MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 005 – DAVID, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858-1934)
Geologist and Surveyor

David was Professor of Geology, University of Sydney 1891-1924, a member of the second British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. Earlier he was Assistant Geological Surveyor for the Geological Survey of New South Wales 1882-91.


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  1. Correspondence with W H Bryan, University of Queensland, 1926-32. (14 holograph and 7 typescript)

  2. Letter to D Mawson, Xmas 1924 and letters to Professor H S Carslaw, 1924-25, relating largely to University of Sydney affairs and the succession to the Chair of Geology.

    3-5. Three handwritten notebooks on the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09

  3. British Antarctic Expedition 1907. Meteorology. Book I

  4. Meteorology. Book II. Cape Royds, 1908

  5. Meteorology III. September 1908. This volume includes a number of holograph copies of letters David wrote in 1912 on the debate over whether Mawson's party had in fact reached the south magnetic pole area


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1-3. Three handwritten notebooks on the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09
  1. Geology. 1908

  2. (Meteorology) 1908-09. Includes entry for "Magnetic Pole Day" (16 January 1909). Enclosed is a letter to David from Farr in 1912. Some notes of McIntosh's have been copied into the volume.

  3. Ablation. Cape Royds, July 1908


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1-2. Two handwritten notebooks on the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09
  1. Printed diary, 1908. Filled in for period 30 December 1907 - 3 October 1908

  2. Meteorological remarks book. April-October 1908. Written in a number of hands

  3. Photograph and negative of Mawson, David and Mackay at the South Magnetic Pole, 16 February 1909

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