Publications and unpublished articles with notes referring to the impact of afforestation and the use of chemicals among other topics., 1955-1964
- Containers:
- Box 44 (MS 10563)
- Component identifier:
- File 488
- Content Summary:
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"Alpine and subalpine vegetation patterns in the White Mountains of California" by H. A. Mooney et al. reprinted from The American Midland Naturalist, October 1962.
Proof pages of "The effects of afforestation on rainfall and run-off" by A.J. Rutter, 1958.
"The relationship between illumination and global radiation" by J.N. Black, 1960.
Slip from CSIRO library copying service and handwritten note requesting a copy of "Distribution and development of the world's peat deposits" from Nature, 1 February 1964.
Slip from CSIRO library and handwritten note referring to pages required from "Notes on progress in forest science" from Forestry Abstracts, 1964.
Note from Dr J.L. Monteith and article "Decreasing transpiration of field plants by chemical closure of stomata" by P.E. Waggoner et al., from Nature, 1964.
"Evaporative loss from soil, native vegetation, and snow as affected by hexadecanol" by Henry W. Anderson et al. from the I.A.S.H. Committee for Evaporation.
Bound hydrology papers titled "Evaluation of solar beam irradiation as a climatic parameter of mountain watersheds" by Richard Lee, August 1963.
"Estimates of energy budgets for a Typha (Cattail) marsh" by J. Roger Bray from Science, 1962. Article includes handwritten annotations.
"Spectral diffuse reflectance of desert surfaces" by Edwards V. Ashburn and Rodney G. Weldon from Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1956.
Papers, comprised of copying request, correspondence and one-page photocopy. Copying slip relates to U.S. Naval Ordnance. Letter from Department of Navy to the Office of the Naval Attche: Australian Embassy. Photocopy from Program of the fortieth annual meeting.
"Reflection of visible and infrared radiation from leaves of different ecological groups" by W.D. Billings and Robert J. Morris from American Journal of Botany, 1951.
"Some effects of metabolic inhibitors, temperature anaerobic conditions on stomatal movement" by D.A. Walker and Isael Zelitch from Plant Physiology, 1963.
"The effect of several foliar sprays on transpiration and water use efficiency of cotton plants" by R.O. Slatyer and J.F. Bierhuizen.
Handwritten notes and graph labelled "Phenyl [...?] Acetate.
Pages of data labelled "from June[?] Strayed".
"Radiation and convection in conifers" by E.C. Tibbals et al. from American Journal of Botany, 1964.
Documents originally housed in blue CSIRO file labelled "Albedo Evaporation" in file 487.
- 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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