MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 055 – HILL, PROFESSOR JAMES PETER (1873-1954)

Biographical note: Embryologist. Demonstrator in biology and lecturer in embryology at the University of Sydney, 1892-1906. Professor of Zoology at University College, London 1906-38. Specialised in research into monotremes and marsupials.

  1. Lecture notebook on “Brains”, with diagrams, etc. April 1896

  2. Correspondence
      Letter from S J Johnston, Glebe. 7 November 1906
      3 letters from Grafton Elliot Smith, School of Medicine, Cairo. 17 January 1907, 15 March 1907, 27 April 1907
      Letter from David Stead, Sydney. 22 February 1907

  3. Correspondence
      Typescript letter from A. Liversidge, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 17 April 1907
      Letter from Cecil Purser, Lewisham, NSW. 14 December 1907
      Letter from T Flynn, Sydney, 24 December 1908
      Letter from Theodore Flynn, University of Tasmania. 30 August 1909

  4. Letter from A. Keith, Farnborough, Kent, concerning J T Wilson’s death. 4 September 1945

  5. Pictorial material
      5 prints of collecting expeditions
      “After lunch in physiol. Lab” (Hill, Tidswell, J T Wilson and G E Smith)
      Portrait of J T Wilson in later life
      2 photographs of Hill, as a young man and an older man

  6. Miscellaneous printed material relating to G E Smith, J T Wilson, Hill’s association with University of Sydney. 1902-47

  7. List of Hill reprints 1892-1964 sent by his daughter, Mrs Kirkham Jones

  8. Newspaper clipping about gifts to save the Linnean Society’s plant and animal collection. Undated

    9. Medals:
      Ferdinand Von Mueller Medal, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, awarded to Hill 1906
      Linnean Gold Medal, awarded to Hill 1930
      Darwin Medal, Royal Society, awarded to Hill 1940

8 cm