Collection UQFL47 - Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress Records

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL47

Title

Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress Records

Date(s)

  • 1961-1971 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box.

Context area

Name of creator

(1888-1997)

Administrative history

Founded in 1888, ANZAAS has a long history and many specialist scientific societies in Australia and New Zealand have developed from what were sections at ANZAAS Congresses. The last ANZAAS Congress was held in Adelaide in September 1997.

Name of creator

(1908-1991)

Biographical history

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

Archival history

Collection previously titled as: Records, 1961-1971
Collection alternatively titled as: ANZAAS Congress Collection.

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

Correspondence, circulars, programmes and related material.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Folder 1: Material relating to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 35th Congress, Brisbane, 1961, Section F: Anthropology.
Folders 2 –3: Material relating to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 43rd Congress, Brisbane, 1971, Section 25: Anthropology.

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Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991004429899703131

Millennium Local System Number

.b2015947x

OCLC Number

45755511 ; 223092751

Libraries Australia ID

22197577 ; 63005078

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Status

Migrated

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised, AM, 10-Feb-2020.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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