File includes a diary with entries from 3 June 1879 - 8 December 1879. Laid into the diary are loose pages from a small notebook that include entries dated between 8 May (Montreal) to 2 June (Victoria).
File includes a diary with entries dated 24 April 1877 - 27 May 1877; and a notebook recording the rise and fall of tides of Murray Bay dated 10-16 August 1877.
File includes one volume with diary entries and general notes, including 211 vocabulary terms in Lillooet (St̓át̓imcets / Sƛ’aƛ’imxǝc), the language of the St’át’imc people. The volume is dated between 26 May 1876 - 20 October 1876.
File includes notes and memoranda on the following topics: 1) seal life; 2) memorandum on proposed method of treatment of part II of the United States Case; and 3) memorandum as to work in progress in Ottawa, etc.
File contains 20 letters including correspondence with A. P. Sherwood and C. H. Tupper, in addition to memoranda relating to the work to be done in San Francisco (1892) and on the Canada-Alaska boundary (1892).