Correspondence with Reverend Dr Robert Thompson Wade and Mrs Martha Smith (his sister)

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Correspondence with Reverend Dr Robert Thompson Wade (Cambridge, Braunton, Sutton Valence, Falkland Islands, Parramatta, Manly) 6 February 1930 - 15 October 1963 and with Mrs Martha Small (his sister, Canberra) 4 November 1967 - 20 August 1968: re his death (188p.)

Subjects include: studies at Clare College Cambridge on fossil fish of Brookvale; lists of specimens; problems placing his paper for publication; 'the outlook for publication looks gloomy: looks as though paper will have to be burnt'; field work at Narrabeen; purchase of his insect collection by the museum; appointment as Chaplain at Sutton Valence School; application to work at British Museum (Natural History); life in Stanley, Falkland Islands; wife's health; removal to NSW; closing of Brookvale quarry; description of Manly 'In one of the sheds there are facilities for the women to be manicured after bathing'; work at Kings School, Parramatta; sending food parcel; work of other scientists; sending his specimens from Talbragar beds, previously lost at Australian Museum to British Museum (Natural History).

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Obituary notice Nature volume 219 number 5151, page 311.

16 August 1929 J.W. Edgeworth David (Sydney) introducing Wade, 'a most devoted collector of our Triassic fossil fish'.

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