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Inventory Listing by Series

Series 1 – Committee Papers

Series 2 – Correspondence to Individuals

Series 3 – Willis Correspondence

Series 4 – Biographical Information on Australian Botanists

Series 5 – Notes for Talks Presented by Willis

Series 6 – Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Series 7 – Notes and Manuscripts for Publications

Series 8 – Journals

Series 9 – Reprints of Papers by James Hamlyn Willis

Series 10 – Newspaper Cuttings

Series 11 – Collecting Trips and Excursions

Series 12 – Reserves Files

Series 13 – Field Notes, Notebooks and Nature Diaries

Series 14 – Travel

Series 15 – A. J. Tadgell

Series 16 – Publications by Other Authors

Series 17 – Photographs

Series 18 – Flora and Plant Lists, Locality Lists

Series 19 – A.C. Beaglehole Correspondence and Plant Survey Data

Series 20 – Cassette Recordings of Talks and Lectures by Willis

Series 21 – Natural History Specimens

Series 22 – William Henry Nicholls

Series 23 – Numbered Slide Collection

Series 24 – Keys to Numbered Slide Collection

Series 25 – Lecture and Talk Slides

Series 26 – Maps, Plans and Posters

Series 27 – Glass Slides

Series 28 – Botanical Artworks, Prints and Reproductions

Series 29 – Memorabilia, Awards, Autobiographical Material and Posthumous Papers

Series 30 – Miscellaneous Correspondence and Subject Files

These records are managed by the Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. All queries relating to access should be made to librarian.

Technology in Australia 1788–1988

The online edition of this bicentenary study by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering of the men, women and organisations involved in the development of technology in Australia.

Australian Science at Work

A register of the many industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia’s scientific, technological and medical heritage, with references to their archival materials and a bibliography of their historical published literature.
Bright Sparcs

An online register of more than 4000 people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources.

Guides to Records

Finding aids to archival collections of Australian scientists and scientific organisations as published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne (Austehc) and the Australian Science Archives Project are available.
Austehc, formed on 3 May 1999, continues the academic, research and heritage activities of the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP) which was established by Professor R.W. Home in 1985. ASAP was a self-funded autonomous project of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. The Centre will encompass ASAP’s original objectives and continue to develop new programs that foster the preservation, promotion and development of the heritage of Australian science, technology and medicine.
Since March 1993 the History of Australian Science Newsletter is published electronically biannually.
Contact details: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne, 203 Bouverie Street, Carlton Vic., 3053.

BARR SMITH LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Chatterton, Brian and Lynne

Papers 1966–84 principally relating to ministerial portfolios of Brian Chatterton and Lynne Chatterton's position as research assistant to the Premier/Minister, and general papers on rural policy

STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

(South Australiana collection: Personal, business and society records and the J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection).
D6637(T) Notes on the Parndana Research Centre and the Kangaroo Island Soldier Settlement Scheme. 1983.
South Australian Agricultural and Horticultural Society

South Australian Agricultural and Horticultural Society: [report], Adelaide, The Society. Microfilm newspapers, 1855; Periodicals, 1867.

‘Grand General Exhibition’, Adelaide, Published at the Secretary’s Office, 1867. Pamphlet.

D8051 Paper written by C.G.F. Bauer, ‘Angaston as it was in the early Fifties’’, for the Appila Agricultural Bureau.
Diary by Albert West Bristow of Willowie in 1897 records his farming activities and a transcript of his father’s (Abraham) 1881 diary includes his farm work.
Notebook by Samuel McIntosh for 1914–17 added to his record group: a Riverland irrigation pioneer (see ADB supplementary volume)
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings (1899–1915) about Wirrabara Forest kept by forester F. Melville

BRG 2 G.F. Cleland & Sons Ltd. c. 1870–1940. Records. Series list available. Comprising ledgers, certificates, memoranda, financial records, articles of association, papers on wine production and other agricultural subjects, company history, and papers and photographs of Beaumont Estate.

D5638(L) P.C. Fitzgerald. Notes on exploration and farming in Gawler Ranges, c. 1958–1967.
Horwood Bagshaw Australia, c. 1882–1900, Records.
G.H. Michell & Sons (Aust.) [An archivist was working on the Michell records until recently but it is not known whether Michell will house these records on site or deposit them in the State Library.]
Pastoralists’ Union of South Australia

Rules of the Pastoralists’ Union of South Australia. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1891.

List of members and officers. Adelaide, 1891.

Shearing agreement. Adelaide, J.H. Sherring, 189?
Pastoralists’ Association of South Australia and West Darling. Rules of the Pastoralists’ Association of South Australia and West Darling, Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1892.
Pastoralists’ Association of South Australia, Annual Report. [Related to the Stock Owners’ Association of South Australia].
Stock Owners’ Association of South Australia

The State Library has 18 entries, including annual general meetings; annual reports (1916/17–1937), members’ circulars, oil seed production and marketing, the official organ (Digest [1:1 1973–6:5 1979]), Quarterly Circular (?1953–) and rules (as amended to 12.9.1960 – in NLA).

Jubilee Year 1940: a record of fifty years progress, 1890–1940, Adelaide, Stock Owners’ Association of South Australia, 1940.

Stockowners Annual, 1937–1971.

Stockowners Digest: the official organ of the Stock Owners’ Association of South Australia, Adelaide, The Association, 1960–1973.
SRG 206 Records of the Stockowners’ Association of South Australia 1890–1979. Comprises minutes, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, photographs, publications of the Association, press cuttings and other papers. Kimba committee minute book is available on open access microfiche. The organisation was formed in 1890 as the Pastoralists’ Union of South Australia; functioned as the Pastoralists’ Association of South Australia and West Darling (1892–1906); then became the Pastoralists’ Association of South Australia (1907–16) and subsequently the Stockowners’ Association of South Australia. In 1979 the Association merged with the United Farmers’ and Graziers’ Association of South Australia to form the United Farmers’ and Stockowners’ of South Australia. Quantity: 34 m.
SRG 426 United Farmers and Stockowners of South Australia. 1979–1986. Series list available. Records include conference reports, membership, zone files, branch files, protest banners. Typescript; processed typescript; pamphlet.
SRG 207 United Farmers and Graziers of South Australia Incorporated. 1966–1979. Records includes minutes, reports, press releases, zone and branch files.
SRG 764 Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA Inc (Balhannah Branch). Minutes, official documents, general files, receipts and expenditure, roll book, newspaper cutting book, photographs and banner.
The McBean papers are in the State Library [The McBeans settled in SA in the 1830s and on the Murray River Flats in the 19th century].
PRG 260 John Harris Browne, 1817–1904

Papers of Dr John Harris Browne, 1817–1904, pastoralist and medical officer with Sturt's 1844–1845 comprising brief diary notes of an expedition to the Murrumbidgee 1829, South Australian Association circular 1836, journal of Sturt's expedition 1844–45, annotated map of Australian discoveries, notes on vine cultivation and correspondence, including correspondence urging protection of the pincoo or rabbit bandicoot.

20 cm 1829–1903
PRG 881/1–4 Albert Molineux’s private papers
PRG 1386 Records of John (Jack) Hinton Edmonds (1911–1990). His father was an Eyre Peninsula pioneer from 1914 and took up a scrub block at Pygery in 1934.
PRG 1380 Farm records of a property at Langhorne Creek 1920–1945, owned by William Joseph Denny Attorney-General and owner of the property.

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Australian Manuscripts Collection, La Trobe Library (examples of holdings)

MS 12453 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Rural Department [Papers], [manuscript]. c.1965–c.1979.

Contents/Summary: Press cuttings files kept by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Rural Department in the 1970s on a variety of agricultural subjects; also papers of the Victorian Farmwriters’ and Broadcasters’ Society, 1974, including minutes; agricultural calendar, 1972–74; and a list of ‘Rural Contacts’, c.1965.

MS 8927 Records [manuscript] of Madowla Park Station (Vic.). 1883–1904.

Comprises selections from the records of Madowla Park, including the Madowla Park stud book, 1884–1887 (including a few entries for Moira); Murray River height levels, July 1868–July 1887; Madowla Park cash book, 1884–1904; cash book (wages), 1883–1904.