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MS 066 – ROSS, A D

Ross was Professor of Physics and Mathematics 1912-29 and of Physics 1929-52, at the University of Western Australia. His research interests were in the area of vacuum spectroscopy and optical astronomy. He founded the Pan-Indian Science congress of 14 countries.

These papers are all concerned with the Pan Indian Ocean Science Association.


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  1. Report of the first Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress (PIOSC), Bangalore, India, 2, 5, 6 and 7 January 1951

  2. Papers, etc. from Bangalore. Mainly minutes of meetings of various sections and plenary sessions, plus various draft versions of the Constitution.

  3. Minutes of meetings connected with second PIOSC

  4. Second PIOSC, Perth, 1954. Bank book (record of revenue and expenditure)

  5. Second PIOSC, Perth, 1954. Petty cash book

  6. Photos from 1st, 3rd and 4th PIOSCs

  7. Photos from 2nd PIOSC

  8. Standing Committee on Economics, Education and Social Sciences, including Statistics. Roneoed material ca 1951-53

  9. Fairbridge, Rhodes W. "Preliminary review of limits of the Indian Ocean. Section F: Geography and Oceanography, November 1952

  10. Minutes of meetings of advisory committee of Australian Academy of Science April 1959 - September 1965; reports to Australian Academy of Science October 1958 and February 1959; expenditure by ADR 1959-60, 1962, 1964

  11. Miscellaneous material, including minutes of 1st-3rd PIOSA Council meetings; constitution and bye-laws; and material relating to a permanent secretariat ca 1959-60

    12-14 Correspondence arranged in running number order, generally, but not always, in files of multiples of 100 correspondence items by number. Not all items are present and it appears that ADR's running files were weeded to leave only the PIOSA items. In addition the files for 1950-52 contain higher numbered items relating to PIOSA which appear to have been originally on ADR's Australian National Research Council files

  12. Correspondence, June 1950 - December 1951 (items 108-165 and 1703-2111)

  13. Correspondence 1952 (items 166-500 and 2260-2908)

  14. Correspondence items 501-1300, 17 December 1952 - 15 June 1953


66/2 Correspondence arranged in running number order (cont'd)

  1. Correspondence items 1301-1800, 15 June - 2 September 1953

  2. Correspondence items 1801-2600, 2 September - 26 December 1953

  3. Correspondence items 2601-3200, 28 December 1953 - 4 April 1954

  4. Correspondence items 3201-4000, 6 April - 1 June 1954

  5. Correspondence items 4001-5000, 7 June - 21 July 1954

  6. Correspondence items 5001-6000, 22 July - 16 August 1954

  7. Correspondence items 6001-7000, 18 August 1954 - 20 December 1955

  8. Correspondence items 7001-7800, 20 December 1955 - 30 May 1956

  9. Correspondence items 7801-8000, 30 May - 11 July 1956

  10. Correspondence items 8001-8200, 21 July - 25 September 1956

  11. Correspondence items 8201-8400, 25 September - 10 November 1956

  12. Correspondence items 8401-8700, 10 November 1956 - 5 January 1957

  13. Correspondence items 8701-9000, 5 January - 13 April 1957


66/3 Correspondence arranged in running number order (cont'd)

  1. Correspondence items 9001-9200, 13 April - 22 May 1957

  2. Correspondence items 9201-9400, 22 May - 22 June 1957

  3. Correspondence items 9401-9600, 22 June - 25 July 1957

  4. Correspondence items 9601-9800, 25 July - 14 September 1957

  5. Correspondence items 9801-10,000, 14 September - 24 December 1957

  6. Correspondence items 101-200, 24 December 1957 - 20 February 1958

  7. Correspondence items 201-300, 20 February - 15 April 1958

  8. Correspondence items 301-400, 23 April - 9 August 1958

  9. Correspondence items 401-500, 9 August - 6 October 1958

  10. Correspondence items 501-600, 7 October - 21 November 1958

  11. Correspondence items 601-700, 18 November 1958 - 16 February 1959

  12. Correspondence items 701-800, 16 February - 11 May 1959

  13. Correspondence items 801-1000, 15 May - 5 October 1959


66/4 Correspondence arranged in running number order (cont'd)

  1. Correspondence items 1001-1200, 5 October 1959 - 4 January 1960

  2. Correspondence items 1201-1400, 4 January - 23 March 1960

  3. Correspondence items 1401-1500, 23 March - 12 May 1960

  4. Correspondence items 1501-1600, 13 May - 10 June 1960

  5. Correspondence items 1601-1800, 16 June - 29 August 1960

  6. Correspondence items 1801-1900, 23 August - 23 September 1960

  7. Correspondence items 1901-2000, 23 September - 12 October 1960

  8. Correspondence items 2001-2100, 13 October - 17 November 1960

  9. Correspondence items 2101-2200, 20 November 1960 - 14 February 1961

  10. Correspondence items 2201-2300, 16 February - 1 April 1961


66/5 Correspondence arranged in running number order (cont'd)

  1. Correspondence items 2301-2400, 1 April - 20 May 1961

  2. Correspondence items 2401-2500, 22 May - 25 July 1961

  3. Correspondence items 2501-2600, 25 July - 20 August 1961

  4. Correspondence items 2601-2700, 21 August - 26 October 1961

  5. Correspondence items 2701-2800, 26 October - 16 December 1961

  6. Correspondence items 2801-2900, 16 December 1961 - 2 February 1962

  7. Correspondence items 2901-3000, 3 February - 23 March 1962

  8. Correspondence items 3001-3100, 23 March - 1 June 1962

  9. Correspondence items 3101-3200, 2 June - 14 July 1962

  10. Correspondence items 3201-3300, 16 July - 25 September 1962

  11. Correspondence items 3301-3400, 26 September - 28 October 1962

  12. Correspondence items 3401-3500, 29 October - 7 December 1962

  13. Correspondence items 3501-3600, 10 December 1962 - 9 January 1963


66/6 Correspondence arranged in running number order (cont'd)

  1. Correspondence items 3601-3700, 10 January - 11 February 1963

  2. Correspondence items 3701-3800, 12 February - 6 March 1963

  3. Correspondence items 3801-4000, 11 March - 27 April 1963

  4. Correspondence items 4001-4500, 14 May - 7 September 1963

  5. Correspondence items 4501-5000, 9 September 1963 - 3 January 1964

  6. Correspondence items 5001-5500, 11 January - 6 June 1964

  7. Correspondence items 5501-6000, 20 June - 28 August 1964

  8. Correspondence items 6001-6500, 26 September 1964 - 20 February 1965

  9. Correspondence items 6501-7000, 8 February - 14 April 1965

  10. Correspondence items 7001-8000, 20 April 1965 - 19 February 1966

  11. Correspondence items 8001-9511, 14 April - 10 October 1966, plus unnumbered correspondence items, 19 October 1966 - 9 January 1967

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