Guide to the Papers of Sidnie Milana Manton (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2842
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Online Items
Series A. Correspondence, 27 May 1957 - 9 July 1987
All correspondence to Sidnie Manton unless noted...
Don T. Anderson (Sydney, Plymouth), 20 October 1961 - 9 July 1987 (File)
Subjects include: Scoloplos; his work on crustacea; his application to Nuffield Foundation; news of other Australian scientists; his application for D Sc from London University; his application for chair of Biology at Sydney; Hinton's attitude to his application to Royal Society; paper on Peripatus; his election to Royal Society 'first zoological fellow for twenty years in Australia'; visit to England 1977. (292p. some incomplete letters.)...
Elizabeth Batham (Portobello), 1959-07-22; 1959-08-11; 1959-08-12 (File)
Re work at Portobello Marine Biological Station; application for Chair of Zoology at Canterbury University; her teaching experience. (9p.)
J.F. Foster (Association of Universities of British Commonwealth), 1957-06-20; 1957-06-26 (File)
Re J.C. Perryman's applications for lectureship in Zoology at Auckland and Queensland. (9p.)
Correspondence with R.H. Hackman (CSIRO, Canberra), 1978-01-21; 1978-04-21; 1978-05-05 (File)
Re Michael Locke's views on evolution, her health, his visit to England. (3p.)
G. Adrian Horridge (Canberra), June 1974 - 16 January 1976 (File)
Subjects include: publications; arthropod eyes; unavailability of literature in Canberra. (29p.)
S.M. Manton to McCredie, 20 September 1967 (File)
In support of Anderson; includes list of publications.
L.C. Birch (Sydney) to Norman H. Olver (Carlton), 5 November 1964 (File)
Supporting application for grant for D.T. Anderson from Nuffield Foundation. (6p., copy)
G.W. Paton (Vice Chancellor, Melbourne University), 7 September 1964 (File)
Re candidature of G. Burnstock for Chair of Zoology, encloses his C.V. and list of publications. (6p.)
Correspondence with Judith Perryman (Otago University), 4 June 1959 - 9 May 1960 (File)
Subjects include: publishing her research; lecturing and taking field courses at Otago University; instituting tutorials; visit to Doubtful Sound; Conchostraca in New Zealand. (14p.)
Correspondence with Pat Ralph (Wellington), 1959-06-08; 1959-09-07 (File)
Subjects include: work on Tetraplatia; increase in number of students in Zoology Department at Victoria University; publishing his work in England. (18p., faint carbons)
J. Eric Smith (Plymouth), 1973-10-15; 1974-03-20 (File)
In support of D.T. Anderson's application to Royal Society 'His book is clearly one of the great contributions of our time'.
D.R. Stoddart (Cambridge), 2 March 1976 (File)
Agreeing on terminology usage; geology of Australian coast.
R.W. Taylor (CSIRO, Canberra), 24 August 1967 - 20 October 1977 (File)
Subjects include: his appointment as Ant Taxonomist at CSIRO; work on Symperipatus; work with David Blest at ANU. (7p.)
S.M. Manton to Mrs Tiegs (n.pl.), 8 December 1970 (File)
Thanking her for book on Australia; D.T. Anderson 'the most able student I have ever had'; her plans to bring the 1958 review up to date. (poor carbon copy)
S.M. Manton to Turbott, 29 August 1959 (File)
In support of Dr E. Batham's application; her work establishing Portobello Marine Station.