Shallow rectangular box comprised of colored woods. Hinged with lift-lid opening to expose an inset wood tray scooped with ten circular and oblong accessory receptacles. All compartments are empty but two, which hold inkwells. Labeled "Box of Yew." There is a 1795 portrait of Nicolas Copernicus by the Earl of Buchan on the outside of the lid, inscribed "R. D. Nicolo Copernico/Hanc Effigem Veram Nicolai Copernici/ D. S. Buchaniæ cames Posteritati Pinxit,/Ad Cænobium de Driburgh in Scotia." There is a 1792 portrait of John Napier by John Brown on the inside of the lid. Paper label: "Napier of Merchiston."