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Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958)

FAA, FRS
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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Ayres, Philip, Mawson: a Life, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2003, 321 pp. [ Details ]

  • Ferguson, Richard, Antarctic Artefacts: a Selective Description and Annotated Catalogue of Artefacts in the Mawson Collection at the University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 1995, 282 pp. [ Details ]

  • Fletcher, Harold Oswald, Antarctic Days with Mawson: a Personal Account of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31, Angus & Robertson, London, 1984, 313 pp. [ Details ]

  • Hall, Lincoln, Douglas Mawson: the Life of an Explorer, New Holland Press, London, 2000, 224 pp. [ Details ]

  • Mawson, Douglas, The Home of the Blizzard: the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 1996, 534 pp. [ Details ]

  • McGregor, Alasdair, Mawson's Huts: an Antarctic Expedition Journal, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1998, 200 pp. [ Details ]

  • Peter, David and Parer-Cook, Elizabeth, Douglas Mawson, the Survivor, Alella Books in association with the ABC, Morwell, 1983, 160 pp. [ Details ]

  • Taylor, T. Griffith, Douglas Mawson, Great Australians, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1962. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Jacka, F. J., 'Mawson, Sir Douglas (1882-1958), Geologist and Explorer', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 454-457. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100444b.htm) [ Details ]

Edited Books

  • Flannery, Nancy Robinson (ed.), This Everlasting Silence the Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911-1914, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, 192 pp. [ Details ]

  • Innes, Margaret and Duff, Heather (eds), Mawson's Papers: a Guide to the Scientific, Personal and Business Papers of Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, BE, DSc, FRS, FAA, 1882-1958, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Antarctic Scientist and Explorer, Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 1990, 318 pp. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • 'Douglas Mawson, 1882-1958', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 84, 1959, pp. 410-414. [ Details ]

  • 'Professor Sir Douglas Mawson, Kt, OBE, BE, DSc FRS, 1882-1958', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 82, 1959, pp. 1-6. [ Details ]

  • Corbett, David W.P., 'Douglas Mawson: the Geologist as Explorer', Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, pp. 107-136. [ Details ]

  • Laseron, Charles F., 'Obituary: Sir Douglas Mawson', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 21, no. 5, 1958, pp. 134-135. [ Details ]

  • Law, Philip, 'The Mawson Story - Part 2: Hungry and Alone in the Antarctic', Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal, vol. 57, no. 2, 1986, pp. 13-18. [ Details ]

  • Law, Philip, 'The Mawson Story - No 1: 'a Powerful, Stubborn and Gentle Man'', Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal, vol. 57, no. 1, 1986, pp. 3-13. [ Details ]

  • MacLeod, Roy, ''Full of Honour and Gain to Science': Munitions Production, Technical Intelligence and the Wartime Career of Sir Douglas Mawson, FRS', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 2, 1988, pp. 189-202. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9880720189.htm) [ Details ]

  • Mawson, D., 'The Role of Geology in the Activities of the Royal Society of South Australia.', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. lxxvii, 1954, pp. xii-xiv. [ Details ]

  • Mawson, Douglas, 'A Current Geographical Outlook', Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, vol. xv, 1921, pp. 145-160. [ Details ]

  • Mawson, Douglas, 'Progress in Knowledge of the Geology of South Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 60, 1936, pp. lvi-lxv. [ Details ]

  • Peake-Jones, Ken, 'The Other Mawson: a Centennial Tribute to Sir Douglas Mawson', Royal Geographical Society of Australia (SA Branch), Proceedings, vol. 82, 1984, pp. 64-70. [ Details ]

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