Sir James Porter was Medical Director General from 1908 to 1913. Folder contains: Royal Scottish Hospital St Andrews Day Festival programme, 1908; three photographs and a newspaper cutting, one depicting the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1908; confidential report on punishment of sick berth staff in naval hospitals and the composition of Medical Survey Boards, 4 April 1909; newspaper cutting mentioning Porter's attendance at the Naval Medical Conference in Washington; selection of ephemera relating to Porter's visit to the USA in 1909; a rough proof of a confidential report of the Naval Medical Service, 1909, in five sections; a royal message to naval personnel, 9 May 1910; a page from the Supplement to the Army and Navy Chronical 19 August 1910 with Porter's portrait; an invitation to meet Officers of the US Navy, December 1910; The Naval Medical Service Circular Letter, 11 August 1911; Admiralty letter to Porter regarding promotion to Director General of the Medical Department, 25 November 1911; report by Medical Consultative Board as to some of the probable causes of increasing shortage of Medical Officers, 7 May 1913; three letters to Porter from the Medical Department and a table containing recruitment statistics, 1914; minutes of the British Medical Association Council, 24 June 1914.