MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION



MS 025 – WOOD, Joseph Garnett, FAA (1900-1959)
Botanist

Wood was Professor of Botany, University of Adelaide 1935-59.


25/1

  1. Draft of PhD thesis, 1924, on the nature of the relationship between the rate of assimilation of leaves and time

  2. The time factor in photosynthesis - typescript of a paper on work done in 1926

  3. Reprint of a paper - The nitrogen metabolism of the leaves of Astriflex nummularium, by JGW. Aust. J. Exp. Biol. XI (1933), pp 237-52

  4. Draft of a paper "The vegetation of South Australia", published in 1937

  5. Lecture notes 1939

  6. Lecture on organic acids (ms lecture notes)

  7. Chemical phylogeny (Ms lecture notes)


25/2

  1. Typescript of Chapters II to IX and bibliography of a book (?). Ch. II "The systems involved in the living cell"

  2. Reprint of a paper "The effects of variation in nitrogen-supply and water content on the amounts of carbohydrates in the leaves of grass plants by G L Amos and JGW. Aust. J Exp. Biol. XVII (1939), pp 285-320

  3. Manuscript, notes and calculations of "Relations between respiration rate and metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and organic acids". Aust. J. Exp. Biol. 19 (1941), p 313

  4. Typescript and handwritten notes. "The metabolism of starving leaves", by JGW, D H Cruickshank and R H Kuchel

  5. Typescript and manuscript "Studies on the nitrogen metabolism of plants. VII. Toxicity of some oximes and oximino-acids to Azotobacter and their utilization", by JGW, M R Hone, M E Mattner and C P Symons 1948

    Reprint of "Scientific method in the evolution of new drugs. Part X. The cell surface and drug action" by R N Robertson. Aust. J. Science VII (1945), pp 112-18

  6. Sexuality in plants - lecture (typescript)

  7. Experimental botany in 18th century - lecture (Typescript with notes)


25/3

  1. Studies on the nitrogen metabolism of plants. VIIl. Utilization of Â-oximino-carboxylic acids by oat plants, by JGW and Mary R Hone (Manuscript and typescript. Photographs of figures)

  2. Carbonic anhydrase activity in oat plants in relation to zinc content by Pamela M Sibly and JGW (Typescript and manuscript. Negatives of graphs)

    Handwritten notes on "Tomato water culture" 1951; Carbohydrates; Tryptophase

    Calculations, tables, graphs

  3. "Nitrogen metabolism of higher plants" by JGW. Review article for vol 4, Annual review of plant physiology, 1953. Manuscript and typescripts and correspondence

  4. The role of molybdenum in nitrate reduction in higher plants - a paper by Dr Spencer and JGW. Typescript, handwritten notes and correspondence. 1953-54


25/4

  1. "Vegetation of Australia" - a chapter for The Australian environment, by JGW and R J Williams

    Correspondence 1953 and 19534. Notes, tables and some manuscript

  2. "Vegetation of Australia". Manuscript and typescript

  3. "Vegetation of Australia". Correspondence; typescripts of chapter

  4. "Vegetation of Australia". Typescripts and manuscript

  5. "Vegetation of Australia". and "The phytogeography of Australia" (in relation to radiation of Eucalyptus, Acacia, etc), by JGW

  6. Typescript copy and correspondence re "The phytogeography of Australia (in relation to radiation of Eucalyptus, Acacia, etc)" - article for Biogeography and ecology in Australia, edited by Professor Bodenheimer (published 1959)


25/5

  1. Report to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research on the vegetation of the proposed site for the research station at Coomealla. 1927

  2. Botany II lecture notes. Plant geography and ecology. Handwritten. 1927

  3. Ecology lecture notes. Handwritten and roneoed. 1940s

  4. Nitrogen metabolism in leaves in relation to organic acids. Manuscript and typescript notes. ca 1946


25/6

  1. Lectures on nitrogen metabolism. Physiology II. Roneoed and handwritten

  2. Five notebooks. Two unlabelled, ca 1938; remainder labelled "Development and metabolism of copper-deficient oats" (1945); "Sulphur metabolism" (ca 1937); "Water relations", Botany School, Cambridge, July 1937

  3. Ascorbic in progress. Full notes of experiments. ca 1947

  4. Handwritten notes on nitrogen metabolism and phosphorus. Prob. 1930s

  5. Notes of experiments relating to organic acid. Handwritten. Undated

  6. Sulphur metabolism. Handwritten. Undated

  7. Notes for study of response of plants to zinc (Helen Fenes). Handwritten and typescript. 1947


25/7

  1. Notice re XIV International Congress of Physiology, 1932
    Table of milligrams of amino nitrogen corresponding to 1 cc of nitrogen gas at 11°-30°C; 728-772 mm pressure. Journal of biological chemistry xii, no 2 (1909?)

  2. Correspondence 1938-55

  3. Correspondence 1956-59

  4. Correspondence 1960-61 (received after his death and dealt with by H B S Womersley)

  5. Obituary notice photocopied from Australian Academy of Science Year Book 1960, pp 28-34

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