Guide to the British Museum (Natural History): Case and Policy Files (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M2523 - M2526

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Created: 2019

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Series DF 1004. Department of Administrative Services. Case and Policy Files

Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1968 (File CP 33)

(5p.)...

Australian Museum, 1931 - 1966 (File CP 34)

(49p.)...

Bequests: Prof. A Liversidge, 1927 (File CP 85)

(5p.)...

Bequests: G. Rigg, 1944 - 1947 (File CP 96)

(39p.)...

Bequests: AF Wollaston, 1921 - 1939 (File CP 112)

(5p.)...

Botanic Gardens, Bogor, Java, 1970 - 1971 (File CP 123)

(16p.)...

Colonial Office, 16 April 1924 - 15 August 1933 (File CP 200/1)

Filmed Selectively.

Correspondence re list of fauna of Ellice Islands collected by Donald Kennedy (list not enclosed), 3 May 1934-22 June 1933 (Item ff.267-260)

Correspondents include: D. Kennedy (Funafuti); Charles A Swinbourne (Ocean Island); M Fletcher (Suva).

Harold Allen (C.O) to Director re Tongan tradition relating to tortoise given by Captain Cook to chiefs, 15 August 1933 (Item f.259)
CO to Director re preservation of Tongan birds and fish, 22 June 1933 (Item ff.258-257)
Correspondence re collecting insects in British Solomon Islands, 24 December 1932-21 June 1932 (Item ff.252-248)

Correspondents include: FN Ashley (Tulagi); M Fletcher (Suva).

Correspondence re Tongan tortoise believed to have been presented to King of Tonga by Capt Cook, 23 November-15 November 1932 (Item ff.247-244)
Memoranda re Tongan birds, 24 May 1932 (Item ff.232-225)
Memoranda and correspondence re candidates for Assistant curator at Raffles Museum, Singapore, 3 December-21 November 1931 (Item ff.203-196)
Memoranda and correspondence re attempt by Dutch Consul General to prohibit importation of Orang utan into Straits Settlements, 5 December-16 August 1929 (Item ff.185-180)
Memoranda and correspondence re prevention of introduction of mongoose into New Hebrides, 11 January 1927-28 September 1926 (Item ff.160-152)

Correspondents include: Eyre Hutson (Suva); GWB Smith Rewse (Vila).

JH Thomas (CO) to Officer Administering Fiji re protection of birds. (Copy), 16 April 1924 (Item ff.138-7)
Memoranda and copy of 'An Act to approve an agreement made between….Australia and William Colin MacKenzie' re MacKenzie's collection of Australian animals, 24 February 1925 (Item ff.93-89)
Correspondence re possible employment of Cyril Crossland in cultivation of pearl shells in Malaya, 5 June 1923-14 November 1922 (Item ff.35-32)

Colonial Office, 25 October 1943 - 30 December 1958 (File CP 200/2)

Filmed Selectively.

Memo re employment of Eric R Alfred from Raffles Museum, Singapore, 30 December-3 October 1958 (Item ff.153-144)

Includes: Alfred's CV and confidential report by RD Purchon, Univ. of Malaya.

Correspondence re animals to be represented on armorial bearings of British Solomon Islands, 10 October 5 September 1955 (Item ff.119-115v)
Memoranda and correspondence concerning employment of JL Harrison (of IMR Malaya) and FA Prowse (of Malacca), 26 August 1955- 9 May 1955 (Item ff.114-105)
Correspondence re proposal by AS Le Souef to establish animal and bird sanctuary in Fiji, 1 January 1948- 18 September 1947 (Item ff.74-71v)

Includes: 18 September 1947 AS Le Souef (Sydney) to HM Trade Commissioner (Sydney) re proposal. (Copy)...

Correspondence with B Macdonald (Ocean Island) re specimens collected by DG Kennedy, Ellice Island, 23 March-28 January 1938 (Item ff.36-33)
Correspondence re appointment of Cpt FAB Holloway as Chief Game Warden, Malaya, 10 February- 31 January 1938 (Item ff.32-27)
Correspondence re collection of fauna on Ellice Island by DG Kennedy, 25 January 1935- 25 October 1934 (Item ff.5-1)

Correspondents include: DG Kennedy.

Colonial Universities, 19 Nov -16 Nov 1959 (File CP 201)

Filmed Selectively.

Correspondence with Neville Stephenson (Univ of Sydney) re his work in Vertebrate Zoology, 19 November-16 November 1959 (Item ff.12-11)

Collections: T Broun, 1920 - 1923 (File CP 211)

(49p.)...

Cooperation with Colonial Governments, 7 March 1933 - 18 April 1933 (File CP 256)

Filmed Selectively.

JC Darley (Tulagi) enclosing minute from RA Lever on protection of birds of British Solomon Islands. (3p.), 7 March 1933 (Item ff.14-14 (a))
Charles Swinbourne (Ocean Island) re protection of birds and enclosing list of protected birds with English and local name. (4p.), 18 April 1933 (Item)

Darwin Centenary: South Pacific Expedition, 1956 - 1957 (File CP 270)

(35p.)...

Expeditions - General, 26 November 1935 - 24 May 1952 (File CP 351/1)

Filmed Selectively.

BM (NH) memos and correspondence with HF Broadbent (High Wycombe), 1 August- 24 May 1952 (Item ff.154-146)

re proposed collecting expedition to Western and North Western Australia, help received from Australia.

Correspondence with Brenda Bishop (Pacific Science Council, Honolulu), 18 July 1951- 13 January 1951 (Item ff.121, 109-107, 103-97)

re Museum expeditions to the Pacific area...

BM (NH) memos and correspondence with AH Young (Ipswich), 10 April- 19 November 1947 (Item ff.66-49)

re proposed expedition to Pacific Islands.

Memos re Great Barrier Reef Committee, 28 November- 26 November 1935 (Item ff.4-1)

Expeditions - General, 27 March 1958 - 31 December 1958 (File CP 351/2)

Filmed Selectively.

Correspondence with Dan Rolph (Sepik River, PNG) re collecting, 31 December 1958-26 November 1958 (Item ff.241, 225-223)
Correspondence with Resident Commission, New Hebrides, 26 June- 27 March 1958 (Item ff.203-197)

re request from Herr Heinrich Bregulla to send ornithologist to New Hebrides to collect Weaver Finches...

Expeditions - General, 30 June 1959 - 24 October 1968 (File CP 351/3)

Filmed Selectively.

Correspondence with Major BD McDonald Booth (Helena Valley), 8 November- 24 October 1968 (Item ff.303-301)

re leave granted to Messrs Freeman and Frith to be part of Harold Hall Expedition, collecting in Arnhemland 'very rewarding'; future plans.

BM (NH) memos and correspondence with AY Norris (Devonport), 27 June- 24 May 1966 (Item ff.270, 267-264)

re British Joint Services Expedition to Central Australia; problem re exporting specimens from Australia.

TCS Morrison Scott to Lord De L'Isle (Canberra) requesting his support for bird collecting expedition to Australia, 12 July 1961 (Item ff.112)
WA Ferguson to JE Dandy, 19 January 1961 (Item f.91)

Museum has not received letter from Dr Bratt or Brett nor heard of Australian Carstensz Expedition.

Correspondence regarding request by Heinrich Bregulla to collect birds in New Hebrides, 26 August- 10 July 1959 (Item ff.45-28)

Correspondents include: Dr J Steinbacher (Frankfurt); W Schroder (Berlin); Hans Steiner (Zurich)...

JB McCaig (Vila) to Director, 30 June 1959 (Item ff.23-22)

re visit of Bregulla and the number and species of birds he wishes to collect.

Expeditions - General, 1 February 1969 - October 1970 (File CP 351/4)

Filmed Selectively.

Memos on Joint Marine Biological Expedition to Papua and New Guinea, 1970. (Personnel included 4 Australians), October 1970 (Item ff.56-55)
Correspondence and memos re BM(NH) expedition to Indonesia, 4 July- 1 February 1969 (Item ff.24-10, 7-1)

Correspondents include: IJM Sutherland (British Embassy, Djakarta).

Expeditions - Australian Bird Expedition, 1961 - 1965 (File CP 355/1)

(243p.)...

Expeditions - Australian Bird Expedition Pt 2, 1963 - 1966 (File CP 355/2)

(20p.)...

Expeditions - Australia (West Central) Joint Services, 1966 - 1968 (File CP 356)

(189p.)...

Expeditions - Australian (Hall), 1967 - 1969 (File CP 357)

(12p.)...

Expeditions - North Western Australia, 1966 - 1967 (File CP 358)

(65p.)...

Expeditions - Miss LE Cheesman, 1928 - 1958 (File CP 360)

(239p.)...

Expeditions - Galapagos Islands, 1935 - 1960 (File CP 361)

(124p.)...

Expeditions - Gunong Benom, Malaya, 1966 - 1967 (File CP 362)

(119p.)...

Expeditions - New Guinea, 1963 - 1965 (File CP 371)

(47p.)...

Expeditions - New Guinea (Joint Museum Expedition, 1970), 1969 - 1970 (File CP 372)

(24p.)...

Expeditions - North Borneo (1956) Birds, 1947 - 1963 (File CP 373)

(176p.)...

Expeditions - Royal Society Expedition to North Borneo, 1960 - 1964 (File CP 374)

(95p.)...

Expeditions - WJ Potter New Guinea, 1919 - 1922 (File CP 376)

(26p.)...

Expeditions - Rennell Island, 1950 - 1962 (File CP 377)

(139p.)...

Expeditions - Rowett-Shackleton Expedition, 1921 - 1923 (File CP 381)

(25p.)...

Expeditions - Solomon Islands, 1964 - 1966 (File CP 382)

(25p.)...

Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins Expedition to Australia, 1922 - 1923 (File CP 392/1)

(100p.)...

Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins to Australia and Arctic, 1923 - 1959 (File CP 392/2)

(324p.)...

Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins. Accounts for Australia, 1923 - 1924 (File CP 392/3)

(195p.)...

Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins - Ethnology for Australia. (86p.), 1923 - 1925 (File CP 392/4)

The Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land, NE Northern Territory, Australia (Item I)

Comprises

A visit [by GHW] to Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria (Item II)

Includes: list of ethnological specimens.

The Indigenous Australians of Cape York Peninsula and the influence of the mission workers (Item III)
Folklore and other stories collected from the natives at Milingimbi, Crocodile Islands, NT. Recorded by GHW, December 1924 (Item IV)

Eg. origin of rainbow; origin of the Blackfellow; cannibalism; food tabu; methods of killing enemies.

Expeditions - Cpt GH Wilkins Expedition to Australia. Photographs, [1923-1924] (File CP 392/5)

69 photographs...

Exhibitions/Exhibits Various, 1966 - 1968 (File CP 408)

Filmed selectively.

Folder: Captain Cook Bicentenary, 1966 - 1967 (Item A)

(38p.)...

Miscellaneous material, 1968 (File B)

Filmed Selectively.

Correspondence with British Museum, National Maritime Museum, New Zealand High Commissioner (Sir Thomas MacDonald) re Cook bicentennial exhibitions, 1968 (Item ff.43-31)

Funafuti borings, 1948 - 1952 (File CP 426)

(38p.)...

Great Barrier Reef Committee, Australia, 1922 - 1958 (File CP 436)

(39p.)...

Expeditions - Mount Cook, New Zealand, 1971 - 1972 (File CP 460)

(31p.)...

Kuala Lumpur - FMS Museum, 1923 - 1927 (File CP 480)

(23p.)...

Kuala Lumpur (Selangor Museum), 1947 - 1955 (File CP 481)

(63p.)...

Melbourne Museum, 1936 - 1955 (File CP 523)

(52p.)...

Meteorites, 22 October 1935 - 17 April 1957 (File CP 525)

Filmed Selectively.

Report by GF Herbert Smith (Mineral Dept.) to Trustees re exhibition of Cranbourne Meteorite, 17 April 1957 (Item f.7)
G Herbert Smith to Director re special case for exhibiting Cranbourne meteorite, 3 November 1936 (Item f.6)
Report by GF Herbert Smith to Trustees on discovery of Kyancutta meteorite and presentation by R Bedford, 18 January 1936 (Item ff.5-4)
Memo re case for exhibiting Cranbourne meteorite, 9 January 1936 (Item f.3)
Report by G Herbert Smith to Trustees on condition of Cranbourne meteorite and method of preservation. (3p.), 22 October 1935 (Item ff.2-1)

New Zealand, Dominion of, 1931 - 1964 (File CP 543)

(51p.)...

Parliamentary Bills: Plumage Bill, 1920 - 1925 (File CP 561/1)

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