Guide to the Collections held by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Notes on medical plants etc used in Samoa taken down by Dr George Brown while a Methodist Missionary in Samoa. (8p. Typescript), c. 1910 (File)

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.

(3p.)

Printed in Journal of Tropical Medicine 1911 vol XIV, p153.

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

The paper details the incidence of dysentery in Fiji and results of treatment.

(9p.)

Malaria: Notes on cases, 1911 (File 8)

Details of Hardie Philips in Kuala Lumpur hospital and Mr Marshall, manager of Ayer Augat estate.

(3p.)

Oliver Smithson. Mossman fever, Brisbane, 1910 (File Item 9)

6p and covering letter to Editor of Journal of Tropical Medicine, 22 Sept 1910

Printed in Journal of Tropical Medicine XIII, p351

The paper describes a 'peculiar fever' common to Mossman district of Queensland.

Collection of cookery receipts, followed by a few medical receipts with additions by several hands, 1739 - 1794 (File)

Inside lower cover: Jane Foster. Her book. 1739. Above this, Francis Watkins, Esq. Paramatta, NSW. c. 1825

Recipes to preserve red quinces; to make little cakes; to raggoe pigeons; to make egg cheesecakes, etc.

Medical recipes to make liquor of laudenam for a cough and cold, for weak nerves etc.

168p

Reincarnation = evolution, 1904 (File)

This Manuscripts essay was written in the Australian bush where Gibbes had retired to meditate.

Many pages blurred.

(46p.)

Eucalyptus, 1925 (File)

Essay on the genus and its medicinal properties, including the oil of its leaves (mention of commercial enterprise of J. Bosito of Melbourne in this connection).

16p. (typescript) and 30p. (Manuscript draft notes).

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.

(32p. Fair copy.)

Address to New Zealand branch of British Medical Association, n. d. (File WMs.3284)

On the application of Mendel's principles of heredity to man. (26p.)

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.

Parts 1-4. Pp. 1-520.

Part 5 pp. 521-527 were not filmed.

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.

Parts 6-10. Pp. 528-1109. Includes: Pp. 1108-9 Memorandum on New Zealand.

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.

Parts 11-15. Pp. 1110-1792

Meteorological Register HMS Erebus, 1 October 1839 - 1 September 1843 (File WMs.3369)

Readings for thermometer, barometer, wind, latitude, longitude, remarks.

Extract from log 13 March re collision between Erebus and Terror.

1839 memo 19 Sept - 5 Oct re leaving English channel.

(200p.)

Case histories Vol I, c.1907. (File WMs.4693)

Comparison of patients on Siam and Indian rice, includes notes of preparing rice. (399p.)

Index to vol I (File WMs.4694)

Alphabetical by patient (36p.)

Case histories Vol II, c. 1907-1908 (File WMs.4695)

Includes 'Information relating to occurrence of Beri-Beri at Pentang and Batu Lima'.

(354p.)

Index to vol II (File WMs.4696)

Alphabetical by patient (19p.)

Return of Mr J.R. Hubback's coolies, March 1905 - 1908 (File WMs.4697)

Aadmitted to district hospital for Beri Beri, March 1905 - June 1907 and case notes 1907-1908. (16p.)

Original notes of a series of experiments, 1914 - 1919 (File WMs.4698)

Designed to test the effects of rice polishings and various fractions thereof in the cure of polyneuritis of fowls. (66p.)

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.

Various references to Challenger Expedition.

On the history of deep sea exploration, [1868] (File WMs.4963)

References to Ross in Antarctic and other expeditions.

(19p.) [incomplete and damaged]

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.

References to Murray and Challenger expedition.

(c.35p.)

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.

(c.72p. In pencil and ink)

Notebook: D[ark] C[hapters] on deep sea exploration, 1881 - 1894 (File WMs.4966)

References to Murray and Challenger expedition.

Includes correspondence, press cuttings and inserted notes. (173p. In pencil and ink)

On the lower forms of organic life, 1882 (File WMs.4967)

Pp. 3-4, 11-27, 30-34, 50-60, 62-66.

Attack on theories of Huxley and Haeckel. (In pencil and ink: damaged)

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.

At end of notebook: 'OSI At this end of notebook important memoranda and notes on various subjects' - references to Challenger.

(60p. In pencil and ink; with inserts and press cuttings)

Lord Glenelg (London) re Murchison's mention of him in letter on exploration of north Australia, 12 October 1853 (File 5220/45)

Lord Clanwilliam (n.p.) re his son's exploration of Lake Taupo and his escape from 'murder among religious fanatics', 1865 (File 5220/99)

Appointment as surgeon superintendent on board convict ship Oriental Queen, 14 August 1852 (File)

Signed by Sir Phipps Hornby and Sir Thomas Herbert, Lords of Admiralty, and W.A. Baillie Hamilton, second secretary (1p.).

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

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2668.

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.

William Creswick (London) to Henry Lee re leaving London, 12 April 1877 (File WMs.5379/14)

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 William Henry Peek (London) to Henry Lee, 21 November 1878 (File WMs.5391/49)

Re local vicar, Rev. Haggarth who resided in Australia for some years.

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.

Sir Julius Vogel (London) to Youl re meeting Henry Lee, 1 March 1875 - 19 March 1875 (File WMs.5399/7/2 and 3)

Memorandum by Youl on shipping salmon ova to New Zealand on Oberon (File WMs.5399/11)

R.W. Hornabrook (Melbourne) to Buxton re administration of ether, 6 September 1912 (File WMs 5461/70)

Ovum of kangaroo, drawing by Richard Owen, 19 June 1837 (File)

Richard Owen (London) to [unknown] [F Cuvier, Paris] re kangaroos, 18 September 1837 (File)

Richard Owen (London) to [unknown] [F Cuvier, Paris] re his memoir on marsupial development, 18 January 1839 (File)

Sir Charles Murray (Windsor) to Richard Owen re bird skeleton from New Zealand, 31 January 1843 (File)

Richard Owen (London) to Prof. Wagner introducing (Hugh) Cuming, 23 September 1844 (File)

Richard Owen (London) to Carl G. Carus (Dresden) re Birds of New Zealand, c. 1844 (File)

Richard Owen (London) to Count Paul Strzelecki, appreciation of his work on Australia, 21 May 1845 (File)

E.H. Bryan (Honolulu) to Roy Moodie, 14 April 1930 (File)

Re skulls from collection of Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

Thomas D. Campbell (Dental Hospital, Adelaide) to Roy Moodie, 23 June 1932 (File)

Re request for copies of paper on Indigenous Australians.

J.A. Fitzherbert (University of Adelaide) to Roy Moodie forwarding paper by Campbell, 24 June 1932 (File)

(Filed after T.D.C. letter).

H.G. Chappel (Piedmont, Ca.) to Roy Moodie re paper on Ancient Hawaiians, 21 January 1930 (File)

Herbert E. Gregory (Honolulu) to Roy Moodie re skeletons in Bishop Museum, 27 January 1930 (File)

Ed C. Jerman (San Francisco) to Roy Moodie re trip to Australia and New Zealand, 4 January 1927 (File)

R. Wood Leigh (Angel Island, Ca. and Honolulu) to Roy Moodie, 26 October 1925 - 10 May 1930 (File)

Re Dental Pathology of Hawaiian Rev racial groups.

Harold S. Palmer (Honolulu) to Roy Moodie re fossil lava tube, 23 June 1929 (File)

T. Wingate Todd (Cleveland) to Roy Moodie, 1927-08-09; 1927-09-09; 1927-11-10; 1927-11-23 (File)

Re diagnosis of congenital dislocation of the hip in Dire Wolf and Kangaroo specimens.

Joseph Lister (London) to Dr L. Vernon Cargill re urgent case coming from New Zealand, 22 June 1890 (File No. 45)

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'.

Hugh Cuming, 28 April 1838 (File MS.7830/6)

Note re skull of native from Island of Samar.

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.

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.)

William Henry Harvey, 1 June 1852 (File MS.7830/21)

William Harvey (Trinity College, Dublin) to [unknown] re receipt of New Zealand algae.

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.

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.

John William Lewin, 18 June 1800 (File MS.7830/37)

Note to pay Thomas Churchill £6.6s.

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).

Claude Urbin Reth (File MS.7830/50-52)

Biographical details. (Reth accompanied La Perouse) (5p.)

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.