The fonds consists of admission and lecture tickets collected by Dr. O.E. Moorhouse M.D. 1889, while a medical student at McGill, 1885-1889. In addition, it also includes an invitation to Dr. Moorhouse to attend the opening of the new buildings, June 6th and 7th, 1910, and a postponement of the opening until June 1911 following the death of King Edward VII. Finally there is the Constitution and By-Laws of the New Brunswick Graduates' Society of McGill University (St. John, N.B., 1897).
The fonds contains Macfarlane's papers, concentrating on his geological research and his professional work in mining. They comprise: geological and chemical notes made in Germany and England, 1855; geological notes on New Brunswick, 1855-1856, the copper mines of Upper Telemarken, Norway, 1861, Quebec, 1861-1862, and Eldorado Canyon, Nevada, 1887; laboratory journals and records of results, 1851-1856, 1859-1882, 1884-1889; and letterbooks, notebooks and memoranda on geology, 1863-1899.
Howard Dayne Brunt's papers consist of manuscript, typescript and published versions of Brunt's PhD. thesis, which is on the history of education in Nova Scotia. The typescript copy of the thesis is in English; the others are in German.
McGill pocket diaries kept by Wendell B. Brewer while a student at McGill, noting his academic, sports, and social activities for 1920-1921, 1921-1922, and 1922-1923.
The fonds consists of a small black three-ringed binder composed of five sections (Quotations, Humor, Nonsense, Political, Information) which contain handwritten and typewritten quotations of prose and poetry (notably Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats, among others), and news clippings of articles, cartoons and art, intermingled together on the pages. The last section, Information, contains lists of Latin, words and definitions and signs of the zodiac to name a few.
The fonds consists of two letters from James Mills to Principal Sir Arthur Currie dated July 31 and August 5 1922. Both letters refer to the appointment of a principal to Macdonald College and the July letter has a typed copy with lines underlined in red ink. Included is a note from Currie to E.W . Beatty stating that a copy of the Mills letter was enclosed.
The fonds consists of correspondence primarily from Mary M. Francis to J. William Taylor, with one letter to a C. F. A. Markgraf Francis and one letter to Francis from Taylor.
The fonds consists of records created and accumulated in the course of the Montreal Dental Club's activities from 1897 until 1997 and contains administrative files, 1897-1994; minutes, 1897-1994; correspondence, 1930-1995; financial reports/books, 1897-1909, 1934-1947, 1973-1979; scrapbooks and news clippings, 1888-1963; newsletters, 1961-1981; Fall Clinic records, 1938-1939, 1964-1977; copies of the club's journal, Insight, 1989-1995; four histories of the Montreal Dental Club and the McGill Dental School, 1897-1947, 1946-1997, 1997; and four photos and negatives of a club dinner dance. In addition, the fonds includes undated miscellaneous scientific papers.
Tape and transcripts of an interview of Louise Britton's reminiscences of life in Montreal and at McGill. Participants were Mrs. Britton (LB); Richard Britton (Dick), son of Mrs. Britton (RB); Dean Roderick Macdonald (RH) and Professor Jeremy Webber (JW).
