The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of North America and South America', 1790. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 261. (ii) ‘Of the Indians in North America', 1769, based on an account by the Jesuit missionary, P J A Roubaud. (Folio 36.) Monboddo number 88. (iii) Copy of a letter of Thomas Campbell, 1767, concerning an embassy to the Creek Indians in Alabama (Folio 56.) Monboddo number 116. (iv) Papers concerning Patagonia, Peru and the Antilles, 1766, undated. (Folio 60.) Monboddo numbers 82, 84, 87, 93, 101, 80. (v) Papers concerning the South Seas, 1771, 1779, 1784, undated. (Folio 75.) Includes Monboddo numbers 94, 183, 83, 259. (vi) Notes and excerpts from published works on anthropology, 1796, undated. (Folio 111.) Monboddo numbers 76, 91, 92, 302.