scholarship, which Fletcher had been awarded. He was also invited to organise the Library's international conference on Kircher and to edit the resulting book. Publications Back in Australia, John Fletcher worked particularly hard on books that threw light on all sorts of Australian-German contacts, especially of the 19th century. Amongst other things this led him to take part in the setting up of the Christopher Brennan Society, a literary society devoted to researching and publishing on the life and times of that brilliant but tragic figure in this university's history who had studied in Berlin around 1890, was famed as a poet in his own rights and who, as Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, lectured on several ancient, medieval and modern languages and literatures until he was sacked by the Australian Senate for adultery and/or drunkenness in 1925. Later in his life he had begun publishing studies of Germans in 19th century Australia and published one also on the Tasmanian Frederick Sefton Delmer who was a university teacher in Germany at the turn of the century. Fletcher collected all the poetry publications other than anthologies that had appeared in New South Wales between 1950 and 1980 and he published a comprehensive catalogue of these in the process. He also created a collection of poetry books that is the envy of public and university librarians throughout the country because, as Brian Taylor stated in the obituary given for his friend, no library can possibly have certain of these books, since they never went on sale anywhere. Late life Soon after his arrival in Sydney, John Fletcher joined the Friends of the University Library and as a committee member, its treasurer, secretary and, at the time of his death, president. He was long a member of the Book Collectors Society of Australia and was at his death its president and Publications Editor, having produced his own last book in their series of Studies in Australian Bibliography. Select bibliography Kircher Fletcher, John E., "A brief survey of the unpublished correspondence of Athanasius Kircher S J. (1602–80)", in: Manuscripta, XIII, St. Louis, 1969, pp. 150–60. Fletcher, John E., "Johann Marcus Marci writes to Athanasius Kircher", in: Janus, Leyden, LIX (1972), pp. 97–118 Fletcher, John E., "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum gelehrten Europa seiner Zeit", Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1986 (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung series, Band 17). Fletcher, John E., "Johann Marcus Marci writes to