Series 5 - Lectures, Speeches, Radio Broadcasts and Duplicate Manuscripts 1940-1976


Date Range1940 - 1976
ProvenanceEdwin Sherbon Hills
Description

Copies of radio scripts, speeches, lectures and other manuscript material, some annotated. Includes preparatory notes and other associated items.


Inventory Listing

5-1 Radio broadcasts - 'Broadcasts to Schools'

Copies of radio scripts broadcast for schools entitled: 'Gippsland', 'The Western District', 'Through the Wimmera and the Mallee', 'We visit Central Victoria', 'Melbourne to Mildura', 'The Good Earth', 'The Shape of Things to Come', 'We Compose a News Commentary', 'The Physiography of Victoria'. Also includes copies of broadcasts made by Professor G.S. Browne on 'Hawaii - The Crossroads of the Pacific' and 'The Mysterious Land of Arabia'; list of broadcasts in the series 'Australian Walkabout'; inward correspondence from C.R. Bull (Australian Broadcasting Commission).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1940 - 1943    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-1 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-2 Radio broadcasts - 'Science Notebook'

Copy of radio broadcast on 'Science Notebook' entitled 'Borderlands of Geology - Geophysics and Geochemistry'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range July 1946    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-2 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-3 Radio broadcasts - Unesco Radio

Copies of interviews broadcast on Unesco Radio, Paris, mainly concerned with the International Hydrological Decade, entitled 'The Thirsty World' (2 Copies) and 'Hydrological Decade' (3 copies).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-3 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-4 Speeches - Northern Australia

Typed copies of speeches on Northern Australia given to the Graduates Section(?) and the Legacy Club.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range September 1944 - 7 August 1945    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-4 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-5 Speech - Pioneers' Memorial Oration, Wangaratta, 1955

Typed copy of speech given as the 'Pioneers' Memorial Oration, Wangaratta, October 14, 1955', entitled 'Mineral exploitation and the development of Victoria'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 14 October 1955    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-5 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-6 Speech - Hydrology Symposium, Institution of Engineers

3 typed copies (1 annotated) of paper delivered to the Institution of Engineers' Hydrology Symposium in Melbourne, entitled 'Australia's part in the International Hydrological Decade'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-6 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-7 Lecture - Hydrology

Typed copy of lecture on 'Hydrology' given to Industrial Science students at the University of Melbourne. Also includes memo to ESH from J.W.T. Merewether (Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Science).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1965    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-7 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-8 Lectures - Adelaide, 1976

Handwritten notes and lists of slides for lectures presumably given at the Department of Geology, University of Adelaide. Topics include: 'Geometrical features of tectonic entities in Australia'; 'Arid lands and human problems'; 'Cainozoic vulcanism and geomorphology'; 'Epeirogenic movements and processes'; 'Erosion on cliffy coasts'; 'Mechanisms in cleavage-formation'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1976    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-8 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-9 Lectures and duplicate manuscripts - University of Paris

Hand-written, typed and printed copies of lectures given in Paris. These include: 'Les Gisements de Minerais Utiles' (hand-written); 'Caracteristiques des cotes rocheuses par rapport aux variations du niveau de la mer' (typed with annotations); and a collection of lectures entitled 'Conferences de Monsieur Le Professeur Hills, Faculté des Sciences de Paris, Mars 1968' on the general topic 'La techtonique de l'Australie' (1 typed copy with annotations, 2 printed copies). Also includes poster advertising lecture series given by ESH at the University of Paris in March and April 1968.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-9 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-10 Duplicate manuscripts - speeches etc.

Typed copies of manuscripts including: 'The Making of Australia', a review of T.W. Edgeworth David's Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia; 'The Royal Society of Victoria', background notes for the media on the visit by the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh to open the Society's symposium on 'Australia's Part in the International Geophysical Year in the Antarctic'; 'University of Melbourne, Conferring of Degrees, Wednesday, March 19, 1969', address; 'University relations with science and industry'; 'Australian research policy - I'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (early 1950s) - 1970    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-10 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-11 Duplicate manuscripts - International Hydrological Decade

Typed copies of papers and speeches on the International Hydrological Decade, including three different papers each entitled 'International Hydrological Decade' (2 copies of one, and 4 copies, some annotated or edited, of another which was published in Australian Journal of Science - see 2/2). Also includes: copy of programme for the conference 'Australian needs in irrigation research'; 2 copies of the after-dinner speech 'The Hydrological Decade coupled with a toast to the Water Conservation Authorities of Australia'.

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1964    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-11 Box Number 11 Series 5
5-12 Duplicate manuscripts - underground water

Typed copies of three different papers each entitled 'Underground water' (2 copies of one).

Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1964?)    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 5-12 Box Number 11 Series 5

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, June 2004
With support from Thomas Baker (Kodak), Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Benefactions and The University of Melbourne
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