Mostly items regarding Dilling's time in Germany and Aberdeen. Includes:

• reports on his work as Carnegie scholar in Germany
• tickets of opera performances in Germany
• drafts and offprints of articles and lectures by Dilling
• University of Rostock publications, including student song book, theatre programmes, etc
• correspondence, including letters and postcards from his brother, Willie, and his professor at Rostock, Rudolf Kobert
• invitations to various events in Germany
• papers regarding Dilling's appointment as First Assistant in the University of Rostock Department of Pharmacology, and his lectureship at Aberdeen, 1910
• and proofs, letters and reviews regarding Dilling's work, 'Atlas of the Crystals and Spectrum of Haemochromogen', 1910.