Autobiographical and biographical material, including PMR's undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, and an oral history interview.

Also includes correspondence, news clippings and memorabilia relating to PMR's family, education and retirement.

Mostly correspondence, but also includes copies of papers, reports and reprints, and a list of PMR's published papers as at November 1949.

Notes, tables, graphs, reprints, manuscripts, minutes, reports and correspondence.

Material is organised under subject headings which include: Early data; New Guinea; Methicillin-resistant staphylococi; ANZAAS; International Committee on Nomenclature of Viruses; Bovine phages; Pseudomonas; Vibrio fetus; Pseudomonas Cepacia.

Includes PMR's laboratory notebooks.

Correspondence, manuscripts, papers, illustrations, reprints, scrapbooks and photographs relating to PMR's work on the history of Australian microbiology.

Includes general information on the Australian Society for Microbiology, and material on Rodd Island, Adrien Loir, and Jean Danysz.

Contains PMR's reprints, organised chronologically. Also includes a typed and handwritten list of PMR's publications

Contains notes and manuscripts for lectures, papers and book reviews by PMR. Also includes some correspondence and reprints.

Correspondence, minutes, manuscripts and documents relating to PMR's work on the International Subcommittee for Phage-typing of Staphylococci.

Also includes lists of members, proceedings of meetings and test results.

Contains photographs of PMR as a child and an adult, and of meetings of the International Congress of Microbiology. Also includes a group of electron micrographs.