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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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The Wally Johnson Collection relating to Papua New Guinea Volcanology

2.57 metres (26 security binders + 5 ms boxes)
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The collection consists of Dr Johnson's personal research papers, photographs and slides relating to scientific and historical studies of the active volcanoes of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 2016. The papers consist of letters, notes, reports, and maps, together with colour and black-and white prints, negatives, colour transparencies (both 35 mm and 60 mm), 35 mm lecture slides and some CDs (which comprise copies of some items from the collection). The collection also documents the work of other volcanologists including Dr N.H. Fisher, G.A.M. Taylor, M.A. Reynolds, R.J.S. Cooke and Dr Takashi Kizawa.

Records of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association

5.10 metres (34 ms boxes)
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The collection includes correspondence; papers relating to meetings; administrative and financial records; newsletters; press releases; cuttings; papers relating to study tours; papers relating to conferences; journals and journal articles; and ephemera.

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 Densey Clyne, 1927-2014

1.35 metres (9 ms boxes)
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This collection comprises correspondence, diaries and papers documenting Densey Clyne's personal and professional life including: published and unpublished articles, poetry, fiction and nonfiction writings; diaries; drafts of talks and presentations; screenplays for film and television documentaries; original drawings for publications; photographs; and correspondence with family and friends including Jim Frazier, Dr. Barbara York Main, Martyn Robinson, Alastair Fothergill, Mike Gunton and Sir David Attenborough. Included is also: correspondence between Peter and Densey Clyne; Peter Clyne birth, marriage and divorce certificates, passports and educational certificates; articles by and about Peter Clyne; and Densey Clyne's diary entries pertaining to Peter Clyne.
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Papers of Ian McDougall, 1957-2015

1.65 metres (11 MS boxes)
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The collection comprises predominately field notes from Australian geologist and geochemist Professor Ian McDougall's research in Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Brazil, Kenya, USA, Canada, Mauritius, Thailand, China, and Europe. The collection also includes personal correspondence to family members detailing his journeys and field work and also some transparencies from his field work in Lord Howe Island, Iceland, China and Kenya.
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Papers of Neville Exon relating to Frank and Margaret Exon, 1900-1998

(4 ms boxes + 1 folio packet + 1 medium folio box)
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The collection comprises papers relating to Frank Exon (OBE) and his wife Margaret (nee Henderson), compiled by their son Neville and includes: personal letters and diaries written by Frank and Margaret documenting their time living in Fiji and Pakistan in the 1950's; drafts of Frank's short stories; published articles written by Frank; documents and correspondence relating to Frank's work in Fiji as a radio engineer for Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) and in Pakistan, installing Australian-built shortwave transmitters and receivers under the auspices of the Colombo Plan; Henderson family documents, including a Boer War letter; documents relating to Frank Exon's service as a radio engineer with the Royal Australian Naval Radio Service during World War I; and a restored Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) leather suitcase used to house papers of Frank Exon.

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.