MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 058 – MILLETT, Mervyn Richard Oke (1910-1988)

Millett was Research Officer with the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau and a part-time Lecturer in Forest Meteorology at the Australian Forestry School 1934-50.

58/1

  1. “The climate of Canberra”. Unpublished manuscript of 249 typescript pages + appendix of photographs, graphs and diagrams. 1946. Prepared at the Forestry and Timber Bureau in cooperation with the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau, Melbourne. This work is the first attempt to make a definitive study of the climate in the Canberra region.

    Glued to the outside of the front cover is a brochure, also entitled “The climate of Canberra”, issued by the Director of Meteorology in June 1967.

  2. Two newspaper cuttings on Canberra’s water supply problems, February 1968:
    “Drought city”. The Australian, 6.2.1968
    “On the dry road to disaster’ (by Sir Mark Oliphant”. Melbourne Herald, 21.2.1968

  3. “The stomata of Eucalyptus species”. Canberra, 1946. 65 pp. typescript, including bibliography. In addition, there is a handwritten section of illustrations not included in the typescript copy (40 pp.)

58/2

  1. “Weather and welfare in Australia (a preliminary survey)”. 1944. Unpublished manuscript of 135 typescript pages

  2. “Weather and welfare in Australia (a preliminary survey)”. 1944. Photocopy of unpublished manuscript of 131 typescript pages plus an appendix of more recent relevant newspaper cuttings and journal articles and a historical note about the manuscript

  3. Two newspaper cuttings on Australia’s water supply problems, February 1968:
    “Use top men to beat water crisis – Oliphant”. The Australian, 15.2.1968
    “The gamble Tasmania took on water”. 14.2.1968

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  1. Lane-Poole, Stanley Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Beirut: Kayats, 1964. Presented to M R O Millett by the son of the author

  2. Photographs, miscellaneous illustrations relating to meteorological stations in Canberra, in foolscap volume. Some of these were designed for publication in “The climate of Canberra”.

  3. “Climatic survey Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory”. Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, December 1968. Mentions (pp. 4 and 68) Millett’s 1946 study on Canberra’s climate.

  4. Review of J Z Young’s An introduction to the study of man, by MROM. 1973

  5. Curriculum vitae for MROM as at 31 December 1967

  6. Publications list. Undated, ca 1966

  7. “List of publications 1939-1983”

  8. Letters from Chairman, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, to MROM, 16 January and 14 February 1985, concerning MROM’s collection of slides of the epidermis of Eucalyptus species.

  9. “Biology, philosophy, society and the future”. Page proofs of article by MROM intended for publication in December 1979; however, the journal ceased publication

  10. Foolscap leather folder containing papers and notes relating to the donation of the Greenwich Prime Meridian World Clock and oil painting (by Greta Millett) to the Australian Academy of Science in February 1985

  11. Quarto leather writing case containing material relating to Greta Millett:

    1. cassette tape of her voice, 1974

    2. With love for ever - a biography of Greta by MROM, 1983

    3. “Housewives and suburban neurosis”, a paper written by Greta for a conference on all aspects of women’s health, Brisbane, 25-29 August 1975

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  1. “The stomata of Eucalyptus species”. Canberra, 1946. 65 pp. typescript, including bibliography. In addition, there is a handwritten section of illustrations not included in the typescript copy (40 pp.)

  2. “By their skins ye shall know them”. Article by MROM in Victorian Naturalist, vol. 19, January/February 1978

  3. Stomata of Eucalyptus species. Correspondence 1970-1985

  4. Stomata of Eucalyptus species. Correspondence, etc. 1947-1970

  5. “The challenge of a desert”. An essay review by MROM. Search, vol. 2, no. 6, June 1971

6-7.    Water 1978-80

  1. Talk for Ockham’s Razor, 3AR, 1977 and newspaper cuttings on various scientific topics 1981-1987

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  1. Jacques Monod’s philosophy and its significance for the future, by MROM. Published in the Commonwealth Professional, no. 264, December 1976

  2. Translation of books by MROM and others into foreign languages. 1982-1987

  3-4.  Australian native plants. 1934-1975

  1. Census of plants of Victoria. 1928, 1954

  2. Eucalyptus distribution. 1963-1970

  3. Newspaper cuttings on science writing and editing. 1955-1978

  4. Miscellaneous material on forests. 1984-1987

  5. Rural Research, Autumn 1985 and letter re one of the articles in it

  6. Clifford, H T. “On the distribution of the species Eucalyptus in the region of the Dandenong Range, Victoria. 1953

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  1. Winzenried, A P. “Britannia Creek; an essay in wood distillation”. 1986-1987

  2. Mark Oliphant. 1976-1987

  3. Correspondence with and regarding Peter Mason. 1984-1987

  4. Correspondence with M Daniels. 1972-1975

  5. Correspondence with Dorothy Green. 1988

  6. Newspaper cuttings on Australian fauna. 1965-1972

  7. Copy of a book chapter on nuclear waste disposal and two newspaper cuttings. 1980

  8. Astronomy. 1939-1986

  9. Miscellaneous. 1971-1985

  10. Framed picture by J Raufig, labelled “Oper” (probably the Opera House in Vienna)

  11. Information on the “Mystery Clock” donated to the Australian Academy of Science

  12. Newspaper cuttings found in books donated by MROM to the Basser Library. There is a list of the books, with those having extra material in them numbered. The cuttings are filed by number.

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  1. List of the books from MROM that were donated to Fenner Hall. Many of the books had newspaper cuttings and other material and those books have been numbered.

  2-4.  Newspaper cuttings and other material found in books from MROM that were donated to Fenner Hall. The cuttings are filed by number according to the list above.

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 1-3.  Newspaper cuttings and other material found in books from MROM that were donated to Fenner Hall. The cuttings are filed by number according to the list in MS 58/7/1.

  1. “Australian eucalypts” by MROM. 2nd ed, 1976

  2. “Australian eucalypts”, by MROM. Japanese ed, 1986. 2 copies. One copy has several items of correspondence filed in it.
  3. Operating instructions for the Greenwich Meridian clock; map of the world showing time zones; and a brush to clean the clock

58/9 (OS)

    “The last continent: Antarctica”. nd. Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited. No. 4 of the series based on the Explorers of Australia. It contains some extra material, including a card from MROM’s Antarctic Division colleagues on his retirement in 1975.

    104cm