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Howchin, Walter (1845 - 1937)

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Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
 
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Title:Walter Howchin - Records
Reference:MS 8
Date Range:1885 - 1920
Description:Lecture notebooks used at the University of Adelaide on palaeontology and palaeobotany 1904-20; notes and draft papers on Foraminifera 1885-97; 3 letters to Howchin on geological matters 1893-94, 1905 [1 cm, MS 8].
Quantity:0.01 m
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: 'Howchin, Walter - Ms 8', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms008.txt.
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Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
 
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Title:Douglas Mawson - Records
Reference:MSS 0009
Date Range:1887 - 1956
Description:Notes, field notes, extracts, draft and typescript papers, reprints and correspondence 1897-1956 of and collected by Mawson relating to research on the sub-division of the Adelaide (Cambrian) system, on glaciation and sturtian tillites, on rock formations of the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian, on the Proterozoic sequence, on Pre-Ordovician rocks of the McDonnell Ranges and on the geology of the Encounter Bay area; the collection includes the correspondence, notes and articles of W. Howchin on glaciation 1905-37 and cuttings of articles and letters to newspapers by Howchin on religion and geology 1887-1906; overall dates 1887-1956 [85 cm, MSS 0009].
Quantity:0.85 m
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958)

Title:Walter Howchin - Records
Reference:SR 92 H853p
Date Range:1865 - 1921
Description:Notes of a voyage from London to South Australia on the "Harbinger" 1881 with a list of daily positions and distances travelled, advertisement and passenger regulations; list of negatives of photographs of geological interest taken by Howchin in South Australia; notes relating to the foraminiferal content of fermentations in the north of England 1865-90; bound volume of pamphlets and articles on Aborigines collected by Howchin entitled "Aborigines of Australia" 1888-1921; overall dates 1865-1921.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:0.06 m
Access:Available for reference
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Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia
 
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Title:Royal Society of South Australia - Records
Reference:SRG 10
Date Range:1853 - 1969
Description:Records of the Royal Society of South Australia, comprising minutes, correspondence, membership lists, annual reports, papers presented to the Society, rules, financial papers, photographs, membership list for 1939, papers relating to the Verco estate, notes to assist treasurers, cash book, papers relating to the Howchin estate, petty cash, stamps and letterbook (3 in 1), membership/subscription book and other papers.
Quantity:3.55 m
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Todd, Charles (1826 - 1910) | Verco, Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)
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South Australian Museum Archives
 
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Title:Walter Howchin - Records
Date Range:1933 - 1934
Description:Manuscript of published paper entitled 'A Rejoinder to Some Ethnological Papers 1933' (22 pages); proofs of 'Stone Implements of the Adelaide Tribe Now Extinct' (1934).
Quantity:2 volumes
Access:Available for reference
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