Edmund Oswald Teale

IMI/GL/Te

Teale was born in Doncaster, Victoria, Australia on 29 November 1874. He studied at the Victoria School of Mines, Melbourne University. In 1908 he went to Africa and worked in Nigeria, Portuguese East Africa and the Gold Coast. He returned to Australia in 1916 and changed his surname from Thiele to Teale in 1917. He was a research fellow in the Geology Department of the University of Melbourne in 1917–1918 and then returned to Africa. In 1926 he established the Geological Survey of Tanganyika Territory and was the Director until 1935 when he became Government Mining Consultant a post he held until 1940. He was knighted in 1936. For several years Teale was a member of the Advisory Council of the Overseas Geological Surveys. He died in England on 17 July 1971.

IMI/GL/Te/P/1

Letters to his parents. 31 letters from Teale to his mother and father.
[IGS1/942]

1908–1936

IMI/GL/Te/P/2

Testimonials. Written by Ernest Skeats, University of Melbourne and Walter Howchin, University of Adelaide.
[IGS1/947]

1917

IMI/GL/Te/S/1

Notes made on a tour through southern Nigeria.
[IGS1/943]

1910

IMI/GL/Te/S/2

Eight desk diaries . The diary for 1929 missing.
[IGS1/944]

1928–1936

IMI/GL/Te/S/3

35 field notebooks. Covers work in Nigeria, Portuguese East Africa, Gold Coast and Tanganyika.
[IGS1/945]

1908–1940

IMI/GL/Te/S/4

Six field notebooks covering excursions made from University of Melbourne, Australia.
[IGS1/946]

1906–1907

IMI/GL/Te/S/5

Monthly reports on mineral survey in the territory of Companio de Mocambique. Addressed to Director of Commonwealth Institute.
[IGS1/948]

1911–1914

IMI/GL/Te/S/6

Volumes of copy correspondence; letters and reports.
[IGS1/949]

1923, 1931, 1933

IMI/GL/Te/S/7

Reports of field excursions in the Gold Coast.
[IGS1/950]

1923–1925

IMI/GL/Te/S/8

Misc. papers and typescripts on geology and geomorphology of Africa.
[IGS1/958]

1920–1950

IMI/GL/Te/S/9

Collection of photographic prints taken in Australia, New Zealand, Russia , and many parts of Africa.
[IGS1/955]

1888–1953

IMI/GL/Te/S/10

Collection of glass lantern slides of geological and other subjects in Australia, New Zealand and Portuguese East Africa.
[IGS1/956, IGS1/957]

1905–1920

IMI/GL/Te/S/11

Notes made for a paper on Geological Surveys in Colonial Development.
[BGS1/1473]

1943