Abstract Thirty volumes of personal journals and four pocket diaries; school notes, notebooks, examinations, and memorabilia from his student days in England and America; lectures, notes, and administrative material from his years as a teacher and university president, as well as assignments completed by his students during that period; research notes on scientific and religiouis topics; materials relating to his work as a consulting gealogist and mining engineer; material from scholarly societies;...

Scope and Contents note Includes notes on astronomy, chemistry and metallurgy, crystallography, economics, nutrition, education, world geography and statistics, geology, meteorology, microbiology and epidemiology, zoology, botany, physics, anatomy and phsyiology, and other subjects. Items included in this section were probably created during the years in which Talmage was associated with schools as either a student or a teacher and are not specifically related to any other career category. Other research notes were...