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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/122/5 contains:
1 Typed copy of a paper by Peter M. Worsley entitled 'Early Asian Contacts with Australia'
2 Documents relating to a lecture by C. P. Fitzgerald entitled 'The Chinese Discovery of Australia?' given at the 23rd International Congress of Orientalists, 27 August 1954
3 Two letters from C. P. Fitzgerald of The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, about a photograph of a Taoist image found at Darwin
4 Notes by Cedric Dover in Brentford, Middlesex, about Chinese relations with Australia, and related notes by Joseph Needham
5 Joseph Needham's notes listing the dates of English and Portuguese expeditions to Australia
6 Joseph Needham's notes from Wei Chü-Hsien [??? / Wei Juxian], 'Chung-Kuo Jen Fa-Hsien Ao-Chou', [??????? / Zhong Guo Ren Fa Xian Ao Zhou], (Hong Kong, 1960)
7 Letter from David J. Peters of Oxford, about C. P. Fitzgerald's article entitled 'The Chinese Discovery of Australia?'
8 Letter from David J. Peters of Oxford, about a reference to a Chinese discovery of Australia in Prof. Robert Graves, 'The Isles of Unwisdom', (Cassell and Company, 1950), and resultant correspondence
9 Typed notes from J. V. Mills on 'Places visited by Chêng Ho [?? / Zheng He]' and the question of whether the Chinese visited Australia before the Dutch
10 Annotated typescript and manuscript draft notes from the section of the 'Nautical technology' chapter of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Part 3', entitled 'China and Australia'
11 Related notes and bibliographical references
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Documents relating to a lecture by C. P. Fitzgerald entitled 'The Chinese Discovery of Australia?' given at the 23rd International Congress of Orientalists, 27 August 1954
Reference SCC2/122/5/2
Covering Dates 27 Aug. 1954–12 Nov. 1954
Extent and Medium 9 sheets; Paper
Content and context

The documents comprise Joseph Needham's notes from the lecture; cuttings of letters to the editor of 'The Times' reacting to the lecture, (The letters are from Anthony Christie of Cambridge, John Bastin of London, Percival David of London and F. H. Dampier Atkinson of Yorkshire.); copy of a letter from Needham to the editor of 'The Times' reacting to the lecture, and draft of same; copy of a letter from Needham to Fitzgerald asking for a photograph of a Taoist image found at Port Darwin, Australia; notes by Needham.

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