File consists of the second volume of notebooks with lecture notes on geology from a class at the Royal School of Mines.

File consists of volumes I of Dawson's notebooks containing lecture notes from a natural history course taken at the Royal School of Mines.

File consists of volume II of Dawson's notebooks containing lecture notes from a natural history course taken at the Royal School of Mines.

File consists of volume III of Dawson's notebooks containing lecture notes from a natural history course taken at the Royal School of Mines.

File consists of volume IV of Dawson's notebooks containing lecture notes from a natural history course taken at the Royal School of Mines.

File consists of a notebook of natural history lecture notes ("Volume IV") from the Royal School of Mines 1871-1872 session.

File consists of notebook containing notes on applied mechanics lectures, Royal School of Mines, 1872,

Consists of one notebook containing volume 2 of Notes on mining, Royal School of Mines, 1871-1872.

File consists of two childhood diaries. The diary dated from summer 1865 recounts a trip to the United Kingdom taken with his father when George Mercer Dawson was 16 years old. The diary dated 1861 was kept while George Mercer Dawson was 11 years old and begins 1 March 1861. One loose leaf with instructions for a magic lantern was previously laid in the diary. 1861 diary speaks of lessons with "Miss," tells of pasttimes and games including tops and marbles, siling boats, tag, bow and arrows, magic lantern, etc. Speaks also of continued headaches and being tired.

File consists of two bound pocket notebooks, one dated 1882 and one between 1869-1871. The notebook beginning 21 June 1869 is a small red pocket notebook with gold clasp and contains geological observations and drawings of a cave at Murray Bay in Quebec (1869), Grange Quarry and Burntisland (summer 1870) and a British Geological Association excursion (1871). The 1882 notebook contains poems and notes on France and Germany written while traveling .