Guide to the Collections held by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2663-M2668
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
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Fonds WMSs.1395 - 1404. Fleetwood Buckle, 1869 - 1870
Series. Diaries, 17 May 1869 - 8 December 1870
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Diary, 17 May 1869 - 14 August 1869 (File WMS.1402)
Fitting out HMS Liverpool at Devonport; sick list; his duties; letters written and received; voyage to Madeira; issuing lime juice; meteorological notes; arrival at Bahia de Todos os Santos; arrival at Rio. Accounts...
Diary, 15 August 1869 - 12 December 1869 (File WMS.1403)
Visit to Rio de Janeiro; meteorological observations; sick list; visits to Rodeio and Petropolis, Montevideo - social activities on shore; voyage to Cape of Good Hope and anchorage at Simonstown; voyage to Melbourne via Kerguelen's Islands - 'no water, -no tea'; gales; arrival Melbourne 26 Nov; visitors 'a real nuisance'; visit to Melbourne- description of public buildings; dinner with Governor; visit to Ballarat, went down mine shaft; picnic at Fern Tree Gully; visit to theatre to see 'Kenilworth'; naval review; voyage to Sydney...
Fonds WMS.1499. Sir James Cantlie, 1888
Papers on Eurasians, Hong Kong, 1888 (File)
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Returned forms and letters from Dr Sinclair (Selangor), 28 April 1888 (Item (b))
Medical reports on children of European, Chinese, Malay unions. (14p.)
Fonds WMs.1729. Collectanea: Tropical Medicine, 1908 - 1911
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William L. Braddon (Seremban, FMS) to Editor, Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 17 April 1911 (File Item 1)
Re beri-beri piracy and that the government of Strait Settlements and FMS have adopted his remedy of substituting cured for uncured rice in public institutions...
Alan Brunwin. Some observations on the Santonin treatment of dysentery [in Fiji]. Suva, [1908] (File 4)
Printed in Journal of Tropical Medicine vol XI, p 278...
Fonds WMs.3259 - 3285. Dennis Gascoigne Lillie, 1910 - 1913
Notebooks and Logs. Filmed selectively.
Biological log, 30 November 1910 - 2 June 1913 (File WMs.3281)
Marine species observed; soundings; latitude and longitude coordinates. (122p. In pencil, some damage)
Biological log, 30 November 1910 - 28 January 1911 (File WMs.3282)
Details of samples, from soundings and trawls; position...
Fonds WMS.3286 - 3287. John Lillie, 1842 - 1855
Series WMs.3286. Lectures on science delivered at Mechanics Institute at Launceston and Hobart, 1842 - 1855
Fonds WMs.3365 - 3370. Robert McCormick, 1839 - 1843
The manuscripts relate to the expedition to Antartica led by Sir James Clark Ross on board HMS Erebus between 1839-1843.
Diary kept whilst fitting out for expedition, 22 February 1839 - 1 October 1839 (File WMs.3365)
pp.47-72; 1-122; 1-115; [1-82] (pp.1-46 of first section not filmed.)
Rough journal on HMS Erebus, 19 September 1839 - 1 August 1840 (File WMs.3366)
Details of voyage- sighting other ships; birds; sketches of Madeira; ceremonies of crossing the line; Christmas dinner; visits on St Helena to Napoleon's house and tomb; Cape of Good Hope- expedition to estates, Table Mountain, sketches; descriptions of Simon's Bay and Cape Town; anchored at Possession Island; Kerguelen's Land; sighting whales, seals, penguins; Cumberland Bay expeditions, sketches, collecting specimens; voyage to Australia...
Rough Journal on HMS Erebus, 17 August 1840 - 23 November 1841 (File WMs.3367)
Pilot boarding for Derwent River; description of Hobart; social events- dinner with Governor Franklin, kangaroo hunt, lectures by Rev Lillie, bird shooting, expedition to Launceston and Port Arthur- attended service with the shackled convicts; coal mines; attended ball; voyage to Antarctic; expeditions on Auckland Island Group collecting specimens; Campbell's Island; Kerguelin's Land; sailing Antarctic seas- birds sighted; temperatures, sailing through ice, hove overaboard a cask containing paper with latitude and longitude when furthest south signed by Captain and officers; sighting Mount Erebus, smoking; saw Aurora Australis; return to Hobart; social events- shooting birds, dinner, ball and levée at Government House, dance on board Erebus; sailing to Sydney; anchored at Garden Island; Social events - service at St James Cathedral, walking round Wooloomooloo, Domaine, Botanic Gardens; trip to Parramatta - penitentiary; sailing to New Zealand; anchorage in Bay of Islands; visit to Maori settlement; expedition up Kavu Kavu; visits on board by natives and Pomaré, dressed in state robes; unknown birds sighted; visit to fall of Kidde Kidde; leaving Bay of Islands after three month stay with livestock on deck...
Rough Journal on HMS Erebus, 23 November 1841 - 31 July 1843 (File WMs.3368)
Voyage from New Zealand to south; taking soundings; sighting of birds, whales etc., New Year celebrations; stuffing and pickling penguin specimens; hitting icebergs: table of barometer readings 19-21 January before severe gales; sailing for Falkland Islands; social occasions on Falkland Islands, expedition voyage to Hermite Island, expeditions inland; return to Falklands; 3rd voyage south, Louis Philippie's land, dodging ice floes, caught in the ice; chasing seals; voyage to Cape Town; social activities in Cape Town - excursion to Stellenbosch; return voyage to England via St Helena, crossed Tropic...
Meteorological Register HMS Erebus, 1 October 1839 - 1 September 1843 (File WMs.3369)
Readings for thermometer, barometer, wind, latitude, longitude, remarks...
Fonds WMs.3470 - 3487. Louisa Martindale, 1900 - 1901
Series. Diaries. 18 vols, 7 June 1900 - 29 March 1901
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People we met on world tour, 7 June 1900 - 29 March 1901 (File WMs.3470)
Includes: Lord and Lady Hopetoun on board SS China enroute to India; notes on visits and persons met at Perth, Adelaide, Ballarat, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Invercargile, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Pago Pago, Honolulu. (77p.)
Fonds WMs.3996. Sir Raymond E. Priestley, 1908 - 1913
Series. Notes on animal, bird, plant and insect life in the Antarctic made during the Shackleton Expedition, 1908-1909 and the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912. (typescripts), 16 January 1908 - 17 January 1913
Shackleton Expedition 1908-1909. Notes on animal, bird, plant and insect life in the Antarctic (18p.), 16 January 1908 - 1 March 1909 (File (a))
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910. Extracts on animal, bird, plant, insect and fish life in the Antarctic (9p.), 8 December 1910 - 27 July 1911 (File (b))
Fonds WMs.4693 - 4700. Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton, 1905 - 1919
Material relating to researches into the etiology of Beri Beri and its correction with a rice diet.
Case histories Vol I, c.1907. (File WMs.4693)
Comparison of patients on Siam and Indian rice, includes notes of preparing rice. (399p.)
Case histories Vol II, c. 1907-1908 (File WMs.4695)
Includes 'Information relating to occurrence of Beri-Beri at Pentang and Batu Lima'...
Fonds WMs.4962 - 4970. George Charles Wallich, 1868 - 1898
Collection of material written by or connected with G. C. Wallich on marine biology, 1860-1898. 9 vols.
Note book: Rhizopods and Protoplasm. NB no 35 Lecture of 1882-1883 (File WMs.4962)
Miscellaneous notes on a variety of papers in pencil and ink, various paginations. Headings include: Pressure; References reports in Proc Roy Soc by Drs Carpenter, Thomson and Gwyn Jeffreys which bear on my observations: A spell of Arctic weather, in low latitudes; The Coccosphere question; The renaming fraud...
On the history of deep sea exploration, [1868] (File WMs.4963)
References to Ross in Antarctic and other expeditions...
Notebook: O[ceanic] C[irculation] 6, 1874 - 1883 (File WMs.4964)
Notes on physics and mechanics, centrifugal force on a variety of papers in pencil and ink...
Notebook: Dark chapters and piracies. Copyright questions, c.1880-1898 (File WMs.4965)
Includes 'Murray's preposterous claims' and 'Murray piracy'; references to Challenger Expedition; newspaper cuttings on plagiarism and libel...
Notebook: D[ark] C[hapters] on deep sea exploration, 1881 - 1894 (File WMs.4966)
References to Murray and Challenger expedition...
Notebook: Obiter Scripta 1 Extracts, 1883 - 1895 (File WMs.4968)
Re climate as influenced by oceanic causes; Scott, Haughton, Buff, Official folio reports Challenger. Criticisms of Carpenter, Thomson, Huxley, Murray and notes on Challenger expedition...
Off-prints of papers by Wallich, 1 January 1869 - 2 February 1880 (File WMs.4969)
With holograph additions and corrections, and criticsms. Filmed selectively.
On the Vital Functions of Deep-sea Protozoa, 1 January 1869 (Item (a))
From the Monthly Microscopical Journal. (10pp).
Another copy of journal article 'On the Vital Functions of Deep-Sea Protozoa' (Item (b))
With different marginal notes and comments, one dated 1887...
On some undescribed testaceous Rhizopoda from the North Atlantic deposits, 1 February 1869 (Item (c))
From the same, pp 104-110, (4 11., plate). With notes, etc., one dated 1894.
On the Rhizopoda as embodying the Primordial Type of Animal Lite, 1 April 1869 (Item (d))
(4 11). From the same, pp 229-235.
Another copy of 'On the Rhizopoda as embodying the Primordial Type of Animal Lite'; with different notes and comments (Item (e))
On the Fundamental Error of constituting Gromia the Type of Foraminiferal Structure (8 11), February 1877 (Item (f))
From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History [etc.] No. CX., pp. 158-174.
A Contribution to the Physical History of the Cretaceous Flints [etc.] (16 11), 2 February 1880 (Item (g))
From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. XXXVI, Part 1, pp. 68-92, 112-118. Wallich's paper is followed (pp 112-118) by an article by Robert Mallet 'On the probable temperature of the Primordial Ocean of our Globe'.
Fonds WMs.5252 - 5254. Denis Gascoigne Lillie, c. 1910-1913
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Series WMs.5253. News cutting re Scott's expedition, c. 1910-1913
3 folders. Cuttings from Times, Cape Times, Sphere, Punch, Sydney Mail, The Australian, Argus
Series WMs.5254. Correspondence and papers, August 1910 - May 1911
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Fonds WMs.5324. Harry Hayter Ramsdale (fl. 1860), 1859 - 1862
Diary of service in militia and on emmigrant vessel Clifton, 17 November 1861 - 28 August 1862 (File)
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Selected diary entries, 17 November 1861 - 28 August 1862 (Item f. 11L - 55R)
Boarding Clifton at Gravesend; filthy conditions, doctor down with D.T.'s and captain called on Harry Ramsdale to prescribe for him; doctor cut his own throat and put ashore; Harry Ramsdale assumes medical charge of the ship - details of passenger's ailments, birth of children; weather; speaking with other ships; thieving; chess tournament; eclipse of sun on 31 Dec; concert ; playing cards; dancing; crossing the line ceremonies; quarrelling amongst crew and passengers; shooting albatrosses; sighting Moreton Bay, 7 April 1862; by steamer to Brisbane - description of town; made camp; visit to Ipswich; journey to Warwick via Toowoomba; arrival at Allora; purchasing tools; surveying and buying land; purchasing animals; sowing vegetables; Harry Ramsdale. gives medical assistance to settlers.
Fonds WMs.5376 - 5401. Henry Lee, 1869 - 1879
Correspondence. Filmed selectively.
James Scott Bowerbank (St Leonards) to Henry Lee identifying unnamed sponge as an Australian species, 31 March 1869 - 13 April 1869 (File WMs.5377/33)
On reverse: 31 March 1869. W.H. Flower (Croydon) to [unknown] sending sponge for identification.
William B. Carpenter (London) to Henry Lee, 7 November 1874 (File WMs.5378/9)
Re Pacific currents and depths found by Challenger.
Flyers for farewell benefits at Temple Club and Gaiety Theatre for Creswick on leaving for Australia, April 1877 (File WMs.5379/15-17)
Sir William Henry Peek (London) to Henry Lee, 24 September 1870 (File WMs.5391/19)
Re seeds sent from New Zealand by Acclimatization Society.
Sir James Youl (Waratah House, Clapham) to Henry Lee, 15 June 1874 - 11 March 1879 (File WMs.5399/1-10)
Re introduction of salmon ova to New Zealand and arranging meeting between Henry Lee and Sir Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 10 letters.
Fonds WMs.5461. Joseph Thomas Clover and Dudley Wilmot Buxton, 1912
Correspondence and papers re anaesthesia...
Fonds WMs.5786. Sir Richard Owen, 1837 - 1845
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Fonds WMs.5899-5915. Roy Lee Moodie, 1925 - 1932
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Fonds MS.7830. Miscellany: Australasia, Indonesia and the Pacific, 18th-20th centuries, 1776 - 1945
Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, brought together in this form in 1989 as a result of the Australian Joint Copying Project. Filmed selectively.
Sir Joseph Banks, 22 August 1804 (File MS.7830/1)
J.B. (London) to M. Delambre requesting his assistance in obtaining the release of Captain Flinders, a prisoner of war in Mauritius, description of Flinders' expedition and shipwreck. (4p).
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Goujaud dit Bonpland, [c. 6 July 1811?] (File MS.7830/2)
J. Kennedy (n.p.) to A.B. sending plants from 'Botany Bay'.
Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, 20 January 1821 (File MS.7830/3)
Thomas Brisbane. (London) to M. De Lambre that he has been appointed to govern New Holland.
Sir Anthony Brownless, 16 January 1884 (File MS.7830/4)
Anthony Brownless (Melbourne) to T.M. Stone re receipt of honour.
William Branwhite Clarke, July 1866 (File MS.7830/5)
William Clarke (River Darling, NSW) to Hepworth Dixon re reading his life of John Howard in an 'out of the way place'.
Sir William Thomas Denison, 14 August 1858 (File MS.7830/11)
William. T. Denison (Government House) to J. Milligan re his plan to collect specimens from Australian coal fields.
Sir Alexander Fleming, August 1945 (File MS.7830/12)
Pacific broadcast [on penicillin]. Photocopy of original owned by Dr Dooley.
Sir John Franklin, 25 September 1838 - 11 August 1856 (File)
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John Franklin (London) to Joseph Milligan (Flinders Island), 21 January 1845 (Item)
Re bereavement and his possible return to England; believes Lord Stanley would welcome his advice on convict regulations.
John Franklin (Government House) to Joseph Milligan (Hobart) that should receive his paper tomorrow as J.F. needs it for his despatch., 17 November 1842 (Item)
Lady Jane Franklin to Joseph Milligan (Hobart) that Mr Gunn shares her good opinion of J.M.'s qualities, 27 February 1843 (Item)
John Philip Gell (Hobart) to James Backhouse (York) requesting donations for the Tasmanian Society's Library, 28 October 1843 (Item MS.7830/13)
John Franklin (Government House) to Rev. Professor Lloyd (Trinity College, Dublin) re observations he is making; received a letter from Ross, n.d. (Item)
George IV, 30 October 1823 (File MS.7830/14)
Order authorising removal of 66 named male convicts under sentence of transportation from gaols of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cornwall, Ipswich, Old Bailey to hulks in Portsmouth Harbour. (3p.)
John Gould, 22 September 1840 - 23 May 1856 (File MS.7830/15-20)
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John Gould (London) to Richard Owen sending skeletons and bodies for dissection, including koala and kangaroo rat, 22 September 1840 (Item MS.7830/15-20)
John Gould (London) to Dr Schimper (Strasbourg) re subscription to Birds of Australia, 8 May 1855 (Item MS.7830/15-20)
John Gould (London) to Dr N. Sancerotte (St Petersburg) that received new species of Apteryx from New Zealand and called it owenii, 17 June 1847 (Item MS.7830/15-20)
John Gould (London) to librarian, Royal Library of Paris, since he subscribed to Birds of Australia hopes he will also support Birds of Asia, 14 February 1850 (Item MS.7830/15-20)
William Henry Harvey, 1 June 1852 (File MS.7830/21)
William Harvey (Trinity College, Dublin) to [unknown] re receipt of New Zealand algae.
Sir Joseph D Hooker, 22 November 1838 - 18 May 1866 (File MS.7830/22-29)
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Sir William Jackson Hooker, 27 April 1862 (File MS.7830/30)
William Hooker (Kew) to Sir Stuart [unknown] re his offer of specimen of plants from Eastern Australia.
Thomas Andrew Knight, 10 April 1813 (File MS.7830)
Thomas Knight. (n.p.) to Samuel Lysons (Gloucestershire) re peach tree in NSW producing fruit at 16 months.
Jacque Julien Houton de Labillardiere, 1792 (File MS.7830/34-35)
Friedrich W. Leichhardt, 28 [unknown] 1837 (File MS.7830/36)
Friedrich Leichhardt. (London) to Chairman, Library Committee. Royal College of Surgeons, seeking ticket to use the library during his temporary residence in London.
Sir John Lubbock, 13 August 1870 (File MS.7830/38)
John Lubbock (London) to B.M. Wright (London) asking how he obtained the Easter Island statue.
Sir Charles Lyell, 15 February 1857 (File MS.7830/39)
Charles Lyell. (n.p.) to Owen re recent marsupial specimen of larger Triconadon(?)
Charles MacIntosh, [31 August?] (File MS.7830/40)
Charles MacIntosh. (n.p.) to Charles Parker re oil of camphor brought from East Indies by Dr Ashlurner.
Bronislaw K. Malinowski, 3 August 1923 (File MS.7830/41)
Bronislaw Malinowski. (n.p.) to Mr Stallybrass re publication of Argonauts of the Western Pacific and future sales in Germany.
Alec Morgan (fl 1862), 4 March 1862 (File MS.7830/44)
Alec Morgan. (Adelaide North) to sister Zoe re his autograph collection.
Sir Ferdinand J. H. Von Mueller, 25 September 1861 (File MS.7830/45)
Ferdinand Von Mueller (Melbourne) to Dr August Peterman (Gotha).
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, 22 October 1812 - 24 November 1823 (File MS.7830/48-49)
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John Ryland, 5 March 1814 (File MS.7830/53)
John Ryland. (Bristol?) to Rev Mr Raffles (Liverpool) re activities of Brother Robinson, missionary in Java and plans to send Trowt to Java.
Alfred Wallace, 28 July 1863 - 2 February 1910 (File MS.7830/54-59)
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Alfred Wallace (Godalming) to Dr Cook, plans for a lecture tour to America and Australia, 27 February 1886 (Item)
Alfred Wallace (Parkstone, Dorset) to Mrs Daumeather, 29 March 1901 (Item)
Re climate of Sarawak, health in the tropics, he has cured his asthma by change of diet.