Contains copies of draft and completed grant application forms for various scientific projects, with related papers, including correspondence and reports to funding bodies. Proposed projects include research on stem cells, cloning, transgenics and animal embryology.

Vocabulary for a frog, possibly from travelling people (often known as 'tinker's cant'), which reads 'Mola-mhogan - miolamhag muile, mhag-murra-mhaga = Frog'. Text has been scored through.

Vocabulary note for dragonfly and some plants collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann. The note includes 'Ceanna-Phollan', 'C[eanna] Simid' [both meaning tadpole] and gives 'Tarbh-Narach' as a term for dragonfly and describes its size. It gives 'Cluas an Fheidh' as possibly 'Harts tongue', 'Caol Phail' as a plant of three feet high or more and 'Meac-an-mor' as being 'Like Leeks'.