Correspondence with the National Museum, Melbourne

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Correspondents include: Frederick Chapman; J.A. Kershaw; D.J. Mahony; R.T.M. Prescott; Edmund D. Gill; C.W. Brazenor; R. Boswell; Thomas A. Darragh.

Subjects include: reorganisation of the Museum in 1902; preparation of fossils; Chapman's publications; death of Chapman's daughter from influenza 'consequent on this war, as it can be put down to troop ships calling at Sydney and starting the influenza there' (1918); Chapman's field trip to mountains to examine Walhalla line; Gippsland Palaeozoic flora; Miss Cookson; exchanging specimens; Chapman's enforced retirement and work on oil field fossils; Australian cirripedes; R. Etheridge's work on Tasmanian fossils; fossil insects found in brown coal at Yallourn (with photograph); fossil mollusca from Geraldton; casts of fish holotypes from N.S.W.; casts of marsupials which show that part of the holotype of Thylacoleo Carnifex is in London and part in Melbourne; purchase by National Museum of part of Dr J. Lycett's collection.(89p., some faint carbons)

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