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Papers of Keith Raymond Meggs, 1920s-2017

(104 ms boxes + 2 large folio box + 1 medium folio box + 2 binders + 2 folio packets + 2 digital carriers)
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Collection comprises research notes, drafts, correspondence, 16 mm films, negatives, slides, and over 3,000 photographs relating to Keith Meggs' books titled 'Australian-built aircraft and the industry' (volume 1-3). The publications contain information on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia, from 1884 to the mid-1980s. Keith Meggs published several authoritative works on Australian aviation and is internationally recognised for his contributions to aviation and its recorded history.
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Papers of Roy Woodall relating to the Western Mining Corporation, 1965-2016

(4 archives boxes + 1 ms box)
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The collection contains a selection of correspondence and reports relating to geology, exploration and the work of the Western Mining Corporation; lectures, slides and publications, by Woodall and others; transcripts of an oral history with Woodall; honours and awards.

Papers of Marina Tyndale-Biscoe, 1834-2021

(15 ms boxes + 1 folder + 4 audiovisual carriers)
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This collection comprises Marina Tyndale-Biscoe's scientific career records as well as her family's papers relating to their experiences in Europe and migration after the upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s. The career papers include material on Tyndale-Biscoe's work on CSIRO's bush fly and dung beetle programs. The collection also includes photographs, correspondence and family history research in Hungarian, German, Slovak and English.
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Weston Langford collection of railway photography, 1960-2013

(34742 35 mm colour slides + 43 35 mm negatives + 21 notebooks)
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This collection contains 34742 colour slides of railways and buildings in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Western Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Canada, United States of America, England, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland, Kenya, Uganda and Tonga; as well as several related notebooks.
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Papers of Ian J. Mason, 1874-2021

(52 ms boxes + 7 large folio boxes)
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MS Acc11.034 comprises papers collected by Mason during the writing of a book on Australian oologists, 1835-2009. They consist largely of an alphabetical sequence of files containing information on approximately 250 egg collectors, including personal details, photographs, correspondence, family histories and lists of egg clutches they collected.MS Acc22.028 comprises reference material that Ian J. Mason collated and created for use in: "Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors. And Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors (Supplementary Edition)". It includes: biographical accounts of egg collectors; photographs, negatives and prints relating to birds and egg collecting including an album of bird photographs from Norman Chaffer and J. Ramsay; correspondence, notes, articles and egg data cards and among others.
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Papers of Terence Sydney Holden, 1949-1998

(5 MS boxes + large folio box + shared folder)
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This collection comprises the work of Terence Sydney Holden's as part of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) (1949-1989) and Patti G. Holden's work as laboratory technician at the Australian National University Botany Department. The bulk of the papers relate to Terence Holden's involvement with one of the first Australian large scale online, multi-user systems named DAD (Drums and Displays). There are several co-authored scientific articles and reprints showing formulas, methods and processes in the development of DAD later known as CSIRONET and notes on the history of the program and obituaries of some contributors. Copies of press releases, presentations, seminars, lecture papers, photographs and transparencies, highlight the program developments from the 1960's to the 1970's. Papers include invitations to speak at meeting and public events, meeting minutes, laboratory notebooks and several other research project articles dating back to 1949. Patti Holden's papers comprise diagrams and more than 20 local plant specimens for scientific botanical publications produced by Professor Pryor. A co-authored scientific journal is accompanied by a few laboratory photographs, design illustrations and mock ups for other departmental projects.

Records of the Australian Geoscience Information Association, 1981-2021

(7 ms boxes)
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The collection comprises records relating to the Australian Geoscience Information Association and includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, organisational guidelines and standards, conference papers, flyers, forms and publications relating to geoscience held at public libraries. It also includes records relating to other geological organisations including the Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Geoscience Information conferences, GEOPAC Advisory Bodies, among others.
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Papers of Jamie and Michael Kassler, 1678-2021

(11 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box + 4 map folios)
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The collection features correspondence, music scores, artworks, manuscripts, printed and published works and related papers. The correspondence is primarily with composers, music scholars and musicologists, as well as scientists working in the field of robotics.

Papers of Ann Moyal, 1870-2017

4.71 metres (21 ms boxes + 7 archives boxes)
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MS 9673 includes correspondence, drafts, printed and research material, interview transcripts and other papers, relating to Ann Moyal's writings and research interests (3 boxes).
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Records of the Australian Physiological Society, 1958-1985

(4 ms boxes + 1 folio item + 3 binders + 1 audiovisual carrier)
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This collection comrpises correspondence, photographs, draft constitutions for the Society, membership lists and meeting minutes. The photographs relate to the formation of the Society in 1960 and meetings into the mid-1970s. Correspondents include Nobel prize winner Sir John Eccles and Professor Peter Bishop, former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).
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