The contents are as follows: (i) Names of ironmongers and coal-suppliers arranged geographically, compiled apparently in 1916 in connexion with enquiries pertaining to stores of military significance (folio 1); (ii) A paper entitled 'A biochemical view of some genetical problems' written apparently about 1930, the latest date quoted (several times, e.g. folio 38 verso) (folio 36); (iii) Notes, undated, on explosives (folio 73); (iv) Temperature readings in Delhi, January 1918 (folio 74 verso); (v) Mathematical calculations, undated (folio 84 verso.).

A poem is written on folio 73 verso.

Some of the leaves remain blank.