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Series 4 - Field Noteboooks (Local and Overseas) 1928-1975
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Date Range1928 - 1975
ProvenanceEdwin Sherbon Hills
Description

A variety of sketchbooks, notebooks and notepads containing field notes, sketches, and journal entries made on field trips in Australia, as well as notes, addresses and appointments recorded on overseas trips.

Inventory Listing

4-1 Field notes - Victoria - sketches

Bound sketch-book containing sketches of scenes, rock formations and plants (including Cathedral Range, Taggerty and 'Some Conventions for Trees'). Also includes pastel drawing of wildflower by CDH.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1928 - 1936    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-1 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-2 Field notes - Victoria

Notepad containing notes and sketches from field trips (including Marysville and Mansfield areas).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1929    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-2 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-3 Field notes - Victoria

Notepad containing notes, sketches and details of photographs from field trips (including Beaumaris, Frankston, Colac, Studley Park and Grampians).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1933    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-3 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-4 Field notes - Victoria

Notepad containing notes, sketches and details of photographs from field trips (coastal areas including Mornington Peninsula and Waratah Bay).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1930s)    Quantity 1.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-4 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-5 Field notes - Victoria - physiography

Small bound sketch-book containing notes, sketches and lists of photographs from field trips (including Koranderrk and Mornington Peninsula).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (1930s?)    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-5 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-6 Field notes - Victoria - physiography

Small bound notebook containing notes and sketches from field trips (including Marysville, Cathedral Range, Eildon Weir and Anglesea).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1933 - 1934    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-6 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-7 Field notes - Victoria - tertiaries (south central)

Small notebook containing notes and sketches from field trip along coastline from Beaumaris to Mentone; includes small photograph of ESH? in front of cliff at Mentone. Also includes labelled sketches of shells and sharks' teeth etc.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1935    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-7 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-8 Field notes - Victoria - physiography

Notepad containing notes and sketches from field trips (including northern and East Gippsland, Western District and Geelong and district).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1937 - 1938    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-8 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-9 Field notes - Victoria - physiography

Small bound notebook containing notes, sketches and lists of photographs from field trips (including Wimmera lakes and Gippsland). Also includes rough draft of examination paper.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range no date (late 1930s?)    Quantity 1.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-9 Box Number 8 Series 4
4-10 Field notes - Victoria - lunettes

Small notepad containing notes and references from field trips. Includes notes on lunettes, and list of 'Victorian Railways Photos'.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1940?)    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-10 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-11 Field notes - Victoria

Small notepad containing notes and sketches from field trips (including Taggerty area).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1941    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-11 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-12 Field notes - Victoria

Small notepad containing notes, sketches and references from field trips (including Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp and Westernport area).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1940s?)    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-12 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-13 Field notes - Victoria - Snob's Creek

Bound graph-pad containing notes and data from field trip in Snob's Creek area.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1940s?)    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-13 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-14 Field notes - Hardy's Creek

Bound graph-pad containing data from field trip along Hardy's Creek road.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1944    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-14 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-15 Field notes - Flinders Ranges

Bound graph-pad containing notes and references from field trip to Flinders Ranges.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1940s?)    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-15 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-16 Field notes - Broken Hill

Bound notebook containing notes, sketches and references from field trip to Broken Hill.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range May 25 1950 - 2 June 1950    Quantity 1.2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-16 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-17 Field notes - North Australia (with CSIRO)

Spiral-bound notebook containing notes, sketches and details of photographs from field trip to Northern Australia.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (1950s?)    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-17 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-18 Journal - North Australia

Bound notebook containing detailed notes, sketches and memoranda on personal, geological and other topics, written on field trip to northern Australia for the Army. Also includes a section of a graph pad listing details of photographs taken.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1943    Quantity 2.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-18 Box Number 9 Series 4
4-19 Field notes/Journal - UK, 1929-1931

Notepad containing notes and sketches from field trips in the UK. Also includes: notes on pronounciation; a short piece of writing intitled 'In a library'; diary of travels over Christmas 1930.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1929 - 1931    Quantity 1.1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-19 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-20 Overseas trip - UK, 1946

Notepad containing field notes and sketches (including some of Java) as well as other notes, references and addresses from overseas trip to UK via Indonesia.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1946    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-20 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-21 Overseas trip - Turkey and Israel, 1952

Notepad containing notes and sketches on geology and culture from overseas trip for Unesco to Turkey and Israel, via Singapore.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1952    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-21 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-22 Overseas trip - Egypt

Spiral-bound notebook containing notes, appointments and addresses from overseas trip to Egypt, mainly relating to Unesco, arid zone research and the Fuad I Desert Research Institute.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (presumably 1953 - 1954)    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-22 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-23 Overseas trip - Egypt

Spiral-bound notebook containing notes on the Fuad I Desert Research Institute, as well as daily journal with notes, sketches and appointments from overseas trip to Egypt.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (presumably 1953 - 1954)    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-23 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-24 Overseas trip - Egypt - personal notes

Spiral-bound notebook containing notes, sketches, addresses and details of photographs from overseas trip to Egypt and Beirut.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (presumably 1953 - 1954)    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-24 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-25 Overseas trip - 1968

Two pocket-sized notebooks containing notes, references and addresses from overseas trip to Asia, Europe and Russia.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-25 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-26 Overseas trip - 1968

Small spiral-bound notebook containing notes, references, addresses and sketches from overseas trip to Europe and USA. Also includes a number of traveller's cheque receipts.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-26 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-27 Overseas trip - France and Russia, 1968

Notepad containing notes, references, addresses and sketches from overseas trip to France and Russia.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-27 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-28 Overseas trip - Russia - 1968

Three pocket-sized notebooks entitled 'Russia I', 'Russia II' and 'Russia III' containing lists of photographs (slides) and notes on many of the subjects (see 20/26 - 20/28).

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1968    Quantity 1.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-28 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-29 Overseas trip - Brittany

Small notebook containing notes, sketches, references and details of photographs from overseas trip to UK and France.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range No date (late 1960s?)    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-29 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-30 Overseas trip - Kaiasthan, 1970

Pocket-sized notebook containing notes, references and addresses from trip to Kaiasthan.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970    Quantity 0.3 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-30 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-31 Overseas trip - ICSU (Madrid), Portugal and Spain

Spiral-bound notebook containing notes on International Council of Scientific Unions Conference, as well as notes and sketches on coastal features, particularly 'rias', from overseas trip to Portugal, Spain and coast of Dorset, UK.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1970    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-31 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-32 Overseas trip - New Zealand, 1973

Pocket-sized notebook containing notes and references from trip to New Zealand.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range December 1973    Quantity 0.4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-32 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-33 Overseas trip - Lubbock (USA), 1974

Pocket-sized notebook containing notes, references and addresses from trip to Lubbock, Texas, USA.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1974    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-33 Box Number 10 Series 4
4-34 Overseas trip - 1974

Notepad containing notes, references and addresses from overseas trip to Europe.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1974    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-34 Box Number 11 Series 4
4-35 Overseas trip - India and Indonesia, 1975

Pocket-sized notebook containing notes, references, appointments and addresses from overseas trip to Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1975    Quantity 0.6 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-35 Box Number 11 Series 4
4-36 Overseas trip - Sri Lanka, 1975

Pocket-sized notepad containing notes, references and addresses from overseas trip to India and Sri Lanka.

 Creator Edwin Sherbon Hills
Date range 1975    Quantity 0.8 cm,
Inventory Identifier 4-36 Box Number 11 Series 4
Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, June 2004
With support from Thomas Baker (Kodak), Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Benefactions and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Tim Sherratt and Gavan McCarthy
HTML edition Ailie Smith
Updated 8 November 2007
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/hill/HILS0004.htm

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