Theme

History of Australian Science - General

Bibliographies

Summary

This theme brings together in the one place the general history of Australian science bibliographies that have been compiled over the years. Links are provided to key people who have played an important role in this work.

Skip to

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Books

  • Bellas, T. E., Insects as a cause of inhalant allergies: a bibliography (Canberra: CSIRO, 1981), 64 pp. Details
  • Brown, R. H., A bibliography of Australian plant nematology, 1890 - 1974 (Burnley, Vic.: Plant Research Institute, 1976), 53 pp. Details
  • Cumming, D. A,; Moulds, A.; Wrigley, L. J., A bibliography of Australian engineering history and heritage, prepared from the database ENGINE (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1991), 74 pp. Details
  • Daniels, G., Bibliography of Australian entomology 1687-2000, 2 vols (Mt Ommaney, Qld: The Author, 2004). Details
  • Davies, Mel, Bibliography of the mining history of Australia, New Zealand & Papua New Guinea (Nedlands: Dept. of Economics, University of Western Australia, 2002), 321 pp. Details
  • Ford, Edward, Bibliography of Australian medicine, 1790 - 1900 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976), 348 pp. Details
  • Gandevia, B. H., An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine in Australia (Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co, 1957), 139 pp. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan; Holster, Alison and Simpson, Sheila, An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine and Health in Australia (Sydney: The Royal Australasia College of Physicians, 1984), 187 pp. Details
  • Knight, Russell W., Australian Antarctic bibliography (Hobart: University of Tasmania, Institute for Antarctic ansd Southern Ocean Studies, 1987), 460 pp. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., A bibliography of Australian economic botany, part 1 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1892), 61 pp. Details
  • Mathews, G. M., The birds of Australia: bibliography of the birds of Australia: books used in the preparation of this work with a few biographical details of authors and collectors (London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925), 149 pp. Details
  • Moodie, P.; and Pedersen, E. B., The health of Australian Aborigines: an annotated bibliography with classifications by subject matter and locality (Sydney: School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1966), 129 pp. Details
  • Moulds, M. S., Bibliography of the Australian butterflies : (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea), 1773-1973 (Greenwich, N.S.W.: Australian Entomological Press, 1977), 239 pp. Details
  • Moyal, Ann Mozley, Science, technology and society in Australia: a bibliography (Brisbane: Science Policy Research Centre, School of Science, Griffith University, 1978), 74 pp. Details
  • Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
  • Neboiss, Arturs, Checklist and bibliography of the Australian caddis-flies (Trichoptera) (Abbotsford, Vic.: National Museum of Victoria, Department of Entomology, ), 132 pp. Details
  • Pickett, John W., Fossil corals of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Antarctica: bibliography and index (Canberra: Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 2010), 189 pp. Details
  • Plomley, N. J. B., An annotated bibliography of the Tasmanian Aborigines (London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1969), 143 pp. Details
  • Polach, Dilette, First 20 Years of Radiocarbon Dating: an annotated bibliography, 1948-68 (Pilot Study) (Canberra: Radiocarbon Dating Research Laboratory, Australian National University, 1980). Details
  • Polya, Rosemary, Nineteenth century plant nursery catalogues of south-east Australia : a bibliography (Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe University Library, 1981). Details
  • Quay, Denise E.; assisted by Marilyn Lenton, A bibliography of Australian Aborigines : being a union list of monographs and other materials held by the libraries of James Cook University of North Queensland and Townsville College of Advanced Education as at March, 1977 (Townsville, Qld: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1977), 103 pp. Details
  • Sagona, Claudia, An annotated bibliography of the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1970 - 1987 ([Melbourne]: Art School Press, Chisholm Institute of Technology, 1989), 290 pp. Details
  • Teesdale-Smith, N., Bibliography of South Australian geology (Adelaide: Geological Survey of South Australia, 1959), 235 pp. Details
  • Whittell, H. M., The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and a Bibliography of Australian Ornithology (Perth: Patterson Brokensha, 1954), 140 pp. Details
  • Wilson, Gwen, Bibliography of references to anaesthesia in Australian medical journals, 1846 - 1962 (Melbourne: Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1988), 481 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Gandevia, B. ed., Bibiliography of Australian Medicine & Health Services to 1950, 4 vols (Canberra: A.G.P.S., 1988). Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Bibliography on dams in Australia 1858 - 1969', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 42 (10-11) (1970), N97-N108. Details
  • Benson, William Noel, 'Notes on the geology of the Cradle Mountain district, with a bibliography of the Pleistocene glaciation of Tasmania', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1916 (1917), 29-43. Details
  • Burman, R., 'Early Australian Solar Radio Astronomy: a Bibliography of the First Three Years', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 4 (1) (1991), 1-9. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. [1]', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 131-5, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520131. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. [2]', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (3) (1982), 126-31, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9820530126. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 3, 1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 121-6. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540121. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 4, 1983', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1983), 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610097. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 5, 1984', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 319-30. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620319. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 6, 1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (3) (1986), 451-68. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630451. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 7, 1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 141-52. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710141. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 8, 1987/8', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 359-71. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730359. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 9, 1988', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (4) (1989), 437-46. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9890740437. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 10, 1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (2) (1990), 107-17, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9900820107. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 11, 1990', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (4) (1991), 289-99. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9910840289. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 12, 1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 205-22. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920205. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 13, 1992', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (3) (1993), 307-16, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9930930307. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 14, 1993', Historical Records of Australian Science, 10 (1) (1994), 95-108, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9941010095. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 15, 1994', Historical Records of Australian Science, 10 (3) (1995), 307-22. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9951030307. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 16, 1995', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (1) (1996), 83-99, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9961110083. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 17, 1996', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (4) (1997), 587-97. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971140587. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 18, 1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (1) (1998), 135-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9981210135. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 19, 1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (3) (1999), 401-9. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9991230401. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 20, 1999', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (1) (2000), 109-16. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0001310109. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 21, 2000', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (3) (2001), 369-81, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0011330369. Details
  • Carlson, L., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 22, 2001', Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (1) (2002), 119-28. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02007. Details
  • Cohen, Graeme L., 'A bibliography of Australian mathematics to 1960 with observations relating to the history of Australian mathematics', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1) (2020), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19008. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 28, 2007', Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 (1) (2008), 115-24, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR08005. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 29, 2008', Historical Records of Australian Science, 20 (1) (2009), 147-162 , https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09008. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 30, 2009', Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (1) (2010), 119-31, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR10006. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 31, 2010', Historical Records of Australian Science, 22 (1) (2011), 188-98, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR11006. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 32, 2011', Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (1) (2012), 90-106, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12005. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 33, 2012', Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1) (2013), 174-88, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12023. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 34, 2013', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 123-41, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14010. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 35, 2014', Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (1) (2015), iii-lii. https://doi.org/10.1071/HRv26n1_bib. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 36, 2015', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (supp.) (2016), 1-32, https://doi.org/10.1071/HRv27n1_bib. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 37, 2016', Historical Records of Australian Science, 28 (1) (2017), 76-89, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR17902. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 38, 2017', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (1) (2018), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR18902. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 39, 2017/8', Historical Records of Australian Science, 30 (1) (2019), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19901. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 40, 2018/9', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1) (2020), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR20901. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 41, 2019/20', Historical Records of Australian Science, 32 (2) (2021), 109-23. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR21901. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 42, 2020/21', Historical Records of Australian Science, 33 (1) (2022), 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22901. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 43, 2021/22', Historical Records of Australian Science, 34 (1) (2023), 80-107, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22016. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 44, 2022/23', Historical records of Australian science, 35 (1) (2024), 64-82. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23026. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 45, 2023/24', Historical Records of Australian Science, 36 (2025), 1-17, https://doi.org/10/1071/HR24026. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 46, 2024/25', Historical Records of Australian Science, 37 (1) (2026), 17. https://10.1071/HR2604. Details
  • Cooper, M. G., 'A bibliography of articles on the history of anaesthesia and medicine in Anaesthesia and intensive care 1972 - 2005', Anaesthesia and intensive care, 35 (2007), 37-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X0703501s07. Details
  • Hill, D.; and Willadsen, C., 'Bibliography of Australian geological serials and other Australian periodicals that include geological papers', Papers of the Department of Geology, University of Queensland, 9 (3) (1980), 1-76. Details
  • Horacek, John, 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 23, 2002', Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (3) (2003), 389-401. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03003. Details
  • Horacek, John, 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 24, 2003', Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (1) (2004), 139-48. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR04003. Details
  • Horacek, John, 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 25, 2004', Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (1) (2005), 127-37. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05005. Details
  • Horacek, John, 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 26, 2005', Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (1) (2006), 131-45. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06002. Details
  • Horacek, John, 'Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 27, 2006', Historical Records of Australian Science, 18 (1) (2007), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR07003. Details
  • Kitching, R. L.; and Edwards, E. D., 'Books about Australian moths 1805-2020: an annotated bibliography', Australian entomologist, 47 (3) (2020), 119-54. Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Bibliography of the Chemistry of Indigenous Australian Vegetable Products', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 183-193, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813271. Details
  • Marymor, Leigh, 'Australian rock art bibliography extracted for the Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database for the years 1841 to 2018 - part 2', Rock art research, 36 (1) (2019), 49-93. Details
  • Marymor, Leigh, 'Australian rock art bibliography extracted for the Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database for the years 1841 to 2018 - part 1', Rock art research, 35 (2) (2019), 188-248. Details
  • Mozley, Ann, 'A check list of publications on the history of Australian science', Australian Journal of Science, 25 (1962), 206-14. Details
  • Mozley, Ann, 'Supplement of a check list of publications on the history of Australian science', Australian Journal of Science, 27 (1964), 8-15. Details
  • Simpson, Sheila; and Tovell, Ann, 'A bibliography of Australian paeditrics 1846 - 1900: part II : 1880-1900', Australian paediatric journal, 14 (95-101) (1978), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1978.tb02957.x. Details
  • Simpson, Sheila; Tovell, Ann; and Gandevia, Bryan, 'A bibliography of Australian paeditrics 1846 - 1900', Australian paediatric journal, 14 (1) (1978), 21-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1978.tb02934.x. Details
  • Simpson, Sheila; Tovell, Ann; and Gandevia, Bryan, 'A bibliography of Australian paeditrics 1846 - 1900, part III', Australian paediatric journal, 15 (1) (1979), 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1979.tb01178.x. Details
  • Tull, Malcolm, 'Bibliography of university theses on Australian maritime history', International journal of maritime history, 8 (1) (1996), 199-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/084387149600800112. Details
  • Wesson, Jane P., 'A first bibliography of historical archaeology in Australia', Australian journal of historical archaeology, 1 (1983), 22-34. Details
  • Wesson, Jane P., 'A first bibliography of historical archaeology in Australia continued', Australian journal of historical archaeology, 2 (1984), 13-6. Details
  • White, J. Peter, 'Theses about prehistoric archaeology and associated disciplines in Australia, 1975 - 1993', Archaeology in Oceania, 29 (2) (1994), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.1994.29.2.95. Details

Resources

  • Carlson, Laurie; Evans, Joanne; McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim; et al, History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography, Bright Sparcs, 2007 edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, ASAPWeb, Melbourne, 1995-2007. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bib_home.htm. Details

Gavan McCarthy [P004098]

Created: 22 May 2023, Last modified: 6 October 2023

EOAS ID: biogs/P007227b.htm

This Edition: 2026 May - New Office
Chunnup - Gariwerd calendar - Winter: late May to end of July - season of cockatoos
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-chunnup-season-of-cockatoos

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007227b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260