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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 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.
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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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