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Date(s)
- 1953 - 2004 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1m (4 type 1 boxes + 1 type 10)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Professor Ken Campbell was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1927. He joined the Australian National University as Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science from 1 March 1962; and Reader from 1 July 1964. He was appointed Dean of Science in 1978, and became Professor in Geology in 1982. Campbell retired in 1993, and was appointed Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (honorary) in the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences in the Faculty of Science.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes teaching material regarding vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology, and Stratigraphy mainly focused on Australia. Teaching material is mainly lecture notes and overhead projector slides of diagrams, with some example of laboratory practical and tutorial questions. Includes some information regarding fieldwork trips to Kioloa. Examples used for teaching include historical and current species of lungfish.