Printed material related to iron deposits and mining in Nova Scotia. Includes reports and a memorandum with accompanying maps, and a draft prospectus.

Printed volume of reports written for Pictou Coal and Iron Co., Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada. Includes a report by J.W. Dawson, and 2 colour maps.

Two printed reports about mining in Ontario: 1) Report on Certain Apatite Lands in North Burgess, Ontario, 1877, by S. Dana Hayes; and 2) Report on the Phosphate Lands of the Templeton & North Ottawa Mining Company, 1878, by E.J. Chapman.

Offprint of a paper by J.W. Dawson published in the Proceedings of the Geological Society, Vol. XIX, Part 1, 20 May 1863.

Offprint of a paper by J.W. Dawson published in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XXXI, August 1882.

Offprint of a paper by D.P. Penhallow published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Vol. VII, Section IV, 1889, from a presentation given on 8 May 1880.

Fossil plants - lignite tertiary. B.N.A.Boundary Commission, Plate XVI, sheet of paper with 10 different drawings of fossil plants. "A.L.D.Delt" printed on bottom-left corner.

Dadoxylon materiarium, critical and rare post-Pliocene species (Canadian Naturalist). Includes the text: Geology of Prince Edward Island, Plates I & VII. Two separate sheets mounted on pink cardstock with a total 23 fossil drawings. "A.L.D.Delt and LEGGO & co. Montreal" printed on bottom left and right corners.

Two pages of notes with the titles “Note on [Topul] Woods from Yukon Territory, Dec 1884,” “Specimens from Belly River in black carbonaceous shale,” and “Finil Woods, Rink rapids, Lewis River.”