File inscribed 'Ailsa M. Swan, C. V. , References, Academic History, esp. 1944-1951', containing copy of marriage certificate, Ailsa Lowen and John Swan, 1952; copy of birth certificate, Ailsa Macvey Lowen, 17 February 1922; correspondence regarding university education; references from employers; curriculum vitae.

Lowen, Ailsa M 1949, 'Kinetics of Nitration Reactions', PhD thesis, University of London.

H. Clair Lowen, Sterling D. Taylor, Ailsa M. Swan, and Vincent Du Vigneaud, 'Presence of Glutamine and Asparagine in Enzymatic Hydrolysates of Oxytocin and Vasopressin' in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1954, volume 87, pp. 550-552.

Dr T. G. Banner, Mrs Margaret E. James, Miss Ailsa M. Lowen and Prof. Gwyn Williams, 'Nitration in Sulfuric Acid' in Nature, volume 163, p. 955, 18 June 1949.

G. M. Bennett, 'Gwyn Williams' in Journal of the Chemical Society, March 1956, pp. 801-804.

Gwyn Williams and Ailsa M. Lowen, 'Nitration in Sulphuric Acid part VI'; Ailsa M. Lowen, M. A. Murray and Gwyn Williams, 'Nitration in Sulfuric Acid part VII'; and M. A. Murray and Gwyn Williams, 'The Ionisation of Triarylcarbinol Indicators in Sulfuric Acid - Water Mixtures' all from Journal of the Chemical Society, November 1950, pp. 3312-3326.

'On the Action of Rain to Calm the Sea' in Fourteenth Volume of the "Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, session 1874-5.

File inscribed 'Bubbles', containing: handwritten notes 'Surface Viscosity'; photograph of laboratory equipment; typed notes 'Physical Chemistry Section, Final Report on the Measurement of Single Bubble Lives at a Liquid Surface by A. M. Lowen'; handwritten notes 'Hydrodynamics'.

File inscribed 'A. M. Swan, Bubble Dimensions and Draining', containing: handwritten notes 'comments on A. Billington's Paper - about Oct '51'; reprints: Lawrence Bragg and W. M. Lomer, 'A dynamical model of a crystal structure II' in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A. volume 196, 1949; W. M. Lomer, 'A dynamical model of a crystal structure III' in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A. volume 196, 1949; W. M. Lomer, 'The forces between floating bubbles and a quantitative study of the 'Bubble Model' of a crystal' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 45, part 4; M. M. Nicholson, 'Interaction between floating particles' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 45, part 2; photographs of bubbles; typed and handwritten notes 'Photographs from the side...Elevations'; typed and handwritten notes 'Single bubble at rest beneath the surface of a solution'.

File inscribed 'Surface Tension, Volume of Bubbles Blown from Capillary, Colour Chart - Film Thickness, Letter to A. S. C. Lawrence', containing handwritten notes, charts and graphs.

File inscribed 'Talk to Div. Mtg. on Bubbles, Sep 1950', containing 17 pages of typed and handwritten notes.

File inscribed 'Monthly Reports and Project P. C. 29A', containing: mounted illustration 'Edge of soap film held in glass ring' [glass is cracked]; typed copies of CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry Monthly Reports, numbers 85-97, by A. M. Lowen on Bubble Life Investigations.

Small brown folder containing handwritten surveys of scientific literature.

Small black folder containing handwritten notes and photographs from CSIRO work on bubbles and foams.

File inscribed 'A. M. Swan, Helical bubble patterns on ice (T. O'D. Hanley)', containing: photograph; typed letter to A. M. Swan from Thos. O'D. Hanley, 5 September 1978; news clipping from New Scientist, 1 June 1978; letter to Mr Hanley from A. M. Swan, 15 August 1978; reprint: T. O'D. Hanley and T. Vo Van, 'Helical Clouds in Ice' from Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 14, 1978, pp. 147-151.

CSIRO Division of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Section, Monthly Report No. 100, June 1951.

File inscribed 'Ailsa Macvey Swan, Funeral Service, Biographical Notes', containing: correspondence regarding award of Medal of the Order of Australia; copy of last will and testament; FOFI News, newsletter of the Friends of French Island National Park Inc. , May 1998, includes obituary of Ailsa Swan; obituaries from The Age, Phillip Island and San Remo Advertiser and Sydney Morning Herald; copy of the funeral service; and biographical notes.