File 05-003/001(12) - Dawson, James, merchant in Pictou, Nova Scotia, secretary of bible society, agent to Lloyds, bookseller, newspaper publisher, shipping businessman; (son John William Dawson (1820-1899) first superintendent of education in Nova Scotia and first Principal of McGill University; grandson George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901) geologist with Geographical Survey of Canada, president of Geological Society of America, namesake of Dawson and Dawson Creek in western Canada)

File consists of letters to James Dawson, including those from George R. Young, Thomas Rankin, William Dobson, C. Lyell, R. Brown, Wallace Barry, and L. White Williams. Topics include accounts; the problem of translating Scriptures for the "Mickmak" and comments on characteristics of Indigenous people; items shipped from Lloyds held up aboard the Thetis which is awaiting repairs; C. Lyell has done a great deal of geological research and collected fossils in U.S. and southern and eastern Canada, includes sketches of river bed or shoreline; discovery of reptilian footstep; and scientific research on geological specimens.