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MS 207
LANGRIDGE, MARJORY
Marjory Langridge, under her former name Marjory Collard O'Dea, was the biographer of Sir Ian Clunies Ross. The biography was published in 1997 (Ian Clunies Ross - A Biography Hyland House, Melbourne) and the material used for the research later given to the Basser Library.
She worked at CSIRO as Special Assistant to the Chief of the Division of Plant Industry, as the Senate's Committee Secretariat, and has been a director in the Departments of Science, Industry, Commerce and Tourism. In 1980, she was responsible for producing Australia’s first Science Statement. She was also the author of children’s books and a published poet.
Source: http://www.cluniesross.org.au/?sectionid=13
Ian Clunies Ross 1899-1959
Ian Clunies Ross was born on the 22nd of February, 1899, in Bathurst, New South Wales and died on the 20th of June 1959. He married Janet Carter in 1927 with whom he had three sons and adopted a daughter.
His first studies were in veterinary science, graduating with honours from Sydney University in 1920. In 1922 he was appointed a Walter and Eliza Hall Veterinary Research Fellow which allowed him to spend some time overseas. Research on parasites of domestic animals was to occupy the bulk of his working life until 1937. At the end of 1926, Clunies Ross was appointed the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s parasitologist to continue his work at the Sydney University Veterinary School. In 1928, his thesis on the hydatid parasite was accepted by the University of Sydney for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Science.
He travelled extensively, including research visits to Japan, China, Korea and Manchuria, and spent three years from 1937 as Australian representative on the International Wool Secretariat in London, being elected first chairman of the International Wool Secretariat.
Returning to Sydney, he took up the position of professor of Veterinary Science. At a time when there were few professional students of international affairs in Australia, he was used by the ABC as a news commentator; in 1941 he was elected Commonwealth chairman of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
In 1943, Clunies Ross was appointed Director of Scientific Personnel in the Commonwealth Directorate of Manpower and also Adviser on the Pastoral Industry to the Department of War Organization of Industry. Then in 1946 he was appointed a full-time member of the CSIR Executive Committee, and in 1949 became the first Chairman of the new CSIRO.
In the last fourteen years of Ian Clunies Ross's life, from 1945 to 1959, his own story is bound up with four significant episodes in Australia's history: the establishment and application of the funds for wool research and promotion; the political attack on CSIR and its reconstitution as CSIRO; the application of myxomatosis to the rabbit plague; and the great expansion in Commonwealth surveillance and support of the universities associated with the Murray Report.
He was made a CMG and knighted in 1954, was given several honorary degrees and scientific, veterinary and agricultural distinctions, and served on the governing bodies of three universities and as deputy-chancellor of one.
His reputation must rest principally on what he did as a scientific administrator and as a leader of opinion, because of the special public position he had come to occupy by the time of his death as spokesman for Australian science, champion of research and promotion for the wool industry, and steady advocate of an open and generous view of Australia's destiny. It was this capacity to see what was not yet visible, to look beyond immediate concerns to larger issues, that helped to give him his special character as a publicist.
Adapted from: http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/cluniesross.htm
207/1 1-3 Files concerning the biography of Clunies Ross
Correspondence re: publication of the biography 1990-1997; floppy disk of the biography; errata sheet; envelope with plastic ‘diamond disc’ records, possibly dictated passages of the book
Assorted notes and correspondence for the biography 1970s-1980s; notes and correspondence for a talk on writing the biography to the Victorian division of the Australian Veterinary Association 1988
Correspondence with Colin Smith, CSIRO Archivist; photocopied lists of archival holdings; notes
4-27 Langridge’s correspondence with persons and organisations concerning Clunies Ross and related papers for the biography (and some general correspondence)
G.R. Williams, F. Eyre, V.D. Burgman and others concerning the biography
Dr H. McL. Gordon 1972, 1992-1997
Sir Allen Brown 1986, 1991
Dr H.N. Turner 1971
Dr B.S. Middleton 1971-1972
Sir Rutherford Robertson 1970-1972
Walter Boas 1963-1968
Professor D. de Solla Price 1967-1971
ABC 1970-1972
Philip J. Pocock 1968-1969
Dr Yaren Eziahi 1972
Ward Morehouse 1967-1968
David Evans 1970
Dr David Cohen 1971
Professor R.M. Crawford 1971
Professor Ian Ross 1968
Keith Pavitt 1968-1971
History and Philosophy of Science (AAHPS) 1971-1973
Dr Clive Coogan 1966-1972
Helen Johnston 1971-1972
Dr O.H. Frankel 1967-1972
Dr J.R. Philip
Professor S. Encel 1972-1973
Earl Newsom 1970 concerning J.G. Winant; ‘Notes on ‘Letter from Grosvenor Square’’ (book by Winant)
207/2 1-43 Langridge’s correspondence with persons and organisations concerning Clunies Ross and related papers for the biography (cont)
1 Australian Scientific Liaison Office 1972
2 Bertha MacSmith 1971
3 H.B. Carter 1970; 1997
4 Commonwealth Archives 1972 (J.D. Morris, Archivist)
5 Professor J.D. Bernal 1967
6 Sir George Currie 1966-1984
7 Lady Clunies-Ross and family 1971- 1976
8 Sir Frederick White 1968-1990
9 L.G. Wilson 1969-1972
10 W. Evans 1966-1968
11 Professor L.K. Caldwell 1968-1971
12 Maurice Goldsmith 1967-1973
13 M. Daley 1972
14 Dr C. Duke 1971
15 J.P. Davenport 1969
16 C.E. Bernau 1971-1972
17 Professor J. Ben-David 1969-1971
18 Dr Ian Bellamy 1969
19 Professor L.F. Crisp 1971
20 J. Coombs 1972
21 L.A. Farrell 1968-1971
22 M.E. Piper 1969
23 J.H. Mant 1971
24 Brian Sheedy 1970-1972 (with notes)
25 Professor Don Lamberton 1968-1971
26 D.M. Slade 1969-1970
27 Dr Jiri Skolka 1972
28 J.M. Goldsen 1969
29 N.W. Pirie 1970
30 S.C. Hill 1968-1972
31 E. Shils 1968
32 International Wool Secretariat 1972-1973
33 J-J. Salamon 1968-1969
34 A.D. Hope 1972
35 F. Emery 1972
36 Dr M.F. Day 1971-1972
37 W.R. Cumming 1972
38 Sir Eric Ashby 1972
39 Dr S. Dedijer 1968-1969
40 Dr P. Stubbs 1970-1971
41 Dr R. Johnston 1971-1977
42 Papers concerning H. Marston
43 Prof. T.R. Kaiser, including correspondence with Mrs Makinson 1972-1973 and notes on ‘The Kaiser Affair’
207/3 1-10 Langridge’s correspondence with persons and organisations concerning Clunies Ross and related papers for the biography (cont)
1 J.J. Dedman 1970
2 Dudley Gill 1970-1971
3 Professor H. Grattan 1971
4 Roy Kinghorn 1972-1973
5 Dr G. McBride 1972-1973
6 Anthony Clunies Ross, with notes: ‘Anthony Clunies Ross wrote to me in September 1975 of his grandmother’
7 D.C.S. Sissons 1975, including a paper: ‘Private diplomacy in the 1936 trade dispute with Japan’ including Clunies Ross’s role
8 Dr H.G. Belschner 1970 including copies of letters from Clunies Ross
9 Lord Casey and others including ‘Discussion with Ms Marjorie O’Dea – 1 November 1976: CSIRO History’ by W.N. Hurst 1976
10 Records of interviews: colleagues and family of Clunies Ross, 1970-1975: Sir Eric Ashby, Lord Barnby, Prof. D.C. Blood, P. Butler, R. Carne, H.B. Carter, C.S. Christian, W. Clarke, H.A.P. Clay, Adrian Clunies Ross, Sir George Currie, Janet Clunies Ross, B. Croll, P. Cullen, S. Dimmick, L.F. Fitzhardinge, O. Frankel, H.C. Forster, C.W Emmens, W.F. Evans, Dr K. Ferguson, D.A. Gill, W. Ives, J.J. Dedman, G. Fethers, Dr H. Gordon, Prof. C. H. Grattan, G. Gressford, W. Hartley, M. Hutchinson, B. Ingpen, A.F. Julius, G.P. Kauzal, Kruse and S. Evans, I. Leitch, A. McNight, B. MacSmith, J. McKenzie, Dr I.M. Mackerras, G MacKinnonM. Masterman, G. Munro, P. Nicholson, Sir Mark Oliphant, J. Raison, W.P. Rogers, P. Roberts, R.N. Robertson, D. Sissons, K. Prowse, G. Sawer, C.W. Strutt, Prof. Trikojus, Dr J. Tully, Dr D.F. Waterhouse, D. Whitfeld, A.P. Rowe, A. Vasey, F. White, O. Williams, C. Euston Young
11-13 Correspondence with persons and organisations concerning Clunies Ross and related papers
11 Lists of recipients of letters from Lady Clunies-Ross and from CSIRO re: biography 1963
12 Correspondence to Dr Alan Barnard (biographer), Sir Keith Hancock and Lady Clunies-Ross 1962-1966
13 Correspondence: solicited comments on Clunies Ross for biography (to Lady Clunies-Ross and Sir Keith Hancock)
207/4 Clunies Ross material: Notes by Langridge
1 Typescripts: ‘Myxomatosis story’ and untitled notes
2 Typescript ‘Myxomatosis’ 1974
3 Typescript ‘The International Wool Secretariat Period’
4 Typescript ‘International Wool Secretariat’ 1974
5 Notes: ‘Committee on Australian Universities’
6 Notes on papers read: ‘Notes on a paper to be published in the Records of the Academy by George Currie and John Graham;’ ‘Notes from ‘Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia’ by Francis Ratcliffe;’ ‘Notes from “Men were my milestones” Subtitled “Australian Portraits and Sketches” by A.R. Chisholm Melbourne University Press, 1958’ ‘Notes on a book called The Spirit of Liberty’ ed. I. Dilliard
7 ‘Notes on I.C.R. 4 - International House;’ ‘Notes on File 11 I.C.R. Australian National Research Council’‘Notes on File S1/5 – Formation of ARLS;’ ‘Notes on File 8 ICR – Agriculture;’ ‘Notes on File 9 ICR – Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux;’ ‘Notes on File 14 ICR CSIRO Divisions 1 of 10;’ ‘Notes on File 14 ICR CSIRO Divisions 2 of 9 ‘Notes on File 16 ICR Soils, Weather, Wool Research’
8 ‘Notes on Eric Ashby,’ copies of material on and by him, some correspondence (some originals) with Clunies Ross
207/5 Clunies Ross material: notes by Langridge on CSRI(O) archive
documents
1 ‘Notes on File M33I – Northern Territory;’ ‘Notes on Files labelled 12 ICR Northern Territory and Queensland;’ ‘Notes on File M33B – New South Wales 1-100;’ ‘File: M33A Victoria;’ ‘Notes on File M33E – Queensland;’ ‘Notes on File: M33C – South Australia’
2 ‘Background to the 1949 Act’ ‘Events during drafting of CSIRO Act’ some handwritten notes on publications on CSIR
3 ‘Background to the Act: Notes on three files of general correspondence’
4 ‘Notes on Minutes of the Council: Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’
5 ‘Notes from the Minutes of the Sessions of Council of the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’
6 ‘In the Minutes of 2nd Session of Council Melbourne – 23rd, 24th, 25th Nov., 1926’ to 27th Session, 1941
7 ‘Notes on CSIR Executive Committee Minutes’ 1927, 1930-1932, 1936-1939
8 Notes on the Minutes of the Executive of CSIRO 1949-1953
9 Notes on the Minutes of the Executive of CSIRO 1954-1960
207/6 1-4 Clunies Ross material: notes by Langridge on archival
documents
1 ‘Notes on files consulted in Commonwealth Archives’
2 ‘Notes on File PH-CLU1’
3 Notes: ‘File PH/CLU/IC Visit to Japan February 1928 to May 1930’
4 ‘Notes on File’ period c.1935, additional label ‘Manchuria’
5-8 Clunies Ross material: notes by Langridge on Clunies Ross’s
written and spoken output
5 ‘Clunies Ross’s Written and Spoken Output’
6 ‘Clunies Ross’s Written and Spoken Output folder No. 2’
7 ‘Clunies Ross’s Written and Spoken Output folder No. 3’
8 ‘Clunies Ross’s Written and Spoken Output’ folder No. 4
9-17 Clunies Ross material: notes by Langridge on family and personal correspondence
9 Notes beginning ‘The Ethel Journal’
10 ‘Letters from Ian to others not family’
11 ‘Ian’s correspondence with his mother’
12 ‘Notes on the correspondence of Janet Carter with Ian Clunies Ross’ and ‘Courtship letters – Ian to Janet’
13 ‘Assorted family Letters’
14 ‘Letters from Ian to his family from 1953 onwards’
15 Notes: ‘Janet Clunies Ross’ letters to Ian in the 1950’s;’ ‘Letters in a packet labelled Ian’s letters to me in the 40’s and one to Anthony July, 1944 and one to Adrian and David September 13th 1947 and one to Adrian October 16th, 1947 and one to E. Sansom December 28th, 1948 about Winant;’ ‘Letters from Ian to Janet in the Fifties’
16 Mixed notes: ‘Clunies Ross’ visit to New Zealand 1944;’ ‘Sir Charles Martin, Cambridge, England;’ ‘Some notes on Frodsley;’ ‘Personal files: Miscellaneous;’ other untitled notes and handwritten notes
17 ‘Notes from the Memoirs of William West Medlin’ on family history
207/7 Clunies Ross material: notes by Langridge on correspondence
files
1 ‘Notes on the Hedley Marston – David Rivett correspondence (to be found in the Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science)’
2 ‘Notes on the Richardson Papers – CSIR letters, notes on volume 0 – 1927 to 1929’
3 ‘Notes on the F.L. McDougall correspondence with Rivett’
4 ‘Notes on the McDougall-Rivett Correspondence’
5 Notes on correspondence files
6 ‘Notes on the correspondence between Clunies Ross and Hedley Marston filed at the Australian Academy of Science;’ Marston and the Academy;’ ‘The Headly Marston-Bastow Correspondence;’ ‘No. 13, J to Z, January to December, 1934’
7 Notes: ‘Analysis of yellow copies of inwards mail (summaries) from 13/11/53 to 29/3/57;’ ‘Notes of semi-personal correspondence file M.33;’ ‘Clunies-Ross correspondence 1946 to 1948 M38;’ ‘Personal File: D.A. Gill;’ ‘Notes on an unnamed miscellaneous file’
8 ‘Correspondence general – H to M’
9 ‘File: M33H Overseas’
10 Mixed untitled notes beginning: ‘... up to about 3.3;’ ‘Norman St C. Carter, Beresford Chambers, 76 Pitt Street, Sydney;’ ‘Correspondence from George Tull ... Correspondence with Sir Charles Martin’
11 Unsorted draft notes
207/8 1-2 Clunies Ross material: miscellaneous notes by Langridge
1 ‘Notes on a file numbered 13;’ ‘Notes on file VM19/1 Historical Materials and Bibliographies: Articles prepared by, to, and about CSIRO personages Sir Ian Clunies Ross;’ ‘Notes on ICI 10 – Institute of International Affairs, Australia and UK’
2 Notes on ‘Clunies Ross’s Centenary Oration’ Sydney University 1952 and copies of correspondence
3-9 Copies of CSIRO material concerning Clunies Ross
3 Copies of correspondence of Clunies Ross and CSIRO Wildlife Section files on myxomatosis
4 Copies of CSIRO files on Animal Genetics: correspondence of Clunies Ross
5 Copies of CSIRO files on Wool and Textile research, correspondence of Clunies Ross
6 Copies of Clunies Ross’s correspondence with the Australian Academy of Science
7 Copies of Clunies Ross’s correspondence from CSIRO archives, largely with A.P. Rowe
8 Copies of Clunies Ross’s correspondence with Dame Jean Macnamara from CSIRO archives re: myxomatosis and rabbits
9 Copies of correspondence, reports and press clippings on ‘The Kaiser Affair’
10-11 Clunies Ross material: documents concerning the Murray Committee on Australian Universities
10 Papers and correspondence concerning CSIRO and the Murray Committee on Australian Universities including: Commonwealth report ‘1957 and Beyond: An Economic Survey;’ copies of CSIRO Advisory Council reports, ‘Submission by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee to the Committee on Australian Universities 4th July 1957;’ ‘II. The Universities – The Nature of the Australian situation;’ ‘The Australian National University ‘A Permanent Universities Commission in Australia’ Memorandum submitted to the Committee on Australian Universities June 1957;’ ‘Draft submission by the Government of Tasmania to the Committee on Universities’
11 Draft Summary Records from Committee on Australian Universities
207/9 Papers written by Clunies Ross
1 Folder 1 of ‘Miscellaneous papers written by Dr. I. Clunies Ross’ with index (mostly carbon copies)
2 Folder 2 of ‘Miscellaneous papers written by Sir Ian Clunies Ross’ with index (mostly carbon copies, some offprints)
3 Folder 3 of ‘Miscellaneous papers written by Sir Ian Clunies Ross’ with index (carbon copies)
4 Folder 4: Papers by Clunies Ross, mostly public letters, lectures or pamphlets on topics concerning World War II, mostly carbon copies, some offprints and pamphlets, some handwritten notes
207/10 Papers and correspondence of Clunies Ross
1 ‘Original Atricles. [sic] Statements to Press and Publicity’ (carbon copies)
2 Wool Secretariat and related reports and correspondence 1940-1944
3 Textile Advisory Panel correspondence and reports
4 Reports and correspondence by Clunies Ross on wool and textiles 1942-1945
5 Correspondence and reports on veterinary science and education and the wool industry 1940-1946
6 Clunies Ross ‘Correspondence. General. A-H’ and ‘H-M’ February-August 1931
7 Correspondence of Clunies Ross 1936-1937
207/11 Papers and correspondence of Clunies Ross (cont)
1 General correspondence, including a collection of letters from Clunies Ross to Sir Charles Martin 1937-1947 (mostly concerning wool research) returned to Clunies Ross by Martin’s biographer Harriette Chick after his death
2 General correspondence 1943-1944
3 Miscellaneous correspondence including original and typed copy of letter from Clunies Ross to Eric 1922 and congratulatory letters on Clunies Ross’s knighthood 1954
4 Clunies Ross’s letters to his mother and family; two photographs of family
5 Correspondence Clunies Ross – (Sir) E.H.B. Lefroy 1948-1959 (and related other correspondents) (originals, Lefroy’s collection)
6 Partial typescript of Clunies Ross’s Memoir of visit to Tokyo 1929-1930
7 Typescript of address given by Clunies Ross on his voyage to China, Manchuria and Japan, Country Broadcasting Service, 2GZ Radio Continuity 17/3/1936; typescript ‘Japan;’ typescript ‘The Japanese Inn;’ manuscript ‘Christmas in Manchuria’
8 ‘A National Anthem for Australia’ assorted drafts by Clunies Ross
9 ‘Holiday Outing (short story) by Adrian Egerton (Ian Clunies Ross)’
10 Typescript of ‘Visit to India and Pakistan, 1958 Diary – Ian Clunies Ross’ with leaf of correspondence between Lady Clunies-Ross and OUP
11 Addresses: offprint of ANZAAS address by Clunies Ross ‘The Impact of Scientific Advances on Production in the Livestock Industries;’ typescript of ‘Short wave broadcast to USA’ by Clunies Ross on John Winant and press clippings of obituary; offprint of the John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lecture 1954 by Clunies Ross on John Anderson Gilruth; photocopies of miscellaneous writings
12 Correspondence, papers, press clippings and copies concerning John Clunies Ross and the Cocos Islands, and other members of the family
207/12 1-4 Clunies Ross material: biographical material
1 Letters to Janet Clunies Ross including condolence letters; notes on ‘Death of Sir Ian Clunies Ross: letters of condolence received June 1959;’ obituaries
2 Biographical material and miscellanea including: photocopy of death certificate; outline of family tree; copy of a bibliography; biographical CVs; press cuttings and copies
3 Biographical material: notes by others: ‘Notes on Ian Clunies-Ross’ by Jane Clunies-Ross (manuscript and typescript), ‘Notes on Ian Clunies Ross by Charles Huxtable,’ transcript of interview with Dr and Mrs Charles Huxtable; transcript of discussion between F.E. Barraclough and A. Barnard on Clunies Ross; transcript of interview on Clunies Ross between H.B. Carter and A. Barnard 1964
4 Typescript by Dudley A Gill 1965 ‘Scientific Publications of Ian Clunies Ross’
Miscellaneous
5 Typescripts in springback binder by Harold Carter on sheep science c. 1950
6 John Falk and Scienomics: press clippings, papers, notes and correspondence on and with Falk; correspondence with and articles for the Canberra Times; miscellaneous correspondence and papers
7 Correspondence with David Sissons including re: Charles Hawker; correspondence with A.P. Rowe 1972; correspondence with Keith Brodribb 1970; correspondence with BBC/ABC 1972; miscellaneous correspondence
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