Notes on Geology archives
Two-door steel cupboard in Museum
McCoy hammer
Photo albums Field Trips: Hills excursion books - manuscript and photos e.g. Mornington Peninsula
Photo albums
Parallel rules from Antarctic Mawson/Priestley
Priestley Antarctic photos (as published recently?)
Glass Lantern Slides -Two wooden boxes, Part of MUA sets
?Loose slides found in Museum, seem not to be part of MUA sets
Cameras — TL AA Baker, other
and much more
Elsewhere in Museum
Displays e.g. George Baker's sand stalactites from Loch Ard Gorge, Port Campbell area
Thin sections e.g. Coulson's many T.S. of basalts north of Melbourne
Tower Hill model by EB Joyce and R Frank c. 19
Outside Museum Store in new Car Park cages
boxes mono type (?) from printing press
Microscope Leitz "Big Dick" not yet located
Printing Press ???
Map printing blocks?
Library etc
Rare books - NOT belonging to Bailleau
In(?) old AASOP Room wooden built-in cupboards (now Library Annex , library has keys(?)). Including "Siluria" signed by Murchison (on 1860s visit to McCoy? (check Map Room for signed map of Wales and Cotswolds also)
University Library store
Reprint collection, re-ordered by EB Joyce in 19 , to be recalled and culled at some stage
Library
Filing Cabinets
1 Three drawer yellow and brown unit, Keys missing unlocked
Identified as Meteorology Dept by Bob Krummel, including printed record Weather Records from Melbourne Observatory 1853? —
2 Two drawer unit
Wagener?? Institute Card Index of fossils (some Historical/Library interest)
But also valuable archive material of Geology Department (possibly collated/collected by Majorie Higgin)
Incomplete list: Brittlebank field notebook: Geology Lab? Loan Books ?; Sealed package labelled "McCoy’s ? notes [see D McCann]: McCoy Building opening pamphlet; photocopies of similar for 1927 Old Geology Bldg; two photograph albums
3 Report Collection Card index
4 Locality Card Index: Note: Both Of these card indexes useful input to a future electronic database of Victoria, possible a joint project with GSV, RexJox? Monash and La Trobe departments
Map Room:
Map of Wales and Cotswolds signed by Murchison (two sheets, one missing, currently on loan to DM for copying)
Quarter sheets, both loose sets and in folios
Gold field maps
Rare maps e.g. France, hand coloured, with meridian through Paris
Manuscript map of Werribee Gorge (Brittlebank) see Library filing cabinet 2 drawer
Manuscript maps of Hills c 1939
Bowler, etc.
Museum ?? Workshop and room opposite
Plaster relief models TL includes Werribee Gorge, Bacchus March, Royal Park
Surveying equipment (on display in foyer glass showcases)
Gold scales (on display in foyer glass showcase), Bank of NSW Bullion Scales, Ballarat 1853
AA Baker watchmakers lathe, not found possibly Physics WS
"Moira" Silver sample from Broken Hill 1890s other rare specimens: Museum Safe
Departmental Manager’s Room - 4th floor, room 4
Illuminated presentation to Professor Gregory ca. 1903
Store Room [4?] next to Copier Room (4th floor)
Bound books of exam papers and student marks, from 1920s onwards
Lecture Notes of a McCoy (?) student
Old exam books
Staff photos 1970s (now in EBJ's room, Room 346)
Tattam/Hills/Summers Labs
Bold? Wall plaques of some professors: Summers (former Summers Lab now Room 2--); Tattam
Skeats Lab
Oil Portrait of Skeats by Baragwanath (Room 204)
Loewe Theatre
Loewe Theatre, Plaster model of SE part of Hills model, 25ftx25ft at 1" to 8 miles