Item F1848 - Letter, 1970 May 11 : St Lucia, Brisbane to Misses E. and D. Smith.

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F1848

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Letter, 1970 May 11 : St Lucia, Brisbane to Misses E. and D. Smith.

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  • 1970 (Creation)

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1 folder ; 34 cm.

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(1908-1991)

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Frederick Stanley Colliver was a Queensland anthropologist. He studied zoology, chemistry, and botany at the University of Queensland. In 1948 he became museum curator at the University of Queensland's department of geology. He was section secretary for anthropology at the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science conferences held in Brisbane in 1961 and 1971. He retired from the University in 1973 and was later president of the Museum Society of Queensland. His extensive collection of geological specimens and anthropological artefacts was transferred to the Queensland Museum in 1989. -- Excerpted from ADB

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Letter to Misses E. Smith and D. Smith, Toogoolawah re inability to help with alleged hidden gold from a prospector's mine in Biarra area, about 1900, or records of lost gold allegedly deposited with the University.
Accompanied by letters (2) from Misses Smith , re whale bone divining for minerals, and letter from Dr Naylor to Mr Colliver, re Misses Smith's letter.

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  • English

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Holograph and typescript (photocopy)

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991008416129703131

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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