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Alphabetical list of species of ladybirds and moths researched by Majerus.

Includes records relating to promotions within the University, membership of the Royal Entomological Society, British Naturalists Association award

Including copy of his birth certificate, a telegram, papers from Clare College, letter offering job at GEC Laboratories 1944.

Notebook containing handwritten lecture notes:

• Geophysics (Harold Jeffreys), 28 Jan 1932

• Pratt: uniform compensation (variable density), 27 Feb 1932

• Shape of the Earth, 10 Mar 1932

• Recent work in Alpine tectonics (Nicholas), 28 Apr 1932

• Pennine Nappes, 12 May 1932

• The Universal stage, 1 Feb 1934

• Metamorphism in New Zealand, (Prof. Benson), 1 Mar 1934

• The cause of earth movement as deduced from structural patterns and Mal? Transgressions (Prof J.S. Lee), 18 Jan 1935

• Tectonic types as illustrated by the structure of China (Prof Lee), 19 Jan 1935

• Volcanic and mountain building in the East Indies tension regions (L. Hawkes), 1 Mar 1935

• The universal stage, 1st lecture, 1 July 1952

• The universal stage, 2nd lecture, 8 July 1952

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 called ‘Petrology Structures & Miscellaneous Notes (Spitzbergen, Greenland, Labrador etc)’ containing handwritten notes.

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’

Folder of correspondence on the Lloyd George Mountain in British Colombia (a mountaineering expedition took place under the leadership of Lt. Col. Frank S. Smythe in July 1947 to explore this region) including with E.F. Roots.

Also:

• offprint of ‘Exploration of the Lloyd George Mountains in Northern B.C.’ by Noel Odell from the Canadian Geographical Journal, vol. 38 Feb 1949
• offprint of ‘Glaciation in North Central British Columbia’ by John E. Armstrong and Howard W. Tipper from the American Journal of Science, vol. 246, May 1948

Typed book review of Economic Geology of New Zealand by G.J. Williams in collaboration with the New Zealand Geological Survey.

Letter from Noel Odell to the General Manager of the Rich Rock Gold Mines Ltd reporting his favourable opinion of their property which he had paid a brief visit to in autumn 1927.