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File contains a text "A sister's appreciation" written about Noel Noel-Buxton by Victoria Alexandrina de Bunsen (née Buxton), one of Buxton's younger sisters. It seems to have been written in celebration of Buxton after his death.

Item consists of a colour illustration of a snake among a six-petalled pink flower (Pride of India). Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet with background details pencilled in. The caption identifies the species as a "Cobra Minelle," which is described in the Oriental Memoirs, volume 1, chapter 3, as "the smallest, and most dangerous; the bite occasions a speedy and painful death. They are of a brown colour, speckled with black and white, though at a distance not easily distinguished from the ground on which they move." An additional pencil annotation by Henry Mousley identifies the species as "Tropidonotus stolatus."

Item consists of a colour illustration of an owl poised on a branch, with description in pen in contemporary hand: A small White owl, of the natural size: drawn and colored from Nature, on the Island of Salsette. 1783. Figure has been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.

"A Small-Pox Hospital," extract from the Canada Medical & Surgical Journal, 1873-4, Vol. 2, p. 282.