MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 115 - NORTH, David Shepherd


David Shepherd North joined the Colonial Sugar Refining Company as plant pathologist in 1900 and worked on diseases in sugar cane. He retired in 1942.


115/1

  1. Details of career, compiled 1973 [kept in BLG+ file – DS North]

  2. Letters and reports (carbon copies, Broadwater 175N, 188N, 189, on disease and pest control and seedlings) from E.G. Baber 1944-1945; Paper for the 6th Conference of the International Society of Cane Sugar Technologists, Baton Rouge, Nov. 1938: 'Sugar Cane Improvement Work in New South Wales' by North, three copies, some with corrections

  3. Broadwater reports (carbon copies) (from Broadwater Mill, Richmond River, NSW) 238D-380D (1929-1933)

  4. Broadwater reports (carbon copies) 381D-480D (1933-1937)

  5. Broadwater Nursery reports (carbon copies) 1933-1935


115/2

  1. Colonial Sugar Refining Company Agricultural Reports no.s 6, 8, 9, 10 and two lectures on sugar cane diseases 1923-1935

  2. Manuscript reports on sugar cane diseases no.s 30D, 44D, 45D, 46D

  3. Notebook 'Bacteriological Notes, March 6th/02, D S North, Linnean Hall, Elizabeth Bay' (index in back)

  4. Notebook 'Bacteriological Notes, March 6th/02, D S North, Linnean Hall, Elizabeth Bay'

  5. Notebook 'Miscellaneous Notes, Bacteriology, D S North 30th June/04'

  6. Notebook 'Bacteriology, Research Notes, started 5th Apr./04, D S North'

  7. Notebook: extracts and notes from papers, bibliographies, laboratory methods, etc, 1911-1912 (index in front)

  8. Pocket notebook: field inspection notes 1910-1912

  9. International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, Fifth Congress, Brisbane, 1935: handbook

  10. Photograph album (N130 photos), captioned: sugar cane (and other crops) production and research in Hawaii, Java and Australia to 1912; envelope of six photographs depicting abdominal surgery


115/3

  1. Postcards of Murwillimbah and surrounds (blank); one postcard from New Caledonia from North to Miss Shuttleworth 22/5/07; Lists of CSR staff on active service; CSR correspondence August 1911-April 1915; Notes on diseases of sugar cane; Notes (laboratory plans etc) from Rarawai Nursery and Condong Mill; CSR correspondence 1913-1915; 'No. 151D, Hawaiian Report, D.S. North'; Notes on breeding the tachinid fly, sclerotium fungus disease, legal stripe disease, Fiji disease and others; 'Bacteria in the Sugar Mill' results of investigations in 1904 and 1905; CSR correspondence 1910-1911

  2. Colour plates and proofs of sugar cane diseases; 'Reports on visit to Hawaiian Islands, 1911-1912, D. S. North' with contents list: 'No. 26D: Covering Memo, 27D: Sugar Cane Cultivation, 28D: Notes on Diseases and Pests, 29D: Notes on Manufacture, 30D: Notes on the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, and its Work'; 'Presentation to Mr and Mrs E. W. Knox to commemorate their Golden Wedding 1928' pamphlet with photographs (Knox founded CSR); CSR correspondence and reports 1915; Broadwater reports (carbon copies) 1937-1941

42cm