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White, Michael James Denham (1910 - 1983)

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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
Online Finding Aid: '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
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].
Formats:Artwork, Audio and Photographs.
Quantity:35 boxes
Access:Available for reference
Finding Aid: McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar, The Records of Michael James Denham White (1910-1983), Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1989, 112 pp. (Also available at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/whit/white.htm)
Online Finding Aid: McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar; McCann, Doug, Michael James Denham White Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/whit/white.htm.
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