Guide to the Collections held by the Glasgow University Archives and Business Record Centre (as filmed by the AJCP)

Press clipping from New Zealander re first meeting of Auckland Municipal Council. (3p.), 3 December 1851 (File 2025)

Prospectus of a map to be published of Australian colonies and notes taken during residence therein, 1851-57, 1858 (File 2139)

By P. Just. Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son (3p.)

A. Barr (Glasgow) that received letter from Prof. Warren of Sydney that Lawson is a great success, 8 December 1913 (File A16)

C.V. Brooke (London) to Prof. Balfour, 26 November 1912 (File A30)

Re Prof. Campbell's search for fern in Sarawak. (Copy)

Charles Hose (Diss) to Rajah of Sarawak, 23 November 1912 (File A31)

Re ferns of Sarawak. (Copy)

Ranu Mude of Sarawak (London) to Prof. Balfour (London), 25 November 1912 (File A32)

Re beauties of Sarawak.

G.N. Hose (Guildford) notes (File A33[A+B])

Re Sarawak ferns.

Hugh Burkill (Botanic Gardens, Singapore), 20 May 1913, 19 June 1913, 6 October 1913 (File A36-38)

Re entertaining BAAS members returning from Australia; sending flora to Kew.

H. Carse (Auckland) sending specimens of ferns, 18 September 1912 - 29 October 1912 (File A44-45)

L. Cockayne (Christchurch), 20 September 1911, 2 May, 3 October, 17 October, 31 October 1912 (File A52-56)

Re obtaining Botanical specimens.

Charles E. Foweraker (South Canterbury), 13 October 1912 - 15 November 1912 (File A96-97)

Re field trips to obtain specimens of ferns; has refused to run a cricket team.

A. Anstruther Lawson (St. Andrews, Sydney, Liverpool, U.S.A., Univ. of California), 15 September 1911 - 17 November 1913 (File A173-183)

Re teaching at Sydney University, 'students are not a bad lot'; plans to build laboratory in Botanic Gardens; smallpox epidemic; trip to America; requests a lecturer be sent out from Glasgow; beauties of Australian bush. (56p.)

D. McAlpine (Dept. of Agriculture, Victoria), 30 November 1912 (File A189)

Re work on bitterpit in apples.

H. Maiden (Botanic Gardens, Sydney), 17 February 1912 - 5 August 1913 (File A196-200)

Re appointment of Lawson as Prof. of Botany; good relations with Lawson; Bower's attendance at BAAS meeting. (13p.)

J.C. Moulton (Sarawak Museum), 4 December 1912 - 13 July 1913 (File A205-08)

Re Cheiropleuria bicuspis HK from Mt. Lingga. (5p.)

Henry Ridley (Botanic Gardens, Singapore), 16 August 1911 (File A230)

Re field trips; retirement, will not be replaced

H. Ruark (Univ. of Sydney), 21 October 1912 (File A231)

Re appointment of Lawson.

Alfred J. Ewart (Univ. of Melbourne), 29 February 1912 (File A264)

Re his applications for Professorship of Botany at Sydney and Adelaide; conflict with Minister of Agriculture on work on bitterpit.

H.E. Barff (Univ. of Sydney), 22 October 1912 (File A265)

Re appointment of Lawson to chair of Botany.

Lawson ? (Univ. of Sydney) to Chancellor, 30 April 1913 (File A266)

Re appointment of Assistant lecturer in Botany Dept.

H. Ruark (Sydney) on return to Australia, 14 October 1912 (File A302)

Hugh Burkill (Botanic Gardens, Singapore) re Singapore mutiny; sending specimens. (14p.), 9 April 1915 - 18 August 1916 (File B 28A-F)

L. Cockayne (Wellington) re collecting specimens, 18 August 1915 (File B37)

J. Edgeworth David (Sydney Univ.) re Bower's visit to Australia; proposing J.H. Maiden for Royal Society, 27 November 1914 - 5 January 1915 (File B40-41)

Alfred J. Ewart (Melbourne), 16 February 1915, 23 September 1915, 6 June 1916 (File B81-83)

Re problems getting equipment, encloses letters from Dept. of External Affairs and Atlee Hunt that unable to get specimen of Platysoma microphylla from Northern Territory.

T. Johnson (Dublin and SS Moatora off Townsville), 5 May 1914-13 February 1915, 24 December 1914 (File B165-9)

Re visit to Australia and exchange of photographs taken during B.A.A.S. meetings.

T.S. Kirkland (Sydney) re Bower's visit to Sydney, 14 September 1914 (File B177)

A. Anstruther Lawson (Sydney), 2 January 1914 - 30 October 1916 (File B223-229)

Re large classes in Botany; his bad health; war has prevented plans for new Botanical laboratory in Botanic Gardens; McLuckie is his right hand in the Department; his research. (44p. and 4 photographs)

John McLucky (Sydney), 21 January, 31 July, 17 November 1915 (File B237-9)

Re his first impressions of Australia; visit to Wentworth Falls sending specimens; war news received in Australia. (16p.)

J.H. Maiden (Sydney and Armidale), 20 December 1915 - 18 December 1916 (File B242-247)

Re ferns; Botanic Gardens has taken on 27 acres of Government House grounds; effects of war - wounded soldiers on streets and taxation; election to Royal Society. (14p.)

T.G.B. Osborn (Adelaide) sending 2 photographs of children, 15 December 1916 (File B264)

C.H. Osterfeld (Fremantle, Perth) owing to injury cannot attend B.A.A.S, 28 July 1914 - 21 August 1914 (File B265-6)

H. Taylor King (SS Anchises, Hobart and Melbourne), 3 March 1915 (File B329)

Re voyage to Adelaide with Lawson; popularity of Lawson's classes.

W.W. Watt (Sydney) re Bower's visit to Sydney sending copies of his papers; sending specimens. (6p.), 28 February 1915 - 4 May 1916 (File B336-9)

J.J. Wilson (Woollahra) re meeting Bower in Sydney; Lawson's plans for his Department, 2 May 1915 (File B345)

H. Carse (Auckland) sending specimens, 10 January 1917 - 22 July 1917 (File C104-05)

L. Cockayne (Wellington), 17 July 1916 - February 1917 (File C116-7)

Introducing C.E. Foweraker; sending specimens of Paesia scaberula - notes on its habitat; ferns which grow near his cottage.

Alfred Ewart (Melbourne Univ.) to ?, 30 November 1921 (File C174)

Re appointment as Secretary of Committee of B.A.A.S. dealing with Botanical station in Jamaica.

Charles E. Foweraker (N.Z.E.F. Medical HQ, London and Christchurch), 3 September 1918 - 10 October 1920 (File C199-200)

Re his visit to Glasgow; his work tabulating medical statistics; work at Biological Dept. at Canterbury College; news of other NZ scientists.

F.G. Gibbs (Nelson), 16 January 1917 (File C206)

Sending specimen of Paesia scaberula.

Rev. John Holloway (Hokitika - Westland), 30 May 1919 (File C240)

Sending specimens; his busy life looking after 8 or 10 counties.

A. Anstruther Lawson (Sydney), 29 April 1917 - 6 May 1920 (File C324-332)

Re appointing second Botany lecturer due to large classes; his health; Botany school has 450 students - one of largest and most popular in Uni.; Brough settling in as second lecturer; leave of absence; application to Carnegie Trust. (c40p.)

John McLuckie (Sydney), 1 July 1915 - 23 April 1918 (File C347-8)

Re obtaining specimens; accommodation in Macleay Museum; enjoying lecturing.

T.G.B. Osborn (Adelaide), 11 July 1919 (File C377)

Re research.

Report requested by Uni. of Manchester on application for D Sc. degree of TGB Osborn. Report by Prof. Bower on Osborn's thesis, 17 February 1920 (File C378-9)

Telegram from Prof. Lawson (Sydney) re appointment of Small, 30 March 1918 (File C424)

James Small (London) refusing Sydney post, 3 April 1918 (File C425)

W.W. Watts (Wycheproof, Vic.), 18 July 1918 (File C481)

Re article on Australian ferns for Encyclopaedia Australia.

F.E. Weiss (London), 9 February, 13 February, n.d., 16 February 1920 (File C483-6)

Re Osborne's application from Adelaide for vacant Professorship at Bedford College. Includes Osborn's c.v. (9p.)

R. Stephen Adamson (Adelaide, Melbourne), 22 September 1922 - 20 October 1922 (File D3-4)

Re successful trip to Australia crossing Nullarbor Plain; hospitality received; wealth of ferns at Mt. Wilson.

William Brierley (Harpenden) that intends to apply for post of mycologist to C.S.I.R.O, 5 January 1927 (File D19)

Bower to Official Secretary, Australia House, in support of Brierley (15p.), 7 January 1927 (File D19)

Patrick Brough (Sydney) sending his paper; new Botany building; his survey of Mt. Wilson, 26 February 1924 (File D26)

H. Burkill (Kew) re Botanic Gardens at Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, 19 August 1925 - 24 July 1926 (File D32A-B)

Charles E. Foweraker (Christchurch) Christmas greetings on post card of Botanical Gardens, 17 December 1923 (File D101)

A. Anstruther Lawson (Sydney) re development of Botany School; new building; expedition to Brush of Barrington Tops, 29 November 1923, 28 April 1925, 13 May 1925 (File D189-192)

(9p. and 10 photographs of building in progress, and news cuttings)

T.G.B. Osborn (Manchester and Adelaide), 15 February 1921 - 1 April 1923 (File D217-8)

Re visit to England; expedition to Peason Group. Includes 2 photographs.

7 photographs (of new Botany School, Sydney Uni.?) (File D258)

Rev. John McGarvie (Sydney), 26 April 1844 (File f.633)

Introducing Charles Sutherland with comments on Church situation in Australia; protest against Presbyterian Church Bill; support of people for Church of Scotland. (3p.)

William Young (Colonial Committee, Edinburgh), 15 March 1847 (File f.683)

Asking DM to endorse Bill of exchange to defray expenses incurred 'in urging the claims of the Presbyterian inhabitants of Hobart Town'.

Dr Thomas Clark (Edinburgh), 7 April 1847 (File f.685)

Ack. receipt of Australian enclosure to be brought before Colonial Committee.

William Young (Colonial Committee, Edinburgh), 24 December 1847 (File f.690)

Forwarding letter from Rev. McGarvie in Sydney asking for ministers for vacant churches in Australia. (wanting)

To Young that vacancies should be advertised; case of Parramatta, 7 January 1848 (File f.691)

Rev. Dr John McGarvie (Sydney), 25 June 1852 (File f.750)

Introducing Rev. William Purves, delegate from Synod of Australia to General Assembly of Church of Scotland.

Rev. James Coutts (Parramatta) re postal delay; hopes Purves not inconvenienced, 29 July 1852 (File f.754)

Coutts (Parramatta) re Bill for £50, 28 August 1852 (File f.755)

W. Young (Colonial Committee, Edinburgh) re allowance for Coutts at Parramatta, 29 December 1852 (File f.764)

Hugh Hamilton (Saltram, N.S.W.) to Archibald Hamilton (Rozelle), 4 July 1846 (Item)

Committee to be formed to report on capabilities of Bathurst area to support railway to Sydney; expects to get good price for his cattle; demand for salt beef.

Hugh Hamilton (Saltram, N.S.W.) to Archibold Hamilton why he has not invested in sheep, 18 February 1846 (Item)

Biographical notes by Hugh Hamilton (Item [1])

Childhood in Scotland, leaving for Australia in 1841, aged 18, on Earl Grey, description of other passengers 'single women were a bad lot'. (23p.) (faint typescript)

Biographical notes by Hugh Hamilton; ms. original of [1]. (23p) (Item [2])

Biographical notes by Hugh Hamilton from 1841 voyage to Australia (Item [3])

Life on cattle station at Saltram; borrowing money; his house and garden; floods; property; drought, 1850; moving cattle; abandoned the cattle in cold weather; discovery of gold - 'gold fever'; he forms a company and sets off for Orphir; return to Bathurst to trade in gold; became commissioner, presiding over disputes; returns to cattle run - higher price for cattle in Victoria so takes cattle to Melbourne to sell; 8 week journey; effect of discovery of gold on Melbourne; marries, 1853; buys another property; sells at profit; buys two runs by Darling River; journey to Spence's station on the Darling - his station had been attacked by natives - previous attacks on natives; continue on to his runs - poor land; shortage of provisions; expedition into interior - lack of water; arrived at McCrea's run. (81p.)

(Ms with ms additions and alterations)

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'What then? Why another Pilgrim song' Poem on Australian Club paper. (3p.) (Item)

[Hugh Hamilton] to Anna Marie Broke re his life in Australia; life on cattle run and on gold fields as commissioner. (13p.), 26 March 1852 (Item)

The Squatter by J.C. Clements. (Song) (3p.) (Item)

Australian songs by McKelire and Clements. (1 p.) (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (Sydney) to John Hamilton that taken passage on Duncan Dunbar, 13 January 1860 (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (Bathurst) to John Hamilton anxious to return home and see family, James gone to Moreton Bay, 25 February 1859 (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (Sydney) to John Hamilton re return to Scotland; sold bullock station, 13 June 1859 (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (off Lizard) to John Hamilton returns, 14 May 1860 (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (Sydney) to John Hamilton re money received from family; prospects of the colony 'bad government', 11 November 1858 (Item)

Hugh Hamilton (Sydney) to John Hamilton paying off debts; sold cattle at good price, 14 March 1849 (Item)

Envelope of material re Morney Plains station, Queensland, 29 August 1878 (Item)

Including plans, memo of sale, invoices, licence to occupy new run 1877-1879. (17p.)

Parts of interest include:John Dougal (Sydney) to Hugh Hamilton (8/11/1859) letter of commendation from Synod of Australia for his interest in church affairs.

Re plan to rob him of 65 square miles of land [page 3 only].

Archibald Hamilton (Rozelle) to Hugh Hamilton (2/03/1841) re his voyage to Australia.

Plan of county of Georgiana, N.S.W., ms note by Hugh Hamilton that shows second station as gold commissioner at Tuena in 1851, camp at Abercrombie (Item)

Ledger of Hugh Hamilton in Australia, 1 January 1853 - 29 September 1857 (Item)

(86p.)

Details of expenditure, costs of living.

Includes: payments for clothes lost on road and replaced; hotel expenses; provisions; travelling expenses; gold diggers for rations; blackfellow for rations.

Photographs of Clayton, N.Z, 1888 - 1895 (Item)

[p.26-27, 41-44].

Includes: exterior and interior views of house.

Voyage out to Australia, weather details (Item 32 ff.1-9)

Voyage Australia to London on Mongolia, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Fremantle, other ships, passengers, Aden (Item 32 ff.10-32)

Runs during voyage (Item 32 ff.33-35)

Continuation of voyage out to Australia, Port Said, Aden, Colombo (Item 32 ff.37-72)

Correspondence from Pacific, New Zealand and Australia, 22 September 1923 - December 1923 (File)

(60p.)

Subjects include: voyage on RMS Tahiti; visit to Lae; trip on glass bottom boat to see coral reef; met in Wellington by ADC of the Governor; stay at Government House; with Lord Jellico; banquet attended by 40 medicos from all parts of N.Z.; Sydney - staying with Sir Alex McCormick; spoke gaelic at Highland Society afternoon; at Melbourne, guests of Lord and Lady Foster; social life in Sydney and Melbourne; impressions of Australia on tour to Perth.

(Sydney) due to death of Governor, staying with Sir Alex McCormick; beauty of Sydney Harbour; voyage across Pacific; visit to Tahiti; stay in Wellington - cold weather. (4p.), 16 October 1923 (Item)

(Melbourne) visit to Botanic Gardens with Lord Foster (2p.), 31 October 1923 (Item)

(Melbourne) visit to Nature Reserve (4p.), 11 November 1923 (Item)

Deep Sea Voyages and Visits to Foreign Parts, 1870 - 1923 (File)

Contents

1. Atlantic Voyaging (1870)

2. A Trip to China (1872) [not filmed as an account of this voyage is detailed in the previous section]

3. The Cunard Round Trip in the Mediterranean (1882)

4. A Voyage to India and a run up to Darjeeling 1889)

5. On Board the 'Aurora' in 1893: The Record of a Sealing and Whaling Voyage

6. A Trip to the East (Egypt, India, Ceylon, Suva) in S.Y. Nahma (1906-07)

7. A Voyage to South America (1908)

8. To which is added - A Voyage to the Far East on board the "City of York" (1922-23)

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Conference programme (23p.) (File f.1)

Includes: background information and goodwill messages.

Ephemera (32p.) (File f.2)

Includes: postcards; brochures of scenic tours; certificate of appreciation for Prof. Rodger's speech at Christchurch Lions Club, 29 August 1961; comparative cost of living compiled by Canterbury Public Relations Office.

Personality Trait Disturbances by Ernest Beaglehole (6p.) (typescript) (File f.3)

The mental deficiency services: an analysis of existing policy and the community's requirements. Report by Mental Deficiency Subcommittee of B.M.A., New Zealand Branch (27p.) (File f.4)

Press cuttings (c. 50 cuttings) (File f.6)

Cuttings from unidentified papers re the conference and papers presented.

Princess Margaret Hospital, Christchurch. Commemorative booklet re opening by Governor General (28p.), 31 August 1959 (File f.10)

Will mental hospitals disappear? from a medical correspondent (3p.) (duplicated typescript) (File f.12)

Mental hospitals and the taxpayer: some questions from a medical correspondent (5p.) (duplicated typescript) (File f.13)

On mental health services in New Zealand.

Facts about mental illness (1p.) (duplicated typescript) (File f.14)

Statistics on mental illness in New Zealand.

Programme Schedule (4p.) (File f.21)

Lecture notes taken by Prof. Rodger. (11p.) (File f.22)

Carbons of correspondence, 1974 - 1975 (File)

Includes correspondence re his emigration to New Zealand and appointment to Chair of Applied Mathematics at Victoria University, Wellington.

Includes letters to: Registrar, Victoria Univ. of Wellington; Prof. Vere Jones (Wellington); Prof. G.A. Vignaux (Wellington); Prof. B.A. Woods (Christchurch).

Includes letters from: David Vere Jones (Wellington); John Harper (Wellington); Thora Blithe (Wellington).

Subjects include: closing bank accounts; change of address; resignation from University post and societies; N.Z. superannuation; travel arrangements; transporting computer programmes; personal items to take.

(105p.)

Great South Land: four papers on emigration. South Australia. 3rd ed. (34p.) (printed), 1838 (File 5/10/8)

Ms. note on back cover by R.A. MacFie that booklet written by class fellow William Smithi who went to Adelaide and founded Nairn.

Invitation for Mr and Mrs J.W. MacFie to attend coronation of King and Queen of Sandwich Islands, 12 February 1883 (File 5/29/4)

Journal of J.W.M.'s trip to Hawaii (60p.), 1884 (File 5/29/7)

17 May - 26 May transatlantic voyage in Auronia, Chicago; Larime - visit to ranch; voyage on Australia from San Francisco, 7 June - 14 June; list of passengers; stayed on Kilauea plantation; journey back to England via America on Mariposa to San Francisco, 15 September - 10 October 1884.

(Some faint pencil)

Correspondence, 1882 - 1885 (File 5/29/16)

(119p. some incomplete).

Mainly letters between John William MacFie (Liverpool and Kilauea Plantation, Kauai, Hawaii) and his father, R.A. MacFie, re Robert A. MacFie Jnr.'s mismanagement of the plantation and efforts to save the money the family had invested in it. J.W.M.'s letters from Hawaii (1884) also include comments on people met; attendance at church; Hawaiian financial affairs; disappearance of old native ways.

Newspaper cutting re marriage of Edward MacFie of Kilauea and Miss Ritson, 23 November 1886 (File 5/30/6)

University of Sydney, May 1951 (File 38)

University of Melbourne, October 1951 (File 41)

University of Otago, May 1951 (File 44)

University of Queensland, April 1951 (File 50)

University of Western Australia, April 1951 (File 51)

University of Malaya, 1951 (File 60)

Correspondence re construction of Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand steamship Hawea (19p.), 1896 - 1897 (File)

Correspondence and invoices with Arch McMillan & Sons Ltd., shipbuilders and Union Steamship Co. of N.Z. Ltd. re building hull, delivery charges, specifications.

Correspondence re construction of steamship for New Zealand Shipping Co. Mataura (226p.), 1897 (File)

Correspondence re estimates, specifications, cost with N.Z. Shipping Co. Ltd.; includes specifications for triple expansion screw engines.

(Some faint pressed copy letters.)

Australian mines (c. 400p.) (File 43/1/1)

Includes: Cripple Creek Gold and Exploration Ltd.; Scottish West Australian Exploration Syndicate Ltd.; Turan Gold Mines, Sofala; Golden Plum Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd.; Mount Usher Gold Mines Ltd., Mount Morgan; Lombardy Gold Mine Ltd., Cue W.A.

Misc. Mines, Empire [Australian mines] (c. 570p.), 1888 - 1895 (File 43/1/4-5)

Includes: Rome Consolidated, W.A.; Hainault Gold Mine W.A.; Robinson Gold Mines Ltd., Goolgardie; Sydney Harbour Collieries; Gold Estates of Australia Ltd.; Menzies Pioneers Ltd.; Cuddingwarda Gold Mines Ltd.; Central Queensland Land Corp. Ltd.; Black Swan Gold Mine Ltd.; White Cliffs Opal Mines; West Australian Joint Stock Trust and Finance Corp. Ltd.; Northern Territories Gold Field of Australia Ltd.; Lord Brassy Gold Mines Ltd.; Midland Railway Co. of Western Australia Ltd.

New Zealand Mines (c. 300p.), 1895 - 1896 (File 43/1/7)

Includes: The Tokatea of Hauraki Ltd.; the Tararu Creek Gold Mining Co. Ltd.; New Zealand Minerals Co. Ltd.; Monowai Gold Mines Ltd.; Maoriland Gold Mines Ltd.; Whangamata Property Ltd.; Tasmanian Golden Gate Mines Ltd.; New Hauraki Gold Properties Ltd.

Minute book Ship Australian Co. Ltd. (69p.), 1896 - 1910 (File 2/3/2)

Minutes of AGM and annual report; gives details of Australian's voyages which included Newcastle, N.S.W., and Sydney and details of winding up after 8th voyage on which she went missing en route to Sydney from Mazatlan, 1908.