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White, Michael James Denham (1910 - 1983)

Prof., DSc (Lond) MSc FAA, FRS
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Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
 
[Repository details]
Title:Michael James Denham White - Records
Reference:MS 78
Date Range:1973 - 1978
Description:

Typescript or handwritten copies of two of White's monographs "Animal cytology and evolution" (3rd ed. 1973) and "Modes of speciation" (1978) [45 cm, MS 78].

Quantity:0.45 m
Access:Available for reference
Finding Aid(s):

'White, Michael James Denham - Ms 78', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms078.txt.

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Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
 
[Repository details]
Title:Michael James Denham White - Records
Date Range:1948 - 1972
Description:

1. Main Series of (microscope) slides of cytological preparations numbers c2696-3928 (not complete), probably all morabines; 2. Identified series of slides sorted taxonomically; 3. Selected series of slides with the numbers 107-2915, Ch1-994 and K27-439; 4. Miscellaneous slides; 5. Published morabine series of slides of revised genera; 6. Other slides; 7. Wax blocks of numbered unsectioned testes; 8. Fixed testes etc in vials, many dried out, mainly morabine; 9. Whole bodies of morabines in liquid in vials; 10. Dried bodies of grasshoppers 1974-75; 11.Dried bodies of 2n and 3n hybrids of "Warramaba" species, laboratory reared with a list of hybrid experiments; 12. Field and laboratory notebooks 1948-72 including lists of identifications by cytological preparation numbers [19 volumes].

Formats:Objects
Quantity:12 series
Access:Available for reference
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Title:Michael James Denham White - Records
Reference:88 42 and 89 36
Date Range:1926 - 1985
Description:

A large and comprehensive collection of personal papers, including biographical material and correspondence; research correspondence; subject and research files; working papers and draft manuscripts in particular records dealing with research on the Morabine grasshopper; photographs and slides; oversize pictorial material including maps, cytological drawings, certificates and radiographs; material relating to his collection of insects and diaries at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra; overall dates 1926-85 [35 boxes]. A detailed guide to the collection is available from the Australian Science Archives Project.

Formats:Artwork, Audio and Photographs
Quantity:35 boxes
Access:Available for reference
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Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, October 2001
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Updated: 16 November 2009
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