The minutes series comprises eight bound volumes, two publications and one envelope of loose duplicate minutes. The minutes document proceedings from the annual, general, monthly, special, ordinary and extraordinary meetings held by the Society. It consists of the minutes from the Natural History Society (1827-1923), the Natural History Society Council (1827-1922), and the Natural History Society Committees (1906-1908).

The handwritten and typed minutes document the Society’s activities, including lists of members, newspaper articles, donations to the Society, elections, advertisements for sponsored lectures, and reports from committees. Handwritten copies of letters from Dr. Meade, Mr. C.U. Shepard, Major Delafield (File 5.2) and Robert Burn (File 9.1) to the Society as well as letters sent on behalf of the Society (Smithsonian Institute, File 5.1) are included with the minutes.

The reports series has a plethora of information about the functioning of the Society. Three files (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) contain the published and printed reports of the Society covering yearly highlights of activity. They cover the years 1828, 1830-1836, 1854-57, 1859, 1864-1871, 1873-1874, 1877-1878, 1881. Also included for each year are reports from the Treasurer, Librarian and Cabinet Keeper. The reports were signed off by the Chairman or President of that year.

In addition, included in this series is a ledger with Reports from the Indian Committee (file 13.3), with a handwritten report for the end of the year and survey forms. The committee members were W. M. McKay ( President of Committee), George Simpson, D. C. Napier, John Samuel McCord, A. F. Holmes, William Pardey, Robert Armour (Secretary).

This series consists of 23 volumes and 6 files focusing on travel, research, and expedition activities conducted during Casey Wood's ornithological research trips from 1920-1937, including periodical and newspaper publications written by Wood during this time. This series consists of manuscripts and articles relating to letters to friends and family providing accounts of his travels, clippings, photographs, printed ephemera, photostats, artwork, and feathers from John III. Some of the volumes contain manuscripts, notes, and/or photostats, while others are scrapbooks containing multiple record types seemingly curated, arranged and mounted by Wood or as directed by him.
Within this series are 209 incoming and outgoing correspondence including letters, notes and cards. Individuals in correspondence with Wood include Cora Raymond, G. R. Lomer, E. V. Sanderson, Sir George Perley, Sir Charles Major, H. Kirke Swann, Edith Hayes, Emma Shearer Wood, W. E. Wait, Sun Engraving Co., Taylor and Francis, Bitty and Seaborne Ltd., Stuart Baker, G. M. Henry, and Allan Brooks. Other individuals present in this series include Mabel Satterlee, L. F. Struthers, W. J. Belcher, J. Sutton, G. M. Henry, F. Marjorie Fyfe, J. C. Harrison, Alexander Wetmore, and Dr. Andreas Nell.
Places referenced within this series' files include South America (1920), British Guiana (1922), Fiji (1923), Oceania, New Zealand, Australia (1923-1924), England and Scotland, Ceylon (1925-1934), Colombo, Kandy, and Italy (1934-1936). Some topics and research areas of note include ornithology, zoology, bird protection, travelling, nightingales (1920-1934), John III (1924, 1937), “Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon” (1925-1927), Emma Shearer Wood and Blacker Library collections, Sinhalese weights, Wood’s heath, Ali ibn Isa, and political printed material on Italy during the late 1930s.
There are also a number of photostats of publications or manuscripts copied approximately in 1937 related to Emperor Frederick II’s “de Arte Venandi cum Avibus.” These photostats were used for reference during these research trips for Casey A. Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe’s published translation “The Art of Falconry.”

This series consists of falconry equipment, falconry exhibit labels and cards, a taxidermy young peregrine falcon, and two large burlap envelopes collected by Casey A. Wood from 1920-1937. Also included in this series are two Wolf Envelope Co. (Ohio) allsteel transfer cases manufactured by General Fireproofing Co., Ohio for book binding, found within Wood’s materials (191-?).
The leather falconry equipment and those worn by the young peregrine falcon were made by Otto Kals in Dusseldor-Benrath, Germany approximately in 1930-1937 and the falcon bells were made by Captain Russell Luff Meredith in the United States in 1920. The taxidermy young peregrine falcon in training is mounted on a weathering block and wears a United States Bureau of Biological Survey identification band, indicating that it was acquired legally. The falcon is also wearing a hood, a leash, a swivel, and a jess. A falcon bell is also held with the falcon as well as another leather jess, which is damaged.
Many of the artefacts in this series were purchased by Casey A. Wood due to his interest in falconry during his research with Marjorie Fyfe for the publication “The Art of Falconry,” a translation of Frederick II of Hosenstaufen's “de Arte Vendandi cum Avibus.” The falconry items were gifted to the Redpath Library at McGill University in autumn 1938 by Dr. Casey A. Wood.
The two large burlap envelopes previously held the contents of flat box MSG 1203-2-25, which contains photostats produced by the British Museum of Emperor Frederick II's manuscript “de Arte Venandi cum Avibus,” books I-II. It is evident on one envelope that labels were removed, while the other includes two original labels indicating Persian miniatures and drawings from the "fourteenth to nineteenth century, collected in North India, Bombay, Cairo, and London by Casey A. Wood," were previously contained. These two labels were scratched out and the note "Fred. II" was added.

This series contains book lists and catalogs which document Mappin’s personal antiquarian book collection. Also includes files about Canadian authors’ deposits and archival fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Includes professional correspondence with other antiquarian books sellers, and documents the contents of their personal or donated collections. Contains machine typed personal index cards containing entries for authors, events, printings, etc. File #1210.02.06.05 contains the cover for The Goblin : a Brief History of Canada's Humour Magazine of the 1920s written by John Mappin and Carl Spadoni however the contents are missing.

This series consists of personal correspondence between Farkas and other artists/poets. Both electronic and handwritten mail are present in the files.

This series consists of selected editions of literary magazine White Pelican and Maclean's magazine. This series also includes collected poetry which was published by White Pelican. Stephen Scobie was not the creator for the records in this series. The series is mostly located in Container 5 with a file in Container 4.

This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Stephen Scobie and others. The files include personal correspondence between Scobie and friends and acquaintances, correspondence regarding business matters between Scobie and various publishers and editors, correspondence with governmental bodies regarding grant applications, and correspondence with universities and other organizations regarding planning for lectures and events. As noted in the file listing, some letters include attached copies of drafts for essays or reviews by Scobie, of which there may be duplicates in Series 4, Non-fiction. Some files within Series 3, 4, and 5 also contain correspondence, which were not separated to preserve original order. The series is mostly located within Container 1, with some files in Containers 3, 4 and 5.

This series consists of correspondence, notes, copies of research materials, and drafts of typed manuscripts pertaining mainly to Edwards' research in the history of education and personas related to the history of McGill. Topics in education include the history of Educational Psychology in Britain and North America (1994-1995, Box 5 files 79-83) and Normal Schools in the U.S. and Canada (1990-1991, Box 5 files 84, 85 and Box 6 file 102), as well as education in Quebec in general, in the context of Quebec politics and language laws, and at McGill (1968-1975, Box 5 files 84-92; see also Box 6 files 93, 106). Particular attention is paid, in this last group, to the Faculty of Education and the Department of Educational Psychology (1994-1995, Box 5 files 88-92). Among the documents are drafts of article manuscripts on the history of Normal Schools and the Chairs of Education at London and McGill, "Fin de Siecle: And A New Beginning" (1991), a "History of Protestant Teacher Training in the Province of Quebec" (ca. 1978) and "Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism and Education" (1989) with editors comments (Box 6 files 102, 103). Also included are drafts of chapters (of an untitled book) on the constitutional and educational history of Canada (1979, Box 6 files 100, 101) and copies of Edwards' papers, presented and published (1956-1991 Box 6 files 93-99).

The largest grouping of material on an individual is devoted to Sir William Peterson and associated topics, collected from 1983-1998 (Box 3, file 35 - Box 5, file 78; photo file 109). Included is material on Peterson's own work in classics (1991-1998, Box 3 file 39 - Box 4, file 45) as well as drafts of Edwards' biographies of Peterson, "The Education of a Principal" (1993), "The First Macdonald Professor" as well as other manuscripts (Box 3, files 35-39). Additional areas of focus in this group are the introduction of the Ph.D. in Britain and North America (ca. 1995 Box 4, files 62-62), the granting of honorary degrees (1989-1995 Box 4, file 64-66), the Macdonald Chair of Education (1991-1996) - with special attention to James Alfred Dale (1991-1998 Box 5 files 68-71; photos files 68, 69), and, to a lesser extent, Fred Clarke (1991, Box 5, file 67) - and the University Extension movement (1983-1995 Box 5, files 72-78).

Other major areas of research are the 1854 search for a McGill Principal (1997-1998 Box 3 files 27-34) and David Davidson, the McGill Governor who was charged with filling that position, and on whom Edwards collected extensive biographical and genealogical material (1994-1998 Box 3 files 19-26, 27-34). The process of the search for a Principal is described and documented with the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Governors (Box 3 file 29) and biographical information of varying breadth on each of the candidates for the position William Arnold (Box 3 file 30), Daniel Wilson (Box 3, file 31), William Ballantyne Hodgson (Box 3 file 31), Richard T. Pennefather (Box 3, file 32), Henry Burgess (Box 3 files 33, 34 - photo file 34), and William Dawson (Box 3 file 29). There are manuscripts on the Davidsons and McGill in 1854 (Box 3 file 19), as well as wide-ranging background material on the politics and policies of the British government from the mid-18th century to 1854. Typed notes and partial manuscripts relating to this background material include a "Collection of all the Treaties of Peace, Alliance and Commerce between Great Britain and other Powers", notes on the "Seven Years War and Canada", and "[The Duke of]Marlborough" (Box 3 file 27).

This series is comprised of autobiographical manuscripts, personal correspondence, letters to the editor, notes and photographs, as well as various clippings, and pamphlets reflecting Edwards' interest in politics and social issues (1965-1998 Box 6 files 104-110 - Box 7 file 1). In addition there is a large compilation of personal research on the Logan family and the Logan land holdings in 19th century Quebec and Ontario (1998-2000, Box 2). Included in the Logan papers are records of land cessions/transfers and Montreal notaries (Box 2 files 9, 13, 16, 17) as well as genealogical records (throughout Box 2) and drafts of biographical manuscripts on members of the Logan family (Box 2 file 18).

The autobiographical manuscripts concentrate on Edwards' life and political experiences from 1929-1949, his involvement with sports prior to 1945, and the beginning of his research interests in the Logan family (Box 6,m file 110). The correspondence includes drafts and final versions of letters written to Dean Hall of the Education Faculty regarding Edwards' position at McGill (1961-1967 Box 6 files 104, 105) and a 1998 letter to his grandson, Joe Friesen (Box 6 file 110) describing the circumstances surrounding the writing of four of Edwards' papers (his first published, a Presidential address to the Comparative and International Education Society, and two others - no titles provided). Other letters include a letter of support to Audrey McLaughlin, dated 1993, and two letters to Charles Taylor expressing his desire for the acceptance of the Meech Lake Accord (1990), and his agreement with Taylor's support for Canada's adoption of asymmetrical federalism (1992) (all Box 6, file 107). Letters to the editor date from 1989-1998 (Box 6 file 107), are mostly addressed to the Montreal Gazette, and address a variety of topics mainly in Quebec politics, including support of the Meech Lake proposal and condemnation of Quebec Bill 101.

Among the personal notes is a draft "Manitoba, Meech Lake and Bill 178" (Box 6 file 107) as well as lengthy comments on Quebec Bills 62 and 22, and an item titled "Government and Politics" (Box 6 file 106). Notes on Communism in the Soviet Union (ca. 1960) are in Box 7 (File 1). Many individuals of interest to Edwards are listed in Box 1, which holds a binder containing nearly 200 biographical clippings.

Photographs include those taken at sites visited during research trips (Box 2 files 4, 10), those taken with family and friends Boxes 3 (file 41, 5 (file 77) and 6 (file 109) and pictures taken of McGill archival photos (Box 6, file 109).