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L. Keith Ward Collection

Accessing collections Special collections L. Keith Ward Collection

This is a small collection of the papers of Leonard Keith Ward. He was Assistant Government Geologist and Inspector of Mines in Tasmania from 1907 to 1911. He then came to South Australia as Government Geologist and Director of Mines from 1911 until his retirement in 1944. From 1925 to 1931 he was also Consultant Geologist on Water Supply to the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways.

Items in the L. Keith Ward Collection range between the years 1892 and 1955.

The collection is two boxes containing:

a. A small collection of geological maps
b. Papers and articles written by Ward, including those written for the Sydney Morning Herald during 1931-1932 under the nom-de-plume of Phyrrho.
c. Articles written by Ward on "Dowsing" and "Water divining", and numerous paper cuttings on the subject.
d. Paper cuttings on Secession of Western Australia (1934).
e. Various articles on "New states" (1931-1932) and its related problems.
f. Papers on "Australian underground water resources".
g. South Australia Annual reports of the Director of Mines and Government Geologist, 1922-1932 (bound), 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1940.
h. A miscellaneous collection of a few notes, periodical issues, prints, etc., mainly on the topic of geology.

View the L. Keith Ward Collection files here in FindIt@Flinders.

General Special Collections conditions of access apply.

List layout

Articles written by Ward - General

  • Articles written for Sydney Morning Herald 1931-32. 
  • Correspondence connected with articles for Sydney Morning Herald. 
  • Article for Australian Children's Encyclopaedia, Nov.1944. 
  • Article for Vox, Advertiser, 23.5.62

Articles and Papers - Australian Underground Water 

  • Paper prepared by Ward for Walkabout - Published June 1955. 
  • Paper read by Ward before Section P of Anzaas, Adelaide 27.8.46. 
  • Paper by E.C. Andrews - Underground Water Resources, Broken Hill District.

Articles and Papers - New States (1931-32)

  • Paper by Ward on "New states problems".
  • Article by Dr. F. Watson - "History of Subdivison of Australia and principles of readjustment".
  • Article by Griffith Taylor - "The frontiers of settlement in Australia".
  • Article by Griffith Taylor - "The geographer's aid to nation planning".
  • "Status of Australian States" - Aust. Geographer, v.1. pt. 1 Aug. 1928.
  • Various maps and paper cuttings.

Articles and Papers - Secession of Western Australia

  • Newspaper cuttings. 
  • Special edition of West Australian 
  • Secession "The case for London" 27.3.34.

Articles and Papers - Water Divining

  • Newspaper cuttings
  • Correspondence to and from Ward concerning Miss E.M. Penrose (Water Diviner) in 1943. 
  • Articles by Ward.

Australian Association for the Advancement of Science - Reports of excursions

  • Excursions to: Tambourine Mountain, Sandgate and Dayborough.

A.N.R.C.

  • Meeting in late 1947. 
  • Memorandum and discussion on fundamental research in universities.

Maps

  • Geological maps mainly of: America, Australia, Canada and Europe.

Notes - Geological Surveys

  • Survey notes of: Iron Duchess, Iron Prince, Iron Baron and Myponga.

Notes - Miscellaneous

Periodicals and reprints

  • Abstracts of proc. of Geological Society of London, No. 1148, Session 1925-26, 17.3.26. 
  • Proc. of Liverpool Geological Society. 53rd Session, Part III, Vol. XI, 1911-12. 
  • The Great Barrier Reef of Australia 1923. 
  • Department of Mines, N.S.W. Bulletin no. 16, 1925 Barytes, Ochres and Oxides. 
  • Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Proc. No. 208 Dec. 1963. 
  • Reprint from Vol. VIII, Pt. III, Memoirs of Queensland Museum 31.3.1926- "The creataceous ammonodiea of Eastern Australia" by F.W. Whitehouse. 
  • Reprint from Vol. IX Pt. I, Memoirs of Queensland Museum 28.4.27 - "Additions to craetaceous ammonite fauna of Eastern Australia" by F.W. Whitehouse.
  • From transactions of New Zealand Institute Vol. 56 pp. 129-210- "Upper cretaceous ammonities of N.Z. "by P. Marshall 31.3.26.
  • Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey of N.S.W."The composition and porosity of the intake beds of Great Australian Artesian Basin" by E.F. Pitman, 1915.
  • From American Journal of Science, Vol. VI Dec. 1923 "Some fundamental problems of disastrophism and their geological corollaries with special reference to polar wanderings" by Leo Cotton. 
  • Queensland Govt. Mining Journal Vol. XXVLL May 1926. 
  • Memoirs of Roy. Soc. of South Australia Vol. II Pt. I 1902 - Cretaceous mollusca of South Australia and North. Territory" by Robert Etheridge.
  • Memoirs of Geological Survey of N.S.W., Palaeontology No. 11, 1902 - "Monographs of the Cretaceous invertebrate fauna of N.S.W." by R. Etheridge. 
  • Annual Report of Dept. of Mines and Agriculture, N.S.W. 1892.

Prints, photographs and invitations

  • Sketches of early Adelaide. 
  • Photograph of Governor (Sir Willoughby Norrie) and staff. 
  • Invitations sent to Tom Price when he visited New Zealand, June 1901.

South Australia. Director of Mines and Govt. Geologist Annual Reports

  • 1922-1932 (bound), 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1940.

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