This series contains papers from two distinct periods: 1946–1949 when Hancock was a member of the Academic Advisory Committee (items 1–52 originally contained in four box files) and 1956–1961 when he was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (items 53–57). There is original correspondence from Vice-Chancellor Copland, Dr HC Coombs, WR (‘Rusty’) Crocker, Professor JW Davidson, Sir Frederic Eggleston, Professor R Firth, Professor RC Mills, Sir David Rivett, Roland Wilson, Professor RD Wright, and Vice-Chancellor Melville, including carbon copies of Hancock’s correspondence with them and copies of various reports and minutes of meetings.

This is the main correspondence file series of the Canberra University College before it amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960. Most of the files were top-numbered into the ANU multiple number Central Files series (ANUA 53) or destroyed. The remnant of the series are files relating to housing assistance to staff members and staff files.

This is a bound volume of the Registrar’s copies of annual reports and accounts. Reports for 1937 and 1938 are missing from this set.

There are two folders with typewritten or ronoed copies of press statements. They mainly relate to staff appointments, events and scholarship winners.

Reports from students on field studies taken while on vacation employment. Includes reports on particular forests, overseas trips by prize-winning students, maps, diagrams and photographs.

The original signed minutes are bound in three volumes and extend from 4 December 1950 to the last meeting on 23 September 1960. At the end of the third volume there are also minutes of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 28 October to 2 December 1960. There is a duplicate set of minutes in box 2 for issue to the reading room.

The binders of copies of minutes and agenda papers were maintained by William Hamilton, the Bursar.

These are hard-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Library Committee.

These books were printed annually for the year ahead and include information about the College including a calendar of dates, members of the Council and committees, members of staff, legislation affecting the College, information about prerequisites, enrolment, assessment, fees, and courses offered (such as syllabus, number of lectures and tutorials, and recommended reading). They also include a list of graduates, current students, scholarships and prizes (including past winners). This is a complete set from the first edition in 1930-1931 to 1960.

The Gazette was published as a general newsletter for students and staff of the College. Issues held in a black springback binder are:
• Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1951 to No. 12, September 1955 (with index)
• Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1956 to No. 6, November 1957
• Vol. 3, No. 1, July 1959 to No. 4, September 1960
The master set does not include issues Vol 1, No. 4 or any issues for 1958.

The reports of the meetings are selective accounts of the decisions of the Board of Graduate Studies based on the minutes of each meeting. They are often headed ‘For Council and Readers’.

This volume contains signed minutes of the following Council Committees - Advisers on Buildings and Grounds, Board of Graduate Studies’ Site Development Committee, Librarian’s Advisory Committee, Deputy Chairman’s Committee, and the University House Committee

The files of students who have attained prominence in later life or whose files document a precedent are retained: they include Prime Ministers and other politicians, judges, business leaders and writers.

These are leather-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Council. Agenda papers such as reports from committees are also included.

This is a small set of printed enrolment procedures and faculty handbooks.

Posters prepared for the Infant Welfare Section, Department of Public Health, Papua New Guinea.

This is an artificial compilation of records which relate to the amalgamation (formally known as the association) of the Australian National University and the Canberra University College. There are often several folders about the same committee combined into one file. Some papers are from the Registrar, some from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dale Trendall, and some probably from Thomas Owen, Registrar of the Canberra University College.

The lectures are typescript or printed and most of them are Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures. Some proceedings of commencement ceremonies are included.

This is a photocopied set of Annual Reports for the Canberra University College, copied from parliamentary papers and other sources. The 1937 and 1938 reports which were missing are draft reports and were copied from the CS Daley papers (National Archives: CP487/1, item 14).

This collection of reports and papers appears to have been maintained by Quentin Gibson, head of the Philosophy Department in the Faculty of Arts.

Draft examination papers, copies of roneoed examination papers, schedules of students' marks signed by examiners, copies of roneoed schedules of marks and results and also correspondence with students about results and 'posts'.

This single folder contains copies of papers written by Webb: ‘World Trade and Employment’, September 1946, ‘The Future of International Trade’, Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, October 1951, and ‘International Commodity Problems’, statement by Chairman of the Australian delegation to the General Assembly, Dr ER Walker, December 1958.

This annual (but intermittent) literary magazine of the Students’ Association includes articles, poetry, prose and reviews by staff and students, as well as advertisements from mostly local businesses. Issues up till 1958 were published by the Canberra University College Student’s Association and from 1966 by the ANU Students’ Association. No issues were published in the periods 1942–1948, 1951–1955, and 1959–1965.

Press cuttings relating to University House and to its Master Dale Trendall have been placed in the book in chronological order.

These files contain reports and correspondence relating to the Canberra University College Library Committee. The amalgamation with the ANU Library is one subject covered.

There are three files which relate to the recruitment of Sir Keith Hancock and Sir Howard Florey’s report on the John Curtin School of Medical Research. They contain confidential correspondence which was either removed or withheld from official files.

The correspondence files are organised into an alphanumeric subject system and cover addresses and visits by the Commonwealth Astronomer, visits to the Observatory, meetings of the Board of Visitors (Advisory Board) and annual reports. There are some staff files and photographs of observations, eg comets, on some files.

This file contains a report on the visit to New Guinea by Professor Raymond Firth, Professor Jim Davidson and Professor Oskar Spate in October-November 1951, a report ‘Some problems of development in New Guinea’ by Spate, CS Belshaw and Professor Swan, March 1953, and papers relating to PM Worsley a student in the Research School who was denied entry into New Guinea by the Department of Territories.

This series includes greetings from universities in the form of scrolls, leatherbound folders and documents, a register signed by representatives of other universities, the presentation copy of Lord Bruce’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and printed programs and briefing papers relating to the installation of Lord Bruce as the first Chancellor on 23 October 1952. There are also two scrolls from the University of Melbourne relating to their centenary in 1953.

Post-war reconstruction training files of Canberra University College students. Files contain correspondence and a small number of files include photographs.

The newscuttings are from the Canberra Times and other metropolitan newspapers and relate to the University including news and advertisements for jobs.

The volume contains a paper ‘The Press Opposition to the Site of Canberra’ presented to the Canberra and District Historical Society in 1955 and copies of related press articles, poems and cartoons (1899-1910) which form an appendix to the paper.

Research papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.

This research material was gathered by William Rolph who was the first Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. There are research files, including drafts of papers, pamphlets and other publications and index cards of election results and research notes.

This small collection of letters, invitations, and a menu includes photographs of the 1948 Easter Conference, showing participants at the Institute of Anatomy building including members of the Academic Advisory Committee (Florey, Hancock, Oliphant, and Firth).

The first seven folders consist of Crocker’s manuscript The United Nations No Solution which was progressively sent to him by the ANU Administrative Officer in the United Kingdom in 1951. There is also a note signed by Michael Lindsey forwarding the manuscript to another unknown person. The remaining folders are of ANU material such as seminar papers, circulars, notices and agenda papers sent to Crocker when he was Australia’s High Commissioner to India.

This typescript volume includes a carbon copy of a subject index to meetings of the Interim Council, the Council and its Committees. Each entry indicates subject, Council/Committee and meeting number, date and paragraph number in the minutes.

The two correspondence files relate to Professor Lewis' engagement as Consulting Architect to the University when he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne.

The four binders contain carbon copies of letters and cables sent by EH Clark, the Administrative officer to December 1951, then R Mathews the Administrative Officer to January 1953, and then Joan Morrish, Secretary. The correspondence is mainly to ANU staff in Canberra particularly the Registrar RA Hohnen and the Assistant Accountant l Bellingham, members of the Academic Advisory Council located in the United Kingdom, and staff recruited there, and relates to recruitment of staff, accommodation, payment of salaries and allowances, and the purchase of equipment for the University. There is a short history of the London Office at the front of the first binder dated 30 November 1960.

The papers include agenda papers and minutes of meetings of the Immigration Planning Council from its first to the twelfth meeting, and also meetings of various subcommittees.

This suede-bound volume contains a handwritten Roll of Convocation, listing members 1 to 201 from 1951 to 1952. It is not clear why it was not maintained for later years. There are numerous corrections to the numbering, spelling of names and the order of entries. There is a typed ‘Convocation List’ in the front cover and many of the names on this list are not in the volume, so it may be that the formal list in the volume was abandoned when further errors were discovered.

General correspondence files concerning instruments, optical munitions, war research and overseas visits.

Correspondence files arranged in subject group areas. The subject groups are Ass. (Associations, Colleges, Universities), B. (Buildings), Cal. (School Calendar), Camps (School Camps), Club, Cur. (School Curriculum), Dip. (Diploma), Employment, Eq. (Equipment, Plant, Maps, Books, Photographs), Exam. (Examination papers and results), Exh. (Exhibits, Donations), Not. (Notices), Pol. (Policy), Pubs. (Publications), Public. (Publicity), Rep. (Reports), Sch. (Scholarships, Prizes), Soc. (Social - staff-student functions), Sport, Sta. Qld (State of Queensland), Sta. NSW (State of New South Wales), Sta. Vic. (State of Victoria), Sta. S.A. (State of South Australia), Sta. W.A. (State of Western Australia), Sta. Tas. (State of Tasmania), Sta. N.Z. (New Zealand), Sta. N.I. (Norfolk Island), Sta. Philippines, Sta. Burma (Burma), Stu. (Students).

Roneoed copies of seminar and conference papers presented at the earliest academic events at the University.

This is the earliest ANU series of official ANU correspondence files. The extant files include the correspondence of Vice-Chancellor Douglas Copland, papers of the Interim Council and Academic Advisory Committee, files about the Easter Conference in 1948 and about individual visitors and staff.

The register records file numbers and titles for early files in ANUA 18, most of which were subsequently top-numbered or destroyed. There are two volumes: 1. maroon springback binder: 101/1/1 to 120/6/2 and 2. Black springback binder (replaced by archival folder): 121/1/1 to 163/3/1. A note in the front of the volume explains the abbreviations used: A=consigned to Archives, D=destroyed, *=pruned of worthless material or combined file, though some files are marked both A and D. Many entries are crossed out and noted as 'Cancelled' with a new four-part number given.

There are four copies of the album: one appears to be a file copy as it includes a list of photograph numbers in the back. Another is annotated to say that it was used in the London Office 1949-1952 (approx.). It is likely that the albums were compiled to show prospective staff members the facilities available at the University and in Canberra, as there are photographs of buildings, homes, churches, schools and recreational facilities. The 41 black and white photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information and are endorsed with a single number with L prefix so are closely related to a National Archives' series of photographs (CRS A1200).

The two binders labelled '1st book Archives 1946-1948' and '2nd book Archives 1946-1948' contain roneoed typescript memos, minutes of meetings, reports and press releases. Each volume is divided into sections by subject, eg Library, Scholarships, and Letters to Vice-Chancellor. It appears to be a deliberate collection of important documents to form the 'archives' of the University in its early days.

This series of binders contain typescript pages which may be a manuscript for a proposed publication on international affairs between 1919 and 1948. Each binder appears to contain material for a chapter with later binders including information on dates, notes on books, and transcripts of documents. Item 9 is missing. The last item consists of annotated typescript ‘confidential notes’ about Victorian politicians, public servants and newspapers.

The binder contains handwritten notes of lectures (by Harold White, CL Drake and others) and summaries of reference books relating to library classification (including the Bliss system), reference work and book production. It appears that the material was used and added to for training purposes within the ANU Library.

This small collection of folded maps is attributed to Professor Spate who acquired them for the cartographic collection in the Department of Human Geography. Some are annotated with catalogue numbers. There is also a map of France and one of Lahore in India.

These ANU papers gathered by Madgwick are relevant to the preparation of the Bill for the ANU Act 1946, in 6 parts.

These are the published Annual Reports presented to the Commonwealth Parliament beginning with those of the Interim Council (1946–1951) and from 1 July 1951 those of the Council. There have been some changes in format: the reports up to 1962 are in foolscap size and for the period 1982–1986 the reports were issued in two volumes (the second containing the financial reports). In 1995-1996 a Research Report was included and for 1997-1999 there is a separate Annual Review.

Correspondence, memoranda and report, evacuation lists, defence plans and notes.

Photocopy of original transcript, Parts I-XI and appendices A-L, includes detailed contents list, 148pp. Part 1 Introduction: Australian administration in the northern (mandated) Solomons on the outbreak of war with Japan ; Part 2: The evacuation of Kieta - Read takes over civil administration - The Japanese bomb Buka Passage and Kieta ; Part 3: The Japanese invasion ; Part 4: Awaiting allied offensive ; Part 5: American attack in Solomons ; Part 6: Victory in Guadalcanal ; Part 7: Suspension of coastwatching on Bougainville Island ; Part 8: Evacuation ; Part 9: Recommendations ; Part 10: Techniques of coastwatching ; Part 11: Miscellaneous

Personal and career records of graduate foresters covering graduates from the Adelaide Forestry School, the Australian Forestry School and other forestry schools (mostly overseas). The information about foresters includes secondary and tertiary education, postgraduate research school, professional qualification details of employment and publications.

This is a typescript version of Shumack’s memoirs which relate to the early days of Canberra. He lived at ‘Duntroon’ from 1856 and then at ‘Springvale’ in Weetangera from 1866 to 1940. There is additional material such as obituaries, copies of death notices and letters at the back of the volume relating to Shumack, other family members and John Gale (1831–1929), Queanbeyan journalist.

Reverend Henry Williams was a Methodist Missionary on Normandy Island 1930 - 1945. In December 1940, during a pastoral and medical patrol to Sewa Bay, the inhabitants spoke of strange stones with unusual markings, which prompted Reverend Williams to record the site and conduct further research. The paper is in three parts, with varying contents including: Introduction ; The site of the stones ; General observations on the site ; The story of the stones ; A curious cave terminal ; The engravers and their tools ; Features in the designs ; The builders from whence? ; Primitive engravers. Includes text, maps, plates and hand-drawn illustrations.

104 photographic prints

The flag has a white or bone background, green border, emblematic tree, and motto: mihi cura futuri, and the fabric shows signs of wear and tear. The flag was designed and made by Ruth Lane Poole.

1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.

This collection consists of a bound volume of papers and glass lantern slides and negatives. The volume includes instructions to competitors in the 1911 Federal Capital Design Competition, the report of the Federal Capital Designs Board and other parliamentary papers relating to Walter Burley Griffin’s winning design, including correspondence relating to AJ Macdonald’s temporary transfer ‘to assist Mr Griffin’, and reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on ‘Dams for Ornamental Waters – Canberra’ and the erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra. The lantern slides are of AJ Macdonald’s entry (no. 9) in the Federal Capital Design Competition which was one of the 46 short-listed designs (see www.idealcity.org.au/competition-3-shortlist-46.html). The lantern slides (8 x 8 cm) are:
•Drawing 1, Map of Contour Survey of the Site
•Drawing 2, Perspective view overlooking the Administrative Centre
Two additional lantern slides labelled A and B relate to another project for a site south of the Flinders Street station in Melbourne. There are also two glass plate negatives (22 x 17 cm) of Drawings 1 and 2 with a label ‘AJ Macdonald’s design for Federal Capital, DW Crawford’s perspective view thereof’.

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Black and white photographs of New Guineans, plantation workers, missionaries and buildings in Daru, Port Moresby, and Goaribari Island in Papua New Guinea

This series has not yet been processed.

10 boxes. Unprocessed

Research collection compiled by David Russell Lawrence while writing the book, The Naturalist and his 'Beautiful Islands, Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific, Canberra: ANU Press, 2014

There are 2 runs of cards in this series grouped under wood index and sorting cards.

Wood index contains seven groups of cards. Groups are:

1. wood specimen - approximately 360 cards arranged by family and genus. Some with more than one species.
2. conifers - approximately 15 cards arranged by genus.
3. WA, - approximately 23 cards. All Eucalyptus arranged species.
4. other countries - 102 cards arranged by family with several genera and species on each.
5. permanent slides - 72 cards arranged by family some with several genera and species. Note: no Eucalyptus listed (Myrtaceae).
6. photo - 10 cards with details o how to develop photos.
7. not titles - 8 small cards with details of stains and steralisers (for preparing slides)

A typed list of 170 samples by genus and species is annotated CSIRO Mr Gay Oct 1954.

Sorting cards are 204 x 128mm (8x5 inches) designed in the Paragon Copy-chat system and pre-printed. They are of 2 types:

1. Majority are white, headed Wood Identification Features and marked DFP form 77 [CSIRO Division of Forest Products]
2. A few are buff and marked DFP form 83.

There are approximately 500 cards filed in 2 groups with sections with headers.:

1. Hardwoods with headers for Queensland, NSW, Tas, NZ, New Guinea, Malay, India, East Indies, Asia, Europe, USA, South Africa, W. Trop Africa, Euc, Euc WA.
2. Families with headers for Australian and NEI.
   At the front of the sorting cards are approximately a dozen plain cards detailing chemicals and processes for preparing samples.

Draft manuscript for a PhD on the cultural history of women in Papua New Guinea from 1874 to 1942. The work examines the actions of 'white' women in a country with divided administrations and divided cultural histories - women from Australia, China and the relationships between 'white' women and native women. Chapter headings include: Military occupation 1914 - 1921; The phoney colonies (British and German New Guinea); Women on plantations; Ruling societies in Australia and colonial New Guinea; Feminist/women's history; Men and women; Loneliness; Outside women (the wives of white employees in Papua New Guinea). Judy Davis notes that the thesis is 'not a conventional history' as the research was conducted with 'little reference to Official Documents' and traditional research resources. Instead she studied the lives of 'white' women through their own personal stories and experiences and other anecdotal information.

This series has not yet been processed.

These interviews were conducted in Vietnam between 2007 and 2011, with the focus on district and village Việt Minh cadres active during the First Indochina War, 1945-1954. David G. Marr (ANU) provided the initial questionnaire. Nguyễn Thị Hồng Hạnh and Đào Thế Đức organized the interviews. The Vietnam Historical Association co-sponsored the project and facilitated local contacts. It retained the original audio recordings. Interviewees were promised content confidentiality for five years. Funding for the project came from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

This binder contains the blank templates for postgraduate degrees and diplomas.

This series has not been processed

This series has not been processed

The constitution, statutes and regulations of the Australian National University Students' Association.

This collection includes material gathered by Professor Tucker including lecture notes and outlines, tutorial topics, reading guides, student essays and a bibliographic index on the history of economic thought, before and during his time as Professor of Economic History 1961–1979.

This material was collected together by Dr MRC Banyard primarily for the establishment of an exhibition to commemorate the work of Sir Howard Florey in the foundation of the John Curtin School of Medical Research. There are placards used in an earlier exhibition held in Oxford on the development of antibiotics, a tissue perfusion chamber, photographs of Florey, images which appeared in the exhibition, photographs of the exhibition, and correspondence relating to the exhibition which was opened by Senator Susan Ryan, Commonwealth Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, in March 1984.

These are unregistered files created by a number of staff relating to administration, activities, plans, equipment, site protection, promotion and the history of the Mt Stromlo site. There are also printed publications about both the Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring observatories.

There are two versions of this plan of Walter Burley Griffin’s design for Canberra City which shows the proposed site for the National University. There is a negative of a lithograph (570 x 500mm) identified as 70/CAN/174A and printed copy (940 x 670mm) identified as 70/CAN/176. Griffin's design is overlain on a 1910 contour map provided to participants in the Federal Capital Design Competition.

The black and white and colour photographs were taken to document the demolition of heritage buildings at Mt Stromlo following the 2003 bushfires which destroyed a number of buildings. There are negatives, prints, architectural plans which indicate where photographs were taken from, and a catalogue to the photographs. Set A is the master set – Set B is a reference set for issue to the reading room. Colour prints with catalogue sheets are in envelopes C1-C94, black and white prints in envelopes BW1-BW62.

Research papers of K L Gillion, publications re Fiji press, material relating to CSR, Methodist papers and miscellaneous papers (not yet processed).

The black binders contain copies of the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of the Matriculation Committee. At early meetings it was referred to as the Matriculation Board of the Board of Studies and from its 22 September 1970 meeting as the Admissions Committee. From the 1990s agenda papers were held in box files and have been placed in archival folders. There is one folder of Admissions Committee reports 1979-1998 to the Board of the School of General Studies, later the Board of The Faculties.

The index cards were prepared by Lewis during his research for a Master of Arts thesis on the early history of the Canberra University College and the Australian National University. There is a list of material he consulted at the Commonwealth Archives Office (now the National Archives) at the front of the first box which also indicates the original order in which the cards were maintained.

The register records file numbers and titles for CUC files (ANUA 42), most of which were subsequently top-numbered or destroyed. There are two versions of the register: 1. Black springback binder: this is a working copy, heavily annotated with many handwritten entries, 2. Cardboard folder: this is a clean copy with all the file titles typed and has a cover sheet: 'Australian National University: School of General Studies: File Index'. Both versions are divided into primary headings from 1. Accounts to 17. Miscellaneous. The primary heading number (eg 2. Buildings and equipment) appears not to have been used as part of the file number, instead the secondary numbers (which appear randomly allocated) and a running number are used to identify files. For example, the first file listed under Buildings and equipment is 9/1. The file register allocates numbers from 8/1 through to 124/2 though not in order which may indicate that there was an earlier file register where the secondary numbers were allocated as required and this register was created to bring similar file titles together. Many file titles are crossed out and a new file number allocated, while others are stamped 'inactive', noted as 'destroyed' or 'PA' (put away). There is a note in the front of volume 1 referring to file 14.1.0.17 (ANUA 53) for the disposal and retention of files.

The Academic Advisory Committee was appointed by the Interim Council to provide advice on the establishment of the ANU. The initial members were Sir Howard Florey, Professor Keith Hancock (replaced by Professor KC Weare in 1949), Professor Mark Oliphant (till 1950) and Professor Raymond Firth and they met in Oxford. The original minutes are signed. A reference set of the minutes (Box 2) will be issued in the reading room.

Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this series may contain images and names of deceased persons in photographs or printed material.

This is a series of files containing photocopies of sources, catalogues, newspaper cuttings and photographs used as background research for the Oxford Companion of Aboriginal Art. The files relate to the artists, their work, exhibitions, or life experiences, as well as places of interest, and terms which are used in the Aboriginal art and cultural arena.

Academic and ceremonial dress including gowns for the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, University Marshall and Esquire Bedell and a page boy's outfit.

Research materials relating to Barry McGowan's research on the Chinese in Australia, especially in New South Wales. Includes correspondence, photographs, conference papers and articles by Barry McGowan and by others, conservation and heritage reports and plans, and photocopies of newspapers and archival material.

This series has not been processed yet.

This deposit has not been processed. Collection largely consisting of materials on mining in Irian Jaya.

This series has not been processed yet.

This collection of films was given to the ANU Archives by staff from the College of Asia and the Pacific in 2022. College staff found these films in a cupboard with no documentation so their context is not known as at 2022.