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

Ten handwritten pages by Principal Richard Walter Richards relating to the running of the Ballarat School of Mines at the time if his retirement