Papers relating to University administration, teaching and research interests including meteorites, moon rocks, analysis of fission tracks from radioactive impurities in rocks, and the Antarctic; records relating to his membership of societies and other organisations including the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Ionising Radiation Council, the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the Geological Society of Australia and the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry; overall dates 1969-87 [30 m].

Includes Departmental files of Professor J.F. Lovering, including material relating to the new Earth Sciences Building; Geology Department correspondence files 1960-1972; Plans; models; maps; diagrams; unidentified geological photographs; correspondence concerning staffing, teaching and research.