Work on crystals, diagrams, calculations, refractive indices. Also on gemstones and tesserae. Material in more than one hand. Included on loose pages is a manuscript cast-list for 'As You Like It', Hodgkin as Touchstone, her sister Betty as Rosalind.

Notes on the literature. Both ends of book used. Latest date 1932.

Detailed accounts of experiments and analyses including blue and green tesserae. Probably related to Hodgkin's analyses of specimens found by her parents on excavations at Jerash, 1929 (Ferry pp.52-54). For other material on Hodgkin's work on mosaics, see MS. Photogr. d. 179/16-17.

Manuscript note on front page '?Lecture notes from Sidgwick's lectures, possibly 1931. D.H.'

Record of experiments 30 Sept. [1931] to 21 June [1932], tabulated results and measurements of crystal analyses. This is the work submitted for Hodgkin's Part II thesis and published in conjunction with H.M. Powell in 1932 (Bibliog. 123). (Ferry pp 72-74; and MS. Eng. c. 5583/14 in the main Hodgkin papers). At rear of book, notes on the literature, latest date 1931. See also MS. Eng. c. 7942/1.

In front of book, German vocabulary. At rear of book, notes, diagrams, calculations on crystal analysis (Ferry p.62).

Miscellaneous content. Includes German vocabulary and, on loose pages, exercises in German translation. Also notes, references and some more extended accounts on science and religion, European religious factions, intolerance etc, some possibly part of a translation exercise, others Hodgkin's own work, possibly added later at Cambridge.

Pages from a loose-leaf binder (in poor condition and discarded), bought in Cambridge. Some loose pages. Analyses and calculations, angles of rotation, X-ray investigations of various crystals. Includes one page dated 16.5.33 using new Weissenberg camera. Some pages are in another hand, perhaps J.D. Bernal.

At front of book, science notes. In centre of book, a few notes on philosophy, science and society, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats. At rear of book, brief reference to 4 Scroope Terrace ('caretaker and wife to cook') where Hodgkin briefly lodged with her sisters Joan and Elizabeth in 1932 (Ferry p.83).

Few pages used. A few dates in November and December referring to work with Weissenberg camera. Latest bibliographical reference 1932.

Mainly concerning Hilary [Spring] term 1938. At rear of book, some earlier notes, 1936-1937.