the literary mythology of the English public school.
Mrs M. Calio, Italian, was attached to the Department of Italian Studies at La Trobe University working on the preparation of a grammar of old Italian, to help students engaged in reading medieval and Renaissance authors.
Dr A.T. Casey, Inorganic Chemistry, undertook a special study leave program at the Chemistry Department, University of Leicester, England, working with a colleague on an experimental study of the interaction of copper as the divalent copper (II) ion with molecules of biological interest.
Dr E. Cheers, Microbiology, spent study leave in collaborative research on haemopoietic maturation of macrophages at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
Mr P.J. Connor, Classical Studies, worked at the Ashmolean Library, Oxford on Greek vase-painting with particular reference to the collection of the Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, West Germany, and the collection in the Department of Classical Studies, Melbourne, which he is preparing for publication.
DrC.A. Coppel, Indian and Indonesian Studies, travelled through Hong Kong, the Netherlands, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to confer with colleagues on the history of the South-East Asian Chinese.
Dr P.G.C. Darby, Political Science, was attached to the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies in Delhi, India, to continue research on the imperial
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relationship between the West and Africa and Asia since 1870. Later the remainder of his study leave was as a visitor at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Mr B.C. Donaldson, Germanic Studies, pursued a study leave program in the Netherlands working on material for two new monographs for publication and in South Africa, attached to the Department of Afrikaans-Nederlands at the University of Cape Town researching for a history of Afrikaans.
Dr M. Dove, English, worked at the British Library on medieval commentaries on the Song of Songs, particularly on commentaries written in England in the later Middle Ages during her study leave. Revision of her book The Perfect Age being published by Cambridge University Press was also undertaken.
Dr P.J. Dowling, Graduate School of Management, worked on research interests in the area of international personnel/human resource management and wrote an introductory Australian oriented textbook during study leave at the Department of Personnel and Human Resource Studies, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Professor C.R. Duckworth, French, spent study leave mainly in France devoted to two major fields of research on the 19th Century and contemporary theatre in Paris and London, where he attended the British Eighteenth Century Society's annual conference.
Mr D.A. Gairns, Architecture and Building, was a Visiting Fellow at the South Bank Polytechnic, London, working with colleagues on research in the area of flexural behaviour of masonry.
Dr A.J. W. Gleadow, Geology, worked at the University of Berne, Switzerland, writing a book on Fission Track Dating and visited colleagues working in Germany, Italy and London, before taking up a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and gave lectures at each.
Mr J.A. Griffiths. Music, carried out a research exercise on several aspects of 16th century Spanish instrumental music covering historical and biographical research in Spanish archives. He also undertook a concert tour of Greece, Italy and France with the support of the Australia Council.
Ms P.A. Grimshaw, History, completed research and writing an extensive study of American missionary wives in 19th century Hawaii while on study leave in Honolulu. She also completed research for a comparative study of women's lives over 200 years of Australian and New Zealand history at the University of Auckland, as part of a book to be published as New Zealand's contribution to Australia's Bicentenary.
Mr W. Haarburger, Russian and Language Studies, devoted his study leave program to selecting and consulting reference material and making notes, copying or photocopying relevant pages for an alphabetical listing of the headings of projected entries for the reference work Concepts of Grammar, to be completed on retirement.
Mrs M.C. Harper, Economic History, visited colleagues in Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart, Christchurch and Wellington during study leave to collect material for a biography of Sir Douglas Copland. She worked as a visitor at the Department of Economic History at Monash University between visits.
Professor R.W. Home, History and Philosophy of Science, was attached to the Department of Physics at La Trobe University as an Honorary Visiting Professor.
He made two trips to the United States to attend the XVIIth International Congress of the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the annual conference of the U.S. History of Science Society in Bloomington, Indiana.
Mr E.A. Huck, Political Science, took up a position as Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at La Trobe University while working on a new study of the Australian Chinese.
Dr LR. Johnson, Education, visited a number of universities in North America and was attached to the Australian Studies Centre at London University during a study program devoted to trends in the fields of cultural studies, women's studies and sociology of education.
Dr D.E. Kennedy, History, undertook a study program with the History Department of the Exeter University, an active centre for seventeenth century British studies.
Dr G.C. T. Kenny, Anatomy, spent a study program as a guest worker in the Zoology Department at Monash University investigating the morphology of the pineal gland of Australian marsupials and monotremes.
Dr T. Kotler, Psychology, was attached to the Marriage Guidance Council of Victoria and analysed non-clinical community samples of married couples, covering processes of repetition and repair in close relationships over three generations.
Mr G.J. Lowe, Accounting and Business Law, worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Legal Studies at La Trobe University. He undertook research related to legal regulation of economic activity.
Dr M.A. McCloskey, Philosophy, worked towards completion of a book on contemporary philosophical aesthetics at La Trobe University, before spending a period at Oxford University.
Dr N.E. McMurray, Psychology, carried out her program in the Psychology Department at La Trobe University, as well as attending two overseas conferences;
in Christchurch, New Zealand and presenting a research paper at the annual Association for the Advancement of Behavioural Therapy in Houston, Texas.
MrJ.R.C. Martyn, Classical Studies, undertook a research program on the Latin poetry of Andre de Resende in the libraries at La Trobe, the British Museum and the Bodleian at Oxford, before moving to Portugal. There, in the rare books section of the Public Library at Evora, he found a wealth of material, including 60 unknown poems by Andre de Resende.
Dr N. Moldofsky, Economics, divided her study program between a visiting scholarship in the Economics Department at New York University and a similar position at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Dr K.D. Muirden, Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), carried out a study program at World Health Organization's head office in Geneva on development of rheumatic disease programs and also experiments at the Kennedy Institute in London on pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, during which he gave seminars at various institutions.
Mr C.F. Munro, Architecture and Building, continued his research in the field of aesthetics and semiotics in relation to architecture at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association in London, where he attended the annual conference of the British Society of Architects.
Mrs LR.C. O'Brien, Social Work, was granted visiting scholar status by the
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Episcopal Divinity School in "Massachusetts to work on research on Vida Dutton Scudder, the instigator of the College Settlement Association, an organisation of university women to assist the largely immigrant poor of American cities in the late 1880's.
Mr W.K. Presa, Philosophy, worked in the library of Deakin University to complete research on mysticism and emotion and to complete the draft of a book on definitive emotions.
Mr R. Rahni, Architecture and Building, was attached to the Shelter and Infrastructure Research Section of the CSIRO at Highett to undertake a special studies program to develop an expanded teaching and research resource base for the Architectural Theory program of the University.
Mr I. Robertson, History, studied in the Vatican Library and the British School library in Rome and the State Archives in Florence, Mantua, Milan, Modena and Venice to gather material on the theory and practice of government of the Papal State in the pontificate of the Venetian Pope Paul II.
Dr CD. Rogers, Zoology, worked in the Palaeontological Division of the British Museum of Natural History, during a study program on fossil remains (skulls, teeth) of a group of extinct mammals and to examine the more significant pre-mammalian fossil vertebrates stored at the Museum.
Dr A.B. Rudra, Agriculture and Forestry, divided his time between institutions in the United States, a term as Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto and institutions in India.
Dr J.P. Sarumpaet, Indian and Indonesian Studies, completed a study program in Monash University Library and the National Library in Canberra, before visiting Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany and Holland to study the development of Toba Batak and Indonesian.
Professor J.C. Scrivener, Architecture and Building, was a visiting professor in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department of the University of Colorado.
Dr B.B. Sharp, Civil and Agricultural Engineering, accepted a consultancy at Poona, India under the United Nations en route to Britain and the United States, where he worked at Duke University on development of software for micro-computers and visited other institutions, giving lectures.
Dr G. Smith, Optometry, spent the major part of his time at the Optometry Department, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in Cardiff, besides visiting the National University of Malaysia and institutions in India, at which he gave invited talks.
Mr H.G. Stanton, Graduate School of Management, studied in the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research at Monash University, working on a research project for manufacturing management and inventory control.
Professor K.B. Start, Education, undertook a study program at the Institute of International Education, University of Stockholm, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham, London and the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, to study individual differences in learning in schools and psycho-social risk factors in coronary heart disease.
Mr J.E. Sullivan, Economics, was a visitor to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies