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Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

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Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
 
[Repository details]
Title:Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records
Reference:632.5/J73p
Date Range:1908 - 1938
Description:Manuscript material including bibliography of T.H. Johnston, notes and notebooks, correspondence 1913-25; original manuscripts of articles and speeches later published, paintings, photographs and specimens, published articles by Johnston; mainly printed material including material on the establishment of the Prickly-pear Commission with progress reports and reports on visits and to parliament, collected articles and newspaper articles and maps; overall dates 1908-38 [85 cm, 632.5/J73p Strongroom].
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:0.85 m
Access:Available for reference
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South Australian Museum Archives
 
[Repository details]
Title:Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records
Reference:164AAE and others
Date Range:1929 - 1931
Description:Correspondence 1929-31 with Mawson when Johnston was editor of the 'Biological Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14' [Series 164AAE]. The following are records created by Johnston as Chief Biologist on the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31. Plankton register kept while on board "S.Y. Discovery" 1929-31 [1 volume, Series 8BZE]. Register of plants collected 1929-30 [20 pages, Series 9 BZE]. Oceanographic stations - records of observations taken by scientific staff 1929-30 [3 volumes, Series 10BZE]. Material distribution books recording the distribution of biological specimens c1932-40 [4 volumes, Series 13BZE]. Register of packed boxes recording the location of biological specimens 1930-31 [1 volume, 12BZE]. Diary of the journey on the "S.Y. Discovery" 1929-31 [1 volume, 15BZE]. Articles on Antarctic biology for press release 1929-31 [few items, Series 43BZE]. Correspondence with D. Mawson 1929 [few items, 52BZE]. Correspondence with D. Mawson regarding the biological reports for the expedition 1930-51 [1 box, 64BZE]. Mammal report 1930-33 and 1948 including publications, rough notes, newspaper cuttings and correspondence [1 packet, Series 65BZE]. Correspondence regarding biological specimen collection and reports 1932-51 [about 1 cm, Series 67BZE]. Inventory and despatch details regarding zoological and biological collections c1930-1950 [4 cm, Series 68BZE]. Correspondence with contributors to the biological reports 1933-51 [2 cm, Series 69BZE]. Editor's record of biological reports published 1936-51 [4 cm, Series 78BZE]. Whale and seal observations 1929-31 [4 cm, Series 81BZE].
Quantity:16 volumes (0.15 m)
Access:Available for reference

Title:Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records
Reference:A.D. 37
Date Range:1914 - 1930
Description:Notes on Buddhism, Hinduism and Tibetan customs; lecture notes on Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and the Inca civilization; notes on the Australian Aborigines used in lectures and broadcasting; extracts from miscellaneous authors featuring vocabularies; letter from R. Trotter 1930; typescript entitled 'Across the Andes' 1914; and other material; overall dates 1914-30 [A.D. 37].
Access:Available for reference
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