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The Earth Sciences Rare Book Collection is held at the Earth Sciences Library. It is an important research collection of rare and early geological and palaeontological texts. The collection includes many seminal works from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes over 1,000 volumes and approximately two thirds of the items in the collection are the only known copy available in Australia.

Apart from a small number of items, the collection is not catalogued on the University of Melbourne Library Catalogue. This list is organised alphabetically by author and title. Volumes are not available for loan but can be used in the library.

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MacAdam, John (ed.); Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, January - Decemeber 1857, vol. II; Melbourne, 1858
Call Number: B4, S6

MacAdam, John (ed.) Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, January-December, 1860, vol. V; Melbourne: Mason & Firth, 1860
Call Number: B4, S6

MacAdam, John (ed.) Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, January-December, 1874, vol. X; Melbourne: Mason & Firth, 1874
Call Number B4, S6

MacAdam, John (ed.) Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, January-December, 1883, vol. XIX; Melbourne: Mason & Firth, 1883
Call Number: B4, S6

MacAdam, John (ed.) Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, January-December, 1888, vol. XXIV; Melbourne: Mason & Firth, 1888
Call Number B4, S6

Macartney, John Neill; The Bendigo goldfield registry; Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell, 1872
Call Number: B2, S1

Macartney, John Neill The Bendigo Goldfield registry, comprising a description of the goldfield, history of the opening, progress, and present position of the chief reefs: also general mining summary, with alphabetical lists of registered companies, tribute companies and tribute terms; Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell, 1871
Call Number B4, S3

MacCulloch, John; A system of geology, with a theory of the earth, and an explanation of its connexion with the sacred records, vol. I; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831
Call Number: B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part I, vol. V; Melbourne: Kemp & Boyce, 1888
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part I, vol. VI; Melbourne: Centennial Printing & Publishing Co., 1888
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, vols. III & IV; Melbourne: Kemp & Boyce, 1887
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part 1, vol. IX; Melbourne: Chas. Troedel & Co., 1891
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part 1, vol. VIII; Melbourne: C.W. Burford, 1890
Call Number B1, S4

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part I, vol. VII; Melbourne: C.W. Burford, 1889
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part II, vol. IX; Melbourne: Chas. Troedel & Co., 1892
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part II, vol. VII; Melbourne: C.W. Burford, 1890
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, part II, vol. VIII; Melbourne: Chas. Troedel & Co., 1891
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, vol. IX; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, 1894
Call Number B2, S5

MacDonald, A.C. et. Al (ed); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, vol. X; Melbourne: Davis, Duncan & Co., 1893
Call Number B2, S5

MacGillivray, William; A manual of geology; London: Scott, Webster & Geary, 1840
Call Number B2, S5

Macgregor, John; Victoria Geological Survey, Minute of the Minister of Mines, and the report thereon of the Director of Geological Surveys, as to the character and operations of the Geological Survey; Melbourne, 1867
Call Number B5, S2

MacKay, George; The history of Bendigo; Melbourne: Fergusson & Mitchell, 1891
Call Number B2, S1

Maclaren, Charles; Sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians, including detailed descriptions of Arthur's Seat and Pentland Hills; Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,1839
Call Number B1, S4

Mahony, D.J.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 26, Diatomaceous earth and its occurrence in Victoria; Melbourne: J.Kemp, Government Printer, 1912
Call Number B4, S6

Mahony, D.J. et.al; Report on a geological reconnaissance of the Federal Territory, with special reference to available building materials, 1913; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1913
Call Number B3, S3

Maiden, J.H. et. Al (ed.); Proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales & Victorian branches, Second session, vol. II; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885
Call Number B2, S5

Maitland, A. Gibb; Address on some problems of Western Australian geology, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society of Western Australia, on the 11th of July, 1916; Perth: Royal Society of W.A., 1917
Call Number B1, S3

Mallet, F.R.; A descriptive catalogue of the collection of minerals in the Geological Museum, Calcutta; Calcutta, 1883
Call Number B1, S5

A manual of the geology of India: Part II, extra-peninsular area; & map
Call Number B1, S5

Marsh, Othniel Charles; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. X: Dinocerata - a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals; Washington: Government Printer, 1886
Call Number B5, S6

Marsh, Othniel Charles; Odonornithes: a monograph of extinct toothed birds of North America (United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880
Call Number B2, S4

Marshall, P.; The geography of New Zealand: historical, physical, political and commercial; Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, n.d
Call Number B1, S3

Marshall, Patrick, Geology of New Zealand, Wellington [N.Z.] : Govt. Printer, 1912.
Call Number: 559.31 MA. (B9, S3-5)

Maury, M.F.; The physical geography of the sea; London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1883
Call Number B1, S2

Maury, M.F.; The physical geography of the sea, and its meteorology; London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1866
Call Number B4, S3

May, W. L. , A check-list of the mollusca of Tasmania, Tasmania : J. Vail, Government Printer, 1921.
Call number: 594.09946 MAY. (B9, S3-5)

May, W. L. , An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells, Tasmania : Govt Printer, 1923.
Call number: 594.09946 MAY. (B9, S3-5)

McAndrew, John & Marsden, Marcus A.H.; Regional guide to Victorian geology; Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 1973
Call Number B5, S4

McCoy, Frederick; Contributions to British palaeontology; or, First descriptions of three hundred and sixty species and several genera of fossil radiata, articulata, mollusca, and pisces from the teriary, cretaceous, oolitic and palaeozoic strata of Great Britain; Cambridge: MacMillan & Co., 1854
Call Number B4, S3

McCoy, Frederick; Geological Survey of Victoria: Prodromus of the palaeontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1874
Call Number B4, S1

McCoy, Frederick; Geological Survey of Victoria: Prodromus of the palaeontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains, Decade I; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1874
Call Number B7, S3

McCoy, Frederick; Natural history of Victoria: Prodromus of zoology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals, Decade 1; Melbourne: George Robertson, 1878
Call Number B4, S1

McCoy, Frederick Natural history of Victoria: Prodromus of zoology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals, Decade XI; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1885
Call Number B4, S1

McKay, Alexander; Report on the older auriferous drifts of central Otago ; Wellington: John McKay, Government Printer, 1897
Call Number B1, S3

Medlicott, H.B. & Blanford, W.T.; A manual of the geology of India; Calcutta: Government Printer, 1879
Call Number B1, S5

Medlicott, H.B. & Blanford, W.T.; A manual of the geology of India: stratigraphical and structural geology; Calcutta: Government Printer, 1893
Call Number B1, S5

Memoirs de la Societie Geologique de France: Tome premiere - Tome cinquieme - premiere partie & deuxieme partie; Paris: F.-G. Levrault, 1835-1884
Call Number B6, S1

Memoirs de la Societie Geologique de France, deuxieme serie: Tome premiere - Tome sixieme premiere partie & deuxieme partie; Paris: P. Bertrand, 1844-1859;
Call Number
B6, S1

Merrill, George P., Stones for building and decoration, New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited, 1903.
Call number: 553.5 MERR. (B9, S3-5)

Merrin, A.H., for the Department of Mines; Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria, vol. V, part I: the Sorrento Bore, Mornington Peninsula; Melbourne: H.J. Green, Government Printer, 1928
Call Number B3, S6

Miller, Hugh; First impressions of England and its people; Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1857
Call Number B2, S5

Miller, Hugh; Sketchbook of popular geology; being a series of lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh; Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1859
Call Number B2, S5

Miller, Hugh; The cruise of the Betsey; or, a summer ramble among the fossiliferous deposits of the Hebrides; Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1858
Call Number B2, S5

Miller, Hugh; The old red sandstone; or, New walks in an old field; Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1858
Call Number B3, S4

Miller, Hugh; The testimony of the rocks; or, Geology in its bearings on the two theologies, natural and revealed; Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1873
Call Number B3, S1

Miller, S.A.; North American geology and palaeontology: for the use of amateurs, students and scientists; Cinncinnati: Western Methodist Book Concern, 1889
Call Number B1, S2

Miller, W.H.; A treatise on crystallography; Cambridge: J. & J.J. Deighton, 1839
Call Number: B3, S1

Milne, John, Seismology, London : Kegan Paul, 1898.
Call number: 551.22 MILN. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Milne-Edwards, M. Alph. Recherches sur la faune ornithologique eteinte des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar; Paris: G. Masson, 1866 a 1873
Call Number B5, S4

Milne-Edwards, M. Alph.; Recherches anatomiques et paleontologiques pour servir a l'histoire des oiseaux fossiles de la France, tome premier; Paris: Victor Masson, 1867-68
Call Number B5, S4

Milne-Edwards, M. Alph.; Recherches anatomiques et paleontologiques pour servir a l'histoire des oiseaux fossiles de la France, Atlas, t.1; Paris: Victor Masson, 1867-68
Call Number B5, S4

Milne-Edwards, M. Alph.; Recherches anatomiques et paleontologiques pour servir a l'histoire des oiseaux fossiles de la France, Atlas, tome 2nd; Paris: G. Masson, 1869-71
Call Number B5, S4

Milne-Edwards, M.M. et.al.; Cours elementaire d'shistoire naturelle, a l'usage des lygees, colleges, seminaires et maisons d'education; Paris: Langlois et Lerclercq, 1857
Call Number B3, S1

Milner, Henry B., An introduction to sedimentary petrography, with special reference to loose detrital deposits and their correlation by petrographic methods, London, T. Murby; New York, Van Nostrand [1922];
Call Number 552.5 MILN. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Dr. R.E. Priestley.

Mineral statistics of Victoria for the year 1870; 1872; 1877, 1882 Melbourne: John Ferres, 1871, 1873, 1878, 1883
Call Number B4, S4

Mines Ventilation Board, final report; Victoria, 1900;
Call Number
B6, S4

Mining in Victoria, minutes by Secretary; Victoria, 1887;
Call Number B6, S4

Minister of Mines (director); A catalogue of minerals, rocks, and fossils which have been collected in the colony by the Mining Department, Melbourne, Victoria; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1866
Call Number B2, S1

Moodie, Roy Lee, Popular guide to the nature and the environment of the fossil vertebrates of New York, Albany : Univ. of the State of New York, 1933.
Call number: 566 Mo. (B9, S3-5)

Morgan, Lewis H.; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol. IV: Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881
Call Number B4, S2

Morgan, P.G. & Bartrum, J.A.; List of the minerals of New Zealand; Wellington: John McKay, Government Printer, 1913
Call Number B1, S3

Morris, John; A catalogue of British fossils: comprising the genera and species hitherto described, with references to their geological distribution and to the localities in which they have been found; London: John Morris, 1854
Call Number B7, S2

Mount Macedon Local Improvement Society; Guide map to Mount Macedon; Melbourne: McCarron, Bird & Co., 1904
Call Number B2, S1

Murchison, Roderick Impey; Siluria: the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains, with a brief sketch of the distribution of gold over the earth; London: John Murray, 1854
Call Number B3, S4

Murchison, Roderick Impey; The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford, with descriptions of the coal-fields and overlying formations, v. I & 2; London: John Murray, 1839
Call Number B2, S3

Murray, R.A.F.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 32, the Mount William of Mafeking gold-field; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914
Call Number B4, S6

Murray, R.A.F. Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 38, the Tanjil or Russel's Creek gold-field; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1916;
Call Number B4, S6

Murray, R.A.F. Victoria: Department of Mines, Suggestions to prospectors; 1894
Call Number B4, S4

Murray, Reginald A.F. Victoria: Geology and physical geography; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1887
Call Number B2, S1 or B4, S1

Museum of Practical Geology and Geological Survey; Records of the school of mines and of science applied to the arts, vol. 1, part 1; London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852
Call Number B1, S4

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