• Clarke, W. B. (1798-1878), Series 1: Correspondence 1842-1876, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS 28.
• Darwin, C.R. (1809-1882), Series 1: Correspondence involving C. Darwin, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS 29.
• The Deane Family Papers, National Library of Australia, MS 610.
• Kernot, W.C., Series 1: Biography, Series 2a: Biographical notes, introductory lecture c. 1893. Series 2b: material re. education, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS (Miscellaneous) 41/2.
• Krefft, G. (1830-1881), Series 1: Krefft's evidence for an inquiry into the Australian Museum, approximately 1874, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS 21.
• Longman, H.A. (1880-1954), Correspondence with scientists; newspaper cuttings, misc. personal material and letters, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS 6.
• Tate, R., Newspaper cuttings, activities, inquiries, obituaries, Basser library, Australian Academy of Science, MS 49.

• Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Vols 1- 11, 1889-1907.
• National Institution for the Promotion of Science, Bulletin of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science, Washington D.C., Second to Fourth Bulletins, 1841-1845.
• The Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, London, Vol. 1, For Anno 1665 and 1666.
• Royal Society of New South Wales, Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vols I-III - VIII, 1867-9 - 1874.
• Royal Society of New South Wales, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vols IX-XI, 1875-1877.
• Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vols X-XLII, 1878-1908.
• Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vols 13-14, Adelaide, 1890-1891.
• Royal Society of Tasmania, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1875-1900.
• Royal Society of Victoria, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vols VIII-XXV, 1867-1887.
• Royal Society of Victoria, Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, New Series, Vols 1-14 and 18, 1888-1901 and 1905.

• Age, 1894, 1895,1897.
• Argus, 1853, 1854, 1860, 1880, 1889.
• Australasian Scientific Magazine, Vol. 1. No.s 1-4, August-November 1885.
• Australian 1840, 1890.
• Australian Magazine of Contemporary Colonial Opinion, Melbourne, Vol. 1 No.s 1-4, July -September 1886.
• Australian Quarterly Journal of Theology, Literature and Science, Sydney, No.s 1-4, January - October 1828.
• Centennial Magazine, Melbourne, 1888.
• Illustrated Science Monthly: A Popular Magazine of Knowledge, Research, Travel and Invention, London, 1884.
• Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier, Sydney, 1878 - 1882, 1893-4.
• New South Wales Monthly Magazine, or, Journal of General Politics, Literature, Science, and the Arts, Vol. 1, No.s 1-11, January - November 1834.
• Sydney Morning Herald, 1842-1845, 1886, 1898.
• Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales , Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 1803-1805, Facsimile reproduction, Sydney, 1963.
• Victorian Naturalist; The Journal and Magazine of the Field Naturalist's Club of Victoria, Vol. 1, January 1884 - April 1885; Vol. 5, No.s 1-2, May-June 1889; Vol. X, No.10, January 1894, no. 122; Vol. XV, No. 10, February 1899, no. 18.

Included in the below listing are the libraries at which the publications were consulted. The National Library of Australia is abbreviated: NLA, the Australian National University: ANU, and the Basser Library within the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra: Basser Library.

• Aflalo, F.G., A Sketch of the Natural History of Australia with Some Notes on Sport, London, 1896 (Basser Library).
• Brougham, Lord H. (F.R.S.), 'Two Discourses of the Objects, Pleasures, and Advantages, I. of Science; II. of Political Science', London, 1846 (Bound with Carter, T., 'Memoirs of a Working Man', London, 1845) in Knight's Weekly Volume, n.d.). (Mitchell Library).
• Dixon, W.A. (F.I.C., F.C.S.), Technical Education. Outlines of a Practical Scheme to carry out a system of Technical Education through the Schools of Art of New South Wales, based on that now in operation in the Technical College in connection with the Sydney Institute, Sydney, 1881 (Mitchell Library).
• Foord, G., Address by George Foord Esq. on the Mission of the Man of Science, Social Science Congress, Melbourne, n.d. (Mitchell Library).
• Fountain, P. (written from the notes of T. Ward), Rambles of an Australian Naturalist, London, 1907 (Basser Library).
• Galloway, W.J., Advanced Australia: a Short Account of Australia on the Eve of Federation, London, 1899 (NLA).
• Gosse, P. H., The Romance of Natural History, second series, London, 1861 (Hancock Library, ANU).
• Glass, C.E. Advance Thought, with essays on incentive (the basis of reform), scientific religion, new metaphysical philosophy, intuition, and verses on suicide and socialism, Melbourne, 187? (NLA).
• Grasby, W. C., Principles of Australian Agriculture, London, 1912 (Basser Library).
• Hannaford, S., Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria; Being a Handbook for Those Seeking Recreation During the Summer Months, Geelong, 1860 (NLA).
• Kingsley, C., Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore, London, first edition 1855, fifth edition eighth reprint 1903 (Hancock Library, ANU).
• Macmillan, R., Science Gossip for Young and Old, Sydney, 1907 (NLA).
• Maiden, J.H., Wattles and Wattle-Barks; Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of Wattles Together with Particulars of their Value, Sydney, First Edition 1890, Third Edition, 1906 (Basser Library).
• Maiden, J.H., A Manual of the Grasses of New South Wales, Sydney, 1898 (Basser Library).
• McCoy, Prof. F., The Order and Plan of Creation; the Substance of Two Lectures Delivered in Connection with the Early Closing Association, Melbourne, 1869 (Basser Library).
• Merz, J.T., A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Vol.s I and II, London, 1896 (Chifley Library, ANU).
• Mueller, Baron F. von, On the Advancement of the Natural Sciences through Ministers of the Christian Church, A Lecture delivered at the Presbyterian Church of West Melbourne, on the 6th August 1877, Melbourne, 1877 (Mitchell Library).
• Proctor, R.A., Light Science for Leisure Hours, a Series of Familiar Essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c., &c., London, 1871 (NLA).
• Reed, A., The Advancement of Religion by Personal Effort, Adelaide, 1848 (NLA).
• Symonds, J.A., Essays Speculative and Suggestive, Vol.s I & II, London, 1890 (Mitchell Library).
• Taylor, Dr. J.E., Our Island-Continent: A Naturalist's Holiday in Australia, London, 1886 (Basser Library).
• Tenison-Woods, Rev. J. E., On the Natural History of New South Wales; an Essay, Sydney, 1882 (Basser Library).
• Tissandier, G., The Royal Treasure House of Knowledge; A Book of Plain and Healthful Studies, Pleasing Experiments, & Attractive Pastimes, for Family Amusement and Home Culture, Expressly designed to meet the every-day wants of the Australian Public, translated and enlarged from the French, London and Sydney, n.d. [188?] (NLA).
• Webb, Rev. T.W. (M.A., F.R.A.S.) Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, fourth edition, London, 1887 (Basser Library).
• Ward, Hon. Mrs. M., The Telescope: a Familiar Sketch combining a special notice of objects common within range of a small telescope, with a detail of the most interesting discoveries which have been made with the assistance of a powerful telescope, concerning the phenomena of heavenly bodies, fifth edition, London, 1879 (Basser Library).
• Wilson, Rev., T., Lessons on Natural Philosophy, London, n.d. (Mitchell Library).

• Mozley Moyal, A. M. (ed.), Scientists in Nineteenth Century Australia: A Documentary History, Melbourne, 1976.
• Ikin, V. (ed.), Australian Science Fiction, St.Lucia, QLD, 1982.
• Kauvar, G.B., and Sorensen, G.C., (eds), The Victorian Mind; an Anthology, London, 1969.

• Allen, D.E., The Naturalist in Britain; A Social History, London, 1976.
• Barber, L., The Hey Day of Natural History 1820-1870, London, 1980.
• Boas Hall, M., All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century, New York, 1983.
• Bollen, J.D., Protestantism and Social Reform in New South Wales 1890-1910, Melbourne, 1972.
• Borchardt, D.H. (ed.) Some Sources for the History of Australian Science, Six Papers Presented at a Workshop on the History of Science in Australia Organised by the Australian Academy of Science, 24-25 August, 1982, Kensington, 1985.
• British Broadcasting Corporation, Ideas and Beliefs of the Victorians; an Historic Revaluation of the Victorian Age, London, 1949.
• Burgman, V., and Lee, J., Making a Life: A People's History of Australia Since 1788, Victoria, 1988.
• Cannon, M., Australia in the Victorian Age, Vol. II, Life in the Country, and Vol. III, Life in the Cities, Ringwood, Victoria, 1988.
• Cannon, S.F., Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period, New York, 1978.
• Carr, D.J. and Carr, S.G.M. (eds), People and Plants in Australia, Sydney, 1981.
• Chant, C., and Fauvel, J. (eds), Darwin to Einstein; Historical Studies on Science and Belief, Harlow, Essex, 1980.
• Christie, J., and Shuttleworth, S. (eds), Nature Transfigured; Science and Literature, 1700-1900, Manchester, 1989.
• Cooter, R., The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science; Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge, 1984.
• Darnton, R., The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, New York, 1984.
• Davison, G., The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne, 1978.
• Dunstan, K., Wowsers; Being an Account of the Prudery Exhibited by Certain Outstanding Men and Women in such Matters as Drinking, Smoking, Prostitution, Censorship and Gambling, Melbourne, 1968.
• Ellegärd, A., Darwin and the General Reader; the Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872, Göteborg, 1958.
• Garton, S., Out of Luck; Poor Australians and Social Welfare 1788-1988, Sydney, 1990.
• Greene, M.T., Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World, New York, 1982.
• Haley, B., The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978.
• Hays, S.P., The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914, Chicago, 1957.
• Home, R.W. (ed.), Australian Science in the Making, Sydney, 1990.
• Inkster, I., and Morrell, J. (eds), Metropolis and Province; Science in British Culture, 1780-1850, London, 1983.
• Kingston, B., The Oxford History of Australia: 1860-1900; Glad Confident Morning, Melbourne, 1988.
• Knight, D.M., Natural Science Books in English 1600-1900, London, 1972.
• Knight, D., The Age of Science; The Scientific World-view in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford, 1986.
• Lasdun, S., Making Victorians; The Drummond Children's World 1827-1832, London, 1983.
• Ljungdahl, L. (ed.), A Week in the Future; Catherine Helen Spence's 1888 Forecast of Life in 1988, Sydney, 1987.
• MacLeod, R. (ed.), The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988, Melbourne, 1988.
• MacLeod, R. (ed.), University and Community in Nineteenth Century Sydney: Professor John Smith 1821-1885, Sydney, 1988.
• MacLeod, R. and Rehbock, P.F. (eds), Nature in Its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific, 1696-1798, Honolulu, 1988.
• Mandelbaum, M., History, Man, and Reason; a Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, Baltimore, 1971.
• Mathias, P. (ed.), Science and Society 1600-1900, Cambridge, 1972.
• Molony, J., A History of Australia; the Story of 200 Years, Ringwood, Victoria, 1988.
• Morrell, J., and Thackray, A., Gentlemen of Science; Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford, 1981.
• Nadel, G., Australia's Colonial Culture; Ideas, Men and Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia, Melbourne, 1957.
• Paradis, J. and Postlewait, T. (eds), Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, New Jersey, 1985.
• Powell, J.M., Environmental Management in Australia 1788-1914, Guardians, Improvers and Profit: an Introductory Survey, Melbourne, 1976. Reingold, N., Rothenberg, M., (eds), Scientific Colonialism; a Cross-Cultural Comparison. Papers from a Conference at Melbourne, Australia 25-30 May 1981, Washington D.C., 1987.
• Roe, M., Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia 1835-1851, Kingsgrove, NSW, 1965.
• Roe, M., Nine Australian Progressives; Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought 1890-1960, St. Lucia, Queensland, 1984.
• Royal Society of New South Wales, Commemoration of Centenary of the Philosophical Society of Australasia, Sydney, 1921.
• Russell, C.A., Science and Social Change 1700-1900, Somerset, 1983.
• Stimson, D., Scientists and Amateurs; A History of the Royal Society, New York, 1948.
• Wiebe, R.H., The Search For Order 1877-1920, New York, 1967.
• Vellacot, H. (ed.), A Girl at Government House, an English Girl's Reminiscences 'Below Stairs' in Colonial Australia, Ringwood, Victoria, 1988.
• Vovelle, M., Ideologies and Mentalities, (trans. by E. O'Flaherty from the French Idéolgies et Mentalities, 1982) English edition, Cambridge, 1990.

• Bergman, M., ' "Hegemony" and the Amateur Tradition in British Science', in Journal of Social History, winter 1975, pp.30-50.
• Branagan, D.F., 'Words, Actions, People: 150 Years of the Scientific Societies in Australia', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. 104, 1972, pp. 123-141,.
• Gilbert, L.A., 'Plants and Parsons in Nineteenth Century New South Wales', Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1982, pp.17-32.
• Habib, I., 'Institutional Efforts: Popularization of Science in the Mid 19th Century', Fundamenta Scientiae, The International Journal for the Critical Analysis of Science and the Responsibility of Scientists, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1985, p.299-312.
• Henson, R., 'A Fine Field for Botanising', Hemisphere, 26, September/October 1981, pp. 66-71.
• Home, R.W., 'The Problem of Intellectual Isolation in Scientific Life: W.H. Bragg and the Australian Scientific Community, 1886-1909', Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 19-30.
• Home,R.W., 'First Physicist of Australia: Richard Threllfall at the University of Sydney, 1886-1898', in Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1986, pp.333-358.
• Kohlstedt, S.G., 'Australian Museums of Natural History: Public Priorities and Scientific Initiatives in the 19th Century', Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 5, No. 4,1983, pp.1-29.
• MacLeod, R., ' On Visiting the "Moving Metropolis": Reflections on the Architecture of Imperial Science,' Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1982, pp.1-16.
• Madden, W., 'Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment', in Dictionary of the History of Ideas; Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, 1973, Vol. 4, pp. 217-224.
• Melleuish, G., 'Beneficent Providence and the Quest for Harmony: The Cultural Setting for Colonial Science in Sydney, 1850-1890', paper given at "Scientific Sydney" Seminar on 18 May 1985, History House, Sydney, published in Journal and Proceedings, Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. 118, 1985, pp.167-180.
• Mozley, A., 'Evolution and the Climate of Opinion in Australia, 1840-76', Victorian Studies; a Quarterly Journal for the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, Vol.X, No. 4, 1967, pp. 411-430.
• Newland, E.D., 'Forgotten Early Australian Journals of Science and Their Editors', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol., 72, Part 5, 1987, pp.59-68.
• Putnam, C., 'Meet the Real Philosophers of Science', New Scientist, Australasian edition, London and Dingley, Victoria, 12 January 1991, p.53.
• Reiger, K., 'All But the Kitchen Sink: On the Significance of Domestic Science and the Science of Social Theory', Theory and Society, Vol. 16, No. 4, July,1987, pp.497-526.
• Watkins, E., 'Ways of Seeing Nature: Attitudes to Nature in the Victorian Naturalist, 1884-1982', The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 101, no. 1, 1984. pp. 30-47.
• Wheeler, E., 'The First Adelaide Congress', Search, Vol. 11, No. 5, May, 1980, pp.152-6.
• Willis, J.H., 'The First Century of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria', in Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 97 , May/June 1980, pp.93-106.

• Askew, M.R., "The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge": Mechanics' Institutes in Nineteenth Century Victoria, B.A. Honours thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, 1982.
• Hoare, M.E., Science and Scientific Associations in Eastern Australia, 1820-1890, Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University, 1974.
• Hyslop, A., The Social Reform Movement in Melbourne, 1890 to 1914, Ph.D. thesis, La Trobe University, 1980.
• McCalman, I, The Social and Political Thought of Thomas Henry Huxley, B.A. Honours thesis, Australian National University, 1970.
• Oldmeadow, K.S., "The Science of Man", Scientific Opinion on the Australian Aborigines in the Late Nineteenth Century; The Impact of Evolutionary Theory and Racial Myth, B.A. Honours thesis, Australian National University, 1968.
• Player, A.V., Julian Tenison Woods 1832-1889: The Interaction of Science and Religion, M.A. thesis, Australian National University, 1990.

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