The collection includes exams, assignments, notes on textbooks, and glass slides from Davidson's career as a chemistry professor at the University of Kansas from 1921-1966. Collection also includes signed professional articles from international colleagues and a postcard from Max Speter, a Jewish colleague in Nazi Berlin.

This collection contains class notes and lectures, research notebooks, seminar notes, research, student projects, notes, exams, and correspondence of Ralph N. Adams, who taught chemistry at the University of Kansas from 1955-1992.