This series contains personal documents, personal correspondence, memorabilia, biographical records (including three original letters by P. Ehrlich which came into Burnet's possession in 1962, see file 1/18), degrees, appointments, awards, biographies, appreciations (including Burnet Collection Ceremony), bibliographies, curricula vitae, receipts, accounts and estate documents, Linda Burnet files, as well as records from the 'Elizabeth Dexter Collection'.

Formats include correspondence, certificates, licences, typescripts, notes, booklets, newspaper cuttings, publications, manuscripts, photographs, diagrams, speeches, sketches, postcards, telegrams, obituaries, memoranda, curricula vitarum, legal documents, financial records, medals, plaques, certificates

Early diaries, notebooks and diary letters 1880-1928, general and travel diaries,
personal diaries and office diaries 1951-1985, notebooks 1932-1985, Linda Burnet's Travel Diaries 1950-1968.

Formats include diaries, sketches, notes, catalogue, photographs, photographic negatives, diary letters, notebooks, notes, experimental results, newspaper cuttings, graphs, maps, photocopied notebooks.

Correspondence, bibliographies, notes, speeches, menus, scrapbook, press conference typescript, memoranda, travel papers, newspaper cuttings, and photographs.

This series contains Mac Burnet's publications 1942-1984, books 1971-1982, commemorative volumes, and an appendix - indexes to reprints and lists of reprints (including lists to reprints in other collections).

Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, legal documents, publications, reviews

This series contains early unpublished writings 1930s-1966, University lecture series 1952-1978, collected essays (unpublished) 1952-1972, radio talks and films 1952-1983,
published and unpublished non-technical and general writings 1960s-1980s, published and unpublished technical writings - papers, lectures and book chapters 1954-1983.

Formats include manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notes, publications, photographic negatives, film script, talks, addresses, lectures, book reviews, newspaper cuttings, minutes, photocopies, page proofs, and galley proofs.

Alphabetic correspondence subject files, subject files - reprints and papers, subject files - library books.

Formats include correspondence, publications, reports, academic references, typescript notes, speeches, draft notes, addresses, newspaper cuttings, memoranda, minutes, research proposals, and photographs.

Correspondence, typescript indexes, typescripts, reports, notes, memoranda, draft proposals, grant applications, newspaper cuttings, radio braodcast scripts, photographs, contracts, speeches, programmes, architectural plans, minutes, and annual reports.

Working papers - subject files, and working papers from "Book Files".

Includes the following formats: tearsheets, reprints, draft papers, reports, correspondence, notes, typescripts, clinical records, publications, and newspaper cuttings.

This series contains papers regarding X-Disease and Kuru research and correspondence files, Kuru correspondence - photocopies from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Files, publications - reprints and Gajdusek journals, appendix files.

Formats include correspondence, clinical notes and records, publications, notes, typescripts, reports, reprints, bibliographies, and journals (diaries).

Sets of ordered index cards (127mm x 76.5mm).

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, photographs, mementos, reports, programmes, and certificates.

316 pen and ink drawings, watercolour sketches, sketchbooks, pencil sketches, poems. Includes files from the 'Elizabeth Dexter Collection'.

800 photographs (mostly reproduction) black and white, and colour. Includes material from the "Elizabeth Dexter Collection'.

Boxed travel slides, boxed subject slides, and lecture slides files.

Includes 35mm projection slides, colour and black and white, predominantly from the 'Elizabeth Dexter Collection'.

Interviews and documentaries.

Forty-five letters.

Copy of audiotape of interviews by Frank Macfarlane Burnet's biographer, Christopher Sexton, taken during 1985-1986.

Lists of material held in other repositories, archives and libraries, i.e. lists of the appendices as seen in the printed Guide to the Records of Frank MacFarlane Burnet.

Appendix 1 - Records at the Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Appendix 2 - Items in the Microbiology Department, University of Melbourne
Appendix 3 - Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
Appendix 4 - Material in Other Collections (Royal Society Archives London; Commonweath Department of Health Library (Canberra); Commonwealth Department of Health Records)