A review of the two books 'The New Architecture and the Bauhaus' by Walter Gropius and 'Garden Cities of Tomorrow' by Ebenezer Howard, on the occasion of their reissue as paperbacks.Original manuscript published as "Ahead of the trend" in the 'The Australian' on 05.06.1965.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 5 pagesadelaide, bauhaus, canberra, deutscher werkbund exhibition, elizabeth, garden cities, walter gropius, ebenezer howard, letchworth, lewis mumford, welwyn, yallourn, robin boyd, manuscript

Boyd starts with a vivid description of the pomp surrounding the announcement of the name for Australia's national capital on 12 March, 1913. The history of the development of a national capital, and its design is given, along with the significance of the public landscaping. Includes captions for three Canberra views."The City Among The Hills", in The Book of Melbourne and Canberra, The Griffin Press, Adelaide 1966, pp 32-33.1 Typewritten, 2 Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 12 pages. (Two copies)Reverse P10 has caption in pencilcanberra, walter burley griffin, leslie wilkinson, national capital development commission, canberra landscape, ebenezer howard, garden city, robin boyd, manuscript

An article from the Weekend Magazine of 'The Argus' of 19 June 1948 by Geoffrey Hutton calling for a halt to the unending sprawl of Melbourne's suburbs and the creation of a green belt.Weekend Magazine of 'The Argus' of 19 June 1948 by Geoffrey Hutton land use, howard, ebenezer, melbourne, osborn, f.j., webb, (cr), melbourne and metropolitan board of works, tram services, commonwealth scientific and research organisation, victoria. department of agriculture, railways, state electricity commission

Typed notes mentioning the history of the Hepburn Family and Margaret Cotton McLachlan coming by sailing ship to Australia to marry her fiance who was a miner in Sandhurst and extracts from the diary of William Thompson.document, names of bendigo pioneers, bendigo historical society, settlers under sail, alexander hepburn stone, loch ard centenary commemoration committee, professor j. j. auchmuty, mr don charlwood, andrew hepburn, james hepburn, mary queen of scots, black bothwell, captain hepburn, the 'hope', george b crow, george baker, the 'marlbro', archives department of the latrobe library, mr loman, the 'david clarke', captain hepburn of the royal scots, sir john hepburn, mr howard hepburn, victoria reef lease no 60, ebenezer neill, becker, stirton, margaret cotton mclachlan, ina hepburn, the 'donald mckay', black ball line, james baines and company of liverpool, onedin line, passenger contract ticket, james mclauchlan, christian ferguson, robert miller, william thompson, mr stanwin, the 'shomberg', itchell and son, the 'dunbar', margaret stirton, canon horace stirton, dr james nish, p pentreath, jane pentreath, st andrew's presbyterian church sandhurst, james hepburn, corporate high school, bendigo high school, iron bark school of john rae, rae's hill school, mr john rae, rae anderson, bendigo branch of the royal historical society of victoria, victoria reef mine, 'gourdie farm', mr howard hepburn, john fortey, margaret cotton hepburn

Illustrated book with dustjacket. Book is bound in brown cloth with abbreviated title, author's name and printer's mark embossed in gilt on spine. Dustjacket has title printed in white and green and author's name in white print on a black and white photograph of a man with dark hair, wearing glasses and a white coat (Walter Florey), Abbreviated title (in white) author's name (in green) and printer's mark (in black) are printed on a brown background on the spine. The back of the dust jacket has a black and white photo of Penicillin notatum growing in a petri dish"Rise Up to Life" follows Howard Florey’s career from his university days in Adelaide, through the period of his greatest research projects at Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield which culminated in his success with penicillin, to the final years of his life when he was the first Australian to be elected President of the Royal Society. But this biography goes beyond exploring with insight and sympathy the life of a great scientist to give the reader a vivid and dramatic picture of the scientific processes that led up to a new discovery and a new era in medicine.howard florey, penicillin, history of medicine-biography