Scope and Contents Articles and drafts of speeches, including the following items:Speech delivered by Sir Richard Woolley when the University of Uppsala, Sweden, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa.Booklet titled 'Astronomical Insights', published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1970.Article by Woolley reprinted from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 3, 1962, concerning the Isaac Newton Telescope.Article...

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General correspondence with, among others, the Athenaeum Club; Allhallows School, Lyme Regis; the Australian Academy of Science; the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; and the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (including a request for Sir Richard Woolley to address gatherings).

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General correspondence with, among others, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Cambridge University Mathematical Society ('The Archimedeans'), the Athenaeum Club, various amateur societies, various schools, the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, the Australian Academy of Science, and the University of Adelaide. The subjects include the Catharine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, talks and lectures, and building society accounts.

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence of Sir Richard Woolley regarding invitations, awards, lectures, committees, dinners and other subjects. There is correspondence with newspapers and magazines concerning books and articles; with tradesmen, banks and insurance companies; with individuals, including Dr Atkinson, Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Allen Brown at Australia House, G. de Beer, Professor Bondi, K. St. B. Collins, Sir N. Cooper-Key M.P., Sir John Carroll, Sir Durnford Slater, Sir H. Spencer Jones,...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous publications, including the following items:Reprint of a 'Nature' article by Sir Richard Woolley on 'Rotation of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri'.Copy of the Halley Lecture for 1961 on 'Globular Clusters', delivered by Woolley at Oxford.Presidential address by Woolley from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society'.Editorial summary of 'Masses, Radii and Luminosities of RR Lyrae Variables Stars' by Woolley, taken from the...