Guide to the Papers of Sir John Clunies Ross (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1191
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Clunies Ross, John
- Title
- Papers of John Clunies-Ross (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1824 - 1854
- Collection Number
- M1191
- Extent
- 7 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of autobiographical writings of Clunies-Ross referring especially to his relations with Alexander Hare and the visit of HMS Beagle to Cocos in 1836.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the British Library. For more information visit: How I use the images I order?-The British Library [https://www.bl.uk/help/how-can-i-use-the-images-i-order].
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981 (AJCP Reel: M1191). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London.. Collection reference: Add MS 37631. For more information see Sir John Clunies Ross at the British Library (http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002054023).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn727609] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Beagle, HMS (ship); Clunies Ross, John; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Hare, Alexander; Royal Navy: voyages
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 104, p37.
Biographical / Historical
John Clunies-Ross was born in Chetland and developed extensive commerical interests in Batvia, Singapore, the Seychelles and Mauritius before he formed a settlement on the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1825. Clunies Ross did a great deal of writing in his later years, including a criticism of Darwin's work on coral reefs. He died on Cocos and his descendants have lived there for the next 150 years.
Item Descriptions
Clunies Ross (Cocos) to J.L. Adams, April 1854 (File ff. 1-15)
Account of Ross' relations with Alexander Hare and affairs at Cocos, c. 1820-34.
A. Hare. 'Outline of facts', c. 1830-1831 (File ff. 16-127)
Annotated by Clunies Ross. Copied by J.G.H. Dill in 1854.