Historical information
Richard W. Richards was Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines, and was Physicist with the Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) . He was one of seven survivors of the Ross Sea Party who were stranded in Antarctical during Ernest Shackletyon's ill-fated 1914 expedition. xand Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines (1948-1958).
Dick Richards died in 1985.
Physical description
Two handwritten pages on Ballarat School of Mines letterhead from Principal Richard Walter Richards to John Tippett.
