The Professional series contains C. E. Norland's certificates and awards, correspondence as well as correspondence and research material collected by C. E. Norland, and his lecture notes and papers. The Personal series contains correspondence with Betty Norland during World War II when Calvert Norland was stationed in Calcutta, India, correspondence from friends and colleagues, items regarding Norland's interests in Art and Music and his philanthropic interest in SDSU library, and in particular in Special Collections and University Archives. The Prints and Drawings series contains engravings and prints of portraits of scientists, sketches of human and insect anatomy, botany and facsimiles of historic documents on astronomy. The Artifacts series contains microscopic instruments (microscopes, magnifying glasses and slide specimens) as well as Roman bronze surgical instruments.
