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MS 076 - TIEGS, Oscar Werner, FAA (1897-1956)

ZOOLOGIST

Tiegs was Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1948-56. He had earlier been an Associate Professor and Lecturer at Melbourne.

For further biographical information, see Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol 3 (1957) pp 247-55.

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  1. Letters 1956-59, mainly to Mrs Tiegs concerning OWT's death

  2. Letters 1929-31:

    Brailsford Robertson to OWT, 17 July 1927

    Mary A West to OWT, undated

    ? Stephens to Pierre, 17 November 1930

    OWT to Mrs Brailsford Robertson 19 January 1930 re her husband's death

    A N Burkitt to OWT, 19 February 1930, re post at University of Sydney

    A C D Rivett to OWT, 7 July 1931

  3. Correspondence 1927-29 re Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

    J T Wilson from Cambridge, 22 January 1929

    J T Wilson from Europe, undated

  4. Correspondence from scientific colleagues and friends 1947-56

    Visit to England 1954. Correspondence

  5. Appointments and Honours, etc:

    Student Demonstrator in Biology, University of Queensland, 1918

    Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowship in Economic Biology, University of Queensland, 1920

    Acting Chair of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 1922

    Syme Prize, 1928

    Associate-Professor in Zoology, University of Melbourne, 1931

    Chair of Zoology, University of Melbourne, 1947

    British Council travel grant 1954

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  1. Election to Royal Society of London 1944. Correspondence, including some later personal correspondence

    Appointment as Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne. Correspondence

  2. Obituary notices and related correspondence

    Typescript list of publications 1918-55

  3. Miscellaneous material:

    Correspondence 1940-54

    "Motor muscles of the wings". 12 pp, handwritten

    Microscope preparations

    Lecture, radio broadcasts, published papers (one by OWT, one acknowledging his help)

    Australian Academy of Science. The petition for the grant of a Royal charter. December 1953

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  1. Medals:

    Syme Medal 1928

    Clarke Medal 1928

    Medal marking centenary of University of Melbourne 1955

    Certificates:

    BSc University of Queensland 1919

    MSc University of Queensland 1921

    BSc University of Adelaide 1922

    DSc University of Adelaide 1922

    MSc University of Melbourne 1933

    FRS 1944

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    Oversize material (stored in map cabinet)

  1. Eleven plates of original illustrations for "The development and affinities of the Pauropoda based on a study of Pauropus silvaticus". Quart Jour Micros Sci, 88, June 1947, plates 1-9, and September 1949, plates 10-11, and photographic reproductions of plates 1-9

  2. Four plates of original illustrations for OWT and Florence Murray "The embryonic development of Calandra oryzae". Quart Jour Micros Sci, 80, pp 160-284, plates nos 2-5

  3. Original illustration of text fig 12 in "The embryonic development of Calandra oryzae". Quart Jour Micros Sci, 80, pp 160-284

  4. Original illustration of text fig 15 of "The post-embryonic development of Hanseniella agilis (Symphyla). Quart Jour Micros Sci, 85, March 1945

  5. Duplicates of papers described in (1) and (4); and other printed papers (duplicates)

19 cm