Collection of professional and personal papers. Includes mss and published copies of her work, with background research material, including maps and illustrations, and related correspondence. Professional correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1930-. Papers and reports received as a member of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Geological Society of Australia, Great Barrier Reef Committee, Royal Society, University of Queensland (Professorial Board, and Senate). Testimonials, research reports and recommendations supplied. Public lectures, press clippings, photographs.

Documents and photographs collected by Edna Hill in the course of researching the history of the Hill family. Papers relating to Hill's work in early childhood education. Personal items and realia of Dorothy Hill. Includes family history of the Rigby and Hill families.

Minutes, annual reports, financial statements, banking records, membership files, orders for publications, correspondence, circulars, questionnaires, draft proposals.