Guide to the Papers of Sir William Flower (as filmed by AJCP)

Series DF 932. Sir William H. Flower. Semi Official Papers, 5 November 1886 - 26 June 1891

All letters to Flower, unless noted...

T.J. Parker (Dunedin), 5 November 1886 (File 15)

Pleased that a skeleton he has sent will be in the National Collection.

Julius von Haast (Germany), 9 February 1887 (File 28)

Re his health; travel plans; situation in Germany.

Alfred Corrie (Pelican, Pacific Station), 10 February 1887 (File 29)

Re sail round south sea islands; difficulty in getting skulls 'most of the natives are getting so civilised that they are horrified at the idea of preserving them for you'(8p. poor condition.)

Alfred Corrie (Pelican, Pacific Station), 2 May 1887 (File 39)

Re skulls from Marquesa Islands; Sandwich Islands 'the natives are so particular now about disturbing the graves'.

W. Saville Kent (Hobart), 1 October 1887 (File 57)

Re native skull dug out of sandbank at Spring Bay, East Coast; sending specimen of Giant Crab and native sponge; the new Tasmanian government; his job in the Fisheries Department; success of oyster cultivation.

Flower to Saville Kent, 19 December 1887 (File 60)

Re visit from Mrs Saville Kent; 'the cranium, though a fragment, is of much interest, and of quite characteristic form of the Tasmanian native'. (Very faint pressed copy).

E. Ramsay (Sydney), 22 February 1889 (File 84)

Re problems identifying a skull of Thylacoleo.

Henry Ridley (Singapore), 15 May 1889 (File 99)

Re problems collecting plants; his work on orchids.

Alex Morton (Hobart), 5 November 1889 (File 105)

Re his position as curator at Tasmanian Museum.

W. Saville Kent (Brisbane), 18 February 1890 (File 114)

Introducing Mrs L.A. Meredith of Tasmania; he is now working as Commissioner of Fisheries for Queensland Government; visits to pearl shell fisheries of Torres Straits.

Henry Forbes (Christchurch), 21 February 1890 (File 115)

Re work in cave 'evidence of co-existence of Moa and Maori'.

Henry Forbes (Christchurch), 17 September 1890 (File 116)

Re discovery of fossil snout of a species of Mesoplodon.

T.J. Parker (Dunedin), 12 June 1890 (File 121)

Requesting his attendance at meeting of Australasian Association at Christchurch.

E.C. Stirling (Adelaide), 12 January 1891 (File 134)

Re his work on burrowing marsupials he has called Psammoryctes.

W. Saville Kent (Brisbane), 27 January 1891 (File 140)

Sending photographs of coral reefs and coral animals; his work as Fisheries Officer.

R. Etheridge (Sydney), 1891-[06?]-26 (File 150)

Re Anderson Stuart's application for F.R.S.