Series 6 - Subject Files


Date Range1906 - 1927
ProvenanceJoan Duffield
Description

Notes, correspondence, lists, press cuttings, pamphlets, draft letters, publications, reports.


Inventory Listing

6-1 Physics and chemistry exam questions for secondary school, 1906
Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1906    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-1 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-2 British Association, 18th annual meeting

Correspondence re Duffield's appointment as secretary of Section A, documents re relevant regulations; correspondence re organization of and participants in Section A, includes A. W. Porter, H. H. Turner, T. Thorp, A. L. Cortie, A. D. Crommelin, J. M. Baldwin, A. Fowler, H. F. Newall, D. Gill, F. W. Dyson, H. Grubb; list of members and associates of the British Association; press cutting; pamphlets re meeting, 1908.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1908    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-2 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-3 W. G. Duffield: notes

Pages removed from small note book, containing diverse notes: e. g. physical equations, relative alues for poker hands, list of committee for Australian Solar Physics Observatory, etc., [1908-1912].

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1908 - 1912    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-3 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-4 Eclipse Committee, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

Correspondence re the eclipse, the committee, and organization for observation of it: from J. M. Baldwin, P. Baracchi, G. F. Dodwell, F. McClean, E. H. Hills, Professor J. A. Pollock, A. Riccò, G. H. Knibbs, Duffield's notes on arrangements, and drafts of letters, 1909.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1909    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-4 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-5 Correspondence - Roentgen Society

Letters to Duffield re papers and publication thereof, from John Golding, C. Phillips, J. H. Gardiner (editor of Roentgen Society's Journal), W. D. Butcher (editor of Archives of the Roentgen Ray, 1912-1914.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1912 - 1914    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-5 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-6 W. H. Bragg to Duffield

Brief note of thanks for having sent congratulations upon the Braggs' winning of the Nobel Prize, 20 November 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 20 November 1915    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-6 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-7 Correspondence re scientific papers

Letters from a variety of scientists, mainly requesting reprints of articles by Duffield, some correspondence with editors: correspondents include A. Schuster, J. H. Jeans, C. E. St. John, 1916-1920.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1916 - 1920    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-7 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-8 Correspondence: scientific, general

Letters re lectures, book and articles, 1916-1924.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1916 - 1924    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-8 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-9 Notebook

Contents of small pad of paper, on which is a draft or notes for an article reporting a series of experiments on pressure on the poles of a burning electric arc, after 1919 (?).

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1919?    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-9 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-10 University Association of Canberra

Copy of the constitution, late 1920's.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1920s    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-10 Box Number 9 Series 6
6-11 Report of Leeds meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Handwritten report of the meeting, not wholly legible; author's name faded, but appears to be holder of Duffield Exhibition (Refer 5/18 for details on latter), September 1927.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range September 1927    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 6-11 Box Number 9 Series 6

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, April 2004
With support from Ian Potter Foundation, Bank of Tokyo (Australia) Ltd and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Gavan McCarthy and Howard Sankey
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