MS 9923 comprises papers collected by Charles Ulm as well as those collected by his son, John. The papers comprise newspaper cuttings, stamps, commemorative envelopes, correspondence, brochures, research notes, articles, reviews, certificates, talks, handwritten notes, photocopies of government records, business papers, photographs, maps and ephemera. The largest series in the collection is the commemorative and philatelic material, comprising stamps, commemorative envelopes, tribute albums, newspaper cuttings, articles and reviews relating to the 50th anniversary of the first trans-Pacific flight. The 1928 flight saw Charles Ulm fly with Charles Kingsford-Smith on the Southern Cross from Oakland, California to Brisbane, Australia (8 boxes, 1 fol. box).
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.
MS 9061 comprises mainly correspondence, research material and drafts relating to the compilation of Duyker's publications. There are papers relating to Duyker's research into the history of Mauritius and his involvement in Mauritian family history research, including correspondence with genealogists. There is a copy of Gaston Sarre's Recueil de reseignements sur les familles de Lile Maurice, 1945, containing genealogical notes on 3000 Mauritian families. There is also correspondence between Bell, Regnard Co., Melbourne, and Pipon, Bell Co., Mauritius (1853-1855), concerning the importation of Mauritian sugar. A copy of Duyker's PhD thesis Tribal guerillas : the Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite movement and associated research material is also included (19 boxes, 2 fol. boxes).
This collection comprises a nine-page handwritten account by Sir Clements R. Markham (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) of the 1910-1913 British Antarctic expedition (Terra Nova), led by Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912). The document includes a signed preamble by Markham, the names of members of the expedition, a glossary of terms, an inventory of cargo aboard The Terra Nova, and details of supplies and equipment, as well as descriptions of notable incidents and conditions endured. The document also includes an annotated hand-drawn map of part of the expedition route, and ends with an account of Scott's final hours, mentioning in detail letters he wrote before his death in 1912.
A collection of diaries and log books providing a daily account of life on Macquarie Island, during Sir Douglas Mawson's expedition to Antarctica, 1911-1914. They include Leslie Russell Blake's handwritten official diary, January 1912-October 1913; four of Harold Hamilton's biological log books, 1 January 1912 to 30 May 1913, with daily entries; a four-page typed manuscript by Arthur John Sawyer (Macquarie Island senior wireless operator 1912) concerning disturbance to radio communications between Macquarie Island, Adelie Island and other stations; a four-page typed and annotated report by Mawson in 1915 on soils on Macquarie Island and extracts from the diary of Charles T. Harrisson (Western Base Team Biologist) of an overland journey on December 14th and 15th, 1911, from the North end to the South end of Macquarie Island. This collection also includes logs kept on board The Discovery, during the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 2 November 1930 - 2 March 1931, comprising the engineer's daily reports and the 2nd Officer's log.