The William Martin Blanchard collection contains clippings, laboratory exercises, and a President's Address. Also, in the back of the document case there are lecture notes, a blow-pipe analysis, and four miscellaneous notebooks that are untitled.

The collection contains papers, records, lectures and letters created and collected by Cook over several decades. Many pertain to the science programs at DePauw University, as well as scholarships and research programs. Much of it was tagged for archiving beforehand. It also contains notes from his own college days.

The James R. Gammon collection contains numerous papers, publications and research records involving the state of various aquatic ecosystems, 1967-2003.