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Fonds documents Craig Campbell’s interest and involvement in the conservation of Canada’s natural heritage. Textual records consist of correspondence related to his research and conservation efforts; correspondence related to his work for CARCS; correspondence with conservation agencies, academics and scientists from various institutions across North America; published and unpublished manuscripts written by Campbell, research materials, field notes, reports, newspaper clippings and photocopies of publications with annotations. Graphic records include photographs, slides, x-rays, and drawings of amphibians, reptiles and observation sites. Cartographic records include diagrams and maps. The fonds is arranged in 5 series as follows: Timber Rattlesnake Records, Hybrid Salamander Records, Salamander Habitat and Breeding Records, Turtle Records, and Natural Heritage Conservation Records.

Fonds illustrates Ella N. Martin’s work as a senior lecturer at the Royal Ontario Museum and her interest in improving museum education. The fonds is arranged into twelve series, which span her entire career from the late 1930s to the mid 1970s. The fonds includes correspondence, publications, photographs, personal papers and journals, lecture notes, drafts of a book, student reports, course instructions, teacher evaluation forms, interpretative text, film and radio scripts, worksheets for children and other materials. The fonds also contains an accession record.

Fonds consists of sketches, notebooks, paintings and articles accumulated by G.H. Richardson. It includes copies of Richardson's newspaper column, "Nature Notes" his collections of paintings, sketches, and art reference plates.

Fonds consists of three volumes of J. Dewey Soper’s nature observation journals; two are typescript copies, and the third is a handwritten original.

The cover pages of the first two volumes state that they were transcribed in December 1970 from older notebooks that were written in pencil and had become smudged. Drawings from the original notebooks have been pasted into the transcribed volumes.

The first volume covers Wellington and Waterloo Counties from 1915 to 1918, and includes a list of birds observed at the Preston Farm, near Preston, Ont., in 1915, titled ‘Bird Migration’. The second volume covers Wellington and Waterloo Counties, Point Pelee, and Ridout, Ont., from 1918 to 1920, and has a list of specimens collected by Soper from January 1918 to March 1921. Both include brief bibliographies of some of Soper’s publications.

The third volume is handwritten, and like the first two contains drawings. It primarily covers Galt and Guelph in Waterloo and Wellington Counties, as well as trips to Proton Township in Grey County, and the Temagami area.. Included is a chart of birds observed in the Temagami area and Montreal River, Ont., from August 28 to September 11, 1920.

All three volumes contain narratives of Soper’s nature observations in the field, and include notes on birds, animals, and plants, as well as descriptions of weather and the landscape. The drawings in all three volumes are primarily of animals, landscapes, birds, and the occasional fossil.

The fonds consists of Stuart L. Thompson’s personal diaries in which he documents his daily life in the City of Toronto along with noting bird and mammal sightings. There are a number of special diaries documenting Thompson's various travels. The fonds also consists of bird sighting charts and of two items of Thompson’s correspondence. The fonds does not include two diaries documenting Thompson's overseas service during World War I.

Where specimens were collected, Thompson made a notation in his diary with a collection number. Several of the diaries have indexes of his collection at the back.

Fonds consists of logbooks, subject files, and correspondence used by Swinton during his years of teaching. Other files include photographs and textual files related to Swinton’s early life in Britain, including his appointments at the British Museum, and his departure as Director of the ROM in 1966.

Fonds is comprised of nine black and white photographs of fishing scenes in Torbay, Portugal Cove and Witless Bay, Newfoundland and Big Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, taken by William H. Carrick while he served with the R.C.A.F. in Newfoundland. The images appear to have been removed from an album. All images have text on the reverse.