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MS 040

STILLWELL, Frank Leslie (1888-1963)
Geologist

Stillwell was a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 and Officer-in-Charge of the Mineragraphic Section of the CSIR/O 1927-53.

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  1. Field notebook, February 1908. "M.H. Survey Camp - Ulverstone"
  2. Lecture notebook, 1907. "Natural philosophy"
  3. Lecture notebook, 1908. "Natural philosophy"
  4. Laboratory notebook (physics), 1907
  5. Geological notes. Probably from early university lectures

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  1. Notebook labelled "Books, papers" 1910
  2. Notebook labelled "Papers" 1910

    3-6. Australasian Antarctic Expedition

  3. Diary 1 January 1912 - 29 July 1912
  4. Diary 30 July 1912 - 19 March 1913
  5. Diary 7-16 September 1912
  6. Record of geological cases and specimens, Main Base, Adelie Land. Includes typescript letter from FLS to Sir Douglas Mawson re the specimens, 7 February 1921

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    Australasian Antarctic Expedition

  1. Ms notebook, diary, marked "Diary & records, Sledging Season 1912-13"
    1. 7-27 November (see typescript manuscript of this journey, MS 40/3/4)
    2. Coast journey 9 December 1912 - 5 January 1913. Remarks re Close and Laseron, his companions [see D Mawson The home of the blizzard, 6th ed, pp 235-36]
  2. Sketchbook and calculations 1912
  3. Sledging season 1912-13. Report of Eastern Coast Party; Report of Eastern Supporting Party; Geological Report; Geological notes on the main base area of the A.A.E.; brief summary of petrological notes - metamorphic rocks of Adelie Land
  4. "Eastern Supporting Party. Sledging Season 1912-13". 5 pp. Typescript

    "Geological notes". 3 pp, handwritten - a general description of the geology of the expedition

    "Geological notes - Australian Antarctic Expedition". 5 pp, handwritten

  5. Notes of geology, petrology and rock analyses. Handwritten and typescript

    Laboratory reports on rocks

  6. Diary 16 December 1911 - 1 January 1912
  7. Meteorological diary 9.12.12 - 5.1.13. "East Coast Party" (general diary notes) 7.12.12 - 7.2.13
  8. Meteorological and geological notes July 1912
  9. Antarctic amphibolites

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    1-2. Australasian Antarctic Expedition

  1. Meteorological observations. Hard covered book. Undated
  2. Documents, correspondence
    1. Letter from Douglas Mawson, 21 October 1911, appointing FLS to the expedition
    2. Letter from FLS, printed, 11 pp, 6 January 1912, on board Steam Yacht "Aurora"
    3. "The blizzard banished". Typescript article, 2 pp, written in Adelie Land, Winter 1912, with handwritten explanatory notes
    4. "Sledge gear. Coastal journey". Handwritten, 2 pp

    3-8. Correspondence, largely from Mawson

  3. Correspondence 1914
  4. Correspondence 1916
  5. Correspondence 1917
  6. Correspondence 1918
  7. Correspondence 1919
  8. Correspondence 1921

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  1. Adelie Land. "Literature on metamorphic rocks". Handwritten notes
  2. "The metamorphic rocks of Adelie Land. Section I" (Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Scientific reports. Series A - Geography, physiography, glaciology, oceanography, and geology. Vol. III, part 1). Proof pages

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  1. The metamorphic rocks of Adelie Land. Section I. Typescript
  2. Original photographs (for 40/6/1?)
  3. "Geological notes on the main base area of the A.A.E." Typescript, with corrections. Undated
  4. Analyses of samples
  5. Analyses of samples
  6. Analyses of samples

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    Lecture notes, Adelaide, 1914-15

  1. MS lecture notes. Adelaide, 1914-15

    Correspondence from E W Skeats, University of Melbourne, 1914

  2. MS notes on mineralogy prepared for lectures. Adelaide, 1914
  3. 11 notebooks of lecture notes on mineralogy and petrology, Adelaide, 1914

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  1. Correspondence, 1918-20, re FLS's activity in Bendigo in gold occurrence. Includes correspondence from Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields, Edward Dyason & Co. Ltd. Melbourne, E David, E W Skeats, Advisory Council (later Institute of Science & Industry)

    2 newspaper cuttings

    Photo of M Moore, geologist 1919

  2. Correspondence 1919-21 - Bendigo, Broken Hill
  3. Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields. Monthly reports 1917-19
  4. Handwritten notes re Broken Hill samples. Undated
  5. Advisory Council of Science and Industry. Gold Research Committee. Letters received 1916-19
  6. Advisory Council of Science and Industry. Gold Research Committee. Letters sent 1916-19

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  1. Report on the Bendigo goldfield central area, by E C Dyason. November 1916
  2. Personal notebook with expenses & memoranda 1916
  3. Bendigo newspaper cuttings 1916-18
  4. "The factors influencing gold deposition in the Bendigo goldfield". Advisory Council of Science and Industry Bulletin no 4, 1917. Includes 2 handwritten letters from A J Moore, March 1936
  5. Typescript copy of the above, with original photographs
  6. Field notebook. Undated
  7. Field notebook. Undated
  8. 3 notebooks of results of field work
  9. Work notebook 1916
  10. 2 work notebooks ca 1918
  11. Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields, No Liability. Reports & statement of accounts for period ending 2nd July 1918

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  1. Broken Hill rocks. Analyses, mainly handwritten
  2. Broken Hill rocks. Handwritten descriptions. Contains typescript article for Mining Magazine, July 1920, on E C Andrews, newly appointed Government Geologist of NSW
  3. Literature - gold. Notes on articles on gold research
  4. Costerfield. Typescript of FLS's article "The gold antimony veins off Costerfield, Victoria", 25 pp (published in 1922) and supporting documents (typescript and handwritten)
  5. Casterton Rocks (Victoria). Handwritten notes, undated
  6. Meteorite. Typescript of "The Adelie Land meteorite", by FLS and P G Bayle, with associated correspondence 1920-22
  7. Literature - Bendigo. Papers concerning researches into gold occurrence in Bendigo, 1881-1920

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  1. Personal diary 1919
  2. Personal diary 1920
  3. Personal diary 1921
  4. Notebook (ca 1921)
  5. Address book
  6. Personal diary 1924
  7. Field notebook 1920
  8. Field notebook 1930
  9. Field notebook ca 1956-61
  10. Geological map of part of Broken Hill. Undated

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  1. The rocks in the immediate neighbourhood of the Broken Hill lode and their bearing on its origin. Typescript with corrections. Published in Geological Survey of NSW. Memoirs no 8. Appendix II, 1922, pp 354-96
  2. Methods of examination of opaque ores. Lecture to Microscopical Society 1926. Typescript
  3. Mineralography. Lecture, 6 April 1929. Typescript
  4. Correspondence 1923
  5. Correspondence 1924-28
  6. Correspondence 1929
  7. Reports, correspondence 1923-25. Includes correspondence with Hedley Hawkins, Stockbrokers, Brisbane; and H Smith, Australian Museum, mineralogist and petrologist
  8. Letter from R C Wilson, 1 January 1925, asking FLS's opinion of his work for submission for DSc degree, and enclosed copy of "The geology of the eastern railway. Section I. Port Harcourt to Enugu". Geological Survey of Nigeria. Bulletin no 8. 1925

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    CSIR

  1. Correspondence re mineragraphic investigation and FLS's appointment 1925-30
  2. Mineragraphic research. Correspondence 1932-33, mostly about the necessity of retaining FLS.

    Report on mineragraphic investigation 1927-34. Typescript

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  1. Kalgoorlie investigations 1927-31:

    Ms typescript 71 pp. "the occurrence of tellurite minerals at Kalgoorlie". published in Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy Proceedings, no 84 (1931) pp 115-190

    Microscope sections and diagrams

    Ms notes of papers

    Typescript letter from A E Paton, Kalgoorlie, 13 May 1929

  2. Report of FLS's investigation into the Kalgoorlie Gold Mines. Typescript, with handwritten supporting papers, diagrams, correspondence, etc. 1927-28
  3. Maps and handwritten notes re Kalgoorlie investigations. ca 1927

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  1. Unidentified geology notes, some labelled NBH, North BH, BHS - could be Broken Hill
  2. 6 small notebooks, with pencil diagrams of FLS's remapping of the Kalgoorlie field 1927-28
  3. Small notebook of work notes 1932-33
  4. Small field notebook, 2 pages labelled Broken Hill

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  1. Correspondence 1930
  2. Correspondence 1931-32
  3. Reports 1930-37. Printed, typescript and handwritten
  4. Bendigo. Miscellaneous typescript papers
  5. The gold mining industry of Victoria. Typescript of draft report of Committee set up by Minister of Mines, March 16, 1933, to consider how gold production could be increased in Victoria

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  1. Correspondence and reports, 1935-47 (largely reports 1943-47)
  2. The Broken Hill Associated Smelters Proprietary Limited, Port Pirie, SA. Brief outline of lead smelter operating procedure. July 1932
  3. Inspection of Costerfield gold mine, 9 March 1936
  4. Investigation of uranium deposits at Mount Painter, South Australia, 1944-45. Vol 1. contains report by FLS and A B Edwards, "Uranium minerals from Mount Painter". Bound roneoed volume
  5. Mineragraphic investigations. [Typescript report on Mineragraphic Section, 1948]

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  1. Desk diary with jottings, notes, calculations, letter drafts. 1957
  2. Desk diary with jottings, notes, calculations, letter drafts. 1959
  3. Correspondence 1950-60
  4. Australian Journal of Scientific Research, Volume ODD, Number PECULIAR, September 3, 1952
  5. Correspondence with L K Ward, Adelaide, 1953-55
  6. Routine geological correspondence 1954
  7. Typescript reply by FLS to article by B P Thomson on dyke-lode relationships in Broken Hill, 1959
  8. Correspondence and reports 1960-62
  9. Geological jottings on pages from 1955 calendar
  10. "The West Indian eruptions. The whole world trembled. The crust we live on. Australia's safety" by Prof. J W Gregory. The Argus, June 1902

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    Personal biographical material

  1. Melbourne University Magazine, vol 5, no 2, October 1911, pp 82-83. "University camps for public schools, Victoria". "Mawson Antarctic expedition [re appointment of FLS]
  2. 2 portraits, one in graduation gown ca 1911
  3. Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Complimentary dinner to the master and officers of the "S.Y. Aurora", Highfield Hotel, Hobart, 15 March 1913. Menu
  4. Royal Society of New South Wales. Annual dinner of members, 24 April 1913. Menu
  5. Electoral notice, Bendigo, 9 March 1917
  6. Card case, with inscription "F. L. S. 1921"
  7. Bartholemew's tourist's map of Scotland. Undated
  8. Railway and tramway map of Melbourne and suburbs. Undated
  9. Curriculum vitae and publications list ca 1925
  10. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Inc). Application form ca 1927
  11. Appointment as Air Raid Warden, 15 October 1941
  12. Victorian State Emergency Council for Civil Defence. "Air raid precautions. Manual of general training" (3rd edition). July 1940
  13. Warden's duties. Typescript, 4 pp
  14. Speech accepting AIMM Institute Medal for 1948

    Speeches on retirement 1953

  15. Memorial to Frank Leslie Stillwell (1888-1963) by George Baker. Reprinted from Geological Society of America Bulletin, v 75 (March 1964), pp 45-52
  16. Typescript copy of biographical memoir of FLS, published in Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol 1, no 1, December 1966
  17. Obituary. Reprinted from Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Proceedings, no 206, 1963

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  1. FLS's publications, listed on cards. Handwritten, 1933
  2. Notebook, ca 1939
  3. Assay from Rosebery east lode ca 1936
  4. Newspaper cutting on appointment of S B Dickinson as Director of Mines in South Australia. Undated
  5. General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, WA. August 1933. Typescript, with photographs
  6. Big Bell Mines Limited. Roneoed booklet of information, 1947
  7. Tomkeieff, S I. "The geochemistry of uranium". Science progress, vol XXXIV, no 136, October 1946

    8-24. Photographs

  8. Prints of Broken Hill microphotos
  9. Antarctic photographs (box)
  10. Collection of small prints taken in England and Europe ca 1935 (box)
  11. Micrographic sections. Undated (box)
  12. 7 photos labelled fig 1 to fig 7. Undated
  13. 3 prints of zincite, tephroite, franklinite. Undated
  14. Gold nugget, Kalgoorlie. Undated
  15. Photo of rock, labelled "Carlisle". Undated
  16. Unsorted and largely undated scientific prints
  17. 2 prints and glass negatives of FLS, 22.4.41, for passport to Fiji
  18. FLS and another man (unidentified) in Antarctic clothing
  19. 2 group shots in the snow, ca 1950s
  20. Personal prints, 1940s and 1950s
  21. Group shot of men in suits, undated (FLS quite young)
  22. Group shot, undated, Shell wagons on railway line in background
  23. FLS with car (Shell signs in background)
  24. Unidentified head and shoulders shot of man (not FLS)

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  1. Mineral resources in relation to population growth. Lecture to Australian Academy of Science, ca 1962
  2. Examination of crude ores and concentrates with lens and binocular microscope. Typescript, 89 pp, undated
  3. Manuscript and typescript scientific material. Photographs, papers, etc. Unsorted, largely undated (2 letters dated 1935, 1936)
  4. 8 coloured diagrams, mainly of geological formations

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  1. The methods and value of mineragraphy. Typescript, undated, 11 pp
  2. The study of rocks. 17 pp, handwritten, undated
  3. Handwritten telephone list
  4. Official opening of new School of Geology, University of Melbourne, 11 October 1928
  5. Official opening of the Union House, University of Melbourne, 6 April 1938
  6. Notebook with names. Undated
  7. 5 cards with analyses of South Australian ores. Undated
  8. Geological map of Keegan's Ford area. Undated
  9. State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Description of Yallourn works. Printed, 1920s
  10. Differences of opinion in the recent geological report on Broken Hill. Typescript, 1924
  11. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research [UK]. "A bibliographical survey of German and Japanese experience in the extraction of low-grade non-ferrous ores and the recovery of non-ferrous metals and compounds". London, HMSO, 1952
  12. Leigh Creek Coalfield. Souvenir ca 1948
  13. Newspaper cutting, 27 February 1917. "Mining amalgamation. New scheme discussed by Johnson's Reef shareholders"
  14. Handwritten notes ca 1922
  15. Operations of Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australia Limited. West Coast Department. Rosebery-Hercules Mines Tasmania. Booklet, ca 1949
  16. Giblin, L F. "Letters to John Smith telling in simple language the facts of the economic situation that has arisen in Australia, and showing how our problems can be solved". Melbourne Herald reprint, July 1930
  17. Mann, J S. "A new drill for excavating mineral particles". Chemical engineering and mining review, November 1935
  18. Group photograph, ca 1948-49. Includes FLS and E S Hills
  19. Typewritten sheets from University of Melbourne:
    1. Identification of certain minerals in rock sections on the use of stains
    2. Determinative economic mineralogy
    3. Preparation of rock sections
    4. Geology part I
    5. The crystalline schists (English translation by FLS of Grubenman's work)
    6. Work with the microscope
    7. Crystallography
    8. Blow pipe work

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  1. Miscellaneous typescript manuscripts, reports, 1920s. Some by FLS
  2. Post-proterozoic stratigraphic table of Western Australia. Table, reprinted from Elements of geology for Western Australian students, by E de C Clarke, R T Prider and C Teichert. 3rd ed, 1955
  3. Page from The Australasian engineer, with details of the F L Stillwell anniversary volume, published by The Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy to honour FLS on his 70th birthday on 27 June 1958
  4. Notebook of geological jottings, 1873-1916
  5. Notebook with part of a lecture. Undated
  6. Notebook of notes on scientific papers, 1910-21
  7. Various typescript papers on gold in Bendigo, with accompanying correspondence, 1921
  8. 20 geological and mining maps (mainly various mines and areas in Australia, but including Lizard in England and Freiberg in Germany)

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1 Handwritten comments on Darling Range, WA, 6 June 1919, with explanatory notes by D R Hudson, CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience, 12 September 1988

2 Antarctic material:

a)  Quartermain, L B. "Two huts in the Antarctic".  1963. Published booklet

b)  Webb, Eric N. "Magnetic polar journey 1912".  Roneoed booklet, 1965, bound with accompanying letter to Olive Stillwell (younger sister of FLS)

c)   Christmas card produced by the Antarctic Club

d)  Album of Antarctic photographs, with extra photographs loose inside back cover

e)  Christmas postcard to May Stillwell, FLS's niece

f)   Birthday card and menu for Mawson's birthday, 5 May 1912

g)  Newspaper cutting on the death of Captain Bage and a photograph of his grave in Gallipoli

h)  List of members of the Antarctic Club, June 1949

  1. Cheque from the Bank of Luck Unlimited, New Zealand for 500 good wishes, presented to FLS on his birthday, 27 June 1912

j) Menu for FLS’s birthday dinner

k)  Birthday greetings to FLS from C T (Cecil) Madigan

l)    Birthday greetings to FLS from R (Robert) Bage

m) Birthday greetings to FLS from The Jamwaggons

n)  Handwritten score to “The Old Varsity”.

 3   Miscellaneous scientific manuscripts and reports.  Most undated, some dated 1948-52

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