Assorted publications by A.B. Costin and co-authors on geomorphology, role of fire in wilderness management, hydrology and other issues mainly relating to the Australian alps, 1959-1979

Containers:

Box 57 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 851

Content Summary:

"Frost cracks and earth hummocks at Kosciusko, Snowy Mountains, Australia" by A.B. Costin and D.J. Wimbush, 1973. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Copies of annotated paper "Fire and its place in park and wilderness management" by A.M. Gill and A.B. Costin, 1978. CSIRO. Annotation reads "pp 12-19 in Third Fire Ecology Symposium, Forests Commission Victoria and Monash University ... Symposium held 1974, Proceedings published 1978".

"New South Wales and Victorian alps" by A.B. Costin from unidentified publication. Includes photographs.

"Catchment hydrology in the Australian Alps. I. Trends in soil vegetation" by A.B. Costin, D.J. Wimbush, D. Kerr, and L.W. Gay, 1959. CSIRO Division of Plant Industry. Contains photographs, some of which appear to be from various items in this collection. Some annotations label and describe photographs.

"Trends in vegetation at Kosciusko: I. Grazing trails in the subalpine zone, 1957-1971; II. Subalpine range transects, 1959-1978; III. Alpine range transects, 1959-1978" by D.J. Wimbush and A.B. Costin, 1979. Reprinted from the Australian Journal of Botany for CSIRO, Australia. Contains graphs and some colour plates (showing vegetation and other phenomena).

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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