Draft papers, reprints, working papers, newspapers clippings and correspondence mainly relating to varves (annual sedimentation layers). Includes draft papers: "Precambrian varves and sunspot cycles" by G.E. Williams; "Cyclic lamination in the late Precambrian Elatina formation and its palaeoclimatic significance" by G.E. Williams; Typescript of material for Secrets of the Sun by RGG with corrections by G.E. Williams; Reprints: "Solar-climatic cycles in the geological past: Proposal for diamond-drilling the Elatina formation (ca. 680 million years old), South Australia" by G.E. Williams; "Varve cycles in the Weeli Wolli formation of the Precambrian Hamersley Group, Western Australia" by A.F. Trendall; Correspondence: Inwards and outwards correspondence between RGG and G.E. Williams; G.G. Ellsworth, Smithsonian Institution to RGG; Photocopy of letter from Neville Wran to D.C. Morton; Newspaper clippings: "This astronomer may be the last: Money for research cut by Government" in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 1982; "Aust joins space telescope project" in The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August 1982; Working papers "A comparison between solar activity in the late Precambrian and at present"; "Institut d'Astrophysique - Report 1979-1980 (as of Sept 81)"

Photographs and negatives of varves. Includes 20 black and white photographs and 6 photographic negatives of varves (annual sedimentation layers), and covering letter from G.E. Williams

Papers, reprints, and working papers on the relationship between solar variability and the weather. Includes papers and reprints: "Some remarks concerning the periodicity of changes in the properties of active regions" by M. Kopecky; "The peculiarities of recurrent sunspot groups distribution according to the observed life-times" by M. Kopecky (in Russian); "What will the level of solar activity be in the future decades?" by M. Kopecky; "Improved forecast of the maximum relative numbers of 11-year sunspot cycles at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century" by M. Kopecky; "Dependence of extreme values of sunspot relative numbers on the height of the 11-year cycle and its application on the abnormally high solar activity prediction for the next century" by M. Kopecky; "The occurrence of sunspot groups and the velocity of solar rotation at heliographic latitudes = or >40° by M. Kopeck; "Does the 80-year sunspot period affect the duration in central Europe" by M. Kopecky and J. Reichrt; "Some indices of sunspot groups in the 11-year cycle no. 20" by M. Kopecky; "Rainfall patterns in South Africa, south eastern Australia and New Zealand" by R.G. Vines; "Rainfall patterns in the western United States" by R.G. Vines; "Analyses of South African rainfall" by R.G. Vines; "Weather patterns and bush-fire cycles in southern Australia" by R.G. Vines; "An analysis of New Zealand's rainfall" by R.G. Vines; "Crop yields and the solar cycle" by R.G. Vines; "Rainfall patterns in southern South America, and possible relationships with similar patterns in South Africa" by R.G. Vines; "Features of the sunspot cycle" by R.G. Vines; "Weather and the Earth's magnetic field" by J.W. King; "Solar-climatic cycles in the geological past: Report on diamond-drilling the Elatina formation, Pichi Richi Pass, South Australia" by G.E. Williams; "The historical record of solar activity" by J.A. Eddy; "Solar activity and precipitation" by J. Xanthakis; "Variations solaires et climatiques dans le passé historique" by F. Link; "Possible influence of solar rotation on tropospheric circulation" by J.M. Willcox; "Particulate layers, vertical winds and sun-weather relationships" by K.D. Cole; "On the reality of a sun-weather effect" by J.M. Wilcox and others; "Variation with time of a sun-weather effect" by J.M. Wilcox and P.H. Scherrer; "Solar activity and the weather" by L. Svalgaard; "Evidence of a 22-year rhythm of drought in the western United States related to the Hale solar cycle since the 17th century" by J. Murray, Jr. and others; "A view of solar magnetic fields, the solar corona, and the solar wind in three dimensions" by L. Svalgaard and J.M. Wilcox; "Climate and the changing sun" by J.A. Eddy; "The Maunder Minimum" by J.A. Eddy; "Sun-weather relationships" by J.W. King; "On the reality of the effect of solar corpuscular streams on the lower layers of the Earth's atmosphere" by E.R. Mustel; "Temporal fluctuations of atmospheric ¹⁴C: Causal factors and implications" by P.E. Damon, J.C. Lerman and A. Long; "Possible relationships between rainfall, crop yields and the sunspot cycle" by R.G. Vines; "The double sunspot cycle and rainfall" by R.G. Vines; "The role of ICSU in the world climate programme" by J.C.I. Dooge

Typescript of paper "Australia and the transit of Venus" by R.J. Bray, and 5 photographs