The Rochester Academy of Science Papers include letters to and from the Academy, chiefly of a business nature. Also in the collection are lecture programs and announcements, reception programs, bulletins and information leaflets, lists of the membership and officers of the Academy, annual reports of officers, bills and receipts, copies of the various constitutions and bylaws, and miscellaneous folders containing papers given before the Academy, contracts with the University of Rochester Library, legislation, clippings and notices. Additionally, there are notebooks containing minutes of the geological and engineering divisions, and Entomology Section, 1946-1948; a list of the books belonging to the Academy Library, an album of photographs of the Academy members and photographs of some biological specimens, and seven boxes containing records of the Botanical Section.

The Science Club Papers consist of meeting minutes and treasurer's records.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, photographs, reprints, and subject files. The files consist primarily of note and manuscript material for his books, particularly THE ADVANCING FRONT OF MEDICINE (1941) and SCIENCE AT WAR (1943); and of extensive subject files of notes, clippings, and correspondence used in the preparation of a wide variety of articles and stories.

The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).