Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

Michael James Denham White Guide to Records

Listed by Gavan McCarthy and Oscar Manhal. Index by Doug McCann

White was Professor of Zoology 1958-1964 and then Professor of Genetics 1964-1975, University of Melbourne. From 1976 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Population Biology at the Australian National University. He made important contributions to many aspects of cytology and cytogenetics and to evolutionary biology, including speciation theory and systematics. [Details]

Provenance - creators and former custodians

Series list and summary descriptions

Inventory listing by series

Series 1 - Personal - Biographical
Series 2 - Publications of M.J.D. White
Series 3 - Chronological Correspondence
Series 4 - Correspondence Subject Files
Series 5 - Australian Academy of Science
Series 6 - Subject Files
Series 7 - Working Papers and Draft Manuscripts
Series 8 - Morabine Grasshopper Research Files
Series 9 - Projection Slides, Photographs and Negatives
Series 10 - Oversize Material
Series 11 - Australian National Insect Collection

Index

These records are managed by the University of Melbourne Archives. All queries relating to access should be made to archivist.

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, 2001
With support from R.E. Ross Trust and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Gavan McCarthy and Oscar Manhal. Index by Doug McCann
HTML edition Ailie Smith
Updated 15 November 2007
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/guides/whit/white.htm

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