David G. Stead and Thistle Harris papers, 1887-1989

MLMSS 5715

fonds

1887-1989

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

423551

Digitised

5 metres of textual material (25 boxes)
1 audiocassette (1 hr., 2 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

David Stead, marine biologist and zoologist. Member, International Committee on Fisheries and Marine Biology. Managing Director, Australian Whaling Company Ltd. Founder, Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia (1911) and active in the Geographical Society of New South Wales and the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Founder and Chairman, World Peace Campaign, 1936. Married third wife, botanist and academic Thistle Harris (1902-1990), in 1951. Harris published a number of books on Australian flora and was a Councillor for the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales

MLMSS 5715
1. Personal papers of David Stead.
2. Personal papers of Thistle Harris.
3. Degrees and certificates of Thistle Harris.
4. Miscellaneous papers of David Stead and Thistle Harris relating mainly to publications.
5. Original artworks by Thistle Harris.
6. Photographs of natural history subjects.
7. Glass slides (early 1900s) by David Stead.
8. Colour slides by Thistle Harris.
9. Printing plates for publications by David Stead and Thistle Harris.
10. Teaching notes of Thistle Harris.
11. Flora and fauna maps.
12. Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia account book, 1911-1947

Audiocassette:
Item 01: David George Stead oral history interview by Thistle Yolette Harris

Access via appointment - Applies to MLMSS 5715/Boxes 13-14

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Available for reference
Descriptive list available (9 p.)
Copy available at CY MLOH 171/1