Assorted documents regarding Tuross Lakes system study. Part one, 1992-2020

Containers:

Box 59 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 899

Content Summary:

Annotated draft executive summary with covering letter. Draft titled "Tuross River catchment rehabilitation plan: 2010-2015", 2020. Letter from Kay Bysouth to Alec Costin.

Assorted documents including annotated NSW Irrigators' Council Newsletter with tax invoice (addressed to Alec Costin) for voluntary levy. Also includes annotated business card of Prue Woodford, New South Wales Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.

"A mid-to late-Holecene diatom and pollen palaeoecology of the Tuross Lake System, South Coast, New South Wales" by John Tibby, 1996.

Letters regarding clay samples from Tuross Lakes system collected by Alec Costin, 1992. Correspondents include Costin, Winston Ponder and B.G. Thom.

Correspondence (some annotated), graphs and annotated photocopied data sheets relating to Tuross Lakes system study. Correspondents include Alec Costin, John Tibby and Winston Ponder.

"Palaeoecology and plant conservation: An example from the Shrub Genus Haloragodendron Orch." by John Tibby, 1993. Published by the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Originally housed in large annotated buff CSIRO envelope. Annotations (on front) read "Alec: Tuross Shell horizon pollen: Write to Ponder". Also includes notes in pencil on reverse.

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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