Assorted publications regarding historical ecology and palaeontology relating to Ireland, Greywacke Ranges, South Australia and other areas, 1960-1978

Containers:

Box 30 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 347

Content Summary:

"Practical palaeontology" by unidentified author. Australasian Medical Publishing Company.

"Absolute dating of the Middle Ordovician" by A.S. Adams et al, 1960. Reprinted from Nature.

"Stratigraphic evidence of regeneration in some Irish bogs" by D. Walker and P.M. Walker, 1961. Reprinted from the Journal of Ecology. Stamped "With Donald Walker's Compliments".

"2. Peat stratigraphy and bog regeneration" by D. Walker, 1961. Extracted from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Stamped "With Donald Walker's Compliments".

"Aspects of the geomorphology of the Greywacke Ranges bordering the Lower and Middle Waikato Basins" by M.J. Selby, 1967. Reprinted from Earth Science Journal.

"Carpological evidence for fossil Eucalyptus and other Leptospemeae (subfamily Leptospermoideae of Myrtaceae) from a tertiary deposit in the South Australian arid zone" by R.T. Lange, 1978. Reprinted from the Australian Journal of Botany.

"Climatic factors controlling the distribution of certain frozen ground phenomena" by P.J. Williams, 1962. Reprinted from Geograiska Annaler.

Publication with library catalogue card "Introduction" by H. Godwin, 1961. In Linnean Society of London Proceedings. Symposium on quaternary ecology. Photocopy. Card attached.

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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