Papers of Evan Richard Stanley [manuscript]. 1902-1987.

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Papers of Evan Richard Stanley [manuscript]. 1902-1987.

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Included in the collection are copies of Stanley's birth, marriage and death certificates, and family correspondence. Correspondence from Brigadier General E. A. Wisdom, Administrator New Guinea, and exchanges between Stanley and the Director of Mines regarding Stanley's Woodlark Island Report and a subsequent charge of 'insubordination and impertinance'. Correspondence between Joan Benson and and Hugh Davies regarding a biographical publication on the life of E. Stanley, and letters by Professor Fiona Stanley regarding access to records from Papual New Guinea. Typescript paper by E. R. Stanley entitled The Papuan petroleum area, (1912). Photocopy of Map of the Territory of Papua, (1908). Extract of Report on Ferguson Island (typescript), (1919), including photographs. Typescript and published Report on the salient geological features and natural resources of the New Guinea territory (1922). Report on the geology of Misima (St. Aignan), Louisiade gold-field, in Bulletin of the Territory of Papua, (no. 3, 1915). Contribution to the geology of New Guinea, in Bulletin of the Territory of Papua, (no. 7, 1921). Includes records of Stanley's membership of the Freemasons, with a satchel containing the Masonic Guide of South Australia 1914-15; 1917-18; 1923-24.

14 cm (2 boxes)

Libraries Australia

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SNAC Resource ID: 7041567

Libraries Australia

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Benson, Joan, b. 1914

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Davies, Hugh W.

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Freemasons

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Stanley, Evan R. (Evan Richard), 1885-1924

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Stanley, Evan R. (Evan Richard), 1985-1925.

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First Government Geologist for Papua, from 1911 - 1924. He conducted geological investigations that resulted in more than 50 papers and reports and the first comprehensive accounts (in 1923 and 1924) of the geology and resources of both the New Guinea and Papua Territories. He died unexpectedly in 1924. Evan Stanley is the grandfather of Professor Fiona Stanley. From the description of Papers of Evan Richard Stanley [manuscript]. 1902-1987. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: ...

Stanley, Fiona J.

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