Assorted papers and publications mainly relating to vegetation, 1951-1981

Containers:

Box 30 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 348

Content Summary:

"Ecology of the high plains I" by A.B. Costin, 1961. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.

Annotated manuscript "Management opportunities in Australian high mountain catchments" by A.B. Costin, 1965. Annotation reads (in part) "Int. Symp. Forest Hydrology 566-577".

Manuscript "Vegetation, soils and climate in late Pleistocene and recent South-Eastern Australia" by A.B. Costin, 1971. Carbon copy. Published as book chapter.

"Alpine and sub-alpine vegetation" by A.B. Costin, 1981. Reprinted from Groves, R.H. (ed.) Australian Vegetation. Brief annotation on front.

"Alpine and sub-alpine vegetation" by A.B. Costin, 1981. Reprinted from Groves, R.H. (ed.) Australian Vegetation. Brief annotation on front.

Grouped manuscripts (including one duplicate) "Wildlife of the Australian alps" by A.B. Costin. "Alpine flowers of the Kosciusko State Park" by A.B. Costin and D.J. Wimbush (reprinted with minor changes from "The alpine flowers of the Kosciusko State Park"). "The Australian Alps". "Australian alps: plates" (typed, numbered LB9409 on front, includes only text apart from one map, annotated).

"Hastening secondary succession in the Snowy Mountains with natural herbaceous mulch" by A.B. Costin and D.J. Wimbush, 1963. Numbered R34 (stamped on front in blue). Field Station Records.

"The role of evapotranspiration in climate" by C.W. Thornthwaite and John R. Mather, 1951. Reprint from Archiv für Meterologie, Geophysik und Bioklimatolgie. Includes some underlining.

"Recovery of alpine tundra under protection after damage by human activities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado" by Beatrice Willard and John Marr, 1971. Reprinted from Biological Conservation. Labelled as Costin on front and annotated.

1x Publication with annotated index card. Publication entitled "Agricultural climatology of the Yass Valley" by R.O. Slatyer, 1960. Division of Land Research and Regional Survey Technical Paper no. 6. Annotated. Includes index card (inserted inside front cover) which contains monthly numerical data [rainfall?] for Lincoln and Canberra.

"The vegetation of Tristan da Cunha" by N.M. Wace and M.W. Holdgate, 1958. Reprint from the Journal of Ecology. Labelled as Costin on front. "With compliments" card (not addressed) is from Gough Island Scientific Survey (inserted inside front cover).

Publication "Vegetation studies on secretary island, Fiordland: Part 3..." by A.F. Mark, 1963. Reprinted from the New Zealand Journal of Botany. Annotated.

Research proposal "Quaternary ecology in Australia and the Antarctic region" by unidentified author. Gestetner copy.

"Monaro Grasslands" by unidentified author.

"Mt Wilhelm studies I: The alpine and subalpine vegetation" by L.K. Wade and D.N. McVean, 1969. Inserted documents include two pages of handwritten notes, tables from Le Géographe Canadien, one annotated index card.

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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