Donated by the O'Brien Family.Donated by the O'Brien Family to display some of the items from the school's Sir Macfarlane Burnet Collection. Timber display cabinet. Glass shelves in upper section, cupboards underneath. Used to display some of the Sir Macfarlane Burnet Collection. Donated to/ Grey Street Primary School/ by/ The O'Brien Family/ Past Students of the School/ John J.S. O'Brien 1932-1938/ Christopher J. S. O'Brien 1957-1963/ Peter R. O'Brien 1959-1965/ Susan W. Couling (nee O'Brien) 1965-1971/ John K. O'Brien 1971-1977

School Library named in honour of former student of Traralgon State School, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Dedicated to him at the official opening of new school extensions on 17 October 2001. The plaque on the inside of the library was unveiled by his eldest daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Dexter.Window over entrance door to school library.

Part of the collection held by the school.Macfarlane Burnett and his sisters attended Traralgon State School.Portrait of Macfarlane Burnet as a young man.

Part of the collection held by Grey Street Primary School.He was a notable pupil of Traralgon State School.Sir Macfarlane Burnet

Part of the collection of Grey Street Primary School.Past pupil of Traralgon State School.Sir Mac Burnet at his microscope.

Part of collection of Grey Street Primary School.Past pupil of Traralgon State School.Sir Macfarlane Burnet reading.

Frank Burnet was manager of the Old Colonial Bank in Traralgon. Frank Burnet is the father of Frank Macfarlane Burnet.Frank Burnet (Senior) sitting on a grassy slope.

Sir Mac's mother and maternal grandparents. When he died in 1985 he was buried at the Tower Hill Cemetery, in the Western District, close to his McKay grandparents.Part of the collection held by Grey Street Primary School.Family group portrait of Sir Macfarlane Burnet's mother Hadassah McKay and her parents, George Gilbert McKay and Hadassah Pollock.

Doctorate of Philosophy in Bacteriology awarded to Frank Macfarlane Burnet of the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine by the University of London, 25 January 1928.

Nobel Prize for Medicine won in 1960 with Peter Medawar. Part of the collection held at Grey Street Primary School.Framed copy of Macfarlane Burnet's Citation for the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1960, held by Garth Reece-Hackford.

Written in Latin. Doctor of Medicine awarded to Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

Mac Burnet was born in Traralgon in 1899, his sister Doris in 1896.Part of the collection held by Grey Street Primary School.Young Mac Burnet, sister Doris and mother Hadassah with horse and buggy.

Sir Macfarlane Burnet was Australia's first Nobel Prize winner.Part of the collection held by Grey Street Primary school.Newspaper report of Sir Mac Burnet being presented with his Nobel Prize by King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden.

Another award to Mac Burnet from a prestigious institution. Part of the collection held at the school.Doctorate of Science awarded by Harvard University to Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Written in Latin.

Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar's research into acquired immunological tolerance wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine.Part of the collection held by Grey Street Primary School.The Age newspaper report of 20 October 1960 on the Nobel Prize won jointly by Professors Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar.

Awarded 14 November 1968Another honor for Sir Mac Burnet, past pupil of Traralgon State SchoolSir Macfarlane Burnet's Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1968.

Newspaper article about Professor Suzanne Cory following in the footsteps of Gustav Nossal and Sir Macfarlane BurnetSir Mac is a past pupil of Traralgon State School.Professor Suzanne Cory, new director of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, with a bust of Sir Macfarlane Burnet.

Doctor of Medicine granted to Macfarlane Burnet by University of Melbourne, 1924.

Sir Macfarlane Burnet was honored by many institutions around the world for his work in immunology.Sir Mac was a notable past student of what is now Grey Street Primary School, Traralgon.Collection of 23 medals awarded to Sir Macfarlane Burnet

Obverse of 23 medals awarded to Sir Macfarlane Burnet

Display of medals and awards gained by Sir Macfarlane Burnet.These photoboards are part of a collection held by Grey Street Primary School TraralgonMore medals and awards gained by Sir Macfarlane Burnet.

Both Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Gustav Nossal were directors of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Melbourne.Macfarlane Burnet attended Traralgon State School.Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Gustav Nossal with a bust of Sir Mac

Newspaper reports of the death of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, and of tributes from Sir Mark Oliphant, Sir Ian Wood and Sir Colin Syme.Macfarlane Burnet was born in Traralgon and attended a private school before transferring to Traralgon State School.Newspaper articles

On the centenary of Sir Mac's death, his family donated his academic gowns to the University of Melbourne. Elizabeth Dexter, his daughter, is pictured with Chancellor, Sir Edward Woodward.Sir Mac was the first University of Melbourne graduate to win a Nobel Laureate, and was Professor of Experiment Medicine at the University from 1944 to 1965.Sir Mac's academic gowns donated to University of Melbourne.

Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, awarded to Sir Macfarlane Burnet in 1952. Mac Burnet attended Traralgon State School.Honorary Fellowship of Royal Society of Medicine.

Part of a letter written by Mac Burnet to his mother in October 1919.Written while he was attending University of Melbourne.Letter to his mother.

Part of a letter written by Mac Burnet to his mother in July 1921.Mac Burnet was attending University of Melbourne at this time.Letter to his mother.

Sir Mac Burnet arrived back from the U.S. where he won a Lasker Award (a gold statuette) from the American National Health Association in 1952.Mac Burnet was born in Traralgon in 1899.Sir Mac Burnet receives Lasker Award in the U.S.

Letter written by Mac Burnet to his sister Annie Burnet in September 1921.Mac Burnet was nearing the end of his student days at University of Melbourne.Letter to his sister Annie.

Mac BurnetPart of a collection held at Grey Street Primary School in Traralgon.Unknown man with Sir Macfarlane Burnet.