Guide to the Papers of Sir Maurice Yonge (as filmed by the AJCP)

Notes on trip to Singapore and Malacca. (5p.), 14 July 1956 - 10 August 1956 (File)

Notes on trip to Singapore, Te Vega, Sarawak, Sandakan, Palau Gaya, Rabaul, Duke of York Island, Honiara, Nadi, Tahiti. (21 p.), 13 January 1965 - 27 March 1965 (File)

Notes on trip to Australia, Honolulu. (9p.), 17 September 1967 - 22 October 1967 (File)

Notes on trip to Australia. (9p.), 6 August 1971 - 4 September 1971 (File)

Notes on trip to Australia, Lizard Island. (8p.), 28 November 1975 - 20 December 1975 (File)

Notes on trip to Australia, Perth, Low Islands. (14p.), 29 December 1977 - 15 February 1978 (File)

Notes on trip to Sydney for Mollusca Symposium. (5p.), 15 May 1979 - 28 May 1979 (File)

Journal kept by M.J.Yonge and others, 26 May 1928 - 5 August 1929 (File)

Subjects include: list of party who left St Pancras; arrival at Fremantle; receptions at Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney; Brisbane; Cairns; launch to Low Islands; settling in at base; arranging laboratory; dredging; boat parties; construction of aquarium; examination of marine specimens; weather; packing up; Heron Island.

(142p.)

Log of boat party's cruise on Magneta, 25 February 1929 - 2 March 1929 (File)

Log of dredging party's cruise, March 1929 (File)

Log of Magneta cruise, 17 March 1929 - 18 March 1929 (File)

Diary of Three Isles trip, 1 May 1929 - 17 May 1929 (File)

Report of Mary D.Glynne, 9 April 1929 - 30 April 1929 (File)

Duties allotted to members of the expedition, 7 August 1928 - 20 September 1928 (File)

Carbon copy of diary kept by Mattie Yonge, 18 July 1928 - 25 May 1929 (File)

(45p., p 16 blank, faint in places.)

Subjects include: journey to Low Islands from Cairns; welcome from Lighthouse keepers and families; quarters; her duties as medical officer; beauty of the coral; trips on Luana to Great Barrier Reef; turtle meat; Thursday Island - met by Mr O'Leary; trip to Badu; dancing display by local scouts; visit to school; Murray Islands - met by councillors 'red jerseys with councillor embroidered across the front'; fertility of Murray Islands; visit to school; collecting corals; death feast for Jimmy Rice; Coconut Island; Quetta memorial church on Thursday Island; buying of pearl shell from luggers; Japanese pearl merchant; met Lord and Lady Goodwin.

Pages. 1-54, trip to Torres Straits, 23 April 1929 - 21 May 1929 (File [A])

Journal kept by C.M.Yonge

Subjects include: voyage from Cairns to Thursday Island on Taiping; pearling industry 'in all cases boats run by Japanese who do all diving'; divers get all pearls found; boat building industry; beche de mer all exported to China; trochus 'a lucrative trade and increasing'; turtles; dugongs; Aboriginal boats; trip to Badu on Goodwill with C.Harman; the store; Papuan Industries Ltd; boy scouts; Murray Islands; collecting on reef; native houses; the people; fishing industry.

Pages. 96 - [128] extracts from literature on Torres Straits and pearling (File [B])

Journal and rough notes of trip to South East Asia by Yonge and C.F.Hickling, 19 July 1956 - 9 August 1956 (File)

At front: Press cuttings and notes on Solomon Islands (File [A])

At front: List of members of Te Vega expedition to Caroline Islands (File [B])

At front: Journal, 9 January 1965 - 17 February 1965 (File [C])

Subjects include: journey to Singapore and boarding Te Vega; marine fauna seen from boat; Sandakan 'very bright town'; Zamboanga; flora and fauna of sandy island; crew celebrate Chinese New Year; Japanese pearl culture station on P.Bohaydulong; P.Gaya.

At front: Visit to Kieta, description of Pak Pak village; natives, fauna, 7 - 12 March (File [D])

At back: Notes on study of clam bed on Palau Gaya, 30 January 1965 - 3 February 1965 (File [E])

At back: Notes on general fauna of P.Gaya (File [F])

Itinerary, 17 September 1967 - 18 October 1967 (File [A])

Edinburgh/Brisbane/Cairns/Lizard Island/Yonge Reef/ Nymph Island/Careelah/Cairns/Low Island/Brisbane/Edinburgh.

Research notes on marine fauna, and sketch maps of reefs (File [B])

Respiration of Corals in relation to Photosynthesis of their contained Zooxanthellae. (5p.) (File C22)

Great Barrier Reef of Australia: draft lecture. (7p.) (File C23)

Steve Jameson (Guam) to Yonge, 20 March 1974 (File C160)

Re work on Tridacna maxima. (2p.)

Keith S.Chambers (Wellington) to Yonge, 28 June 1975 (File C160)

Re Giant clams on Nanumea, Ellice Islands, their importance to the islanders, how and why they died out, traditional explanations. (3p.)

Alan Bell (DSIR, Lower Hutt) to Yonge, 1 June 1977 (File)

re his work to revise Australian living Anomiidae. (1p.)

Correspondence between S.H.Chuang (Singapore) and Yonge (Glasgow), 25 January 1962 - 15 February 1962 (File C230)

re Placuna shells in Malaya and their use in furniture making. (3p.)

Brian Bayne (Kuala Lumpur and Plymouth) to Yonge, 21 June 1971 - 19 September 1972 (File C230)

re his work on Enigmonia in the mangrove swamps of Malaya. (4p.)

R.K.Dell (Wellington) to Yonge, 2 May 1975 (File C230)

re Monia Zeylanica. (1p.)

Notes draft articles, sketches re trip to Lizard Island. (29p., paginations erratic) (File C300-301)

Correspondence with Bruce Runnegar (Armidale) re work on mollusca. (5p.), 15 August 1978 - 27 September 1978 (File C328)

Correspondence between Yonge, Phil Colman, and Winston F.Ponder (Australian Museum, Sydney), 12 October 1976 - 20 December 1979 (File C347)

re work on Hemidonax, (10p.)

Correspondence with Mrs S.M.Slack-Smith (Western Australian Museum, Perth) and S.H.Chuang (Singapore). (11p.), 22 June 1976 - 7 October 1976 (File C350)

Subjects include: exchange of specimens; proposed expedition to Cocos Keeling Islands; Chuang's field work in West Malaysia; spread of Corculum cardissa; reclamation work on reef flats of Singapore detrimental to bivalves; marine work in the Kimberleys.

Loan forms and correspondence from National Museum of Victoria and Australian Museum, (6p.), 1976 - 1980 (File)

Yonge (n.pl.) to Alastair re visit to Australia; working conditions. (2p., carbons), 28 December 1977 - 9 January 1978 (File C359)

Correspondence and papers, 22 July 1969 - 11 August 1969 (File D8)

Re visit of Stoddart to Queensland.

Includes

Stoddart (Auckland) to Yonge (11/08/1969); Re warring factions in Queensland 'there were some rather difficult moments, as so many people seem to be at each other's throats'; visit to Heron Island and its facilities.

2 other letters between Stoddart and Yonge.

Report on Stoddart's visit (22/07/1969-04/08/1969).

Summary of plans for the proposed Brisbane-based geophysical party, sent to Yonge, 1 May 1970 - 13 May 1970 (File D9)

Includes

G.R.Orme (St Lucia) to Stoddart (01/05/1970); re a phased expedition, encloses list of equipment.

Draft and final applications for financial support for the expedition, July 1977 (File D10)

Correspondence, 29 October 1971 - 13 January 1972 (File D11)

Items of interest include:

C. Burdon Jones (Douglas) to Stoddart re participants. (29 October 1971).

Stoddart (Cambridge) to Yonge re problems with Queensland participants. (23 November 1971).

C.S. Davis (St Lucia) to Royal Society re grants. (13 January 1972).

Revised programme and budget, January 1973 (File D12)

Correspondence and papers, February 1973 - April 1973 (File D13)

Correspondents include: G.R.Orme (St Lucia); Keith Williams (St Lucia); C.Burdon Jones (Townsville).

Subjects include: inviting Duke of Edinburgh to visit expedition; charter of Odyssey; assistance from Royal Australian Navy.

Includes Phase III Amended Provisional Timetable

Correspondence, May 1973 (File D14)

Correspondents include: D.R.Stoddart (Cambridge); G.R.Orme (St Lucia); Sir Zelman Cowen.

Subjects include: arrangements; personnel; James Kirby programme; finance; official support.

Includes: Revised programme and budget, June 1973.

Report on Phase 1, 16 July 1973 - 19 August 1973 (File D16)

Great Barrier Reef Expedition (File D17)

Subcommittee of the Southern Zone Research Committee of Royal Society minutes, 10 January 1974 and 13 November 1973 and papers.

Summary of financial transactions on the expedition account, 1 January 1974 (File D18)

Correspondence re publication of results and papers, 10 May 1977 - 5 October 1977 (File D20)

Correspondents include: D.R.Stoddart (Cambridge); G.R.Orme (St Lucia); C.M.Yonge.

Summary report by D.R.Stoddart, n.d. (File D21)

3 maps (File D22)

T.C.Roughley (Sydney), 23 Nov, 22 Dec (Item)

Re his work on feeding of oysters

T.C.Roughley (Sydney), 15 February 1927 - 3 May 1927 (Item)

Re work on oysters

R.D.Purchon (Singapore), 3 December 1951 (Item)

Re paper on Pholadidae

Yonge (Glasgow) to Purchon, 19 December 1951 (Item)

Acknowledgement

M.W.F.Tweedie (Singapore) to W.J.Rees BM(NH), 20 February 1952 (Item)

Re collecting Malleus albus for Professor Yonge

Pilgrim (Christchurch) re work on shell of Diplodon, 11 June 1953 (Item)

Yonge (Glasgow) to Pilgrim ack, 30 July 1953 (Item)

Acknowledgement

R.D.Purchon (Singapore), 7 January 1954 (Item)

Re reorganisation of zoology department

R.D.Purchon (Singapore), 8 March 1954 (Item)

Re work on Brechites

Yonge to Purchon, 15 March 1954 (Item)

Acknowledgement and his marriage

R.D.Purchon (Singapore), 12 April 1954 (Item)

Re work on Brechites.

R.D.Purchon (Singapore), 12 May 1954 - 23 June 1954 (Item)

Re his work; a collection of Anomiidae from mangrove regions; requesting Yonge act as external examiner for Chuang Shou Hwa.

Yonge (Glasgow) to Purchon, 1 July 1954 (Item)

Re Lingula

Yonge (Glasgow) to Captain G.M.Lindeman that sending his letter to Duncan Waugh, 8 July 1964 (Item)

G.M.Lindeman (Lemontree Passage) re his work, 15 July 1964 (Item)

A.Ben-Tuvia (FAO, Rome), 23 August 1966 (Item)

re request from Cook Islands on information on introducing Tridacna to Rarotonga Lagoon.

Ronald Dowell (Rarotonga) to FAO, 3 May 1966 (Item)

re cultivation of Tridacna clams.

General

Very poor xerox

A Ben-Tuvia (Rome) to Powell that little is known on the subject, 23 May 1966 (Item)

General

Very poor xerox

Lawrence Delacey (Auckland), 25 November 1969 (Item)

re his work on systematics of the Anisomyaria with Professor Morton.

Yonge to Delacey (Auckland) sending reprints, 13 January 1970 (Item)

Yonge to Winston Ponder (Australian Museum), 6 September 1971 (Item)

re Yonge's trip to Australia

Winston Ponder (Sydney) re meeting Yonge in Australia, 14 September 1971 (Item)

Jacques Voorwinde (Australian Museum), 7 December 1971 (Item)

re his work on Western Pacific Carbulidae.

Yonge to Voorwinde re sexual dimorphism in bivalve shells, 30 December 1971 (Item)

Bruce Runnegar (Armidale) re his application to Royal Society, 18 January 1972 (Item)

Jacques Voorwinde (Sydney), 27 March 1972 (Item)

re sexual dimorphism in Carbulidae.

Projects being undertaken in the Department of Malacology of the Australian Museum (cyclostyled), 1972 (Item)

Stephen C.Jameson (Guam) re work on giant clam, 21 February 1974 (Item)

Winston Ponder (Sydney) re trip to UK, 1 August 1974 (Item)

Steve Jameson (Guam) re field trip to Palau, 7 October 1974 (Item)

Alain Soula (Takapoto, Fr Polynesia), 30 December 1974 (Item)

re production of Mother of Pearl oyster from Lagoon of Takapoto.

David [Barnes] (Townsville) that settling in at Australian Institute of Marine Science, 12 March 1975 (Item)

R.D.Purchon (London), 20 March 1975 (Item)

Enclosing report of his visit to West Malaysia to study marine shelled mollusca, August 1973 - September 1974. (8p.)

R.D.Purchon (London) re Malaysia and Yonge's trip to Lizard Island, 30 November 1975 (Item)

David [Barnes] (Townsville), 13 January 1976 (Item)

Re life at Townsville; building a house, research, 'AIMS is gradually sorting itself out. It is still an unhappy place.'

Charles A.Fleming (DSIR, Lower Hutt), 27 February 1976 (Item)

Re work on local species of Limatula

Winston Ponder (Australian Museum), 13 May 1976 (Item)

Re re comments on his paper

R.W.O'Brien (Sydney University), 29 November 1976 (Item)

Re work on Tridacna Maxima.

Alan Beu (DSIR, Lower Hutt), 9 December 1976 (Item)

Re work on Australian living and fossil species of Anomia.

Winston Ponder (Australian Museum), 24 January 1977 (Item)

Re specimens of Patro; visit to Heron Island.

Fred Wells (Western Australian Museum), 13 May 1977 (Item)

Re work on pteropods

Cyril B J (James Cook University), 2 May 1978 (Item)

Re specimens of Trisidos; family news.

Alan Butler (Adelaide), 15 June 1979 (Item)

Re publication

Winston Ponder (Australian Museum), 9 July 1979 (Item)

Re symposium

P.Dinamani (Wellington), 13 July 1979 (Item)

Re his work on oysters; encloses photograph.

P.Dinamani (Wellington), 17 August 1979 (Item)

Re work on oysters.

Jack A.Grant Mackie (Auckland), 30 August 1979 (Item)

Re publications.

D.F.McMichael (Australian Museum) (Item)

Re his resignation from Australian Museum to accept directorship of Australian Conservation Foundation Inc. (cyclostyled)

Correspondence leading up to appointment as leader, 5 January 1927 - 16 May 1927 (File E48)

Correspondents include: H.C.Richards (Brisbane); F.A.Potts (Cambridge); J.Stanley Gardiner (Cambridge).

Correspondence leading up to appointment as leader, 10 June 1927 - September 1927 (File E49)

Correspondents include: F.A.Potts (Cambridge); J.Stanley Gardiner (Cambridge); George Bidder (Cambridge).

Correspondence, 12 July 1928 - 6 July 1929 (File E50)

Items of interest include:

Welcoming cable from Governor [Goodwin]. (12 July 1928).

Exports of Marine produce from Thursday Island in 1928. (31 December 1928).

H.C. Richards (Themistodes, Great Australian Bight) re voyage; meeting with Premier Moore. (20 June 1929).

George Agnew (Murray Island) re reception given to Governor's party; shoal of sardines. (6 July 1929).

Correspondence, 11 February 1931 - 10 December 1931 (File E51)

Items of interest include:

H.C.Richards (Brisbane) re Yonge's book on Great Barrier Reef. (11 February 1931).

Frank Moorhouse (Nerang) sending specimens; work on fish. (30 July 1931).

E.O.Marks (Brisbane) re writings on Great Barrier Reef; future work on Great Barrier Reef. (11 November 1931, 10 December 1931).

E.A.Cullen (Brisbane) re huts and scientific equipment on Low Islands. (23 November 1931).

Correspondence, 24 May 1932 - 27 October 1932 (File E52)

Items of interest include:

Frank Moorhouse (Brisbane) re dismantling camp on Low Islands; his work in Moreton Bay on sea mullet. (24 May 1932).

J.Stanley Gardiner (Cambridge) re publishing work on Yonge Reef. (7 July 1932).

R.Sewell (Guildford) re Stephenson's account of structure of different reefs in GBR; importance of Yonge's reef. (23 July 1932).

Frank Moorhouse (Brisbane) re trip to Low Islands; due to lack of support he has resigned. (27 October 1932).

Correspondence, 15 March 1934 (File E53)

F.Moorhouse 15 March 1934 (Woody Island) to E.O.Marks re cyclone damage to Low Islands; 'Low Island that used to be such a picture, now looks like a drunkard's home.'

Correspondence, 22 February 1935 - 9 July 1936 (File E54)

Items of interest include:

E.O.Marks (Brisbane) re proposal to establish an award medal for scientific work on Great Barrier Reef. (22 May 1935).

H.C. Richards (Brisbane) to J. Stanley Gardiner (Cambridge) re financial problems hindering further work on Great Barrier Reef. (Copy). (19 June 1936).

Yonge to Richards re Gardiner's attitude to present Great Barrier Reef Expedition. (9 July 1936).

Correspondence, 9 March 1939 - 31 March 1939 (File E55)

Items of interest include:

H.C. Richards (Brisbane) re current work on Great Barrier Reef. (9 March 1939, 31 March 1939).

Dr Hill and Owen Jones (Brisbane) re work on Heliolitidae. (31 March 1939).

Correspondence, 23 June 1971 - 6 June 1973 (File E57)

Items of interest include;

Correspondence with B.F.L.Crommelin (Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, Brisbane) re Royal commission on Petroleum drilling in Great Barrier Reef.(23/06/1971-31/08/1971); Includes statement by Yonge to the Commision on posible ecology effects of drilling.

Correspondence with John Heyer (London) re his film on Great Barrier Reef (26/08/1972-30/08/1972)

Programme for International Symposium on coral reefs. Australia. (07/1973)

Miscellaneous, 11 June 1932 - May 1934 (File E59)

Items of interest include:

List of persons and institutions to receive copies of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition Scientific Reports.

Items of interest include; Proof copy of article for Discovery.

T.A.Stephenson (Capetown) comments on Stanley Gardiner's review in Nature of Great Barrier Reef reports. (11 June 1932).

2 photographs showing cyclone damage on Low Islands after May 1934.

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Miscellaneous, 2 May 1928 - 27 September 1928 (File E60)

Includes:

Tourist brochure re Great Barrier Reef.

'Life on Low Islands'The Queenslander 27 September 1928.

Orient Line Cabin passengers' contract ticket for Dr and Mrs Yonge 2 May 1928

Te Vega Expedition, 1964 - 1967 (File F79)

(15p.).

Includes:

Itinerary March 1965 for return journey Honiara/London.

Programme of Te Vega for 1967.

Information and instructions for Te Vega participants.

Grace Richards (Brisbane), 1947 (Item)

Re death of Harvey

David Stoddart (Cambridge), 20 December 1985 (Item)

Re trip to Hawaii.

work on Kure Atoll; visit to Motupore Station Papua New Guinea; Java and Thousand Islands- 'reefs are largely dead…mountains of urban garbage - Plastic sheets and plastic sandals mostly'

Tahiti and Cook Islands.

Sandy Bruce (Darwin), 4 June 1985 (Item)

Re Northern Territory Museum; plans to work in Cocos Keeling Islands.

David Stoddart (Cambridge), 30 November 1984 (Item)

Re visit to AIMS at Townsville 'one of the most remarkable things was, of course, the library'.

David Stoddart (Cambridge), 21 May 1985 (Item)

Re visit to Hawaii.

difficulties reaching site of Cook's death.

Java.

Eric Ashby (Sydney University), 5 May 1946 (Item)

Returning to England 'leave with great reluctance'.

Visit to Lizard Island. Great Barrier Reef, (4p.), December 1975 (File)

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, 1978 - 1986 (File)

Correspondence between Lady Yonge, Sir Maurice Yonge and J.T.Baker, and others of Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville re death of Sir Maurice, the Yonges' visit to AIMS, 1978 and the acquisition by AIMS of Yonge's library. (c19p.)

Miss M.Wood (Wellington), 16 July 1956 (File)

Re Yonge's election as Honorary (sic) member of Royal Society of New Zealand.

Yonge acknowledgement, 10 September 1956 (File)

R.A.Falla (Wellington), 30 September 1948 (File)

requesting Yonge's attendance at Seventh Pacific Science Congress in New Zealand, February 1949.

A.W.B.Powell (Auckland), 15 September 1949 (File)

Congratulations on publication of The Sea Shore; the Seventh Pacific Science Congress.

R.A.Falla (Dominion Museum, Wellington) acknowledges receipt of book, 7 September 1949 (File)