MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 056 – PICTORIAL COLLECTION


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  1. Framed photograph of William Harvey (1578-1657), the discoverer of blood circulation. The top third is a head and shoulders photograph, while the remainder contains biographical details
  2. Framed photograph of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), who was responsible for the modern concept of a chemical element.
  3. Coloured picture of Max von Pettenkoffer (1818-1901), from Jugend, no. 21, 1902. Petterkoffer published one of the earliest textbooks on hygiene in 1882.
  4. Photograph of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), famous for his theory of evolution
  5. Photograph of Joseph Lister (1827-1912), who introduced the principles of antiseptic surgery into medicine
  6. Photograph of plaque of Joseph Lister at University College Hospital
  7. Photograph of Sir Walter Fletcher (1873-1933), first secretary of the Medical Research Council
  8. Photograph of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952), who studied reflex actions in man. In 1932 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine for his discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.
  9. Page from book with photograph of C S Sherrington
  10. Programme for Pasteur Fermentation Centennial, 21 November 1957, with photograph on the cover of Pasteur, who discovered the existence of germs
  11. Page from book with photograph of Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish taxonomist who introduced binomial nomenclature
  12. Photograph of William Ramsay (1852-1916), who discovered the inert gases
  13. Photograph of Sir William Maddock Bayliss (1860-1924), who discovered, with Starling, the action of the hormone secretin in controlling digestion
  14. Photograph of Keith Lucas, FRS (1879-1916), who discovered that nervous stimulation causes a maximum possible response or nothing
  15. Photograph of Arthur Edwin Boycott, FRS (1877-1938), Graham Professor of Pathology, University of London 1915-35
  16. Two photographs of Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927), who discovered the hormone secretin and coined the term ‘hormone’, a start to endocrinology
  17. Page from book with photograph of Thomas Burr Osborne (1859-1929) an American chemist who was an authority on nutrition, especially proteins; he wrote Proteins of the Wheat Kernel (1907) and The Vegetable Proteins (1909, rev. ed. 1924).
  18. Page from book with photograph of Sir Michael Foster, Honorary President, International Physiological Congress
  19. Photograph of Eustace William Ferguson (1884-1927), a pathologist and entomologist
  20. Framed colour photograph of Sir John McFarlane
  21. Framed colour photograph of James D. Watson who, with Francis Crick, proposed the complementary double-helical configuration of DNA in 1953.
  22. Photograph of S B Emmett (1818-1898)


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  1. Unidentified man in academic dress
  2. Framed photograph of Patron’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society awarded to Charles Henry Karius for his expedition across New Guinea 1929
  3. Page from book with photograph of Lord Rutherford
  4. Four men at Royal Society, 1925. L to R: O U Vonwiller, Lord Rutherford, ?, V A Bailey
  5. Five snapshots taken at the Cavendish Laboratory about 1931, donated by Sir Frederick White
  6. Howard Florey receiving the Royal Society’s Gold Medal from E D Adrian, president of the Royal Society, 30 November 1951
  7. Photograph of William Macleay (2 copies)
  8. Four skull drawings by Professor Frederick Wood Jones
  9. Photograph (2 copies) and negative of W B Clarke
  10. Glass negative of W B Clarke
  11. Negative of Sir Edgeworth David (photograph on display in library)
  12. Black and white photograph and colour print of J J Fletcher, secretary of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1886-1919
  13. Photographs of science professors at the University of Melbourne, probably taken in the early 1920s. The professors are H B Allen, R J A Berry, A J Ewart, T H Laby, D O Masson, E J Nanson, W A Osborne, E W Skeats, H St J Summers, W B Spencer
  14. Press cutting, The Age, 29 April 1914, of the medical and science professors, University of Melbourne. The professors are: H B Allen, R J A Berry, T R Lyle, W A Osborne, D O Masson, W B Spencer.
  15. Photograph and negative of D O Masson (2 copies)
  16. Full length coloured photograph of W Baldwin Spencer
  17. Framed version of Baldwin Spencer photograph
  18. 35 mm film of obituary of Frederick McCoy (1823-1899), Professor of Natural History, University of Melbourne, from Geological Magazine, 1899, pp. 283-87
  19. 6 photographs from the Cecil W. Bostock studios, Sydney. One is an exterior shot of a building, one is a close-up of a portion of the exterior of the building, one is of empty space within the building and two are of laboratories within the building.
  20. Copy of front and obverse of Farrer Memorial Medal, from article in The Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, December 1971
  21. Photograph of Guthrie Medal, from article in The Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, December 1971
  22. Copy of photograph of F B Guthrie, possibly from article in The Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, December 1971
  23. Strzelecki, Count Paul Edmond de. 3 photographs: The area west of Newcastle as shown on Strzelelcki’s published map
    Portion of the area west of Newcastle as shown on Strzelecki’s unpublished map. The Goulburn River is flowing from left to right in the top half of this figure.
    Legend used by Strzelecki to show compositional and age variations of the rocks
  24. 7 photographs with negatives of eclipse expedition to Goondiwindi, Qld, September 1922


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  1. Delegates at Pan-Pacific Congress, Sydney, 24 August 1923 (original photograph, 3 photographs of sections of the original, plus published version with names)
  2. Photograph of conference of Australian physicists, ?1936
  3. Photograph and negative of Julius, Rivett and Richardson 1937/38 (2 copies of photograph)
  4. Photograph of the first four editors of the Journal of the Geological Society of Australia. L to R: John Glover, Dorothy Hill, M F Glaessner, D A Brown

42cm