Fonds consists of materials regarding Alan Ruffman's contributions to the Atlantic Sub-committee of Oceanography (ASCO) and the Canadian Committee on Oceanography (CCO), including reports, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clipping, meeting minutes, newsletters and others textual records.
Item consists of a facsimile of a letter submitted by A.P. Reid to the July 1857 issue of The Medical Chronicle (Montreal monthly journal of medicine & surgery) (Vol. 5, No. 2), dated May 29th, 1857, discussing life as a medical student in London.