Reference copies of annual reports from departments within the University of Edinburgh (including the the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, the Science Studies Unit and the Department of Bacteriology) as well as for the University of Manchester School of Biological Sciences: Department of Cell and Structural Biology, along with other related publications.

Correspondence, notes and reports involving discussions with the Department of Bacteriology and the Sub-department of General Microbiology (later the Department of Microbiology) regarding the position and teaching of microbiology as a subject at the University of Edinburgh.