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McLean log loading boom. Saxton's East Tanjil

Brown's Mill Icy Creek. Burnt 13-1-1939 Neerim District

Low Saw-firewood cutting - Shepparton putting in bottom cut for scarf to fall trees

Low saw firewood cutting. Making scarf cut. Shepparton.

Low saw cutting. Cutting felled trees into firewood blocks. Shepparton.

Oxy-acetylene treatment of poles. Pole test site, Glen Park. Scouring checks with jet flame.

Oxy-acetylene treatment of poles. Pole test site, Glen Park. Spraying hot char with creosote

Oxy-acetylene treatment of poles. Pole test site, Glen Park. Charring surface with brush flame.

Herbert Eric Dadswell was born in Sydney in 1903, educated at Newington College and at Sydney University from which he graduated B.Sc in 1925, majoring in organic chemistry.

In 1926, Dadswell was employed by the Council for Scientific and…

Wardle Wood Collection, from a private collection owned by H.V.Wardle, donated to the VSF in 1960

Olearia axillaris. Collected by H. B. Williamson, Warrnambool 1904.

Acacia stricta. Two specimens. One collected by H.B. Williamson, Curdie River 1905. One collected by J.H. Willis, Creswick 1932.

Acianthus exsertus. Two Specimens. One collected by H.B. Williamson, Hawkesdale 1898. One collected by R.W. Bond, Wonthaggi 1932.

These are a collection of approximately 7,000 glass plate negatives of microscopic cross sections of wood and related images taken by H. E. Dadswell from the Wood Collection he curated at the CSIRO.

Thesis submitted by Herbert James Semmens for the Diploma of Forestry.

Sample page from A Catalogue of the shells contained in the geology cabinet in the University Building foyer

Sample page from the Notes on Victorian forest fungi by J.H Willis

Sample pages from the Licnicolous Fungi of Creswick Forest by J.H Willis

Sample page from the Synopsis of indigenous plants occurring within a ten mile radius of Creswick. Handwritten by J. H. Willis

Fungi specimens collected by J. H. Willis in 1934 at McCrae creek.