File consists of memoranda on the British Alaskan Boundary; various notes; letters including correspondence with D.R. Cameron and Sir J. Thompson; and a copy of the "Convention: Great Britain - Alaska Boundary and Passamaquoddy Bay" signed by president Benjamin Harrison and Secretary of State John W. Foster.

File contains copies of the Yukon River report; report on The Alaska Boundary Question by W.H. Hall (1888); notes; and letters including correspondence with D. R. Cameron, E. Deville, and W. H. Dall.

File contains letters and notes on the Alaska Boundary, including the following: a copy of the report "Alaska Boundary Question"; "notes on cavernous report"; letter from D. H. Dall; letters from Capt. William Moore; and draft memoranda.

File includes Behring Sea confidential reports: Professor D'Arcy Thompson to the Marquess of Salisbury, March 1897 (39 pages); G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton to the Marquess of Salisbury, 1897 (57 pages); Marquess of Salisbury to Sir Johnson Pauncefote, 1897 (3 pages); and notes on Prof. Jordan's preliminary report.

File includes the following maps of the fur-seal breeding rookeries: Tolstoi; N.E point; Garbotch and the Reef; Zapadnie; Polavina and Little Polavina; Lukannon and Ketavie; Great Eastern Rookery; Little Eastern Rookery; North Rookery; Starry Central Rookery; and the Zapadnie Rookery.

File includes various cards, notes, and small sketches in relation to the Behring Sea Arbitration and fur-seal matters.

File includes various official documents and reports related to seal fishing or created in relation to a mission to Washington regarding framing of sealing regulations in the Behring Sea, including: certified copy of the confidential report of a Committee of the Hon. Privy Council, on the Behring Sea and fur-seal fisheries, 1893 (26 pages); Reports on the Arbitrations and regulations of the fur seal fishery, by C. H. Tupper; Notice relating to Permits and Passes on fur-seal fishery; Confidential Report of the "British Agent to the Russian Seal Islands under the provisional agreement entered between her Majesty's government and that of Russia for the protection of Seal fisheries," Dr. Dawson, 1893 (108 pages with appendices).

File includes licenses to British sailing vessels engaged in fur-seal fishing as well as 25 letters, including correspondence with C. H. Tupper.

File includes notes on the fishing and sealing industries, in addition to notes on investigations into fishing and sealing in the Behring Sea.

File includes proposal and draft letters to naturalists, including the opinions of C.H. Tupper regarding the U.S. case.