File includes a sketch and description by Mr. Moffatt of a copper cermonial object, manufactured by the "Fort Rupert Band" (referring to the Kwakiutl people of the Northwest coast), and notes on Indigenous groups, two fragments containing additional notes on Indigenous groups, and a document entitled, "Customs of the N.C. Indians." This last document contains in particular outsider observations of purported coming of age ceremonies and childbirth traditions.
File includes 2 tables of fur sale prices for Hudson's Bay; 6 letters (including correspondence between the marine ministry and fisheries and C. H. Tupper); an extract from "The Seal-Island of Alaska" by Henry W. Eliott (1881); the report "Ordinance for the Protection of the Buffalo" (1877); the document "Short Skeleton of Reply to 'Property' Claim" by George Mercer Dawson (1892); and a chief contentions report of the U.S. Case entitled "Respecting the Seal and Seal Life".
File includes 17 letters chiefly on scientific and professional topics, including correspondence with R. Kidston, G. Baden-Powell, J. Anderson, J. G. Colmer, and Frank Dawson Adams. Also includes one letter from Anna Harrington,
File includes 25 letters containing chiefly scientific and professional correspondence. Also includes 1 memorandum, 2 lists of species, correspondence with D. R. Cameron, Dr. John Rae, A.Y. Fletcher, Morin College students.
File includes notes and memoranda on the following topics: 1) seal life; 2) memorandum on proposed method of treatment of part II of the United States Case; and 3) memorandum as to work in progress in Ottawa, etc.
