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Offprint of ‘Air Survey of the New Zealand Alps’ by N.E. Odell from The Geographical Journal, vol. CXXII part 4, December 1956.

Envelope with the typed address label - Professor Noel Odell, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
And ‘My graduation address at V.U.C.’ written in pencil in Odell’s hand writing.

Contains copies of the address given by Odell at the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony in 1952 and related papers:

(1) manuscript draft of the address written in a black notebook

(2) two typed copies with manuscript corrections

(3) printed booklet, ‘Adventure and Enterprise in Our Time’ by N.E. Odell
Loose letter inside dated 10 Feb 1953 and signed Malcolm Dylan Hutt thanking him for the booklet and mentioning his plans for walking in the hills

(4) Order of Ceremony booklet for the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony 1952 at which Odell gave the address. Loose inside:

• Order of procession
• newspaper cutting about the ceremony
• loose letter dated 12 Jan 1953 thanking Odell for his graduation address to Wellington and wondering how it was received as Odell spoke to them ‘very straight’.

(5) newspaper cuttings reacting to the address in which he said N.Z. people had a “complacent and lazy” attitude towards life.

‘Spitsbergen Lichens’ by Robert Paulson. Extracted from the Journal of Botany, vol. 6, 1 March 1923.

Copy of 'The Rich Rock Gold Mines, Limited What Mining Engineers Say' which lists N.E. Odell as a geologist and mining engineer. Contains a letter from Odell to the General Manager of Rich Rock Gold Mines Ltd.

Offprint of ‘Mountains that have travelled over volcanoes’ by Dr E.B. Bailey F.R.S. Geological Survey of Great Britain from Nature, vol. 154, page 752, Dec. 16 1944.

‘N.E.O – from the author’ is written in pencil in the top right hand corner.

'The Geological Importance of the Netherlands Himalayan Expedition' by Th. H.F. Klompé O.S.R.- Publication 8. Printed by Vorkink Bandung, Indonesia, 1950.

Offprint of ‘Les grandes lignes de la Géologie du Népal oriental’ by Augustin Lombard (Professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles). Extract from the Bulletin de la Soc. Belge de Géol., de Paléontol. Et d’Hydrol, 1953.

Offprint of ‘Frictional Fusion along a Himalayan Thrust’, by J.S. Scott and H.I. Drever, Department of Geology, University of St Andrews (1953) from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B (Biology) Vol. LXV – part II (No. 10).

‘good bibliography on mylonites’ is written on the front cover in pencil.

Occasional Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bo. 15, vol. 3, 1953 October.

Offprint of ‘The Development of Hecla Hoek Rocks in Spitsbergen’, by W.B. Harland from the Report of the International Geological Congress, XXI sessions, Norden, 1960 part XIX, Caledonian Orogeny Copenhagen.