Series 3 - Miscellaneous Records
Includes Material Related To Australian Field Trials With Mustard Gas.


Date Range1941 - 1988
Quantity30 cm, 22 files
ProvenanceJohn Williamson Legge
Description

This Series includes material related to Australian Field Trials with Mustard Gas, Legge's MSc Thesis and National Health and Medical Research Council Grant, Scientific Liaison Bureau, J. W. Legge's Certificate of Matriculation, interview with Legge, draft of a script titled 'Anti-Communism Begins at Home: The Petrov Affair and Australian Mccarthyism', correspondence with Maurice Maunder, Joan and Ivy F. Hart, newspaper clippings, photos, reports and publications.


Inventory Listing

LEGG00065 About IV 1931. Hunstanton. Liewbergs & Dixon's car

7.5 x 12.5 cm.

The handwriting on this item is difficult to decipher, and is believed to refer to the "Liewbergs".

Date Range 1931    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Photograph
Inventory Identifier LEGG00065 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00066 Black and white photograph taken at Melbourne's Savoy Plaza Hotel

Photo in a paper frame with autographs of people in the photo on the back, as well as the date October 13. Size: 11 x 16 cm.

Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Photo
Inventory Identifier LEGG00066 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00067 Sketch Book

Contains pen drawings.

Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Book
Inventory Identifier LEGG00067 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00068 Sketch Book

Contains pen drawings.

Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Book
Inventory Identifier LEGG00068 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00069 Certificate of Matriculation of John Williamson Legge
Date Range 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00069 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00070 Newspaper Cutting about Mr. J. W. Legge
Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00070 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00071 Letter from Peter Cleeland, Member of Parliament, regarding a copy of the report entitled Australian Field Trials with Mustard Gas
Date Range 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00071 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00072 Correspondence regarding a report by J. W. Legge: Estimation of the Dose Lesion Relationship for Human Exposure to Mustard Vapour

Includes 3 black and white photograps and a copy of the report "Estimation of the Dose Lesion Relationship for Human Exposure to Mustard Vapour"

Date Range 1945 - 1948    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00072 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00073 Correspondence regarding Australian Field Trials with Mustard Gas 1942-1945

Includes correspondence with Prime Minister, Dr Pater Dunn, Mr Hand, The Honourable the Nenber for Melbourne, Mr Cleeland, The Honourable the Member for Mc Ewen, Sharon Connoly and Trevor Graham, producers, Ms Brodget Goodwin.

Date Range 1988 - 1989    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00073 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00074 Department of Defence. Report entitled Australian Field Trials With Mustard Gas 1942-1945
Prepared by R. G. Gillis

3 copies.

Date Range 1985?    Quantity 4 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00074 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00075 Miscellaneous papers

Includes correspondence regarding the grant from The National Health and Medical Research Council for research, draft copy of "Work Submitted for the Degree of Master of Science, University of Melbourne, 1946', 'The Chemistry of the Evocator', 'Methaemoglobin Formation', 'Energy Balance and Obesity - A Plea for the Re-Examination of the Role of Thermo-Regulation', 'Max Rudolf Lemberg, 1896-1975', 'Report on work carried out to September 15th, 1941, Mode of action of sulphanilamide'.

Date Range 1941? - 1975?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00075 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00076 Draft copy of a report by J. W. Legge entitled Estimation of the Dose Lesion Relationship for Human Exposure to Mustard Gas

Includes correspondence with Ms. E. I. Short, Ministry of Supply (London), Prof. W. Bloom, University of Chicago regardint the report.

Date Range 1945    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00076 Box Number 5 Series 3
LEGG00077 Scientific Liaison Bureau

Documents about activity of the Scientific Liaison Bureau.

Date Range 1942 - 1945    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00077 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00078 Anti-Communism Begins at Home: The Petrov Affair and Australian Mccarthyism
By Gregory Pemberton in Association with Bridie Film

Draft copy of script.

Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00078 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00079 Gas Experiments: The War's Grim Secret Revealed
Photocopy of an article by G. Harvey

Published by "The Bulletin", November 10, 1981.

Date Range 1981    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00079 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00080 Interviews with J. W. Legge regarding his participation in chemical warfare research and the mustard gas experiments

Draft copies.

Date Range 1983    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00080 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00082 Loose notes

The first paper in this file begins "This is CR Science and I'm Jack Legge".

Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00082 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00083 Correspondence with Maurice Maunder regarding his claim for disability
Date Range 1989?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00083 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00084 Correspondence with Ivy F. Hart and Joan
Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier LEGG00084 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00085 Biochemical Research on Chemical Warfare Agents
By Dr. M. Dixon and Dr. D. M. Needham

Reprinted from 'Nature', vol. 158, p. 432, September 28, 1946

Date Range 1946    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Leaflet
Inventory Identifier LEGG00085 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00086 Disability Produced by Exposure of Skin to Mustard-Gas Vapour
By D. C. Sinclair

Reprinted from 'The British Medical Journal' vol. i, February 11, 1950, p. 346.

Date Range 1950    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Leaflet
Inventory Identifier LEGG00086 Box Number 6 Series 3
LEGG00087 Getting gassed in the chamber!
Black and white photographs of caricature
Date Range 1931? - 1995?, No date    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Photo
Inventory Identifier LEGG00087 Box Number 6 Series 3

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
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