Picture by Lossilla of a skeleton smoking a cigarette, looking at a microscope, with an open book and a quill pen next to him. Caption: "La muerte por la ciencia."
A copy of William Harvey's De motu cordis open to the title page rests against a skull on a study table. The shelves, chair, and table are filled with books. A quotation by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell appears at the top of the bookplate.
Bookplate: Two trees tower over a shield with a caduceus and a shield with a rooster. A pelican is surrounded by Tulane's motto: "Non sibi, sed suis" ("Not for one's self, but for one's own").