The fonds reflects Nancy E. Simpson’s career as a geneticist and consists of lab notebooks, correspondence, blood sample receipts, course materials, workshop (conference) abstracts, publications, data related to her cholinesterase studies in Brazilians and data concerning the Inuit of Igloolik. The materials in this fonds mainly relate to her research concerning the silent serum cholinesterase gene in Inuit and Indigenous communities, chromosome mapping, Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 (MEN-2) and fertility. There are also references to Machado-Joseph disease and Friedreich’s Ataxia.
Diary of a young woman touring the Thousand Islands for the month of August 1883 starting in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1st, 1883 and ending in Montreal on September 1st, 1883. The author spends much of the diary remarking on the beauty of the scenery, the quality of the food and variations in the weather. She recounts day excursions on both American and Canadian islands and towns and mentions Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Brown's Bay, Hay's Island, Whitney Point, Guernsey Point, and Stave, Bluff and Skinner islands. She is traveling with the Redfield family (Mr. and Mrs. Redfield and their children George and Henry) and the "Professor". They encounter a Dr. Norris who is known to the family. When they arrive in Montreal they stay at the Windsor Hotel, which is greatly admired.
There is an additional three page entry at the end of the diary describing a trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in September of 1885.
Original manuscript diary of Dr. Thomas Robinson Dupuis' trip to Europe in the spring and summer of 1881. Of particular note are his many visits to hospitals and medical schools - witnessing curriculum, operating procedures, as well as sitting an exam for a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons.
Account book consisting of a variety of transactions by an unknown proprietor of an unnamed brewery. Translations entered by name of buyer. As of 1867, there are daily transactions of owners including lists of school moneys and of tenants.