So much that is new : Baldwin Spencer, 1860-1929, a biography, (1985)

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Series 18

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Mulvaney's So much that is new : Baldwin Spencer, 1860-1929, a biography was published in Carlton, Victoria by Melbourne University Press in 1985. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, biologist and anthropologist, arrived in Australia from England in 1887 to take up the foundation Chair of Biology at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Honorary Director of the National Museum of Victoria in 1899, and made President of the Royal Society Of Victoria in 1904. In 1894 Spencer was part of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition to Central Australia to appraise the natural and cultural environment of the region. The Expedition, which was the first visit by a group of scientists to Central Australia, resulted in the publication of four-volume report, edited by Spencer. This report made a significant contribution to knowledge of the environment, people and culture of Central Australia.

This series includes correspondence, research material, draft material and other papers relating to Mulvaney's research and writings concerning Spencer, and the publication of So much that is new. There are also papers relating to the 1994 Horn Expedition Commemorative Symposium, at which Mulvaney delivered the opening address.

Among the major correspondents are Don Baker, Richard Baker, Dennis Benbow, David Branagan, John Calaby, R.M. Crawford, F.H. Drummond, Robert Edwards, Christine Hogarth, John Iremonger, Dick Kimber, Campbell Macknight, Isabel McBryde, Malcolm McKeown, Howard Morphy, Stephen Morton, Ann Moyal, Barrie Reynolds, Tim Rowse, Peter Ryan, Marcus Sandford, Frank Strahan, Mark Strizic and Eric Willmot.

Papers relating to an edited volume of letters to Spencer from F.J. Gillen are found in Series 24, and papers relating to an edited volume of letters from Ernest Cowle and Paddy Byrne to Spencer are found in Series 25.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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