The Ephemera sub-subseries consists of miscellaneous, non-greeting card items, composed of 5 printed documents and 1 physical object. In it are writers, small pamphlets destined to provide the reader with tips on how to write letters and messages to all sorts of people, as well as greeting card catalogs and press. There is also a wall pocket, presumably used to hold cards, that was equally being sold by wholesalers of greeting cards.

Sub-subseries consists of approximately ten of Dawson's scientific notebooks (box 29). Most are pocket memoranda, but some are more discursive, such as a notebook on Nova Scotia geology and one of geological notes from the 1860s and 1870s. Three scrapbooks bear directly on science: "Scientific Scraps" is largely pictorial material; "Scraps relating to science and religion", despite its title, is mostly Dawson's published articles on geology, education, and travel (boxes 39-40); finally, a scrapbook of clippings programmes and photographs serves as a souvenir of Dawson's presidential meeting of the BAAS in Birmingham, 1886 (box 77).

The Rebus Valentines sub-subseries consists of printed valentines that contain puzzles or cryptographic messages that the recipient must decipher. This can include messages written in hieroglyphics or hidden in endless knots.

Includes correspondence, bills, notes, statements of account, claims, medical reports, evaluationn, records of payments, newspaper clippings, application forms, receipts, contracts, certificates of insurances, statements, invoices, reports of accidents, bank draft, insurances policies, repair estimates, proof of loss, annuities, appraisals.

Insurances : liability, disability, fire, malpractice, automobile, malpractice, household goods and personal effects, life insurances.

1. American College of Surgeons Insurance Program
2. British Pacific Life Insurance Company
3. Canadian Government Annuities
4. Canadian Medical Protective Association
5. Churchill-Smith & Sutherland Ltd.
6. Compagnie d'assurance-vie de Montreal
7. Crown Life Insurance Co.
8. Dale & Company Limited/Ralph V. Cummings
9. Federal Insurance Company
10. Lewis, Apedaile & Hanson, Inc.
11. Lowndes Lambert
12. Montreal Life Insurance Company
13. Monntreal Medico-Chirurgical Society Group Plans
14. Morris & Mackenzie Limited
15. Mutual of Omaha Insurance
16. Peerless Insurance Agencies LImited
17. Quebec Medical Association Group Disability Insurance
18. Royal Automobile Club of Canada
19. Miscellaneous

The sub-subseries consists of twenty miscellaneous geological maps, charts, and plans of Egypt, Sinai Peninsula, Rome, Manitoba, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, the eastern part of British North America, Snake River, Montana, Wyoming, Wisconsin, St. Lawrence River, Cumberland Coal Field, North Pole, and Pictou Harbour. Maps are both printed and hand-drawn.

Sub-subseries consists of published material concerning McGill University and/or Dr. Penfield. (E/PS = Events / Published Standard)

Sub-subseries consists of visual and some textual information concerning particular neurological cases. This material was sent to Dr. Penfield by other neurologists. (E/VS = Events / Visual Sent)