Author: CURRIE, GEORGE; GRAHAM, JOHN.
Title: The Origins Of CSIRO. Science and the Commonwealth Government 1901-1926.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xi, 203; portrait frontispiece, 11 b/w photographic plates, appendices, index; original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, chipping to edges, flecking to dustjacket, flecking to page edges, presentation plate to front endpaper, a good copy. Melbourne, CSIRO, 1966. Presentation copy to Sir Basil Embry (28th Feb 1902 -7 Dec 1977) who was a senior Royal Airforce commander and commander in chief of fighter command from 1949-1953. He then emigrated to Western Australia in 1956 to begin a new life as a sheep farmer.

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