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          UQFL490 
          A F Wilson Collection 
           
          Size                    7 boxes 
           
          Contents                Geological field notes, reports, journal articles, thesis, travel notes, 
                                  photographs, negatives, maps and geological samples, 1954 to 1984 
           
          Biography               Professor Wilson was a graduate of the University of South Australia. Later, 
                                  he completed a Master of Science under the supervision of Sir Douglas 
                                  Mawson in the same state. Following his placement at the University of 
                                  Western Australia, Professor Wilson was appointed head of the Department of 
                                  Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Queensland, 1960 to 1986. 
           
          Notes                   Open access 
           
           
          Box 1 
          Geological field notes, from Northern Territory and Central Australia, 27 notebooks, handwritten 
          1943 to 1988 
           
          Box 2 
          Geological field notes from Western Australia, 40 notebooks, handwritten, 1949 to 1990 
           
          Box 3 
          Geological field notes from Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian 
          Capital Territory, 32 notebooks, handwritten, 1945 to 1990 
           
          Box 4 
          Geological field notes from: the United States of America, South America, New Zealand, 
          Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, China, India, Africa and United Kingdom, 29 notebooks, 
          handwritten, 1955 to 1988 
           
           
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          Box 5 
          Australian and Marine Resources and Element Research Pty. Ltd. Final report for exploration 
          licence No. 33114, New Zealand, 1982. 1 vol. + map in sleeve. 
          Geological Survey of South Australia. Maps (3) 
          Rock samples 
          ‘The Charnockites and ancient pyroxene gneisses of the Musgrave Ranges, North-West of South 
          Australia: together with Geographical Notes and appended Glossary of useful Aboriginal words.’ 
          (Typescript report, no date). 
          Planet Metals Ltd. Prospectus, 1966. 
          Unpublished report: Golding, S. D. ‘Stable isotope and geochemical studies of porphyry-related 
          gold mineralization, Kambalda (Western Australia), 1984’. 
           
          Box 6 
          Various postcards, photographs, negatives, slides, depicting people, rocks, landscapes, travel etc.  
          Catalogue cards listing details of Professor Wilson’s journal articles, plus other various geological 
          notations. 
           
          Folder 1 
          Photographs, correspondence and newspaper item concerning his UNESCO trip to Brazil, 1967. 
           
          Folder 2 
          Correspondence between Professor Wilson and the UQ Department of Geology and Mineralogy 
          concerning items borrowed by him. 
           
          Folder 3 
          Neuron Activation Analysis results (data sheets), 1982, 1984. 
          Neuron Activation Analysis brochures and procedures. 
           
          Folder 4 
          Bibliography of papers/articles/documents published by the University of Queensland Department 
          of Geology, 1957 to 1959, 1960 to 1961, 1966, 1964 to 1967. 
           
          Folder 5 
          Journal article reviewed by Professor Wilson for submission to Economic Geology, 1982 
           
           
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          Folder 6 
          Reprints of journal articles: 
                  Wilson, Allan F. & Ajoy, K. Baksi.  ‘Unusually light oxygen in granulites from the Strangway 
                  Range, Central Australia.’ (6 copies) 
                  Wilson, Allan F. ‘Geological report on granites in West Africa’. 1965. (3 copies) 
                  Plus handwritten “Memoirs of UNESCO trip in West Africa.” (1965?) 
           
          Aerial photographs of St. Lucia campus, UQ, and proposed university site at Mt. Gravatt (Griffith 
          University?), 1967. 
          Bibliography of works published by Henry Caselli Richards, 1908-1928. 
          Bibliography of works published by N.C. Stevens, 1950 -1955. 
           
          Box 7 
          Professor Wilson’s thesis: 
                  The Charnockitic granites and associated granites of Central Australia. Thesis for the 
                  degree of Doctor of Science in the University of Western Australia by Allan Fraser Wilson, 
                  1954. (3 vols.) 
          Note: Vol 1 titled ‘The published works of Allan Fraser Wilson’ 
           
           
           
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