Series 7 - Royal Australian Chemical Institute


Date Range1953 - 1978
ProvenanceAlbert Lloyd George Rees
Description

Section 1 - RACI Meetings, Business and History [7-1 - 7-21]
Section 2 - RACI General Correspondence [7-22 - 7-28]
Meeting minutes, agendas and notes, publication reprints, conference reports, newsletters, citations and awards, press releases and professional correspondence.


Inventory Listing

7-1 Annual General Meetings

Agenda and Minutes for RACI Meetings, 13 October 1967 and 10 October 1968; Minutes for RACI Meeting, 10 October 1966; Agenda for RACI Meeting, 13 October 1969. Information Notes and Reports: RACI Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 30 June 1967, Tovell and Lucas, Auditors, 31 August 1967; RACI Council Committees for 1968/69, 16 September 1968; Legal Opinion on Proposed Motion Concerning 'Reviews'; RACI Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 30 June 1969, Tovell and Lucas, Auditors, 8 September 1969; RACI Annual Report from the Council 1968/69, 7 October 1969.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-1
Date range 1966 - 1969    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-1 Series 7
7-2 Annual Reports

RACI Annual Report from the Council 1965/66, 20 September 1966; RACI Annual Report from the Council 1966/67, 21 September 1967; RACI Annual Report from the Council 1967/68, 16 September 1968.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-2
Date range 1966 - 1968    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-2 Series 7
7-3 Meeting of Secretaries of the Institutes

Agenda and Report of a Meeting of the Secretaries of the Chemical Societies and Institutes on 25 August 1967, Frankfurt, West Germany; A.L.G. Rees, Report on Meeting of Secretaries of Chemical Societies and Institutes on 25 August 1967, 8 November 1967; Royal Institute of Chemistry, Summer School in Spectroscopy. Correspondents include: R.E. Parker; W.E. Purnell; W. Fritsche.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-3
Date range 1967 - 1969    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-3 Series 7
7-4 Council Committees

A.L.G. Rees, RACI Council - Suggestions for future operation, 13 December 1966; W.E. Purnell, RACI Committees of Council 1967-1968, 5 September 1967.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-4
Date range 1966 - 1967    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-4 Series 7
7-5 Draft Calenders - Conferences, Meetings

RACI Tentative Draft Calender 1967; RACI First Draft Calender, 10 February 1967; W.E. Purnell, RACI Tentative Timetable, 21 September to AGM before 16 October 1968, 14 September 1967; RACI Calender of events and meetings in Australia, Issued 22 February 1968; Program for Second Australian Conference on Electrochemistry, 19-23 February 1968. Correspondents include W.E. Purnell.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-5
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-5 Series 7
7-6 Reorganisation of the Institute

J.A. Allen, E. Barraclough and J.R. Price, 'The Future of the Institute', Report to Council by Planning Committee, 21 December 1966; Comments by the Forward Planning Committee, 22 March 1967; 'The Organisation of Chemists and Chemistry', Draft, 3 August 1967; Forward Planning Committee, Terms of Reference; Aide Memoire, Discussions with Dr. Birnie, Chemical Institute of Canada, 26 October 1966. Correspondents include: J.R. Price; E. Barraclough; W.E. Purnell.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-6
Date range 1966 - 1967    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-6 Series 7
7-7 Headquarters Accommodation

RACI Headquarters Accommodation, Report of the Headquarters Accommodation Committee to Council, 21 September 1967; Correspondents include W.E. Purnell and K.T. Ryan; Reprint, 'Headquarters in Canberra?', editorial, The Chartered Engineer, 11, October 1966.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-7
Date range 1966 - 1967    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-7 Series 7
7-8 Visits to Branches

Correspondents include: P.W. Smith; M.H.R. Shipp; M.H.F. Bennett; H. Bloom; W.E. Ewers.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-8
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-8 Series 7
7-9 Overseas Visitors

W.E. Purnell, List of Overseas Visitors for 1968, 16 January 1968; Tentative schedule of forthcoming overseas visitors, 8 August 1967; Itinerary and biographical details for D.C. Hodgkin; RACI Circulars 1, 2 and 3 Re Visit of Dr. Myron T. Kelly, 29 December 1967 and 6 February 1968; Itinerary for Professor and Mrs. D.D. Eley, 4 October 1967; Curriculum Vitae, W.B. Fortune, 5 May 1967. Correspondents include: W.E. Purnell; E.C.M. Grigg; D.P. Mellor; M.J. Jordan; M.D. Bridgland; D.O. Jordan; F.S. Dainton; A.R. Green; P.J. Fensham; A.E. Alexander; J. Deeble; F. Hartley; G.H. Cady; W.B. Fortune; J.R. Price; M.R. Oates.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-9
Date range 1966 - 1968    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-9 Series 7
7-10 Ethics - Employer/Employee Disputes

Correspondents include: W.E. Purnell; A. Hill; G.A. Barclay; J.H. Bull; R.R. Garran; B.H. Sorensen.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-10
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-10 Series 7
7-11 Leighton Award

List of 1969 Leighton Award Candidates; Program for Presentation of the A.E. Leighton Medal to L.W. Weickhardt, 18 March 1969; Tables and Graphs and Chart for Reference during the delivery of the Leighton Memorial Lecture; 1968 Leighton Award Candidates; Program for Presentation of A.E. Leighton Medal to N.S. Bayliss, 21 May 1968; Third Leighton Award Citation, 7 May 1968; Leighton Award Presentation and Citation, 3 June 1968; First Leighton Award Citation for J. Vernon; Leighton Award Citation for I.W. Wark. Correspondents include: R.L. Martin; L.E. Smythe; D.J. Field; L.W. Weickhardt; N.S. Bayliss; W.E. Purnell; A. Leighton; J.F. Chambers; W.E. Ewers; R.C. Wray and E. Barraclough. Reprints, 'Leighton Memorial Established', 'First Recipient: Sir James Vernon, Fellow', Proceedings of the RACI, May 1965.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-11
Date range 1965 - 1969    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-11 Series 7
7-12 Emoluments

Blanks for RACI Remuneration Survey, September 1966 and September 1968; Notes on Salaries of Senior Officers, 1968; The 1966 Salary Survey, Comments by the Emoluments Committee. Correspondents include: W.E. Purnell; J.N. Gregory; W. Stern; P.R. Wilkinson.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-12
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-12 Series 7
7-13 Budget

RACI Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 30 June 1968; Institute Educational Fund, Budget 1967-1970. Correspondents include Tovell and Lewis and K.T. Ryan.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-13
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-13 Series 7
7-14 Metrication

Australian Metric Research Organisation, 22 June 1967. Correspondents include W.E. Purnell.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-14
Date range 1967    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-14 Series 7
7-15 Membership - Statistics, etc.

Industries employing Corporate Members by numbers; RACI Council, Branch Committees and Officers, 1967/68; RACI Membership Employment and Composition, Corporate Membership Location and Composition; RACI Statistics and Membership Applications, 9 May 1968 and 18 July 1968; RACI Recommendation to Council from the Emoluments Committee, 18 July 1968; Circular to Branch Secretaries and Members of Council, 26 March 1968; Applicants for Fellowship; Application for Fellowship by G.P. Briner; RACI Membership Ratios; Growth of the Institute, W.E. Purnell, 31 August 1966. Correspondents include: D.E. Weiss; M.J. Jordan; P.D. Bartlett; K.T. Ryan; W.E. Purnell; J.E. Cummins; M.D. Amos. Reprint, 'Proposed Amendments to the by-laws of the Institute', Journal of the Institute of Engineers, December 1967.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-15
Date range 1966 - 1969    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-15 Series 7
7-16 Qualifications

Minutes for RACI Qualifications Committee Meeting, 29 March 1968 and 21 May 1968; J.G. Crawford, Mastership of University House, 10 July 1968; W.E. Purnell, Appraisal of Foreign Qualifications, 1 April 1968; Careers in Science and Technology, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering; W.E. Purnell, Executive of the Qualifications Committee, 10 November 1967; W.E. Purnell, Honorary General Treasurer, 27 July 1967. Correspondents include: W.E. Purnell; W.J. Dunstan; E. Barraclough; D. Currie. Reprint, 'Minimum Length for Engineering Courses', Journal of the Institute of Engineers, January-February 1967.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-16
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-16 Series 7
7-17 Technician Training

W.E. Purnell to D.J. David, 8 March 1968. Miscellaneous notes.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-17
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-17 Series 7
7-18 Publications

RACI, Proposed Career Folder on Chemical Profession for 15-17 year old students at Secondary Schools throughout Australia, 16 May 1968; W.E. Purnell, Breakdown on Specialisation and Function of RACI Membership, 17 January 1967; A.L.G. Rees, Biographical Notes; M. Mawby, Address, 44th Annual Meeting of Australian Industries Development Association, 26 June 1967; Report from Publications Committee March 1967, 24 February 1967; Distribution of the Proceedings of the Third National Convention; Third National Convention, List of Participants, Media Representatives and Kindred Organisations and Societies. Correspondence to the Proceeding of the RACI: 'The Future of Science, and Scientists in Australia'; J.H. O'Donnell, 'In-service Training', April 1968. Correspondents include: R.G. Gillis; W.E. Purnell; D. Willis; J.E. Lane.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-18
Date range 1966 - 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-18 Series 7
7-19 RACI Fourth National Convention, ANU, Canberra, 17-22 August 1970

Visitors guide to the Australian National University; Scientific Instrument, Apparatus and Book Exhibit, RACI Fourth National Convention; G.A. Sklovsky, Chemical Information System for Australia, August 1970; RACI Fourth National Convention, Program; List of Conference Participants and Plenary Sessions. Correspondents include K.T. Ryan.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-19
Date range 1970    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-19 Series 7
7-20 RACI, 'The History of the Institute'

'The Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1917-1967'. Correspondents include: R.G. Gillis; R.R. Garran; K.T. Ryan; F. Strahan; W.E. Purnell; B.J. Ralph.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-20
Date range 1966 - 1968    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-20 Series 7
7-21 'The Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1917-1967'

D.J. O'Connor, PhD Dissertation, University of Sydney, February 1968.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-21
Date range 1968    Quantity 2.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-21 Series 7
7-22 RACI General Correspondence, 1964-1968

Information Notes and Reports: Press Release, Australian Chemical Engineering Conference; Australian Chemical Engineering Conference, 1970, Draft, 1st Circular, August 1968; List for consideration for Vice Presidency 1968/69 of Fellows not retired, not overseas; Submission to the Commonwealth Inquiry into the Salaries in Colleges of Advanced Education, 11 July 1968; Minutes of RACI Queensland Branch Committee Meeting, 8 July 1968; Summary Report on Conference at Monash University on 'Industry, the University and Tomorrow', 5 June 1968; Chemical Institute of Canada, Organisation Chart; RACI Council Procedures Committee, 17 August 1964; General Allocation of Duties of Executive Secretary and Registrar, 19 March 1964. Correspondents include: R.L. Martin; H.R.C. Pratt; W.E. Purnell; J.M. Swan; P.R. Wilkinson; D.O. Jordan; T.H.G. Michael; D.J. David; W.E. Ewers; R.G. Gillis; B.M. Graham; J. Lawson; T.G. Hunter; A.R. Green; B.S. Middleton.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-22
Date range 1964 - 1968    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-22 Series 7
7-23 RACI General Correspondence, 1966-1968

Information Notes and Reports: David Rivett Memorial Lecture, Conditions of Gift to the CSIRO; Christmas Card List, 1967; National Science Centre, Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation; B.J. Ralph, Introduction to Symposium, 'Modern Fermentation Processes', RACI Pharmaceutical Group of the NSW Branch, 23 August 1967; South Eastern Sewerage System, MMBW; Southeastern Sewerage Amplification Scheme, MMBW; The possible formation of a Process Industries Division, Comments by D.W. Finley, RACI; Masson Memorial Scholarship, RACI, September 1966; RACI Third National Convention, with Registration and Symposium List, August 1966; XXII IUPAC Congress, J.R. Price discussions with Mr. Weickhardt and Dr. Barraclough, 3 November 1966. Correspondents include: L.G. Wilson; W.E. Purnell; H.A. Wills; G. Clark; C. McGrath; J. Overall; L. Clark; J.G. Gorton; B.R. Hames; M.D. Bridgland; J.E. Cummins; J.S. Fitzgerald; I.E. Puddington; G.W. Paton; G.R. James; L. Gruen; K.T. Ryan; H. Ennor; E. Barraclough; B.J. Ralph; A.G. Robertson; D.O. Jordan; I.H. Ley; D. Dodd; J.R. Price. Reprints: Technical Manpower, no.26, October 1967; Technical Manpower, no.27, January 1968; Australian Industries Development Association, Director Reports, no.177, July 1967; Australian Industries Development Association, Director Reports, no.180, October 1967; Allowance of Variation of By-Laws of the RACI, Commonwealth Gazette, no.75, September 1966; G.W. Leeper, 'A narrower Institute?', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, vol.32, September 1966.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-23
Date range 1966 - 1968    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-23 Series 7
7-24 RACI General Correspondence, 1968

Information Notes and Reports: RACI Chemical Education Division, Report to Council, 9 May 1968; RACI Proposed Career Folder on Chemical Profession for 15-17 year old students at Secondary Schools throughout Australia, 9 May 1968; RACI Comments from Divisions relating to possible restructuring of the Council, May 1968; RACI HQ Financial Statement, 31 March 1968; RACI Recognition of Corporate Members under Poisons Acts, 9 May 1968; Minutes of RACI General Meeting, 30 April 1968 and 16 May 1968; List of Titles, National Solid State Chemistry Division, 1968 Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids, 20-21 May 1968; A.L.G. Rees Career Details; A.L.G. Rees, The H.G. Smith Memorial Award Lecture, 1st Draft, 14 March 1968. Correspondents include: P.R. Heydon; W.E. Purnell; J.R. Price; D.J. David; D.C. Hodgkin; M.H.R. Shipp; J.A. Roberts; D.F.A. Koch; N.S. Bayliss; K.J. Hodges; S.F. Parsons; K.T. Ryan; D.H. Solomon; E. Jones; J.A. Allen; R.B. Madgwick; D.R. Stranks; E. Barraclough; C.H.D. Harper; B.O. West; J.F. Kefford; L.J. Cohn; F.E. Acton; W.D. Crow; D.A. Kalwig; J.R. Anderson; J.A. Wunderlich; D.E. Roney; G.A. Barclay; J.T. Baker; M.D. Bridgland; K.N. Rimington; D.J. Field; P.R. Jefferies; V.O. Dickie; J.R.A. McMillan; W.E. Harvey; J.L. Watts. Reprints: Association of Professional Scientists of Australia Newsletter, no.46, February 1968; Association of Professional Scientists of Australia Newsletter, no.47, April 1968.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-24
Date range 1968    Quantity 1.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-24 Series 7
7-25 RACI General Correspondence, 1967-1968

Information Notes and Reports: Minutes and Agenda Addendum for RACI Division Representatives and Council Executive Meeting, 10 October 1968; Agenda for RACI Honorary Officers, Division Representatives, Educational Fund Committee and National Convention Organising Committee Meeting, 10 October 1968; RACI Draft Regulations for all Divisions; RACI Divisional Procedures, 27 July 1967; P. Strasser, Memo, RACI Fourth National Convention, 24 September 1968; RACI 4th National Convention Report of the Convention Committee, 18 July 1968; Extract of the Minutes of the Council Meeting, 4th National Convention; RACI 3rd National Convention Report of the Organising Committee; Fellow Application, J.R. Anderson; CSIRO Studentships for Postgraduate Study at Australian or Overseas Universities. Correspondents include: J.A. Allen; K.T. Ryan; W.E. Purnell; J.E. Falk; L.G. Wilson; L.E. Smythe; R.L. Martin; K.J. McCallum; B. Walsh; M.D. Bridgland; R.J. Bartholomew; H.R.C. Pratt; F.N. Lahey; L.R. Davies-Graham; R.J. Wells; K.J.C. Back; J.T. Baker; P.C. Brooks; G.N. Richards; M.J. Jordan. Reprint, Association of Professional Scientists of Australia Newsletter, no.49, August 1968.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-25
Date range 1967 - 1968    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-25 Series 7
7-26 RACI General Correspondence, 1968-1969

Information Notes and Reports: Supplement to RACI News, December 1969; RACI By-laws, 1967; The Royal Charter and Supplemental Charter incorporating the RACI, June 1953; RACI Officers, October 1968; J.B. Willis, Publications List, 1959/69; RACI Solid State Division, Upcoming Conferences, 6 March 1969. Correspondents include: W.E. Purnell; G.M. Badger; G. Myles; N.S. Bayliss; F.N. Lahey; E.J. Hartung; K.T. Ryan; E. Booth; D.J. Field; J.A. Prescott; L.W. Weickhardt; E. Barraclough; I.W. Wark; D.O. Jordan; R.L. Martin; L.G. Wilson. Reprint, 'The Training of Chemical Technicians', Report by the Committee on Sub-professional Technicians, Proceedings of the RACI, August 1964.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-26
Date range 1968 - 1969, reprints 1953-1967    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-26 Series 7
7-27 RACI General Correspondence, 1969-1978

Information Notes and Reports: 'Continuing Education in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering', Report of the Postgraduate In-service Training Committee, February 1969. Correspondents include: J.M. Swan; P.W. Woodhouse; K.T. Ryan; W.E. Purnell.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-27
Date range 1969 - 1978    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-27 Series 7
7-28 RACI General Correspondence, 1976

Correspondents include W.E. Purnell and M.J. Jordan.

Creator Albert Lloyd George Rees
Control 7-28
Date range 1976    Quantity 0.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 7-28 Series 7

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