Records of Fritz Philipp Loewe

This paper-based collection (-1984) relating to Fritz Philipp Loewe, meteorologist and explorer, includes subject files (with correspondence etc.) from the year Loewe spent as UNESCO adviser on Meteorological training at Nanga Parbat in Pakistan (1958); journals (e.g. issue of Neue Pforte with article regarding Loewe's old school in Berlin); publications on various aspects of mountaineering, including a mountaineers' cookery book (all in German); books on gymnastics, venereal disease, eugenics and a Disabled Men's Association gardening book; University of Melbourne Calendar and Science handbook; copy of George Loughlin's autobiography "Cities of Departure" (1984). 0.5 linear shelf metres.