Assorted documents including correspondence, reports and handwritten notes, 1967-1977

Containers:

Box 51 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 534

Content Summary:

"CSIRO Division of Forest Research: Request for contributions" with covering letter from B. Shineberg (ed.).

"Summary of the working sessions on ecosystems in the Eastern deciduous forest region" by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. Washington D.C. U.S. National Committee for the International Biological Program of the Division of Biology and Agriculture.

Papers by Michael B. Dale; "Comments on environmental simulation"; Paper explaining the "basic structure of the ecosystem model" (annotated) with O. [Loukes?] and; "Multivariate analysis programs".

Handwritten notes taken on a "Report on contract No. 14-01-0001-1571 to [illegible] from Office of Water Resource Research Dept. of Interior Washington D.C. 1967". "Water related research requirements - the Great Lakes region" by Spence Havlick.

Papers relating to forests and systems ecology. Includes table of data "Table 1. Summary of Japanese primary production data" and 2 copies of diagram (labelled p. 12).

Photocopy entitled "The international programme".

Copies of letter from D.J. Wimbush of the Colong Caves Committee to "Free bag, Waste Point, via Cooma, N.S.W." regarding native fauna in the pine plantation "in the southern mountains of NS.W. and in the surrounding eucalypt forest".

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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