 1964)
Folder 10: Rat experiment (1964)
Folder 11: Bone isotope exchange theory (1964-66)
Folder 12: Purina laboratory diet (1965-66)
Folder 13: USPHS grant application. Chemical studies in growth (1965)
Folder 14: USPHS grant application. Chemical studies in growth (1966)

Box Thirty-Five: Research

Folder 1: Purina lab diet (1965-66)
Folder 2: Mathematical curve for lean body mass (1965-84)
Folder 3: Ng22 experiment (1966)
Folder 4: Grant from Ross Laboratories (1967)
Folder 5: USPHS grant application: chemical studies in growth (1967)
Folder 6: Ng rat experiments (1967)
Folder 7: Cesium 134 data, rats (1967)
Folder 8: Vasopressin study (1967-70)
Folder 9: Growth (1968)
Folder 10: Chemical studies in growth (1968-69)
Folder 11: Growth hormone response (1968-71)

Box Thirty-Six: Research

Folder 1: Harpenden anthropometric instruments (1968-78)
Folder 2: USPHS grants (1969-70)
Folder 3: Fluoride balance (1969)
Folder 4: Long-term behavior of radiosodium in bone (1969)
Folder 5: Obesity study (1969)
Folder 6: HEW grant application and correspondence. Lean body mass in diabetes mellitus. (1969-74)
Folder 7: Body fat (1970-71)
Folder 8: Growth hormone (1970-71)
Folder 9: Lean body mass. Women in pregnancy (ca. 1971)
Folder 10: HEW grant application and correspondence. Total body potassium in diabetes mellitus (1971-76)
Folder 11: Pyloric stenosis (1973)
Folder 12: N loss in fasting [with E.J. Drenick] (1973-75)

Box Thirty-Seven: Research

Folder 1: N loss in fasting [with E.J. Drenick] (1973-75)
Folder 2: Lean body mass. “Pittsford kids” (1974)
Folder 3: Total body potassium in diabetes mellitus. Volunteers (1975-76)
Folder 4: Premie log II (after 1975)
Folder 5: Research Career Award. Chemical studies in growth and development (1975-80)
Folder 6: Research Career Award. Chemical studies in growth and development (1981-85)
Folder 7: Research Career Award. Chemical studies in growth and development (1986-89)
Folder 8: Research Career Award. Chemical studies in growth and development (1990-97)
Folder 9: Research Career Award. Chemical studies in growth and development (1998-2001)
Folder 10: Nutrition and low birth weight babies (ca. 1976)
Folder 11: Garn bone volume data (1976-79)

Box Thirty-Eight: Research

Folder 1: Lean body mass in menarchal girls (1976)
Folder 2: Lean body mass in pregnancy (1977)
Folder 3: HEW grant application. Lean body mass in pregnant women (1977-80)
Folder 4: Turner’s syndrome (ca. 1978)
Folder 5: Effect of vigorous training and androgens on body composition (1978)
Folder 6: Premie nutrition log data (ca. 1978)
Folder 7: Lean body mass in pregnant women (1978-85)
Folder 8: Whole body counter (1979-87)
Folder 9: Errors in potassium balance (1980)
Folder 10: Bone mineral. Christiansen data (ca. 1980)
Folder 11: Ross Foundation (1981-84)

Box Thirty-Nine: Research

Folder 1: Composition: weight gain and loss (ca. 1982)
Folder 2: Composition: weight loss and gains (1983)
Folder 3: Human growth hormone letter (1985)
Folder 4: Strontium study (1986)
Folder 5: Inheritance of lean body mass in man. Twins study (1986-87)
Folder 6: Overfeeding (1987)
Folder 7: Cystic fibrosis (1989)
Folder 8: Energy-weight variations (ca. 1989)
Folder 9: Anabolic steroids (1990)
Folder 10: Lean body mass. Log of body fat (1990-96)
Folder 11: Garn bone volume data (1991)
Folder 12: Bioimpedance analysis (1991-97)

Box Forty: Research

Folder 1: Lean body mass and olympic athletes (1993-94)
Folder 2: Evaluation of body composition techniques (1996-98)
Folder 3: Body composition response to vigorous exercise (1997)
Folder 4: Study response in size of lean body mass to rigorous exercise (1997)
Folder 5: Bod pod (1998)
Folder 6: Hastings’ triaxial acid-base chart (no date)

Box Forty-One: Correspondence

Folder 1: A-GENERAL: Aagaard-Allen
Folder 2: A-GENERAL: Almquist-Auld
Folder 3: Adolph, Edward
Folder 4: Aldrich, Robert A.
Folder 5: Amirhakimi, G. H.
Folder 6: Anderson, Donald Griggs
Folder 7: Anderson, John J. B.
Folder 8: B-GENERAL: Babcock-Berstein
Folder 9: B-GENERAL: Besson-Brodsky
Folder 10: B-GENERAL: Brooks-Byers
Folder 11: Ballor, Douglas
Folder 12: Bandini, Linda G.
Folder 13: Bell, Edward F.
Folder 14: Berg, George G.
Folder 15: Bogardus, Clifton
Folder 16: Bouchard, Claude
Folder 17: Bradford, William
Folder 18: Brownell, Kelly D.

Box Forty-Two: Correspondence

Folder 1: Bruining, Gerbrand Jan
Folder 2: Bryson, Michael
Folder 3: Burkinshaw, Lewis
Folder 4: C-GENERAL: Cahill-Clock
Folder 5: C-GENERAL: Cochran-Cystic
Folder 6: Cheek, Donald B.
Folder 7: Cohn, Stanton H.
Folder 8: Crist, Douglas M.
Folder 9: D-GENERAL: Daeschner-Dhurandhar
Folder 10: D-GENERAL: Diamontapolous-Dykes
Folder 11: Deftos, Leonard
Folder 12: Dietz, William H.
Folder 13: Deurenberg, Paul
Folder 14: Drenick, Ernst J.
Folder 15: E-GENERAL: Eagle-Elliott

Box Forty-Three: Correspondence

Folder 1: E-GENERAL: Ellis-Ewing
Folder 2: Ebbs, J. Harry
Folder 3: Engel, Ruben
Folder 4: F-GENERAL: Falkner-Fjellstedt
Folder 5: F-GENERAL: Florey-Fusner
Folder 6: Farmer, Thomas W.
Folder 7: Filer, L. J., Jr.
Folder 8: Flynn, Margaret
Folder 9: Fomon, Samuel J.
Folder 10: Frisch, Rose E.
Folder 11: G-GENERAL: Gadomski-Goodship
Folder 12: G-GENERAL: Goodwin-Gurudas
Folder 13: Garn, Stanley M.
Folder 14: Garrow, John S.
Folder 15: H-GENERAL: Hackensack-Harmer

Box Forty-Four: Correspondence

Folder 1: H-GENERAL: Harris-Hendrick
Folder 2: H-GENERAL: Hendricks-Huth
Folder 3: Heird, William C.
Folder 4: Heymsfield, Steven B.
Folder 5: Hoff, L. John
Folder 6: I-GENERAL
Folder 7: J-GENERAL: Jackan-Jelliffe
Folder 8: J-GENERAL: Jensen-Juvenile
Folder 9: Jospe, Nicholas
Folder 10: K-GENERAL: Kabelac-Kelleher
Folder 11: K-GENERAL: Keller-Kolodny
Folder 12: K-GENERAL: Koyama-Kushner
Folder 13: Katch, Frank I.
Folder 14: Klish, William J.
Folder 15: Kopelman, Loretta M.

Box Forty-Five: Correspondence

Folder 1: L-GENERAL: Labrum-Lesser
Folder 2: L-GENERAL: Levitsky-Lloyd
Folder 3: L-GENERAL: Lobeck-Lye
Folder 4: Lowe, Charles U.
Folder 5: M-GENERAL: McAnarney-Macwhinney
Folder 6: M-GENERAL: Maho-Matuszek
Folder 7: M-GENERAL: Mauer-Mills
Folder 8: M-GENERAL: Mitchell-Munro
Folder 9: McCormick, Kenneth L.
Folder 10: Malina, Robert M.
Folder 11: Mole, R. H.
Folder 12: N-GENERAL: Nacman-Neuman
Folder 13: N-GENERAL: New-Nutrition
Folder 14: Nelson, Waldo E.

Box Forty-Six: Correspondence

Folder 1: O-GENERAL
Folder 2: Orbison, J. Lowell
Folder 3: P-GENERAL: Padilla-Pickering
Folder 4: P-GENERAL: Pierce-Pruitt
Folder 5: Payne, P. R.
Folder 6: Pierson, Richard N.
Folder 7: Pietrobelli, Angelo
Folder 8: Prentice, A. M.
Folder 9: Q-GENERAL
Folder 10: R-GENERAL: Rabinowitz-Rohrbaugh
Folder 11: R-GENERAL: Romano-Rye
Folder 12: Reina, Julio Cesar
Folder 13: Roche, Alex F.
Folder 14: Rudman, Daniel
Folder 15: Ryde, S. J. S.

Box Forty-Seven: Correspondence

Folder 1: S-GENERAL: Salomon-Schwartz
Folder 2: S-GENERAL: Scientific-Sims
Folder 3: S-GENERAL: Singhal-Spencer
Folder 4: S-GENERAL: Sproule-Szilagyi
Folder 5: Schoeller, Dale A.
Folder 6: T-GENERAL: Tang-Tizard
Folder 7: T-GENERAL: Tobin-Tully
Folder 8: Tanner, J. M.
Folder 9: Townes, Philip L.
Folder 10: U-GENERAL
Folder 11: V-GENERAL
Folder 12: Veeder, Borden S.
Folder 13: W-GENERAL: Walker-Weil
Folder 14: W-GENERAL: Weinberger-Wunderlich

Box Forty-Eight: Correspondence

Folder 1: Waterlow, John C.
Folder 2: Weaver, Gary
Folder 3: Wetzel, Richard A.
Folder 4: Wilmore, Jack H.
Folder 5: Wood, Peter D.
Folder 6: Wright, James E.
Folder 7: X-Y-Z-GENERAL
Folder 8: Young, Vernon R.
Folder 9: Correspondence regarding recruitment of GBF for academic positions

Box Forty-Nine: Correspondence (Closed)

Folder 1: Letters of Recommendation (1953-56)
Folder 2: Letters of Recommendation (1957-59)
Folder 3: Letters of Recommendation (1960-61)
Folder 4: Letters of Recommendation (1962-64)
Folder 5: Letters of Recommendation (1965-66)
Folder 6: Letters of Recommendation (1967-69)
Folder 7: Letters of Recommendation (1970-72)
Folder 8: Letters of Recommendation (1979-82)
Folder 9: Letters of Recommendation (1983)

Box Fifty: Correspondence (Closed)

Folder 1: Letters of Recommendation (1983)
Folder 2: Letters of Recommendation (1984)
Folder 3: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (undated 1953-59)
Folder 4: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1953)
Folder 5: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1954)
Folder 6: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1955)
Folder 7: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1956)
Folder 8: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1957)
Folder 9: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1958-59)
Folder 10: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1960-61)
Folder 11: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1962-63)
Folder 12: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1964)
Folder 13: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1965)
Folder 14: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1966)
Folder 15: Memos regarding interviews with prospective house officers (1967-76)

Box Fifty-One: Patient Materials (Closed)

Folder 1: Discharge summaries (1940-41)
Folder 2: Hospital case histories (1941)
Folder 3: Hospital case histories (1942)
Folder 4: Hospital case histories (1943)
Folder 5: Hospital case histories (1943)
Folder 6: Hospital case histories (1944)
Folder 7: Hospital case histories (1945)
Folder 8: Hospital case histories (1946-48)
Folder 9: Hospital case histories (1949)
Folder 10: Hospital case histories (1950)
Folder 11: Hospital case histories (1951)
Folder 12: Hospital case histories (1952)
Folder 13: Hospital case histories (1952)
Folder 14: Hospital case histories (1953)
Folder 15: Children’s Medical Center. Grand Rounds (1951-53)
Folder 16: University of Rochester Medical Center. Noon clinics (1953-59)

Box Fifty-Two: Patient Materials (Closed)

Folder 1: Pediatric grand rounds (1953)
Folder 2: Pediatric grand rounds (1954)
Folder 3: Pediatric grand rounds (1955)
Folder 4: Pediatric grand rounds (1956)
Folder 5: Pediatric grand rounds (1957)
Folder 6: Pediatric grand rounds (1958)
Folder 7: Pediatric grand rounds (1959)
Folder 8: Pediatric grand rounds (1960)
Folder 9: Pediatric grand rounds (1961)
Folder 10: Pediatric grand rounds (1962)
Folder 11: Pediatric grand rounds (1963)
Folder 12: Pediatric grand rounds (1964-66)
Folder 13: Pediatric grand rounds (1967 and after)

Box Fifty-Three: Personal

Folder 1: Curricula vitae (1977-2001)
Folder 2: Clippings
Folder 3: Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y.
Folder 4: Family photographs

Box Fifty-Four: Personal

Folder 1: Medical school notes and handouts: Abnormal psychology (193?)
Folder 2: Medical school notes and handouts: Neurosurgery (193?)
Folder 3: Medical school notes and handouts: Miscellaneous (193?)
Folder 4: Medical school notes and handouts: Notes on blood (193?)
Folder 5: Medical school notes and handouts: Laboratory course in physiology of nutrition and endocrinology. [By] John Murlin (1936)
Folder 6: Medical school notes and handouts: Histology (1936)
Folder 7: Medical school notes and handouts: Biochemistry (1937)
Folder 8: Medical school notes and handouts: Bacteriology (1937-38)
Folder 9: Medical school notes and handouts: Bacteriology (1937-38)

Box Fifty-Five: Personal

Folder 1: Medical school notes and handouts: Pathology (1937-38)
Folder 2: Medical school notes and handouts: Physiology (1937)
Folder 3: Medical school notes and handouts: Physiology notebook (1937)
Folder 4: Medical school notes and handouts: Vital economics (1937)
Folder 5: Medical school notes and handouts: Miscellaneous notes (1937)
Folder 6: Medical school notes and handouts: Bacteriology and immunology (1938)
Folder 7: Medical school notes and handouts: Parasitology (1938)
Folder 8: Medical school notes and handouts: Urinanalysis (1938)
Folder 9: GBF’s undergraduate and medical school commencement programs
Folder 10: Nutrition lectures by Clausen, Hawley, Murlin and Hodge (Oct-Dec 1941) [used by GBF in his lectures in St. Louis?]

Box Fifty-Six: Personal

Folder 1: Personal diary (8 Jun 1945-15 Apr 1956)
Folder 2: Personal diary (26 Apr 1956-26 Mar 1967)
Folder 3: Personal diary: England (Feb-Mar 1967); Mexico (Nov 1967)
Folder 4: Personal diary (28 Mar 1967-16 Mar 1968)
Folder 5: Personal diary (20 Mar 1968-16 Sep 1968)
Folder 6: Personal diary (17 Sep 1968-22 Jan 1969)
Folder 7: Personal diary (22 Jan 1969-17 Jun 1969)
Folder 8: Personal diary (18 Jun 1969-30 Sep 1969)
Folder 9: Personal diary (1 Oct 1969-20 Jan 1970)

Box Fifty-Seven: Personal

Folder 1: Personal diary (21 Jan 1970-28 Apr 1970)
Folder 2: Personal diary (29 Apr 1970-11 Sep 1970)
Folder 3: Personal diary: European trip (Sep 1970)
Folder 4: Personal diary (24 Oct 1970-11 Jun 1971)
Folder 5: Personal diary (12 Jun 1971-31 Dec 1971)
Folder 6: Personal diary (1 Jan 1972-30 May 1972)
Folder 7: Personal diary (1 Jun 1972-15 Oct 1972)
Folder 8: Personal diary (16 Oct 1972-9 Feb 1973)
Folder 9: Personal diary (10 Feb 1973-16 Mar 1973)

Box Fifty-Eight: Personal

Folder 1: Personal diary (17 Mar 1973-11 July 1973)
Folder 2: Personal diary (12 Jul 1973-20 May 1974)
Folder 3: Personal diary (21 May 1974-20 Aug 1974)
Folder 4: Personal diary (Sep 1974-Jun 1975)
Folder 5: Personal diary (1 Jan 1975-6 Jun 1975)
Folder 6: Personal diary (1 Jan 1976-16 Jan 1976; 7 Feb 1990-7 Mar 1990; 4 Jan 1991)
Folder 7: Personal diary (3 Jun 1976-26 Oct 1976)
Folder 8: Personal diary (30 Oct 1976-31 Jan 1978)

Box Fifty-Nine: Personal

Folder 1: Personal Diary (1 Feb 1978-30 Nov 1978)
Folder 2: Personal diary (31 Jan 1979-9 Jul 1979)
Folder 3: Personal diary (19 Jul 1985-1 Dec 1986; 24 Oct 1992-12 Feb 1993)
Folder 4: “Kendallia” (1954)
Folder 5: General information with regard to hospital cases and study of miscellaneous clinical material … plus conferences and lectures given at various places, St. Louis (1942-50)
Folder 6: Log book (29 Oct 1971-30 Jul 1973)
Folder 7: Log book (6 Aug 1973-26 Jul 1974)
Folder 8: Personal accounts ledger (1936-37)
Folder 9: Personal accounts ledger (1937-38)
Folder 10: Personal accounts ledger (1938-39)

Box Sixty: Personal

Folder 1: Personal accounts ledger (Dec 1942-Jan 1947)
Folder 2: Personal accounts ledger (Jan 1947-Dec 1956)
Folder 3: Personal accounts ledger (Jan 1957-Dec 1964)
Folder 4: Personal accounts ledger (Jan 1965-Dec 1969)
Folder 5: Personal accounts ledger (Jan 1970-Jul 1973)
Folder 6: Personal accounts ledger (Aug 1973-Dec 1977)
Folder 7: Personal accounts ledger (Jan 1978-Dec 1981)

Box Sixty-One: Personal

Pocket-size appointment books (1948, 1953-55, 1958, 1959, 1968-72, 1974, 1974/75, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985-2001)

Box Sixty-Two: Personal

Desk-size appointment books (1985, 1988-91, 1994)

Box Sixty-Three: Personal

?Folder 1: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Pre-departure correspondence
Folder 2: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Memorandum book
Folder 3: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2
Folder 4: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Map of Oxford, guidebooks, etc.
Folder 5: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Ephemera
Folder 6: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Receipts for house in Oxford
Folder 7: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Receipts for automobile
Folder 8: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Miscellaneous receipts
Folder 9: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England

Box Sixty-Four: Personal

Folder 1: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England
Folder 2: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England
Folder 3: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England
Folder 4: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England
Folder 5: Sabbatical in England (1970-71). Correspondence received while in England

Box Sixty-Five: Personal

Diplomas, licenses, certificates, awards

Box Sixty-Six: Personal

Awards

Box Sixty-Seven: Personal

Folder 1: Gilbert D. Forbes: Certificates, etc.
Folder 2: Gilbert D. Forbes: Class notes, etc. while undergraduate at Cornell (1901-02)
Folder 3: Gilbert D. Forbes: Class notes, etc. while undergraduate at Cornell (1901-02)
Folder 4: Gilbert D. Forbes: Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 5: Gilbert D. Forbes: Forbes mineral oil emulsion (1930-32)
Folder 6: Gilbert D. Forbes: Narcotics order forms (1929-36)
Folder 7: Gilbert D. Forbes: New York State Association of School Physicians. Correspondence (1934-37)
Folder 8: Gilbert D. Forbes: New York State Association of School Physicians. Talks and radio programs
Folder 9: Gilbert D. Forbes: Office signs
Folder 10: Gilbert D. Forbes: Patent for surgical clamps (1918)
Folder 11: Gilbert D. Forbes: Publications
Folder 12: Gilbert D. Forbes: Receipts
Folder 13: Gilbert D. Forbes: University of the State of New York. State Education Dept. Health and Physical Education Division. Correspondence (1936-38)

Box Sixty-Eight: Personal

Gilbert D. Forbes: Medical school class and laboratory notebooks

Box Sixty-Nine: Personal

Gilbert D. Forbes: “The Physician’s Perfect Call List and Record” [i.e., vest pocket patient appointment and record notebooks], 1913-1920

Box Seventy: Personal

Gilbert D. Forbes: Patient card file, A-L

Box Seventy-One: Personal

Gilbert D. Forbes: Patient card file, M-Z

Box Seventy-Two: Personal

Gilbert D. Forbes: Patient account ledgers, 1930s