This collection consists of ledger books, correspondence, reports, and departmental publications. The Martin Letterpress books includes correspondence about payments to the Societas Fratrum fund, the building of Martin Chemical Laboratory, Davidson College Presbyterian Church Sunday School curriculum and activities, personal purchases and some family news. The Logan correspondence deals with textbook development and the lab books record his experiments. The Library correspondence includes information on policies and purchases for the Chemistry Library and information on The Ray, a chemistry honor society journal. There is additional correspondence concering funds and scholarships related to the Goehring Fund, the Logan Memorial Fund, the Oscar Thies Jr. Fund, and the James Edward Mills Scholarship as well as correspondence with the Dreyfus Foundation, Dow Chemical Foundation and the Du Pont Company. These files contain reports on students receiving scholarships and on equipment purchases and departmental research. The collection also contain an article, "First Fifty Years of Chemistry at Davidson" written for the local magazine "Briarpatch" by Benjamin C. Garrett. There is also information on colliqium held by the department. Of special note is a list compiled by Felix Carroll and kept in the "Colloquia 1972-1993" folder detailing every guest speaker between 1972 and 1993. . The COSIP Proposals sought funds from the National Science Foundation for Chemistry, Physics and the Unified Science Program (1970) and for science building modernization (1972). The proposal include descriptions and narratives about the sciences at Davidson. There are also files on the rededication of the Martin Chemical building in 1980, annual reports and lists of graduates. Oversize contains a poster for the Dr. Dennis Liotta lecture in January 2006.