Assorted publications regarding botany, ecology, geomorphology, soil science, biogeography, hydrology and anthropology in Australia and overseas, 1953-1981

Containers:

Box 29 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 342

Content Summary:

"Long-distance seed dispersal to Macquarie Island" by A.B. Costin, 1959. Reprinted from Nature.

"Winter dormancy in seedlings of mountain beech (Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides) near timber line" by P. Wardle and A.D. Campbell, 1976. New Zealand Journal of Botany.

"Essays in plant geography and ecology" by K.N.H. Greenidge (Ed.). Papers presented at the Symposium in Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 1969. Saint Francis Xavier University.

"On glaciations and their causes" by C. Emiliani and J. Geiss, 1959. Sonderdruck aus der Geologischen Rundschau.

"Downslope soil movement in a Colorado alpine region: Rates, processes, and climatic significance" by James B. Benedict, 1970. Reprinted from Arctic and Alpine Research.

"The Physiology of plants at high altitudes" by W. Tranquillini, 1964. Reprinted from the Annual Review of Plant Physiology. Includes some annotations in pencil.

"Theory and application of neutron scattering in the measurement of soil moisture" by Roger McHenry 1963. Reprinted from Soil Science. Briefly annotated.

"Influence of the Antarctic continent on the vegetation of Southern lands" by Carl Skottsberg, 1953. Seventh Pacific Science Congress. Some sections underlined in pencil. Labelled as "A.B. Costin" on front.

"Energy relationships of Alpine plants on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire" by E.B. Hadley and L.C. Bliss, 1964. Reprinted from Ecological Monographs.

Publication "A comparison of plant development in microenvironments of arctic and alpine tundras" by L.C. Bliss, 1956. Reprinted from Ecological Monographs.

"Colonist ability, altitudinal range and origins of the flora of Mt Field, Tasmania" by J.M.B. Smith, 1981. Journal of Biogeography.

"Pleistocene temperature variations in the Mediterranean" by Cesare Emiliani, 1955. Quaternaria.

"Relation of carbon 14 concentrations to saline water contamination of coastal aquifers" by Bruce B. Hanshaw et al., 1965. Reprint. Water Resources Research.

"The alpine vegetation of the Beartooth Plateau in relation to cryopedogenic processes and patterns" P. Johnson and W.D. Billings, 1962. Reprinted from Ecological Monographs.

"Grazing factor and catchment in the Australian alps" by A.B. Costin, 1958. CSIRO Division of Plant Industry Technical Paper No. 10.

"Pleistocene man at Cloggs Cave: His tool kit and environment" by Josephine Flood, 1974. Mankind. Contains annotations.

"Portable rainfall simulator and plot unit for use in field studies of infiltration, runoff and erosion" by A.B. Costin and D.A. Gilmour, 1970. Reprint from Journal of Applied Ecology.

"The conservation of alpine catchments: An historical account" by J.S. Turner, 1960. Annotated photocopy from Science Review (Science Students Society, M.U.).

"Arctic soil classification and patterned ground" by J.V. Drew and J.C.F. Tedrow, 1962. Reprinted from Arctic. Vol. 15 No. 2.

"The high mountain vegetation of Australia" by A.B. Costin, 1957. Reprinted for the CSIRO from the Australian Journal of Botany.

"Reaction of species to adverse conditions in the Snowy Mountains" by A.B. Costin and D. J. Wimbush, 1963. Field Station Records.

Annotated copy of "Sub-alpine and alpine communities" by A.B. Costin, 1970. Reprinted from R. Milton Moore (ed.) Australian Grasslands. ANU Press: Canberra.

"Miscellaneous notes on Australian plants. 3. Craspedia, Gnaphalium, Epacris, Tasmania, Colobanthus and Deyeuxia" by M. Gray, 1976.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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