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Series 10 - Great Barrier Reef Committee Expedition 1925
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Date Range1925
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ProvenanceLucy Crosbie Morrison
Description

Correspondence, photographs, diary-notebook, reprints, maps, newspaper cuttings. This series includes some of the earliest material in the collection related to PCM's professional life. Correspondence in this series is the earliest in the collection. Included also are reports of the Great Barrier Reef Committee, mentioning PCM's work

Inventory Listing

MORR00689 Photographs

4 black and white prints - birds, birds' eggs, beach scene, star fish.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-1 Series 10
MORR00690 Diary/notebook

Botanical observations, sketches, notes taken from books and articles, verse and music.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 20 May 1925 - October 1925    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-2 Series 10
MORR00691 Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Committee, volume 2

2 paragraphs on page VIII mention the work of Crosbie Morrison.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 27 January 1928    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-3 Series 10
MORR00692 Hand drawn map

Pencil-drawn map of Whitsunday Island group, covering two sheets - lines indicate where northern and southern portions match.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1925    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-4 Series 10
MORR00693 Letters home

Letter written from Great Palm Island, begun 'Dear Don and Everybody'; letter written from Rockhampton, begun 'Dear Folks'.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1925    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-5 Series 10
MORR00694 Newspaper cuttings, articles and photographs for The Australasian, by Crosbie Morrison

Pasted on to sheets from an exercise book: photo spread and photocopy, 'Turtle-Hunting on the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland', 8 May 1926; article and photocopy, 'Birds of the Great Barrier Reef', 12 June 1926; photo spread and photocopy, 'Bird Life on the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland', 12 June 1926; page of miscellaneous articles, with photocopy, including 'A Naturalist on the Barrier Reef', 15-16 October, 1926; article and photocopy, 'Aborigines of the North: Great Palm Island Settlement', no date; photo spread and photocopy, 'Aboriginal Settlement at Palm Island, North Queensland', no date; page of clippings of shipping notes, 12, 13, 15 November, 1926; article and photocopy, 'Turtle Hunting on the Great Barrier', 8 May 1926; page of miscellaneous articles, not related to Great Barrier Reef Expedition.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 8 May 1926 - 15 November 1926    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-6 Series 10
MORR00695 Letter from Crosbie Morrison to his father

Written from Brisbane.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 15 June 1925    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-7 Series 10
MORR00696 Letters home

25 letters, some incomplete; typewritten fragment and hand written notes.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 10 May 1924 - 17 November 1925    Quantity 2 cm,
Inventory Identifier 10-8 Series 10
MORR00697 The Times (London)

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy 7 August 2008.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1928
Inventory Identifier 10-9 Series 10
MORR00698 Turtle hunting on the Great Barrier Reef

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy 7 August 2008.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range c. 1925
Inventory Identifier 10-10 Series 10
Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
With support from R.E. Ross Trust, Lucy Crosbie Morrison and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Stuart Brash, Anne-Marie Condé, Libby Robin, Ann McCarthy, Michael Jones, Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt.
HTML edition
Updated 5 April 2011
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/morr/MORS0010.htm

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