Guide to the Papers of Gregory M. Mathews

Mathews, G.M.: Untitled ms. notes in pencil by Mathews listing and describing bird genera, on the verso of typescript lists of bird species. (File 1-8) - Box 1

Mathews, G.M.: Unpublished drafts of projected Handbook of the Birds of Australia, 173p. plus several un-numbered pages, and notes on species (File 1-4) - Box 2A

Mathews, G.M.: Manuscript material, probably unpublished, including the following titles: Remarks on Petrels t.s., probably an address; Annual Report on British New Guinea, Remarks; Catalogue of books in the British Museum; Proc. Linn. Soc. of N.S.W. Also ms. notes on Pptrels and other birds (File 1-7) - Box 2A-2B

Black and white proofs of plates, most with ms. inscriptions"One complete set of spare coloured plates; final proofs" 13 plates (File 1-4) - Box 3A

One bundle marked "Ornithology typescript", being narrative notes on bird genera 591 pp. (File 1-7) - Box 3A-3B

"Notes on the Moa and others" - MSS. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Correspondence from R.Kemp, and notes and correspondence from Allan Brooks. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Tickets, programmes etc. from International Ornithological Conferences. Arms of the Appleton Club - original, glazed and framed. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Irrediparra - ts. notes and 1 coloured plate by Beryl Ireland, original, plus 1 photo. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Envelope from Tom Iredale to Mathews marked on front "Generic character of Australian Birds", and on back "21 plates B. and W. for new Handbook, Australia". (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Plates black and white, original. Some Medland, some B.Ireland. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Ms. list of plates headed "Generic Character of Australian Birds". Plates numbered, one coloured. (File 1-7) - Box 3B, 4A

Proofs of plates for Manual of Birds of New Zealand. (File 1-6) - Box 4A

Bulletins of the British Ornithological Club, 1931-5 (File 1-6) - Box 4A

Printers proof of Petrels (File 1-6) - Box 4A

Off-prints of some of Mathews' articles, read at the B.O.C., etc. (File 1-6) - Box 4A

Album of newspaper cuttings re transfer of Mathews' library to Canberra (File 1-6) - Box 4A

Plates, various, and 1 notebook: Notebook, ms., of "Books Wanted" Envelope marked "Odd plates from Emu and other publications. Also plates of G.M.M.'s by Lilian Medland". (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Black and white "legs and feet of Petrels" not original. Few printed pages of Emu. Plates for other of Mathews' books, some hand-coloured. (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Envelope: "Drawings of Birds Austr. B. and white". Originals for Birds of Australia; heads, feet, feathers, etc. (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Envelope: "Sketches and drawings believed all Petrels". (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Black and white mock-up plates 0f heads etc., and separate sketches in numbered envelopes. (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Envelope: reprints, two articles from Emu, are "with complements Neville Cayley". (File 1-8) - Box 4B

Envelope: "Odd sketches and plates probably for Lord Howe and Norfolk Is." Black and white, original. Mainly beaks and claws. Envelope: "Lord Howe and Norfolk Book. Plates to be added to by Systema Avium large paper edition". Plates by the lithograph and hand-colouring process; some not yet coloured. (File 1-8) - Box 4B

One bundle of printer's proofs, marked "to Compositer", with ms. revisions to lists. (File 1) - Box 5

Petrels.Original drawings, coloured, showing bone structures, sgnd. R.Kemp. (File 1-8) - Box 5

Original sketches; some signed F.W.F., some B.I., some P.C. (File 1-8) - Box 5

Ms. and ts. notes including material on Petrels, other bird genera; several bundles. (File 1-8) - Box 5

One bound volume "Extracts, newspaper cuttings etc." from 1910-1930 (File) - folio Folio run

Correspondence, A.B.Crawford to Mathews, on Petrels, 1949 (File 1) - Box 6

Mathews: ms. and ts. notes concerning Emus and Cassowaries. (File 1-3) - Box 6?

Annotated copies of following publications: Roberts, Brian British GrahamLand Expedition 1934-7: Scientific Reports Vol.1. The Life Cycle of Wilson's Petrel. Forbes W.A. Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger - Zoology-Report on Anatomy of Petrels. (File 1-3) - Box 6?

Mathews, G.M. One File marked "Petrels, rough notes", ts. and ms, by G.M.M. Photos of Puffins, photos by Bell and Oliver. "Storm Petrel tails" - black and white original, sgd. F.W.F. (File 1-6) - Box 6A-6B

"Skeletons of wings" - original sketches. (File 1-6) - Box 6A-6B

Letters and sketches: Talbot Keeley, Kemp. (File 1-6) - Box 6A-6B

Proof prints of beaks etc. (File 1-6) - Box 6A-6B

One ts. bundle marked "Mathews. Ms. of Systema Avium Australasianarum. G.M.M.", with ms. corrections. (File 1-5) - Box 6B

R.Bowdler Sharpe's ms. on Godman's Petrels, with Mathews' ms. Of Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands on verso. (File 1-3) - Box 7

One bundle of ts. notes on bird genera. (File 1-3) - Box 7

Mathews, G.M. Ms. of Systema Avium Australasianarum. (File 1-9) - Box 7

Letters to G.M. Mathews, 1907-1949, itemised 1-180 (File 1-9) - Box 7

Gray, G.R. Four notebooks, 1869-71. Ms. notes of part of G.R. Gray's publication Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds, published 1869-71, being sections Scansores, Gallinae,and Conirostres of Part II (File 1-3) - Box 8

Gray, G.R.Three notebooks, 1869-71 ms. (File 1-2) - Box 8

Ms. notes of sections Tenuirostres and Dentirostres of Part I of Gray's Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds. (File 1-2) - Box 8

Bowyer-Bowyer, Thomas Henry. Six ms. notebooks containing ornothological notes presented to Mathews by the author's mother. Also four letters to Bowyer-Bowyer from R. Bowdler-Sharpe, Director B.M. of Natural History, 1886-1887 (File 1-7) - Box 8-9

Offprints of articles, some by Mathews (File 1-4) - Box 9

Mostly annotated by Mathews, and containing ms. and ts. notes and some sketches.Including A.C. Bent: Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and their Allies U.S. National Museum, Bulletin 121; C.A. Fleming: The Phylogeny of the Prions reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: Pachyptila, or the Prions reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: A New Shearwater for Western Australia reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: Remarks on Prions reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: Key of the Storm-petrels reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: Remarks on Petrels reprint from The Emu; L. Glouert: The Little Shearwater's Year reprint from The Emu; G.M. Mathews: On Fregetta Bonaparte and Allied Genera reprint from Novitates Zoologicae; G.M. Mathews: The Birds of Tristan da Cunha reprint from Novitates Zoologicae; G.M. Mathews: A Check-list of the Order Procellariiformes reprint from Novitates Zoologicae.

Ts. of pages 1-260 of Handbook of the Birds of Australia (File 1) - Box 9

Mathews, G.M. and Hallstrom, E.J.L.: Notes on the Order Procellariiformes, 1943 (File 1-3) - Box 10

Proof copies 3 with ms. additions, corrections etc., and some correspondence inside. (File 1-3) - Box 10

Voous, J.H.Jnr.: printed notes and letter to G.M. Mathews. (File 1-3) - Box 10

Gould material: Photostat copies of letters from John Gould to E.P.Ramsay, 1866-9 (File 1-9) - Box 10

One File marked "John Gilbert" with ts. copies of letters from J.Gilbert to J.Gould, 1839-42 and containing article reprints by A.Chisholm and others on John Gilbert. (File 1-9) - Box 10

One File marked "Gouldiana" with reprints of articles concerning John Gould and various letters with reference to Gould. (File 1-9) - Box 10

One File marked "Mrs.John Gould" with tss.copies of 18 letters to and from Mrs.Gould, 1838-39, and two letters from Lady Franklin to Mrs.Gould, 1838, and one letter to Mrs.Gould from J.B.Williamson originals held in Mitchell Library - VH 12.9.95 (File 1-9) - Box 10

One File marked "John Gould", containing correspondence 1938-41 between K.Hindwood, .Chisholm, and others concerning historical research on the work of John Gould, and maps showing the places visited by Gould in Tasmania, S.A. and N.S.W. (File 1-9) - Box 10

Bulletins of the N.S.W.branch of the Royal Australian Ornithologists' Union, 1936-37 (File 1-9) - Box 10

Mathews G.M.: Proofs of Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, also of A Check List of the Order Procellariiformes Notitates Zoologicae,v.XXXIX (File 1-9) - Box 10

Mathews, G.M. Ms. of Systema Avium Australasianarum (File) - folio Folio run

Mathews, G.M.: One bundle of preliminary ts. of Birds of New Zealand, with ms. plates forsame some coloured, some black and white; original and not original. Medland, L.: Coloured plates, not original. (File 1-7) - Box 11A-11B

Mathews, G.M., Petrels ms.; Sharpe, ms. on Godman's Petrels (File 1) - Box 11B

Mathews, G.M., ms. of Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands two parcels. Parcel i mainly ms., some ts.; parcel ii ms. include some rough notes and correspondence (File) - folio folio run

Photographs of Mathews' collectors, artists and colleagues.Mathews, G.M.: Offprints; ts. catalogue of Ornithology library of G.M.M.; ms. and ts. notes; original bird sketches. (File 1-4) - Box 11B

Original Lionel Lindsay sketch for bookplate for the library of H.L.White of"Belltrees", Scone; cutting with reference to White stamp collection. (File 1-4) - Box 11B

Mathews, G.M.: miscellaneous plates, hand coloured and black and white sketches for various publications; black and white water-colour, original Birds of Lord Howe Island ? - not signed (File 1-6) - Box 12A-12B

Sketches, plates, notes for beaks etc., black and white; some original. Mainly by F.W.Frohawk. (File 1-6) - Box 12A-12B

Coloured plates, not original; some by F.L.Jaques. Storm Petrels. Black and white original, by F.W.Frohawk (File 1-6) - Box 12A-12B

Medland, L.: Colour plates of petrels, and petrel sketches. In Pictures Collection: original watercolours birds of New Zealand?; two original watercolours of petrels. (File 1-6) - Box 12A-12B

Sharpe: Ms. on Godman's Petrels, with, on verso, Mathews: Ms. of Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. (File) - folio folio run

Sharpe and Chubb: Ms. text of work on Godman's Petrels see also folio run (File) - Box 12B

Sharpe: Ms. on Godman's Petrels - includes proof pages . (File) - folio folio run

Sharpe: Ms. on Godman's Petrels. (File 1) - Box 13

Sharpe: Ms. on Godman's Petrels with, on verso, Mathews G.M., Ms. of Systema Avium Australasianarum, 50 pp. (File) - folio folio run

Sharpe: Ms. on Godman's Petrels, with, on verso, Mathews: Proof pages of Systema Avium including portion dealing with New Zealand birds. Report on the cataloguing of the Mathews collection. Bulletins of Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Some correspondence. (File) - folio folio run

Mathews, G.M.: Ms. for Birds of New Zealand ts. with ms. corrections. Marked in Mathews' hand "all ready to be published" (File 1-6) - Box 13

Mathews, G.M.: Ms. for Birds of New Zealand. Ts. with ms. includes small amount of printed material e.g. reprint of Emu (File 1-10) - Box 14

Mathews, G.M.: Ms. for Birds of New Zealand pp.364-591; in ts. with some ms. notes. Plates, coloured and monochrome, for same; not original. The notes marked "ready for printing from here on". (File 1-10) - Box 14

Plates of Petrels: "Godman's originals given me by Dame Mary Godman" in G.M.M.'s handwriting. Hand-coloured, original. Plates from Mathews' Birds of Australia; Petrels. Originals. Some hand-coloured plates, some reproductions. (File 1) - Box 15A

Miscellaneous ms. notes and illustrations: includes ts. notes on New Zealand Birds not included in the Australian bird lis. Spare plates of Mathews' books. Some original sketches of beaks etc. Painted sandpaper representation of St.Cross. This is held in the Pictorial section 204/14/56. (File 1-10) - Box 15A-15B

Temmink, C.J.: Coup d'oeil sur la faune des Isles de la Sonde et de l'Empire du Japan. 1835. Ms. copy. 1 volume. Deleted from this collection: Diggles, Sylvester: Letterbook, 1871-77 244pp. Being copies of letters written from Brisbane to fellow collectors, mainly entomologists and ornithologists, and to his family. The letterbook also contains 11 page index to contents. Now held at NLA MS 1551. Mathews, G.M.:My Life Story. Ts., 40 pp. Now held at NLA MS 1134 (File 1) - Box 16

Ireland, Tom: 5 Files of chapter drafts and notes in Tom Ireland's hand, being material forthe projected Handbook of Birds of New Zealand, in which he was collaborating with G.M.Mathews. Includes some plates, not original, and some correspondence Ireland to Mathews; also correspondence re G.M.Mathews Ornithological Collection. (File 1-6) - Box 16

Black and white plates for Handbook of New Zealand Birds, plates of beaks, (File 1-6) - Box 17

claws, heads, etc., a few original. Envelope:"Illustrated key, spare proofs"; black and white heads etc. in miniature for key. "Envelope: ".... Important.

Receipt for N.Z.plates Lilian Iredale, and notes on N.Z. plates ..." Receipt dated 1935. Alexander, W.B.: Reprints of several articles in Journal of Royal Society of Western Australia,Emu, etc. (File 1-6) - Box 17

Envelope of press cuttings concerning Mathews, 1940-44. Ts. notes by Mathews "The history of my Ornithological career and of my Birds of Australia", with ms. corrections etc. Ts. notes on penguins, petrels etc. Ms. and ts. notes for Birds of New Zealand (File 1-6) - Box 17

Ms. and ts. notes in 11 concertina files; filed under subject. One parcel black and white plates, not original. (File 1A-3J; 4A-5K; 6A-8J; 9A-10L) - Box 18-21

Ms. and ts. notes (File 11) - folio folio run

Material previously held in Box 22 (File 1-7) - folio folio run

Plates and drawings, 17 bundles: Original drawings, water-colours, and ink-and-wash sketches. Tracings. Original water-colours by J.G.Keulemans, A.Stahl, R.Green, N.W.Cayley and others. Black and white plates, not original, patterns for printer. Leaflet: List of Birds of the A.C.T. (File) - Box 23

Addition of 1991 to collection: C.B.E. medal; photograph of G.M.Mathews; water-colour of Mathews, caricature, "The Weary Drover"; letter from the Headmaster of King's School, Parramatta; table rules etc., invitation to inverstiture, June 1939; letter from W.C.Hankinson; 6 typescripts (File) - Box 23

Press clippings concerning Gregory Mathews, 1939-1943, 1 volume (File) - Box 24

Bell, Roy. Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island journal, July 8th 1912 to March 18th,1914, containing his observations on bird life there. Ts., 2 volumes (File) - Box 24

File with letter to G.M.M. from C.E.Hillman. (File) - Box 24

Two volumes of G.M.Mathews' Systema Avium Australasianarum London, 1927-30 interleaved with numerous ms. additions by Mathews. Added May 1993 (File) - Box 25

Illuminated testimonial from the Commonwealth National Library, 28.7.41 Added March 1988 (File) - folio folio run

Five annotated books. (File) - Box 25-26

Photocopy of auction catalogue descriptions is in Box 26. Added 10 November 2004. Lot 108: Handlist of the birds of Australasia Melbourne, Walker, May Co., 1908; Lot 109: A reference list to the birds of Australia London, 1912; Lot 110: A list of the birds of Australia London, Witherby Co., 1913; Lot 111: Systema avium Australasiarum London, British Ornithologists' Union, 1927; Lot 113: A working list of the birds of Australia Printed and published for the Author by Shepherd and Newman, 1946 (File) - Box 25-26