British Museum (Natural History) - Sir Maurice Yonge - Australian and New Zealand papers, 1929-1985
British Museum (Natural History) - Sir Maurice Yonge - Australian and New Zealand papers, 1929-1985
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1929-1985, Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 1993
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M 2844-2846
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489 p.
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Microfilm : M 2844-2846. See detailed contents list (23pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, Vol. 23.
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Contents
A. Diaries. Selected notes on trips. B. Notebooks. C. Research: Great Barrier Reef and Pacific. D. Societies and organisations. E. Correspondence. F. Non print material. Additional material deposited 1991 and 1992
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British Museum (Natural History) - Sir Maurice Yonge - Australian and New Zealand papers, 1929-1985
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Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2844-2846
Microfilm. South Kensington, London : British Museum (Natural History) : Available from the National Library of Australia, 1993. 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm
Original held by the British Museum (Natural History), General Library, Cromwell Road, South Kens...
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Administrative / Biographical history
Charles Maurice Yonge (1899-1986) studied forestry at Edinburgh University, becoming interested in zoology. On graduating he went to the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth and worked on oysters. In 1927 was offered the Balfour Studentship at Cambridge where a expedition to the Great Barrier Reef was being proposed. L8580-5s was allocated for...
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M 2844-2846
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92eVR73Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVR73Y
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432986
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