MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 041 – MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS

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  1. AUSTRALIAN INVENTIONS

    1. A list of Australian inventions before the Commonwealth Patents Act 1904. Prepared by Dr S Encel’s project on scientific invention in Australia, ANU, 1964

    2. List of inventions made by CSIRO workers 1957-63, prepared for the same project

  2. DWYER, FRANCIS PATRICK, FAA (1910-1962)

    1. Opening remarks at the first Dwyer Memorial Lecture, November 1962, by Professor Nyholm

    2. Address by Dr A Shulman, May 1964, on Dwyer’s work in Australia relating to chemistry and biology of phananthroline chelates

  3. EDWARDS, AUSTIN BURTON (1909-1960)

    1. Field book, Mt Lyell

    2. Personal memoranda

  4. HAMLYN-HARRIS, RONALD (1874-1953)

    1. Manuscript notebook

    2. Personal memoranda

  5. MOYER, ANDREW J (1899-1959)

    1. Studies of the growth responses of fungi to boron, manganese and zinc. Doctoral thesis, 1929 (microfilm)

    2. Mold fermentations and nutrition (microfilm)

  6. SKEATS, ERNEST WILLINGTON (1875-1953)

    1. Biography. Typescript. 2pp.

    2. Obituary in Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 14 September 1953

  7. WADE, ARTHUR (1878-1951)

    Resume of qualifications, attainments and experience, including list of publications (5 typescript pages)

  8. WHEATLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1871-1955)

    Draft paper, Ionization of gases by collision, prepared under Professor Townsend, Oxford, 1912-14 (typescript)

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  1. BORN, MAX (1882-1970)

    1. Letter to Ralph W V Elliott on the occasion of his promotion to readership in the University of Adelaide 1962

    2. Seven letters to H S (Bert) Green, 1946-47, 1958 and 1965. Green was a research student under Born, and together they developed an important theory of liquids which goes under the name of the BBGKY theory – the BG refers to their part in the more or less simultaneous development of the theory.

  2. BOYS, CHARLES VERNON (1855-1944)

    Handwritten instructions for making quartz fibres - sent by C V Boys to Professor Poynting in Birmingham in October 1894

  3. CHERRY, THOMAS (BACTERIOLOGIST) (1861-1945)

    Halford and the Ape-man Theory: the Halford Oration delivered in 1937. Unpublished typescript (36pp) (Photocopy)

  4. DURACK, JOSEPH J E (1877-1955) and KLEEMAN, RICHARD DANIEL (1875-1932)

    Biographical notes by Professor J A La Nauze

  5. GROUNDS, SIR ROY (1905-1981)

    Biographical material collected for his obituary by Sir Otto Frankel, FAA

  6. JULIUS, SIR GEORGE (1873-1946)

    1. Biographical article from Sun Herald 6.12.1964

    2. “The Book of Aeronauts” presented by the Division of Aeronautics CSIR to Sir George Julius, Melbourne December 1945

  7. KERNOT, WILLIAM CHARLES, PROFESSOR (1845-1909)

    1. Biographical material, including a biography from MS notes in the hand of his brother, Professor Wilfred Kernot

    2. Introductory lecture to 3rd year engineering course, University of Melbourne ca 1893, by Professor W C Kernot, of autobiographical interest

  8. MILLS, ARTHUR EDWARD, PROFESSOR (1865-1940)

    1. Biographical study of Professor A E Mills, by Sir Charles McDonald. Typescript (25pp)

    2. Biographical notes on Professor Mills, compiled by his daughter, Mrs J Campbell, and colleagues. Typescript

  9. NEWBIGIN, WILLIAM JOHNSTONE (1874-1927)

    1. Presidential address, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 February 1922 (photocopy)

    2. Obituary notice, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 April 1927 (photocopy)

  10. TAYLOR, THOMAS GRIFFITH, FAA (1880-1963)

    Typescript note to K E Bullen, 13 February 1960, re geological structure of West Antarctica.

  11. WATERHOUSE, FREDERICK GEORGE (1815-1898)

    “A naturalist and his diaries”, by L A Gilbert (1951)

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