Bound volume chiefly containing Dawson's published articles on geology, education, and travel.

Dawson's Map of the Dominion of Canada, with the text: “John R. Hamilton, Railway, news, and advertising agent, Saint John, N.B.”

Map of the Province of Canada from Lake Superior to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with the text: “Corrected from information obtained by the Geological Survey under the direction of Sir W.E. Logan and prepared for the Canada Directory.”

Consists of one small notebook pencil.

Consists of hand-coloured map.

File contains half leather bound notebook with marbled paper over boards containing notes on geological surveying trips to various locations . Partial alphabetical index of places is given on page [1] and includes Digby, Bras D'Or, Joggins, Caribou Cove and many others. Includes notes in pen, hand drawn diagrams, and hand drawn maps laid in. Majority of entries appear to date from the late 1840s.

File contains half leather bound notebook with marbled paper over boards containing notes and diagrams on geological topics, including Murray Bay (La Malbaie) and Montreal (Hochelaga), sheets of drawings and diagrams laid or tipped in, newspaper clippings (including on 1871 Hawkesbury earthquake, an 1879 Ontario earthquake, and other Quebec earthquakes during the 1880s), and letters to William Dawson and other fragments of notes tipped in. Various dates found throughout.

File contains quarter leather bound notebook with marbled paper over boards containing notes chiefly on geological topics, many with diagrams, dated 1837. Includes many sheets of what appear to be later notes tipped in or laid in as well as a hand drawn colour map of the county of Pictou.

File contains notebook of lecture notes on natural philosophy kept by John William Dawson during 1836 while at Pictou Academy, Nova Scotia. Topics include descriptions of metals, chemistry, and light (including colour sketch).

File consists of notebook written chiefly at Edinburgh in 1841 by John William Dawson containing notes on zoology. Notes are in pen with some pencil drawings of specimens. Manuscript table of contents at the end lists zoological content. Three pages towards the middle of the volume appear to have been written later in the 1840s and contains tables of weather conditions tracking for 1843-1847 (including barometer readings, thermometer readings, and pluviometer readings).