This collection includes : 'The Great Barrier Reef and its origins'; 'Great Barrier Reef investigations'; 2 photographs; handwritten notes entitled 'Great Barrier Reef : manuscript notes made during reading at Geological Survey Library, London 1935'; one folder entitled 'Chemical analyses of coralline material from bore at Michaelmas Cay' (includes graphs). There is a map of Great Barrier Reef ca. 1925, which hung in Richards' office; William Branwhite Clarke medal; Carnegie Corporation medal; and hammer belonging to Richards.

Stenographer's notebook, with first half only written in and leaves numbered.
Includes analyses of geological samples from Midson's Quarry, Bonser's Quarry, Samford Road and Kerr's Quarry, Ashgrove.

Camp Mountain Quarry supplied granite for the Town Hall basement.

Letter to F. Chapman regarding the Report on Museums and Art Galleries in Australia by S.F. Markham and H.C. Richards to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, (London, Museum Association, 1933.)

Four letters regarding the report on Museums and Art Galleries in Australia by S. F. Markham and H. C. Richards, to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, (London Museum Association, 1933).