The fonds consists primarily of written material, most of which seems to be from the hand of Palmer Cox (poems, speeches, drafts of published or unpublished works). There is also some graphic material, financial records and parts of correspondence.
The fonds also contains several graphic parts illustrating Brownies books in the making.

Collection consists of pamphlets and reprints of scholarly works on Latin poetry and literary criticism, compiled by Otto Ribbeck.

Fonds consists of general professional correspondence, 1913-1961, including Maass’ outgoing letters for 1946-1954. Topics covered include defence research, the Pulp and Paper Institute, N.R.C. appointments, visits of scientists, and political questions (e.g. letters to and from Lester Pearson on NATO and the nuclear deterrant). There are also letters of recommendation by Maass, and personal communications from colleagues. A special binder of congratulatory letters marks his election to the Royal Society (1940), and there are similar files on his retirement (1955), and of condolences to his widow at his death (1961). Maass also assembled photostat copies of letters by eminent 19th century British scientists addressed to his great uncle, Prof. Plucker of Bonn.

Studies and research are documented by a physics laboratory notebook (1908-1909), and a "summary of data on hydrogen peroxide" collected in collaboration with W. Hatcher (1918-1919). A few addresses on the Canadian Institute of Chemistry (1939), the Pulp and Paper Research Institute (1945), and the relation between the Defence Research Board and the universities are included.

This subseries documents public addresses outside of the World Religions after September 11 Conference and contains Invading the Sacred: 2007 book launch (2 DVDs); an interview filmed during India Independence day in Ottawa (1996, 1 DVD); and a Samboth Society 2009 Inaugural Address video (2 DVDs).

These fonds comprise 12 softbound manuscript volumes of lectures, plays, notes and ephemera by Oswald Hughes. The first manuscript is a lecture entitled: "Descriptive lecture on the Mail Route through Italy".

The fonds documents the Osler Society's activities. The fonds contains lectures, dinner menus, list of speakers, newsletters, papers, posters and tape recordings.

Fonds contains the records of the Osler Reporting Society of Montreal from 1929 to 1972, including record books, correspondence, invoices, receipts, list of members, minutes, and constitution.

Fonds consists of a manuscript translation by Dr. Gruner of volume II of the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna dated 1957 and vocabulary indexes of Arabic names of Materia Medica, Latin-English names, Latin-Arabic equivalents, native names and others. These vocabularies were done in 1929-1930. It also contains three volumes of Dr. Gruner's research on cancer. This work was done through the Archibald Cancer Research Fund, from 1932 to 1946. In volume III, a printed address "A Vagabond Cruise Round Cancer" (1950) is inserted in the cover.

Fonds documents Dr. Oscar Emery Morehouse's involvement with his alma mater, McGill University. The fonds contains admission tickets, programmes, newspaper clippings, receipt, examination paper,menus and invitation cards.

The fonds consists of admission and lecture tickets collected by Dr. O.E. Moorhouse M.D. 1889, while a medical student at McGill, 1885-1889. In addition, it also includes an invitation to Dr. Moorhouse to attend the opening of the new buildings, June 6th and 7th, 1910, and a postponement of the opening until June 1911 following the death of King Edward VII. Finally there is the Constitution and By-Laws of the New Brunswick Graduates' Society of McGill University (St. John, N.B., 1897).