Old accession number 479. This collection was donated to the Osler Library, McGill University by Colonel E. B. Worthington in 1944. At this time W. W. Francis was the head librarian. He went through the collection identifying documents and pictures. His notes were found to be most helpful and in most cases have been incorporated into the following description of the material. By going through the correspondence between Francis and Worthington, it was discovered that originally there had been three sketchbooks and three scrapbooks in the collection. Today only two sketchbooks remain. In dealing with the scrapbooks, W. W. Francis either detached or cut the leaves so that he could separate items dealing with the prominent members of the family. Thus, it is difficult to determine how much of the original material remains. It was possible, through the different sizes of scrapbook pages to identify at least two separate books. Originally the collection had been given the accession number of 10033. Later this was changed to its present number of 479. In 1944, when the Osler Library first received the Worthington Family collection, it was found to consist of papers, correspondence, clippings, certificates and other items for the period 1840-1907 for three locations: Quebec, 1840; Edinburgh, 1841-43; and Sherbrooke, 1844-1907. The original holdings were later expanded slightly by E. B. Worthington and these few items brought the collection date up into the 1940s.