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Henry Deane's papers include: correspondence and printed material relating to his work as Engineer-In-Chief in charge of Commonwealth railway construction, notably the Transcontinental (Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta) railway; newspaper clippings and photographs covering his career and other interests, notably botany, concerning which there is also a quantity of correspondence (with J. H. Maiden and Baron von Mueller, among others) and notes and specimens relating to his work on Australian fossil flora and native timbers.