John Williamson Legge Guide to Records

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The John Williamson Legge Guide to Records documents and contextualises the records of John Williamson Legge, a biochemist known for his work on mustard gas trials in Australia during World War II. Included in the collection are personal and research related correspondence, drafts of some of John Williamson Legge's scientific writing, and documentation of research into mustard gas conducted in Australia during the Second World War. The collection documented by the Guide consists of 152 inventory items, mostly paper format files, grouped into five series. The total collection occupies 196 linear cm of shelf space (or its equivalent). The Guide is the output of a research database. It was published online by the eScholarship Research Centre in August 2008. The records were originally transferred to the Australian Science Archives Project in 1995, when the initial listing of the collection took place. The records were transferred to the State Library of Victoria after the Guide was completed (MS 13609). The collection was listed by Michael Jones, Rachel Tropea and Ann McCarthy.