Malaya Geological Survey (File 1), 22 April 1933-16 January 1946

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Correspondence with E.S. Willbourn, Director of Geological Survey, Federated Malay States and J.B. Scrivenor (Bedford). (Some incomplete letters. 170p.)

Subjects include: identification of fossils from Sungei Taba, Raub Pahang; fossil organisms in recent volcanic ash from Perak bore samples from Durian Chondong, Kepong; Lacustrine fossils from Johore; supposed sponge spicules in a Rhyolite Tuff of Pleistocene in Malaya; fossils from Kuantan District, Pahang collected by F.H. Fitch; publication of articles; memorandum by H. Service on fossil collections from Lipis District, Pahang; news of staff on occupation of Malaya and Singapore; imprisonment of Willbourn by Japanese.

Includes: Fred Fitch (Bridgetown, W.A.) to Wilbourne (British Museum (Natural History), London), 16 January 1946, re fossils of S. Terapai, his health, possible return to Malaya.

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