Corporate entry Commonwealth Solar Observatory (1924 - c. 1950)

Summary

The Commonwealth Solar Observatory was established in January 1924, one of its purposes being the study of solar phenomena. By 1950 the Observatory's name had changed, becoming the Commonwealth Observatory.

Related entries

Timeline

 1924 - c. 1950 Commonwealth Solar Observatory
       c. 1950 - 1957 Commonwealth Observatory
             1957 - c. 1967 Mount Stromlo Observatory
                   c. 1967 - Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1936 - 1956, MS 037; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
• Walter Geoffrey Duffield - Records, 1880 - 1987, MS 095; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Frame, Tom and Faulkner, Don, Stromlo: an Australian Observatory, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, 364 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Allen, C. W., 'The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 4, no. 1, 1979, pp. 27-49. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410027.htm. Details
• Love, Rosaleen, 'Science and Government in Australia 1905-14: Geoffrey Duffield and the Foundation of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 171-189. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620171.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Primary description of agency CA 634; Commonwealth Solar Observatory/ (by 1950) Commonwealth Observatory/ (from 1957) Mount Stromlo Observatory/ (by 1967) Mount Stromlo and Sidining Spring Observatories, Registration of entity: 22 March 1982', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+634. Details
• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-864041. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details