Includes records of named funds and trusts, 1525-2013, miscellaneous bequests, 1928-1994, Donors Books 1630-1986, records of alumni events, 1993-2012, appeals and campaigns 1983-2012.
Black hardback notebook with green spine containing handwritten exercises and calculations:
- Heat. Exercises 2, 19 Feb 1914
- Exercises I, 17 Feb 1914
- Exercises III, 24 Feb 1914
- Expansion of gases, 26 Feb 1914
- Mechanical equivalent of heat, 3 Mar 1914
- Vapour pressure and conductivity, 5 Mar 1914
- Expansion and surface tension, 10 Mar 1914
- Work done in expansion, 12 Mar 1914
- Expansion of gasses, 17 Mar 1914
- Expansion, 19 Mar 1914
- Light, 24 Mar 1914
- [more exercises without titles]
- Magnetism, 7 May 1914
At the back loose are pages from a smaller notebook with notes on inorganic chemistry, Oct 1913
Black hardback notebook containing handwritten lecture notes in pencil on Petrology (Part II) given by C.E. Tilley. Written on the title page in pencil – ‘N.E. Odell Cambridge Oct 1931’. Includes hand drawn diagrams.
Notebook containing handwritten lecture notes:
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Geophysics (Harold Jeffreys), 28 Jan 1932
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Pratt: uniform compensation (variable density), 27 Feb 1932
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Shape of the Earth, 10 Mar 1932
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Recent work in Alpine tectonics (Nicholas), 28 Apr 1932
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Pennine Nappes, 12 May 1932
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The Universal stage, 1 Feb 1934
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Metamorphism in New Zealand, (Prof. Benson), 1 Mar 1934
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The cause of earth movement as deduced from structural patterns and Mal? Transgressions (Prof J.S. Lee), 18 Jan 1935
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Tectonic types as illustrated by the structure of China (Prof Lee), 19 Jan 1935
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Volcanic and mountain building in the East Indies tension regions (L. Hawkes), 1 Mar 1935
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The universal stage, 1st lecture, 1 July 1952
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The universal stage, 2nd lecture, 8 July 1952
Book of handwritten lecture notes taken by Noel Odell of lectures given during the war. Subjects include special tunnelling, military drilling, adaptation to military uses of diamond drill, care & lubrication of drills & pipes, surveying & laying out of anti-tank obstacles, carburettors, demolitions, and explosives.
Folder called ‘Economic Geology – Canada, Australia, & New Zealand (gold)’ containing handwritten notes, newspaper cuttings and a copy of an offprint of the article ‘Gold-Bearing Conglomerates of Central Otago’, by E.O. Macpherson from the New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, No. 5 pp.262-74, 1933
Folder containing correspondence and drafts of the article ‘The Structure of the Southern Alps’ which Odell wrote for the New Zealand Alpine Journal in 1958.
The file also contains:
- ‘Seventh Pacific Science Congress, 1949. Division of Geology and Geophysics. Selected Bibliography of the Geology and Geophysics of New Zealand, 1908-1948’, compiled by R.S. Allan
- a general geological and structural map of the Dunedin District, 1940
- ‘Notes on the Stratigraphy of New Zealand’
Handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings. The folder also contains:
- a ‘Simplified Outline of Dunedin Geological History’ produced by the Department of Geology at the University of Otago
- an abstract of a paper to be presented at the Geological Survey Staff Conference, 1952 – ‘The Geology of Banks Peninsula, with a note on the Construction Materials of the Area’
A folder of notes called ‘Geothermal Investigations at Wairakei, New Zealand’.
A folder of notes and correspondence concerning proofs of Odell’s paper for the memorial volume for Prof Ardito Desio jubilee publications, including a copy of the article ‘On the Occurrence of Granite in the Himalayan Mountains’.