Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Huge task
The lasting qualities of Helidon stone were tested and approved by the University Department of Geology, under the late Professor H. C. Richards. Professor Richards also selected and tested the granite for the base. He did a powerful work for the new University, as did the late Professor A. C. V. Melbourne in the days of its preliminary organisation.
Their service, along with that of the designing architects, Hennessy, Hennessy & Co., will be measured only when a history of the University is written. The designing alone has been a massive task, entailing, on a conservative estimate, 6000 separate drawings.
The main building houses the Faculties of Arts, Commerce, and Law. Spread in a semi-circle round the back of it, across a Great Court, large enough to seat 10,000 people in an assembly, will be the buildings of other faculties.
The Chemistry and Geology blocks have