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Historical Records of Australian Science
Volume 23 Number 1 2012

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Demonstrating That Continents Had Drifted: Paleomagnetic Measurements at the Australian National University 1952–1964

F. E. M. Lilley

pp. 1-33

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National Identity and International Science: The Case of Acacia

Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers

pp. 34-54

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Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith 1930–2010

Ian D. Rae

pp. 55-76

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Reviews

Compiled by Sara Maroske

pp. 77-89

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Bibliography of the History of Australian Science, No. 32, 2011

Compiled by Helen M. Cohn

pp. 90-106

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1.	Published 2 November 2011 Duboisia Pituri: A Natural History Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) Luke Keogh
2.	Published 1 March 1986 The Origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: Practical Science in the Wake of the Gold Rush. Historical Records of Australian Science 6(3) L Gillbank
3.	Published 2 November 2011 Alan McLeod Sargeson 1930–2008 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) B. Bosnich
4.	Published 1 March 1982 On Visiting the 'Moving Metropolis': Reflections on the Architecture of Imperial Science. Historical Records of Australian Science 5(3) R MacLeod
5.	Published 4 May 2011 The Search for a Solution to Australian Locust Outbreaks: How Developments in Ecology and Government Responses Influenced Scientific Research Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) E. D. Deveson
6.	Published 4 May 2011 Rossiter Henry Crozier 1943–2009 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) Benjamin P. Oldroyd and Oliver Mayo
7.	Published 2 November 2011 Rodney Warren Rickards 1934–2007 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) Lewis N. Mander and Martin A. Bennett
8.	Published 11 May 2012 National Identity and International Science: The Case of Acacia Historical Records of Australian Science 23(1) Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers
9.	Published 1 September 1997 Geography, Race and Nation: Remapping 'Tropical' Australia, 1890-1930. Historical Records of Australian Science 11(4) W Anderson
10.	Published 1 March 1983 Australian Museums of Natural History: Public Priorities and Scientific Initiatives in the 19th Century. Historical Records of Australian Science 5(4) SG Kohlstedt
11.	Published 2 November 2011 Wilbur Norman Christiansen 1913–2007 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) R. H. Frater and W. M. Goss
12.	Published 2 November 2011 Spencer Smith-White 1909–1998 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) Jim Peacock, Bryan Barlow and Roger Carolin
13.	Published 1 September 1993 The Australian Phytochemical Survey: Historical Aspects of the CSIRO Search for New Drugs in Australian Plants. Historical Records of Australian Science 9(4) JR Price, JA Lamberton and CCJ Culvenor
14.	Published 4 June 2004 The Biological Collections in CSIRO: a National Heritage? Historical Records of Australian Science 15(1) M. F. C. Day, H. Hewson, M. Fagg, J. Doran, J. Turnbull, J. Ilic, S. Jeffrey, P. Last, A. Graham, T. Chesser and N. Bougher
15.	Published 6 December 2005 The Legacy of Early Uranium Efforts in Australia, 1906–1945: From Radium Hill to the Atomic Bomb and Today Historical Records of Australian Science 16(2) Gavin M. Mudd
16.	Published 13 June 2003 Collections and the Nation: Science, History and the National Museum of Australia Historical Records of Australian Science 14(3) Libby Robin
17.	Published 25 May 2005 Entomology in the Service of the State: Queensland Scientists and the Campaign against Cane Beetles, 1895–1950 Historical Records of Australian Science 16(1) Peter Griggs
18.	Published 4 May 2011 John Henry Carver 1926–2004 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) R. W. Crompton, G. D. Dracoulis, B. R. Lewis, K. G. McCracken and J. S. Williams
19.	Published 4 May 2011 'It is not so!' Otto Finsch, Expectations and Encounters in the Pacific, 1865–85 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) Hilary S. Howes
20.	Published 2 November 2011 Wesley Kingston Whitten 1918–2010 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(2) J. N. Shelton and P. J. McCullagh
21.	Published 1 March 1979 The Royal Society of Australia: An Attempt to Establish a National Academy of Science. Records of Australian Academy of Science 4(1) MJ Lewis
22.	Published 1 March 1987 Frank Macfarlane Burnet 1899-1985 Historical Records of Australian Science 7(1) F Fenner
23.	Published 29 October 2010 Charles Fenner and Early Landform Studies in South Australia Historical Records of Australian Science 21(2) C. Rowland Twidale
24.	Published 1 September 1980 A history of forestry and forest product research in Australia. Historical Records of Australian Science 5(1) LT Carron
25.	Published 1 March 1988 The CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics 1944-1986 Historical Records of Australian Science 7(2) JB Willis
26.	Published 29 May 2006 The Fate of Leichhardt Historical Records of Australian Science 17(1) Darrell Lewis
27.	Published 29 October 2010 The Personality of Environmental Prediction: Griffith Taylor as 'Latter-day Prophet' Historical Records of Australian Science 21(2) Carolyn Strange
28.	Published 4 May 2011 Albert Russell ('Bert') Main 1919–2009 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) S. D. Bradshaw
29.	Published 4 May 2011 Donald Eric Weiss 1924–2008 Historical Records of Australian Science 22(1) Thomas H. Spurling
30.	Published 1 March 1984 The Great Barrier Reef Committee, 1922-1982: The first thirty years. Historical Records of Australian Science 6(1) D Hill
31.	Published 1 September 2001 Ferdinand Hochstetter's Note of a Visit to Australia and a Tour of the Victorian Goldfields in 1859. Historical Records of Australian Science 13(4) TA Darragh
32.	Published 1 September 2001 John Carew Eccles 1903-1997 Historical Records of Australian Science 13(4) DR Curtis and P Andersen
33.	Published 9 November 2007 The 1945–1955 Queensland Artesian Fluoride Experience: A Unique Phenomenon within the Australian Wool Industry Historical Records of Australian Science 18(2) Harry F. Akers and Suzette A. T. Porter
34.	Published 1 September 1999 Radar and the Bombing of Darwin. Historical Records of Australian Science 12(4) H Minnett, TB Alexander, FC Cooper and FH Porter
35.	Published 8 May 2009 Dagelet and Dawes: Their Meeting, Their Instruments and the First Scientific Experiments on Australian Soil Historical Records of Australian Science 20(1) Doug Morrison and Ivan Barko
36.	Published 8 May 2009 Christopher Charles Heyde 1939–2008 Historical Records of Australian Science 20(1) E. Seneta and J. M. Gani
37.	Published 1 March 1987 The Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Selwyn, 1852-1868 Historical Records of Australian Science 7(1) TA Darragh
38.	Published 1 March 1974 'The Half-Mad Bureaucrat' Robert Brough Smyth (1830-1889) Records of Australian Academy of Science 2(4) ME Hoare
39.	Published 1 March 1985 The Great Barrier Reef Committee, 1922-82 Part II: The Last Three Decades. Historical Records of Australian Science 6(2) D Hill
40.	Published 1 March 1988 Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: A.J. Nicholson and V.A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations. Historical Records of Australian Science 7(2) JL Hopper
41.	Published 12 June 2002 A. L. Franklin Pty Ltd, scientific instrument makers Historical Records of Australian Science 14(1) M. Keentok
42.	Published 20 May 2008 W. H. Fitton's Geology of Australia's Coasts, 1826 Historical Records of Australian Science 19(1) D. F. Branagan and D. T. Moore
43.	Published 29 October 2010 David Hutchins in Australia 1914–1915: the Penultimate Chapter in the Career of an Imperial Forester Historical Records of Australian Science 21(2) Michael Roche
44.	Published 1 March 1976 Sir Richard Owen and His Influence on Australian Zoological and Palaeontological Science Records of Australian Academy of Science 3(2) AM Moyal
45.	Published 1 March 1984 William Farrer and the Australian Response to Mendelism. Historical Records of Australian Science 6(1) M Cawte
46.	Published 1 September 1994 Science and Technology in the Story of Australian Federation: The Case of Meteorology, 1876-1908. Historical Records of Australian Science 10(2) RW Home and KT Livingston
47.	Published 10 November 2006 Ferdinand Mueller and the Shape of Nature: Nineteenth-century Systems of Plant Classification Historical Records of Australian Science 17(2) Sara Maroske
48.	Published 3 May 2007 Many Beautiful Things: Colonial Botanists' Accounts of the North Queensland Rainforests Historical Records of Australian Science 18(1) Rachel Sanderson
49.	Published 9 November 2007 From Lost Property to Explorer' s Relics: The Rediscovery of the Personal Library of Ludwig Leichhardt Historical Records of Australian Science 18(2) Matthew Stephens
50.	Published 9 November 2007 Arthur John Birch 1915–1995 Historical Records of Australian Science 18(2) Rodney W. Rickards and Sir John Cornforth
51.	Published 20 May 2008 University Botany in Colonial Victoria: Frederick McCoy's Botanical Classes and Collections at the University of Melbourne Historical Records of Australian Science 19(1) Linden Gillbank
52.	Published 1 March 1966 The Bush and the Search for a Staple in New South Wales, 1788-1810 Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(1) LA Gilbert
53.	Published 1 March 1967 The Development of Geology in South Australia: A Personal View. Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(2) AR Alderman
54.	Published 1 March 1997 Green Gold: The Riches of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Historical Records of Australian Science 11(3) J Moore
55.	Published 12 June 2002 Creationists and their critics in Australia: an autonomous culture or 'the USA with Kangaroos'? Historical Records of Australian Science 14(1) Ronald L. Numbers
56.	Published 11 May 2012 Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith 1930–2010 Historical Records of Australian Science 23(1) Ian D. Rae
57.	Published 1 March 1967 Learned Societies in Australia: The Foundation Years in Victoria, 1850-1860. Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(2) ME Hoare
58.	Published 1 March 1968 Growth of Scientific Research in Australia: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Empire Marketing Board. Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(3) G Currie and J Graham
59.	Published 1 March 1976 The Intercolonial Science Movement in Australasia 1870-1890. Records of Australian Academy of Science 3(2) ME Hoare
60.	Published 1 June 1977 1851 Science Research Scholarship Awards to Australians. Records of Australian Academy of Science 3(4) IW Wark
61.	Published 1 March 1979 W.J. Farrer and F.B. Guthrie: The Unique Breeder-Chemist Combination that Pioneered Quality Wheats for Australia. Records of Australian Academy of Science 4(1) CW Wrigley
62.	Published 1 September 1980 Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) Historical Records of Australian Science 5(1) F White
63.	Published 1 September 1989 'Adding Stones to the Great Pile'? Charles Darwin's use of Australian Resources, 1837-1882. Historical Records of Australian Science 8(1) BW Butcher
64.	Published 1 March 1999 Henry Herman Leopold Adolph Brose: Vagaries of an Extraordinary Australian Scientist. Historical Records of Australian Science 12(3) J Jenkin
65.	Published 1 March 2000 Scientific Freedom and Post-War Politics: Australia, 1945-1955. Historical Records of Australian Science 13(1) P Deery
66.	Published 1 March 2001 Research on Biological Nitrogen Fixation in CSIRO Plant Industry, 1952–1998. Historical Records of Australian Science 13(3) FJ Bergersen
67.	Published 16 December 2004 Sir Thomas Brisbane's Legacy to Colonial Science: Colonial Astronomy at the Parramatta Observatory, 1822–1848 Historical Records of Australian Science 15(2) Shirley D. Saunders
68.	Published 29 May 2006 Duboisia myoporoides: The Medical Career of a Native Australian Plant Historical Records of Australian Science 17(1) Paul Foley
69.	Published 9 November 2007 Not Being Ernest: Uncovering Competitors in the Foundation of Australian Wireless Historical Records of Australian Science 18(2) Jock Given
70.	Published 8 May 2009 Ian Gordon Ross 1926–2006 Historical Records of Australian Science 20(1) Gad Fischer and Robert G. Gilbert
71.	Published 10 November 2009 The Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology, 1974–1981: Searching for Drug Leads from Australian Marine Organisms Historical Records of Australian Science 20(2) Ian D. Rae
72.	Published 6 May 2010 *Joseph Maiden and the National and Transnational Circulation of Wattle Acacia* spp.** Historical Records of Australian Science 21(1) Jodi Frawley
73.	Published 29 October 2010 Alan Kenneth Head 1925–2010 Historical Records of Australian Science 21(2) Peter Humble
74.	Published 1 March 1968 Doctor John Henderson and the Van Dieman's Land Scientific Society. Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(3) ME Hoare
75.	Published 1 March 1968 'Other Like Services': Physics and the Australian Constitution. Records of Australian Academy of Science 1(3) Nauze JA La
76.	Published 1 March 1981 William Ernest Cooke, Astronomer 1863-1947 Historical Records of Australian Science 5(2) D Hutchinson
77.	Published 1 March 1983 The Western Australian Alunite Project 1940-1954 Historical Records of Australian Science 5(4) NS Bayliss
78.	Published 1 March 1984 J.W. Gregory, Traveller in the Dead Heart Historical Records of Australian Science 6(1) DF Branagan and E Lim
79.	Published 1 March 1986 Strzelecki's Geological Map of Southeastern Australia; An Eclectic Synthesis. Historical Records of Australian Science 6(3) DF Branagan
80.	Published 1 March 1994 Nature Conservation as a National Concern: The Role of the Australian Academy of Science. Historical Records of Australian Science 10(1) L Robin