Edwin Sherbon Hills Guide to Records

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The Edwin Sherbon Hills Guide to Records documents and contextualises the records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Lecturer in Geology 1932-1944, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1944-1962, Research Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1962-1971, at the University of Melbourne. The records described in the Guide are grouped into 23 series and cover Hills' many areas of interest, that included fossil fishes, physiography, mineralogy and petrology, structure, tectonics and morphotectonics, and economic geology. Records include subject files, correspondence, personal papers, photographs and reports. The collection comprises of 712 inventory items, mostly paper format files. The total collection occupies 624 linear cm of shelf space (or its equivalent). The Guide is the output of a research database. It was first produced in paper format by the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP) in 1992. In the late 1990s ASAP published the guide online. An updated version of the Guide was published online by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre in June 2004. The records were transferred to the National Library of Australia (MS 8564). The collection was listed by Tim Sherratt and Gavan McCarthy.