This series includes the following items:

1. Handwritten notes for a talk for school children on the daily life of Aboriginal people.
   
   
2. Handwritten notes on Aboriginal names for native fauna, hunting methods, and other data relating to Australian mammals, birds and reptiles. These notes were evidently compiled by Johnston from various ethnographic and historical sources for his 1943 paper 'Aboriginal names and utilization of the fauna in the Eyre region'.
   
   
3. Handwritten notes on Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan life, customs and religious beliefs, abstracted from various published sources.
   
   
4. Handwritten notes on life, customs and religious beliefs of the Incas, Aztecs and other South American peoples, abstracted from various published sources.
   
   
5. Typed paper entitled 'Across the Andes', a lecture presented by Johnston at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland Branch) in June 1922.