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Series 5 - Book Manuscripts with Publishing Correspondence and Reviews
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Date Range1939 - 2 April 1986
Quantity103 cm, 64 files
ProvenanceFrank Macfarlane Burnet
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Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, legal documents, publications, reviews

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5-1 Viruses and Man - published, Penguin Books, Melbourne 1953

Publishing agreement and correspondence, including Spanish edition

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 14 March 1950 - 7 July 1957    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/001 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-2 Principles of Animal Virology - published, Academic Press, New York 1955

Publishing correspondence, mostly second edition and publishing contract

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 2 February 1953 - 29 March 1960    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/002 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-3 The Viruses - published, Academic Press, London 1959

Publishing contract

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 15 March 1956    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/003 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-4 The Integrity of the Body - published, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma. 1962

Notes for questionnaire on the book. no date,

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1961 - 1962?, 1961-1962(?)    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/004 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-5 Biology and the Appreciation of Life - published Sun Books, Melbourne 1968

Publishing contract, publishing and personal correspondence

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 8 May 1967 - 21 March 1968    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/005 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-6 Correspondence - Changing Patterns

Publishing contracts - 1st Edition, Japanese Edition, publishing correspondence, list of photographs for book, copy typescript of Foreword to Japanese Edition, personal correspondence

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 19 April 1968 - 18 August 1978    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/006 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-7 First draft - Changing Patterns

Complete first draft, with appendix, list of awards and publications to February 1968

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range October 1967 - February 1968    Quantity 3.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/007 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-8 Draft typescript - Changing Patterns

Complete draft typescript, with illustrations no date, November 1967(?)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range November 1967?    Quantity 2.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/008 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-9 Drawings, diagrams and photographs - Changing Patterns

Galley proof diagrams and drawings, postcards (Perugia June 1961) and photographs: Conference attendees Perugia June 1961 Conference attendees, Perugia June 1961 - with labels Burnet and others, Lindau? no date, 1960?

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1960 - 1967    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/009 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-10 Book reviews - Changing Patterns

Photocopy typescript of review by Earle Hackett, entitled: "A Solitary - by Himself" no date, Book reviews from: Science, Medical Opinion and Review, Bulletin of History of Medicine, Quarterly Review of Biology, Annals of Internal Medicine

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1970 - 1971    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/010 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-11 Assorted book reviews - publications 1950s-1960s

Sets of book reviews of: The Clonal Selection Theory of Acquired Immunity (CUP 1959) The Integrity of the Body (Harvard Universtiy Press 1962) Autoimmune Diseases: Pathogenesis, Chemistry and Therapy by I.R. Mackay and F.M. Burnet (C.C. Thomas, 1963)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1959 - 1964    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/011 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-12 Publishing correspondence - Cellular Immunology and Self and Not-Self

Correspondence with Cambridge University Press on international rights and translated editions, publishing contracts, typescript of revisions for Japanese Edition (November 1969), typescript note on book, by F.M. Burnet, 27 February 1968. Includes royalty statements and accounts to 1977

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 20 February 1967 - 21 July 1977    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/012 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-13 Book reviews - Cellular Immunology and Self and Not-Self

Book reviews from journals, some in copy - typescript form

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1969 - 1975    Quantity 0.9 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/013 Box Number 19 Series 5
5-14 Melbourne University Press file - Cellular Immunology and Self and Not-Self

Note: No quotation permitted without permission of Director, MUP. Photocopies of files held by MUP, including publishing correspondence, readers' reports and reviews

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 11 October 1965 - 6 August 1975    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/014 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-15 Draft typescript - Dominant Mammal

Original draft typescript, with early publishing correspondence with Penguin Books Ltd. Typescript: 1947-1948. Letter: 2 June 1950

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1947 - 1950    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/015 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-16 Second draft - Dominant Mammal

Draft manuscript of revised version, for publication

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range September 1969 - January 1970    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/016 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-17 Publishing contract - Dominant Mammal

Contract with Wm. Heinemann Ltd.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 21 March 1970    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/017 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-18 Reviews, comments and correspondence - Dominant Mammal

Correspondence with Australian Financial Review (with interview questions), Wm. Heinemann Pty. Ltd., S. Dalby - with list of book illustrations for film adaptation, J. Francis, M. Swanton, G. Oxer, D. Gabor, J. Huxley, E. Kellaway, L.J.(?) Nye, B. Commoner, P.H. Gotze, P. Handler, L. Pauling, Reader's Digest Pty Ltd, R. Casey, K. Lorenz(?), A.J. Horsey, S.F.(?) vander Baan, C.E. Moorehouse, University of Tasmania, including comments on book. Also includes assorted book reviews and press cuttings

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range January 1970 - June 1973    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/018 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-19 Typescript of Chapter 1 "A Personal Sketch of 50 years" - The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute - 1915-1965

Draft typescript of chapter submitted to publisher and rejected (incomplete)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 196? - 197?, No date, 1970?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/019 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-20 Book reviews - The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute - 1915-1965

Book reviews and notices

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1971 - 1974    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/020 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-21 Genes, Dreams and Realities - published, MTP Co. Ltd., Aylesbury 1971

Publishing Contract, publishing correspondence, other correspondence with D. Horrobin, W. Fitzgerald, C. Macnab, S.S. Redgrave-McRae, John (?), D.G. Stanton, M. McCausland and Ramsay Surgical Ltd. Includes press cuttings and press photocopies of serialized segments of book, typescripts of radio broadcast scripts from BBC Book Talk, October 1971 and Radio Telefis Eirean, and selection of book reviews

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range August 1970 - October 1972    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/021 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-22 Draft manuscripts - Watershed

Draft manuscripts and notes for book chapters, titles: 'The Limit to Resources' no date; 'Pollution' no date; 'The Population Explosion' September-October 1972; 'Energy needs and the nuclear calamity' no date; 'The nuclear calamity' no date; 'Advancing technology' no date.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1972?    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/022 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-23 Draft manuscript - Watershed 1972

Draft manuscript for book chapter: "Elitism, racism and rebellion".

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 25 July 1972    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/023 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-24 Draft typescripts - The Watershed 1972

Draft typescripts of six book chapters: Ch.1 "Crisis and question" 4 July 1972, Ch.2 "The early history of life on Earth" July 1972, Ch.3 "The ascent to man" July 1972, Ch.4 "War as stimulus to human evolution" July 1972, Ch.5 "Urbanization and the opportunity for intelligence" August 1972, Ch.6 "Elitism, racism and rebellion" September 1972

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1972    Quantity 0.9 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/024 Box Number 20 Series 5
5-25 Publishing correspondence - Natural History of Infectious Disease, 4th Edition

Correspondence with CUP, publishing contract, copy typescripts: Preface to 4th Edition no date, 1972, Table of Contents no date, 1972, Descriptive note no date, 1972

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 31 December 1970 - 30 April 1981    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/025 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-26 Book reviews - Natural History of Infectious Disease

Sets of book reviews for 4th Edition, and 3rd Edition

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1962 - 1977, 1962-1964 and 1972-1977    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/026 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-27 Publishing correspondence, draft manuscripts and typescripts - Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease

Publishing contract, correspondence with MTP, Michael Woodruff, Prof. Dacie, I.M. Roitt, D. Horrobin, draft manuscripts of chapter outlines and glossary, index and bibliography notes. Typescripts and copy typescripts: Table of Contents, January 1972; Preface, January-March 1982; List of Plates, April 1972; Legends to figures, no date, 1972; Copies of figures, no date, 1972

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 2 July 1971 - 13 July 1972    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/027 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-28 Typescript - Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease

Draft typescripts of book chapters, Chapters 1-15

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range October 1971 - March 1972    Quantity 2.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/028 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-29 Book reviews - Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease

Selection of book reviews 1971-1973. Includes review of Immunological Surveillance (Pergamon, 1970)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1971 - 1973    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/029 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-30 "Solar Energy Book" - unpublished draft manuscript 1973

Draft manuscripts for book on Solar Energy. Manuscript titles: "General Approach", February-March 1973; "The Case Against Nuclear Power", February 1973; "Is there a Fall-out Myth?", no date, 1973; Untitled introduction(?), February 1973

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1973    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/030 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-31 Publishing correspondence - Intrinsic Mutagenesis

Correspondence with MTP, outline of chapters, synopsis and lists of book recipients

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 19 October 1973 - 14 November 1974    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/031 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-32 Typescript - Intrinsic Mutagenesis: A Genetic Approach to Ageing

Draft typescript of Introduction and Chapters 1-18.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range No date.    Quantity 2.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/032 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-33 Draft manuscripts - Intrinsic Mutagenesis [For Second Edition(?)]

Working papers, scientific reprints, mostly on xeroderma pigmentosum and related topics. Includes draft manuscripts for first edition, with notes, alterations and additions. Manuscript headings: "Draft chapter on Xeroderma pigmentosum", August 1974; Notes on ageing, January 1975; "Role of somatic mutation in man", no date, 1974-1975; "Intrinsic Mutagenesis", no date, 1974-1975; Draft for Chapter on Multiple Neuro-fibromalosis(?), 24 August 1974; "Chromosomal abnormalities in relation to somatic mutation", 13 September 1974; "Limitations of mutation as an agent of evolution", December 1974; Typescripts of drafts: "Somatic Mutation in mammals", December 1974; Additions to Chapter 5 - "Patterns of somatic mutation in mammals" and "The significance of spots on Dalmatian dogs", December 1974; Notes on immunological diversity, 16 January 1975

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range August 1974 - January 1975    Quantity 1.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/033 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-34 Book reviews - Intrinsic Mutagenesis

Extracts and reprints of book reviews, including several review essays from technical journals, transcript and comments by K. Bayreuther and correspondence from J.R. Williams and D. Horrobin.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range November 1974 - May 1977    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/034 Box Number 21 Series 5
5-35 Book reviews - books and monographs on Ageing and Immunology

For manuscripts and source lectures, see Series 6, especially 6/8 and 6/115. This file: book reviews and publishing correspondence and publishing contracts for: Immunology, Ageing and Cancer, 16 May 1975; Scientific American Reader on Immunology, 28 January 1975; The Biology of Ageing, 1974; Includes manuscript note: "Changing Patterns Addendum. Immunology, Ageing and Cancer", no date, 1970s

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1974 - 1979    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/035 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-36 Final manuscript draft - Endurance of Life

Draft manuscripts of Introduction and Chapters 1-16.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range August 1975 - April 1976    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/036 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-37 First draft typescript - Endurance of Life

Draft typescript of Chapters 1-15.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range September 1975 - May 1976, September 1975 - May 1976]    Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/037 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-38 Texts for figures - Endurance of Life

Text for figures and tables. Diagrams and tables. Notes and draft typescript of bibliographical sources.

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1976?, No date    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/038 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-39 Editorial material - Endurance of Life

Notes to Melbourne University Press (MUP) questionnaire - biographical notes, book synopsis, texts and legends to figures and tables, original drawings and diagrams, Chapter outline, and typescript (copy) of draft Appendix "An "Acceptable" Myth", 15 July 1976 March 1976 - July 1977

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1976 - 1977    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/039 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-40 Publishing correspondence - Endurance of Life

Correspondence with MUP, Cambridge University Press, American Longevity Association, publishing contract, correspondence on foreign editions and draft book description. Includes readers' reports and reviews

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 16 May 1976 - 29 March 1982    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/040 Box Number 22 Series 5
5-41 Melbourne University Press file - Endurance of Life

Note: No quotation without permission of Director, Melbourne University Press. Photocopies of files held by MUP, including publishing correspondence, readers' reports and reviews

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 5 April 1977 - 2 April 1986    Quantity 1.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/041 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-42 Book reviews and press comments - Endurance of Life

Press and journal cuttings of book reviews, press reports, "letters to the editor" and published extracts from book, some in photocopy form only. Mostly Australian publications, 1978

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1978    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/042 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-43 Book reviews - Endurance of Life

Journal extracts of book reviews and some press reports. Mostly overseas publications, 1978

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1978 - 1983    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/043 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-44 Personal letters - Endurance of Life

Inwards correspondence, with comments on book, from: B.D. Davies, M.C. Rockwell, E.H. Lennette, B. Mortlock, I. Asamoto, W. Crocker, R. Walford, Quadrant, P. Ryan, A.T. Welford, The Sciences, N. Gray, P.A. Lachance, D. Merkins, D. Caine, J.F. King, L. Lane, N.K. Perry, D. Gabor, K. Cameron

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 20 April 1978 - 16 January 1979    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/044 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-45 First draft - Credo and Comment

Draft manuscript and typescript versions of first draft of Credo section, in three parts: Part I "A Modern Biologist's Credo", March 1977; Part II "Human Sociobiology", March 1977; Part III "Applications to 20th-21st century human developments", April 1977]

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1977    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/045 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-46 Draft manuscripts and typescripts - Credo and Comment

Copy typescript of draft, with annotations. Draft manuscripts of revised and extended version, including both "Credo" section and "Comments". Mostly manuscripts, March 1977 - November 1978

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1977 - 1978    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/046 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-47 Corrected copies - Credo and Comment

Annotated and corrected typescript copies of "Origins and Evolution" sections of Credo and Comment

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1978?, No date.    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/047 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-48 Typescript - Credo and Comment

Complete typescript with proof corrections

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1978?, No date.    Quantity 1.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/048 Box Number 23 Series 5
5-49 Typescript - Credo and Comment

Complete typescript (copy) with corrections

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range September 1978    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/049 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-50 Publishing correspondence - Credo and Comment

Correspondence with MUP, G.L. Hills, M.L. Rehns, Human Nature, publishing contract, editorial corrections and readers' reports and royalty statements

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 24 August 1978 - 1 October 1980    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/050 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-51 Melbourne University Press file - Credo and Comment

Note: no quotation without permission of Director, MUP. Photocopies of files held by MUP, including publishing correspondence, readers' reports

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1 February 1978 - 18 October 1979    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/051 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-52 Book reviews - Credo and Comment

Extracts of book reviews, press cuttings - including "letters to the Editor", and press reports. (Some photocopies)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1979 - 1980    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/052 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-53 Immunology, Ageing and Cancer - 2nd Edition

Preparations for Second Edition - not used. Correspondence with W.H. Freeman and Co. and draft manuscripts of revisions and modifications to text. See also file 6/8

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1979? - 198?, No date. 1979-1980(?)    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/053 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-54 Publishing correspondence - 'Man as God in the Making'

Correspondence with MUP, P. Ryan. Includes notes by P.M. Dexter on talk with P. Ryan, 26 September 1985. Includes correspondence on 'Towards a Scientific Theology' - see file 6/69]

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1985    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/054 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-55 Draft manuscript and typescript - 'Man as God in the Making'

Draft typescript: no date, 1984(?); Draft manuscripts and preparation notes. (See also files 6/69, 6/70), no date, 1984(?); Complete(?) draft manuscript, March-April 1984; Chapter titles: "A Scientifically Acceptable Myth?"; "Evolution of the Cosmos", "The Anthropic Principle", "The Future of Things", "Ethics of the Myth", "Science in its full maturity" Early notes on new edition of Credo and Comment, December 1982

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1982 - 1984    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/055 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-56 Draft manuscripts and working papers - 'Man as God in the Making'

Early drafts, notes and working papers - original title: "God-in-the-Making" (1982) Manuscript titles: "The Acceptable Myth that Man is God-in-the-Making", May 1984; "Introductory Chapter", July 1982; "Cosmological Theory", no date, 1982(?); "Chapter 4" (comparison with Christianity) - typescript, no date, 1984(?); "Preliminary" notes, 1983-1984; "Anthropic principle...", February-March 1984 Notes on Credo and Comment, January 1982

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1982 - 1984    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/056 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-57 Draft manuscripts and working papers - 'Man as God in the Making'

Early drafts, working papers from the marked "Implications and possible future chapter drafts". Draft manuscripts and typescripts: "Toward a scientific theology" (typescript), August 1982; "Cultural progress in relation to the Acceptable Myth", no date, 1984; "Crime and Punishment", November 1982; "Politics and Economics in an Advancing World", November 1982; "Political and Eugenic Implications", no date, 1982(?); "Is the acceptable myth a possible basis for religion" (typescript), no date, 1984(?)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1982 - 1984    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/057 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-58 Book Indexing notes - technical publications

Indexing notes for unidentified technical publications. Three sets

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1976?, 1976 and undated    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/058 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-59 Form and correspondence - Public lending rights

Form letters, correspondence and accounts for books

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range January 1975 - June 1984    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/059 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-60 Royalty statements and correspondence - MTP Press Limited, 1971-1977
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1971 - 1977    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/060 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-61 Royalty statements and correspondence - Book royalties (various publishers), 1977-1980
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1977 - 1980    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/061 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-62 Royalty statements and correspondence - Book royalties (various publishers), 1976-1983
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1976 - 1983    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/062 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-63 Royalty statements and correspondence - Book royalties (various publishers), 1981-1985
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1981 - 1985    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 05/063 Box Number 24 Series 5
5-64 Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease by F.M. Burnet. Assistant Director, wlater and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne
Originally titled: 'Defence against Disease'

Original author's typescript which includes a few corrections and hand written notes. 315 single-sided foolscap typed pages. The change to the title is handwritten by a person other than Burnet. No dates are marked on the item but it has been dated by family as 1939. Other evidence would suggest this is reliable. The typescript is divided into parts and chapters:

Cover (image page 1)
Title Page (image page ?)
List of Contents (image page ?)
Acknowledgements (image page ?)

Part I. Biological Considerations
Chapter 1. The Eclogical Point of View. (typescript page 1; image page ?)
Chapter 2. The Evolution of Infection and Defence. (typescript page 26)

Part II. The Aggressors
Chapter 3. Bacteria. (typescript page 40)
Chapter 4. Protozoa. (typescript page 51)
Chapter 5. Viruses. (typescript page 59)

Part III. The Process of Defence.
Chapter 6. The Normal Defences Against Bacterial Infections. (typescript page 78)
Chapter 7. The Development of Immunity after Infectious Disease. (typescript page 92)
Chapter 8. The Chemical Basis of Immunity - Antibodies. (typescript page 104)
Chapter 9. The Wider Significance of Immunity. (typescript page 117)
Chapter 10. What Makes Bacteria Dangerous? (typescript page 138)

Part IV. The Natural History of Infectious Disease.
Chapter 11. How Infections Spread. (typescript page 155)
Chapter 12. The Transfer of Infection from one Species to Another - Animal Reservoirs. (typescript page 170)
Chapter 13. The General Character of Epidemics and Prevalences of Infectious Disease. (typescript page 184)
Chapter 14. Epidemics of Endemic Disease. (typescript page 194)
Chapter 15. The Age-Incidence of Infectious Disease. (typescript page 204)
Chapter 16. Immunity as an Epidemiological Factor. (typescript page 217)
Chapter 17. The General Principles of Control for Infectious Disease. (typescript page 223)

Part V. Some Important Infectious Diseases
Chapter 18. Diphtheria. (typescript page 232)
Chapter 19. Influenza. (typescript page 244)
Chapter 20. Tuberculosis. (typescript page 257)
Chapter 21. Plague. (typescript page 268)
Chapter 22. Cholera. (typescript page 275)
Chapter 23. Malaria. (typescript page 285)
Chapter 24. Yellow Fever. (typescript page 292)

Part VI. Epilogue.
Chapter 25. New Diseases and the Outlook for the Future. (typescript page 299)

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range c. 1939    Quantity 3 cm, 1 volume
Formats Drafts, Loose Notes and Tables of data
Inventory Identifier 05/064 Series 5
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