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Archival Resources Details Working Notes

File Title: Working Notes
Repository: National Centre for Indigenous Genomics
Reference: 02B-32
Date Range: 1968
Description: This file contains: a record of a 'meeting of Dr Kirk with welfare branch research section staff- 5th February, 1968'. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the staff's ideas for what could be conveniently examined as part of the International Biological Programme in the Northern Territory. The file also contains R.L. Kirk's handwritten notes made after discussions with Dr Wurm, Harry Giese and Dr E.M. Stack; and Kirk's notes made in preparation for a meeting in Darwin. The file includes a partial handdrawn map of family relationship of Wilson's disease or Hepatolentricular degeneration, with names, supplied by Dr Don Jacobs, 8/2/1968. There are three handwritten pages of working notes mostly linking people's names with various areas of study or interest; one small page of working notes referring to albinism and polydactyly; one page names the staff at Bathurst Island, the staff at the Hospital (Our Lady of Sacred Heart), at the Catholic Headquarters, and at the Health Department in Darwin. Another page mentions the research being done on the Bathurst Island intersexes or hermaphrodites.
Quantity: 18 pages
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