The series comprises registers and record cards for undergraduate and graduate students, recording academic progress, chiefly matriculation, University examinations and degrees.

The earliest records relate to Woodward's will, estates and the administration of his fossil collection. From the 1880s, administrative records of the burgeoning Department of Geology, its teaching, examining, and students, survive alongside papers for the lengthy project to build the Sedgwick Museum. The archives also include the papers of Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor 1873-1917.

The files relate to research projects; students; Faculty relations; contacts with other similar bodies; outside funding sources.

The records are largely concerned with the administration of the department and the teaching and examining of students.

The papers include: records of the International Health Board, and on Rose's work against disease; records of the International Education Board; diaries and personal correspondence; a small amount of material on the League of Nations Health Organisation and World Health Organisation; records of Rose's establishment of the Southern United States Education System; material on the founding of schools of Public Health and Hygiene.

These are collections of official notices and reports, flysheets, presscuttings and other printed matter, much of it pasted into large albums. There is some overlap in contents between the album subseries.

This series - University Registry miscellanea - chiefly consists of compilations of practical use within the administration.

The Registry subject file sequence was launched in ca 1947 and closed in 2019.

The Wass Syndicate papers comprise agendas, minutes, papers and reports.