This file contains falconry equipment from approximately 1920-1936 crafted by Otto Kals and Captain R. L. Meredith for Dr. Casey A. Wood for McGill’s Redpath Library. Within this file are two lures, one three-fingered glove, eight exhibit cards, three falcon bells, three item labels, and nine hoods. Three of these hoods were fashioned in the styles of Anglo-Indian, Indian, and Dutch. The contents of the original container have been respected in their rehousing.

This file contains a taxidermy young peregrine falcon in training leashed to a weathering block and wearing falconry equipment including a hood, a bell, 2 jesses, 1 swivel, a U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey identification band ,which shows legal acquirement. Items worn by the falcon were crafted by Otto Kals in Dusseldorf-Benrath and the bells crafted by Captain R. L. Meredith for Casey A. Wood as a gift for the Redpath Library at McGill University. This file was obtained in approximately 1937. The falcon's presentation has remained unchanged.

File contains 3 items relating to the Wood family prepared by Casey Wood, including:
-Typescript: An Account of the Wood Family Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England (1574) and Later of Salam, Mss. (1630); Long Island (Conn. And N.Y.) (1644): Newburgh, N.Y. (1765) and Canada / by Casey A. Wood.
-Typescript: The Wood Family of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, N.Y., and Canada / by Casey A. Wood (2 copies)

This file consists of items relating to the collection at the Emma Shearer Wood (E. S. W.) Library of Ornithology and correspondence from 1921-1928. This file contains a rough manuscript of "A Collection of Medieval Persian Manuscripts" by Casey Wood and Wladimir Ivanow, and handwritten and typed catalogue lists of titles within the Emma Shearer Wood Library. There is also a letter from Casey A. Wood to the English book dealers Wheldon and Wesley ordering titles for the E.S.W. Library.

This subseries consists of 11 volumes, correspondence files, and a box of notecards dated from 1921-1956 relating to Wood's publication “An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology” published in 1931 and collection development within the Emma Shearer Wood and Blacker Libraries at McGill University. The volumes and files contain correspondence, handwritten and typed annotated manuscripts, proof sheets, the publication, notecards listing recipients of the publication, prints, printed ephemera, clippings, financial and administrative records, book reviews, and McGill Library catalogue listings related to the works within “An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology.” Additional professional projects are also represented in the subseries including “Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon,” the Passing of John III, and Wood’s translation of Benevenutus Grassus’ de Oculis.
There are 1313 incoming and outgoing correspondence letters, telegrams, and cards; the largest volume in the collection. The correspondents are located internationally and include public, academic, government, and army libraries; museums, clubs and societies, literary journals, publishers, etc.. Some individuals and companies addressed include Lillian Bates, William Henry Mousley, Gerhard R. Lomer, W. W. Francis, Robert de Resillac Roese, S. R. Burrell, Robert Blacker, Miss Hanington, Elizabeth E. Abbott, John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., Oxford University Press, Sun Engraving Co., Parker & Sons Ltd., Herbert Putnam, George Iles, Colonel F. H. Garrison, Dr. Melville Black, W. J. Belcher, Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Maude Abbott, Dr. A. D. Blackader, R. R. James, Pierpont Morgan Library, Humphrey Milford, Basil H. Soulsby, William F. Petersen, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Natural History Museum, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Douglas H. Campbell, A. J. Swann, Sir Arthur W. Currie, Alexander Wetmore, E. Cowles Andrus, and John Johnson.