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This series is almost entirely made up of course lecture notes for undergraduate and graduate courses taught by Prof. French. Included here are lectures on Aeroelasticity, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Gas Surface Interactions, Vacuum Technology, Applied Mass Spectrometry and Quadrapole Theory. There is also one file of Prof. French’s appraisal reports of Ph.D. thesis which are restricted.

Certificates cover his period as a student, as a professional engineer with the City of Toronto and as an alumnus of the University of Toronto. This series also contains high school diploma from Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto (1924), Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer (1929), Association of Professional Engineers (1939), U of T Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Spring Reunion certificate (June 1979) and Canadian Institute on Pollution Control recognition for period as President 1953-1964 (1965).

Includes professional correspondence, lectures, manuscript of articles and addresses, research notes relating to her research on government immigration policy and practices. Also included are the records of the Advisory Board on Adjustments of Immigrants (1969-77) of which she was a member. Dr. Hawkins taught in the Political Science Department from 1966-1985 and served as an immigration consultant for several government bodies.

This series contains copies of Dr. Hawkins’ articles, addresses, and reports many of which were written while she was an advisor to various levels of governments. Subjects covered include immigration law and policy, immigrants, migrants and refugees, multiculturalism and race relations. Series includes a copy of the "Tremblay Memo" directed to the then Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, which sought to redefine the role of voluntary agencies concerned with immigration.

The fonds is arranged and described in ten series documenting Jack Chambers’ 50 year career as professor of linguistics, primarily at the University of Toronto, and his external activities as a forensic linguist, consultant and his passion for jazz. Series 1 contains personal records relating to his appointment, salary, and annual activity reports as a member of the faculty of the University of Toronto’s Centre (and later Department) of Linguistic Studies and also includes some personal correspondence. Series 2 relates to his administrative activities in the Department and the University. Correspondence is included in Series 3 and 4. Series 3 contains letters of reference and evaluation for students and colleagues. Series 4 contains more general correspondence with colleagues within and outside the University in the field of linguistics, with some correspondence predating his arrival at the University of Toronto. Series 5, Jazz, contains files of correspondence, manuscripts, research, reviews, evaluations and other records documenting his special interest in this subject. Series 6 documents his teaching activities and contains course files, examination questions and tests as well as student evaluations for some of the courses he has taught and correspondence with former students. Series 7, Consulting, contains files relating to his activities as a forensic linguistic and consultant in criminal and civil court cases, as well as written testimony for Trademark cases. Records relating to his publication activities will be found in Series 8 and 9. The majority of the files of articles (published and unpublished) relate to academic writings in the field of linguistics. Series 9, Books, contain manuscripts and correspondence documenting his books on two jazz musicians (Miles Davis and Richard Twardzik), and one unpublished novel. There are no manuscripts for his books written or co-written on the field of linguistics. The final series, Series 10, documents a 10 year research project on Dialect Topography on various Canadian regions.

Files in this series contain minutes of meetings and correspondence documenting activities in the Centre of Linguistics Studies and the Department of Linguistics. Files containing correspondence of the Centre of Linguistics for the 1960s (prior to Prof. Chambers appointment to the University), were acquired by Prof. Chambers from Prof. C.D. Ellis in 1991. In addition to these files, are files documenting Prof. Chambers’ activities relating to honorary degrees, search committees and visiting lecturers.

Articles are on Henri Bergson, Ludwig von Bertalanffy; Samuel Butler; Charles Robert Darwin; Erasmus Darwin; "Emergent evolutionism"; Asa Gray; Thomas Henry Huxley; Chevalier de Lamarck; Pierre Andre, Lecomte du Nouy; "Origin of Life"; Jacques Loeb; C. Lloyd Morgan; George John Romanes; Jan Christian Smuts; Pierre, Teilhard de Chardin; Jakob Johann, Baron von Uexkull; Alfred Russel Wallace; and Joseph Henry Woodger.

This fonds contains several series of records that document both Coxeter’s professional and personal life. Much of the professional correspondence in Series 2, as well as awards, tributes and obituaries found in Series 1 document his role as a mathematical mentor who influenced and inspired professional and amateur mathematicians alike. The bulk of the correspondence however mainly post dates his official retirement in 1980 and is therefore incomplete in documenting his extensive relationships with many mathematicians around the world throughout his lengthy career.

Four decades of correspondence, (1930s -1980), is not the only gap in the Coxeter fonds. Also missing is the voluminous amount of manuscripts for his articles and books along with research notes and drafts that would accompany such records. Nevertheless, what does exist of the professional correspondence, along with lectures in Series 5, course teaching notes in Series 7 and the few manuscripts and many geometrical drawings in Series 6, give researchers a window into his mathematical genius. There are also a full run of diaries, Series 4, that briefly record Coxeter’s day to day activities and thoughts.

Personal correspondence in Series 3, early family photographs in Series 9, early creative works in Series 10, diaries in Series 4 and Ph.D. records in Series 8 shed light onto various aspects of Coxeter’s life before arriving at the University of Toronto in 1936. These documents give researchers glimpses of his early childhood and upbringing, his early mastering of music, as well as, his research at Cambridge. His role as a father and husband as well as the relationships within the extended Coxeter family are best documented in a substantial part of the personal correspondence found in Series 3 as well in the daily diaries in Series 4.

The Coxeter fonds also includes some original items from other important mathematicians. There is a scrapbook of geometric drawings that belonged to fellow mathematician Alicia Boole Stott. This item dated 1899 makes up the entire Series 11. Also Coxeter acquired some of the papers belonging to 19th century British mathematician W.W. Rouse Ball presumably when he was producing further editions of one of Ball’s publications. This has been placed in Series 12.

Fonds also includes copies of Professor Coxeter's publications on mathematical problems that have been translated into other languages, and copies of Canadian and American counter-memorials and annexes to the International Court of Justice's "Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area, with covering correspondence (Coxeter was an adviser to the Canadian government).

This series comprises only a small portion of the voluminous professional correspondence Coxeter would have received and produced over his 60 years as a leading international geometer. Except for 4 cm, filed by year (1961-64, 1968-1975) and a smattering of pre 1980 letters filed in the alphabetical series, the majority of the correspondence is dated after Coxeter’s retirement in 1980 to his death in 2002. Nevertheless the 20 years for which correspondence is preserved here, does document the breadth of Coxeter’s professional activities and relationships. There is correspondence with many of his fellow mathematicians and academic from other disciplines such as physics. There are files on some of the best known including: Michael Atiyah, Harold Bohr, Henry Cartan, S. Chandresekhar, Freeman Dyson, Leopold Infeld, G.H. Hardy, Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Benoit Madelbrot, E.H. Neville, Linus Pauling, George Polya, D’Arcy Thompson, Frederick Soddy, Oswald Veblen and Hermann Weyl.

Filed alphabetical by correspondent, most files contain not only correspondence but supporting records that document such things as attendance at conferences, reviewing activities such as referee reports, related research notes, drafts of published articles and talks. There are invitations, correspondence with publishers including contracts, correspondence with professional associations, letters of recommendations and advice to professional and amateur mathematicians alike.

Some of the mathematical colleagues for which there are files include William Moser, his first Ph.D. student, John Synge, Istavan Hargittai, Paolo Dominici, Bezdek Karoly and Asia Weiss, his last PhD student and professor at York University.