Item is a bound notebook containing travel and work related notes. Item contains: conference and meeting notes from the GAC/MAC (Geological and Mineralogical Associations of Canada) joint conference in Winnipeg, the MAS (Microanalysis Society?) conference in Washington, and the IMA (International Mineralogical Association) conference in Zurich, Switzerland, notes from supervising student field work in the Northwest Territories, travel notes from Japan where Smith toured the factories of JEOL, a manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific equipment, and conducted microanalysis of geological samples, travel notes from a trip to China and Hong Kong where Smith worked with the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) to visit labs, interview employees and make recommendations on instruments, equipment, and design of a new micro-probe lab, descriptions of software demonstrations Smith gave in France and Amsterdam, and travel notes from a leisure trip to the United Kingdom.