These two notebooks belonged to Walter Starnes Nash, who used them to take notes in his medical courses at the University of Michigan in 1888 and 1889. During these years, he took Physical Diagnosis, Theory and Practice, Physiology, Nervous Diseases, Genealogy, Surgery, Pathology, Physiology, Sanitary Science, Physiological Chemistry, Urinary Analysis, Bright’s Disease, Neurology, Obstetrics, Surgery, and Pathology. Nash’s professors for these courses included Dr. Henry Francis Lyster, Dr. Martin, Dr. Donald Maclean, Dr. V. C. Vaughn, and Dr. Gibbs.