Guide to the Letters of the British Museum (Natural History), Keeper of Zoology Archives (as filmed by the AJCP)

Morton Allport (Hobart), 29 January 1870 - 29 December 1874 (Item 12-24)

Sending fish for identification; sketches of fish by Mrs Meredith; problems of rearing salmon.Includes: Lists of fish with trivial name and scientific name, where caught etc; The Salmonidae in Tasmania by Morton Allport, 1870. (4p.)

George Bennett (Sydney), 26 January 1869, 15 April 1871, 20 February 1873 (Item 111-113)

Re New Zealand lizard; new fish from Mary River, Queensland

Samuel Blackburn (Sydney), 8 August 1871 - 8 September 1871 (Item 155-156)

Forwarding mud fish from Hokitika, New Zealand.

John Brazier (Sydney), 16 May 1876 (Item 222b-222g)

Collection of shells from Pacific Islands, New Guinea etc

Includes: Letters from Edgar Smith (London) and Henry Adams (London) re the shells, and draft Gunther to Jones re circumstances of collection being deposited at British Museum.

A.K. Bruce (Bundaberg), 5 July 1872 (Item 239-239(a))

Enclosing photograph of lizard which is held in dread by Indigenous Australians

Correspondence of Daniel Cooper and W.C. Roberts, 1870 - 1872 (Item 46-56)

17 January 1870 - 14 June 1872.Daniel Cooper (London) re mud fish from Hokitika, New Zealand.

5 May 1870. G.G. Fitzgerald (Hokitika, NZ) to W.C. Roberts (Bank of New Zealand, Hokitika) re circumstances of discovery.

13 September 1871. W.C. Roberts (Hokitika) to J Bridges (Wellington). Re habits of the fish. (Copy extracts)

Surgeon Alfred Corrie (HMS Pearl, Australian Station), 4 June 1875 - 2 September 1875 (Item 61(b)-61(c))

Re specimens of lizards and butterflies from New Hebrides.

Julius Haast (Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, NZ) re exchange of specimens, 4 July 1873 - 28 July 1874 (Item 1-2)

James Hector (Geological Survey Office and Colonial Museum, Wellington), 7 January 1868 - 15 August 1875 (Item 27-42(a))

Re sending specimens; mud fish from Hokitika; his work on catalogue of fish.

Includes lists of fish sent from Wellington; lists of desiderata and lists of items sent to Wellington.

F. Hutton (Colonial Museum, Wellington and Otago Museum, Dunedin), 8 March 1872 - 20 October 1875 (Item 88-98)

Re catalogue of fish and specimens brought into the Museum; his appointment at Otago Museum; sending specimens of whales and other material for exchange; moa bones from Hamilton swamp; expedition to Auckland Islands.

Includes: 27 Dec 1874. Richard Owen to Gunther re possibility of exchange with Otago Museum to facilitate acquisition of evidence of Moas.

G. Krefft (Sydney), 21 July 1864 - 14 May 1875 (Item 242-297)

Forwarding specimens; working conditions; whales; working with minerals; his military career in Prussia; problems with trustees - salary withheld because he is a German and a Protestant.

Includes: 30 August 1872 John Falconer (Gayndah) to Krefft re fish caught in Burnett River and 8 Feb 1876 Richard Damhee? (Beckenham) to Gunther re Burnett fishes in Brisbane Museum. (some letters in German).

A.B. Meyer (Singapore, Vienna, London), 24 December 1872 - 11 June 1874 (Item 141-152)

Re sponges from Philippine Islands; trip to New Guinea. Includes: Lists of his collection.

Mueller (Melbourne) introducing cod, sturgeon and herring into Australia; Count de Castelman, 25 December 1865 - 12 August 1870 (Item 264-265)

(One letter in German)

Richard Owen (British Museum) re marsupials, 10 February 1870 (Item 60)

Richard Owen re Queensland rivers, n.d. (Item 62)

Richard Owen re receipt of specimens from New Zealand, 8 April 1872 (Item 64)

Richard Owen re Cassowary from Queensland donated by Marquis of Normanby, 5 April 1873 (Item 68)

Louis A Peers (Murray River), 24 October 1870 (Item 109)

Willing to obtain specimens while travelling; has been living in bush since 14 and can speak native language.

Perry (HMS Pearl, Portsmouth, Levuka, Australian station), 6 June 1873 - 23 December 1875 (Item 118 - 125)

Too busy with official work to collect specimens; spent hour at 'Nieue or Savage Island' and collected a lizard and butterfly, other specimens obtained; missionaries who might collect; material obtained at New Hebrides during hurried visit; shooting of commodore with poisoned arrow by natives at Santa Cruz Island.

A. Schwarzschild & Co (London): Tasmanian fish on Windward, 1 May 1868 (Item 167)

P.L. Sclater (Zoological Society of London), 14 January 1870 - 11 November 1870 (Item 184-190)

Re Salmon bred in Tasmania by Morton Allport, green tree frogs from Australia, other Australian specimens.

Courtenay C Smith (Moreton Bay), 7 September 1874 (Item 227)

Price of skeleton of unborn dugong calf.

Harry Turnley (Jackson's Bay, NZ), 18 November 1875 (Item 365.a)

Re collecting Kiwis, Kakapos and other birds.

Report on Mr Wallace's collections [birds from Malay archipelago] and memorandum on the collection by Bowdler Sharpe, n.d. (Item 399-407)

S.J. Whitmee (Samoa), 24 July 1874 - 26 October 1875 (Item 442.a-442.f)

Sending specimens from Samoa; problem of obtaining preserving materials; attempting to make catalogue of Samoan fauna, problem of obtaining fish from outside the reef. (24p.)

E. Woltmann (London) re Tasmanian shells, 12 April 1875 (Item 461)

Morton Allport (Hobart), 16 March 1873 (Item 2a)

Re drawings by Mrs Meredith; many salmonoids have been caught in Derwent River.

N.E. Cookson (HMS Petrel at sea, Devonport), 29 May 1876 - 28 July 1876 (Item 82-84(a))

Re visit to Galapagos Islands and specimens of tortoise brought back.

29 May 1876 [1867 crossed out] - 28 July 1876]

Alfred Corrie (HMS Pearl, Australian Station) re specimens collected, 30 June 1876 (Item 85)

F. Evans (Admiralty) re Cookson's letter, 1 May 1876 (Item 173)

Lists of specimens from Godeffroy Collection, 1876 (Item 231-232.h)

Includes items from Ponape, Tahiti, Samoa, Sydney, Huahine. Gives name of collector. (28.p)

James Hector (Honolulu, Frisco, Wellington) re specimens, whale skeleton, shells, 23 April 1876 - 14 December 1876 (Item 257 - 264.a)

F. Hutton (Otago Museum), 20 January 1876 - 30 May 1876 (Item 274 - 276)

Sending specimens from Cook Islands, lists of duplicate material for exchange.

G. Krefft (Sydney), 6 September 1873 [sic] (Item 272-272(a))

In German.

P. Sclater (Zoological Society of London), 10 July 1876 - 31 July 1876 (Item 395-398)

Re Belideus from south of New Guinea, WJ Scott will collect fishes from Queensland.

Fred Smith (British Museum) re box of Carabidae sent by Mr Du Boulay of Melbourne, 11 August 1876 (Item 426)

Karl Staiger (Brisbane) re specimens, 10 May 1876 - 15 July 1876 (Item 435-436)

One letter in German.

William Turner (Somerset, QLD) re butterflies caught at Port Moresby, 9 May 1876 (Item 486)

George French Angas (London), 8 May 1877 - 23 November 1877 (Item 8-12)

Re collection of shells from NSW and sale of Henry Adams' shell collection.

John Brazier (Sydney), 24 December 1876 [sic] (Item 52)

Re shells brought up in dredge at Heads of Port Jackson.

Julius von Haast (Canterbury Museum, Christchurch), 13 December 1876 - 8 March 1877 (Item 191-192)

Re cost of New Guinea mummy.

B. Harrison (n.p.), 17 December; n.d. (Item 206-207)

Requesting titles of books on Australian mammals.

James Hector (Wellington), 16 November 1876 - 11 December 1877 (Item 216-216.e)

Re activities of Hutton; plan of Colonial Museum; his work on whales; visit to Australia.

Rev S.M. McFarlane (Somerset, QLD), 25 May 1876 [sic] - 7 March 1877 (Item 264-267)

Re Birds of Paradise, trip to Torres Strait; sending beetles and reptiles.

List of specimens from Godeffroy Museum, December 1877 (Item 91.b-91.d)

Includes items from Tahiti, Apia, Samoa.

William Turner (Glasgow), 21 May 1877 - 20 November 1877 (Item 189-193)

Re his collection of butterflies and insects from New Guinea.

Gunther (British Museum) to Whitmee re collecting in the Pacific, 25 January 1875 [sic] (Item 229 - 229.a)

S. Whitmee (Blackheath and Sheffield), 13 September 1877 - 31 October 1877 (Item 230-232)

Re butterfly specimens from Loyalty Islands.

F. Bruggemann (Bremen) list of corals from Ponape, 8 February 1878 (Item 72-72.a)

Fred Cumming (Sydney), 20 March 1878 (Item 128)

Re Australian Aboriginal skeletons for sale.

Dr. Dennys (Raffles Library Museum, Singapore), 4 November 1877 - 13 February 1878 (Item 150-152)

Re his appointment at Museum and work as assistant protector of Chinese.

Includes: letter of introduction from W.B. Pryer (Singapore).

James Hector (Wellington), 2 March 1876 - 15 August 1878 (Item 266-269)

Trip to hot lakes, success of salmon. Includes: memo from Agent General of New Zealand re case of egg shells.

G. Krefft (Sydney), 25 February 1878 - 26 April 1878 (Item 313-314)

Referring to: specimens sent; his treatment at hands of the government; one letter in German.

Includes: 19 December 1877. Krefft's reply to Crown Solicitor re case of himself versus Trustees of the Australian Museum. (printed 4p)

Rev. S.M. MacFarlane (Murray Island, Torres Straits), 24 August 1877; 20 May 1878; June 1878 (Item 350-352)

Re collection of lizards, snakes etc; establishment of missions; collecting on Cornwallis Island.

Mrs. E.J.M. MacFarlane (Bedford) re payment, 16 October 1878 - 4 November 1878 (Item 353-354)

F. von Mueller (n.p.) to Richard Owen, 30 October 1878 (Item 379)

Written from bed after operation for varicose veins. Re sale of a collection (pencil)

Richard Owen (British Museum) referring Mueller's letter to Gunther, 23 December 1878 (Item 379.a)

Charles French (Botanic Garden, Melbourne) to Mueller, 28 October 1878 (Item 379.b-c.)

Relating to sale of Australian part of his collection. Includes description of collection.

P.L. Sclater (Zoological Society), 7 February 1878 - 11 February 1878 (Item 488-489)

Re specimen of cassowary from New Guinea.

P.L. Sclater (Zoological Society): Cassowary, 7 March 1878 (Item 491)

Refers to the naming of cassowary in Paris.

William Y. Turner (Sydney), 8 January 1877 - 22 January 1877 (Item 574-575.a)

Re collecting butterflies; due to domestic afflictions has to give up New Guinea as a mission field.

S.J. Whitmee (Melbourne and Blackheath), 4 October 1876 - 25 February 1878 (Item 603, 605)

Re problems of collecting in Samoa; missionaries in Sydney will not allow naturalists to travel in missionary vessels after experience of Mr Stone and others in Ellengowan.

Archival History

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Henry Woodward (British Museum) re cases received from G. Krefft, 6 August 1878 (Item 617)

List of shells and skeletons from New Guinea by L.M.D. Albertis; ethnological, bird and reptile collections (4pp), n.d. (Item 6-6.a)

Henry Allnutt (London), 14 January 1879 - 15 January 1879 (Item 7-8)

Referring to: trip to Tasmania (includes printed itinerary); Remora fish collected

Thomas Blundell (Dundee) (Item 47-49)

Re box of specimens collected by W.B. Pryer, resident of Sandakan, North Borneo.

John Brazier (Sydney) sending specimens, 6 March 1879 - 7 March 1879 (Item 55-56)

Frank Buckland (Home Office), 7 May 1879 (Item 62)

Introducing Sir Samuel Wilson, building a new hall for University of Melbourne.

Audley Coote (Hobart), 6 October 1879 (Item 101)

Re value of plaster bust of William Lanney, last Tasmanian, in his possession.

Richard Owen (Mortlake), 16 December 1879 (Item 101.a)

Re possibility of making a mould and casts of bust.

Thomas Crocker (London), 28 August 1879 - 25 September 1879 (Item 102-103)

Re fish from Borneo wanted by Museum.

A. Hart Everett (Sarawak), 16 March 1879 - 14 September 1879 (Item 143-144)

Collecting in Philippines; potential of collecting in Borneo.

C.A. Groener (Melbourne), 19 August 1879 (Item 186)

Re sum of money owed to him by Baron von Huegel for collections sent to him in Fiji.

Julius von Haast (Christchurch) re whale and fish specimens, 21 May 1879 (Item 198)

James Hector (Wellington): typhoid fever, 29 July 1877 - 23 May 1879 (Item 214-215)

Charles Jamrach (London), 14 March, 15 March, 13 Aug, n.d. 1879 (Item 236-239)

Re specimens received from Australia.

Carl Lentzner (London), 26 May 1879 (Item 269-269a)

With references (printed) from University of Sydney and several Sydney schools.

Rev. S.M. MacFarlane (Bedford) re collection, 5 November 1879 (Item 295)

R. Newton (Queensland Museum, Brisbane), 10 October 1879 (Item 327)

Thanks for material received, offering to collect for the Museum.

E.W. Palin (London) re collection from Borneo, 7 August, 8 August, 13 August 1879 (Item 354-356)

R. Ruck (Sumatra), 2 January 1879 (Item 382)

Re collecting, could prove Battacks are Malays and not Hindous from skulls.

Thomas Baker (Maryborough, Qld), 20 July 1880 (Item 11)

re specimens of Ceratodus Fosterii

John Brazier (Sydney), 20 January 1880 (Item 66-67)

introducing A P Goodwin (2 letters)

Buller (Wellington), 26 April 1879 (Item 73)

re work with Hector in Colonial Museum

A Everett (Papua, North Borneo) sending specimen of Mydaus, 9 March 1880 - 25 August 1880 (Item 151-152)

Julius von Haast (Christchurch) sending specimens (2 letters), 12 December 1879 - 10 February 1880 (Item 205-207.d)

J Hector (Wellington) sending sketch of whale, 26 March 1880 (Item 220.a-b)

Rev S MacFarlane (Bedford) re payment, 7 November 1879 (Item 283)

R Wardlaws Ramsay (Gosport), 12 March, 16 March, 19 April, 13 October 1880 (Item 400-402.a)

re specimens of Sumatra birds from collection of Carl Bock

Thomas Robbin (Hobart): specimens of salmonoides, 3 January 1880 (Item 408)

Philip (Steager ?) (Hobart) to Robbin: specimens from River Plenty to be forwarded to B M(NH), 7 November 1879 (Item 408.a)

Wilson (Melbourne) sending three salmon, 31 October 1879 (Item 598)

Frederick Evans (Hydrographic Dept, Admiralty), 21 April 1881 (Item 79)

Introducing Guppy, appointed surgeon on Lark to New Hebrides.

A Everett (North Borneo) re Bezoar stones, 22 October 1880 (Item 80)

Gould correspondence (38p.), 11 February 1881 - 28 April 1881 (Item 98-117)

Correspondence between BM(NH) and AF & RW Tweedie, representing Gould's Trustees, re disposal of his collection of humming birds, his library, and ownership of material in his possession which was collected by John MacGillivray on Rattlesnake and Herald expeditions.

E Sachs (Java), December 1880 - April 1881 (Item 261-262)

re viviparous fish from Biliton Island (one letter very faint)

W Arthur (Otago Acclimitisation Society, Dunedin), 23 Feb 1881, 18 June 1880 (Item 2-3)

sending specimens of trout

RW Coppinger (HMS Alert, Thursday Island), 22 July 1881 (Item 102)

sending specimens gathered on East and Northeast coast of Australia

HB Guppy (HMS Lark, Sydney), 18 December 1881 (Item 178-179)

Sending miscellaneous notes and lists of animals observed during voyage of HMS Lark. (8pp)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum, Sydney) sending specimens, 20 March 1882 (Item 316)

F St John (Melbourne), 22 February 1882 (Item 336)

sending sketch (not in file) of sea serpent caught on coast of Tasmania, named by both F McCoy and Count de Castelman

C Ph Sluiter (Batavia), 10 April 1882 (Item 374)

re attempt to establish zoological station on coast of Java

Robert Curtis (Melbourne), 21 November 1882 (Item 78)

Re castes of aboriginals presented by Public Library Museums and National Gallery of Victoria.

Charles French (Botanic Gardens, Melbourne), 30 April 1882 (Item 123)

Due to mining losses wishes to dispose of his collection of insects.

E Ramsay (Australian Museum, Sydney), 25 September 1882 (Item 251)

re possible exchange of birds

Oldfield Thomas B M (N H), n.d. (Item 334)

that no specimens of platypus from Tasmania

Lady Thomas (Brighton), 15 September [1882] (Item 335)

re stuffed Apterise brought from New Zealand by Sir Godfrey Thomas or Sir George Grey

William Carpenter (London), 20 June 1883 (Item 79-79.b)

re report on Orbitolites of Fiji from Challenger expedition

P S Cobbold (London), 28 March 1883 - 11 April 1883 (Item 94-95)

re fish parasites sent from Australia

R W Coppinger (HMS Alert Coquimbo; Sheeness; Singapore), 15 May 1880; 11 September 1882; 4 December 1881 (Item 96-102)

Re specimens collected during surveying voyage of Alert off Australia and in South Pacific.

Frederick Evans (Admiralty), 18 December 1880 (Item 118)

re obtaining a specimen of a sea elephant from New Zealand

HB Guppy (HMS Lark, Australian station), February 1883 (Item 162-162.a)

re specimens of reptiles and fish

James Hector (Colonial Museum of New Zealand, Wellington), 26 April 1879 (Item 186)

re his work for Commission for Higher Education

J H Lefroy (London), 21 November 1882 (Item 215)

offering skin of platypus from Tasmania

De Paula Mackley & Co (London), 28 March 1883 (Item 244-246)

re collection of birds and animals (listed) sent by Melbourne House

E Ramsay (Australian Museum, Sydney), 11 November 1882 - 8 June 1883 (Item 332-335)

requesting inspection of gorilla and Hippopotamus which have been purchased by the museum

E Ramsay (New South Wales Court, International Fisheries Exhibition, London), 16 June 1883 (Item 336)

re cases of specimens brought from Australia

C Robson (Wellington), September 1880 (Item 358-359.a)

refers to: specimen of marine spider, problems of describing specimens; collecting at Auckland Island

Includes: 6 January 1882 [Robson?] (Hawkes Bay) to 'Minnie', reason she has not heard from him is that clerk at Napier Post Office has just received 6 years penal servitude for opening and destroying letters; not sure that his letter of January 1880 to BM was received. (damaged)

Rowell (Singapore): starting a fish collection, 9 March 1883 (Item 360)

S Sinclair (Australian Museum) to Edward Gerrard (London), 11 November 1882 (Item 383)

re gorilla and Hippopotamus they offer for sale. (pressed copy)

Henry Woodward (BM(NH)), 13 April 1883 (Item 536-537)

re specimen of fossil sponge from Australia

Buller (Auckland) re Korolangi, 19 April 1883 (Item 36)

George Busk (Lyme Regis), 9 October 1883 (Item 38)

Re receipt of specimens from JB Wilson, Headmaster of Geelong School, including Adeona.

Richard Hackworth (London) re New Zealand lizards, 22 October 1883 (Item 147)

Manley Hopkins (Hawaiian Consulate), 26 November 1883; 8 October 1883, (2 letters); 13 August 1883; 9 August 1883 (Item 165 - 169)

re identification of Hawaiian fishes

E Ramsay (New South Wales Courts, International Fisheries Exhibition, London), December 1883; 3 November 1883; 8 August 1883; 3 August 1883; 24 July 1883 (Item 294-298)

Lists of specimens given in exchange to Australian Museum, fish sent for exhibition; specimens he has available for exchange.

R T Wylde (Semaphore, Port Adelaide), 10 November 1882 (Item 446)

re his study of marine fauna

J Barnard (Royal Society, Tasmania): Tasmanian Emu is extinct, 26 November 1883 (Item 4)

Buller (Waikato, NZ): cases in Native Land Court, 17 June 1883 (Item 44)

Robert Curtis (Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria), 27 February 1884 (Item 76)

Re casts of natives. (Mr Thompson's report not in file)

Henry Forbes (London) specimens from Sumatra, 19 February 1884 (Item 109)

HB Guppy (HMS Lark, Auckland), 11 February 1884; 10 December 1883; 9 December 1883 (Item 144.a-145.b)

Sending specimen of fish; notes on islands of Bougainville Straits; future exploration of Solomon Islands.

Manly Hopkins (Hawaiian Consulate General, London), 4 October 1883 (Item 160)

re Hawaiian fish

A Musgrave (Brisbane), 31 January 1884 (Item 266-266.a)

re position as private secretary to uncle Sir Anthony Musgrave

GW Parker (Honolulu), 30 November 1883 (Item 285)

re preservation of fish

E Ramsay (London), 21 December 1883 (Item 296-297)

re birds from NSW Court at fisheries exhibition

Rowell (Singapore): collection of Malayan fishes, 15 February 1884; 1 August 1883 (Item 310-311.a)

Stephen Thompson (Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria), 21 February 1884 (Item 381-381.a)

re casts of natives

James Beckett (Swan River, WA), 30 August 1884 (Item 24)

Re possible new species of crab which has growths on its head resembling green laurel leaves (with coloured sketch). Also includes: Museum note - species with seaweed attached.

James Hector (Colonial Museum of New Zealand, Wellington) sending specimens, 22 November 1884 (Item 43)

John Douglas (London): Torres Straits, 5 July 1884 (Item 90)

HB Guppy (HMS Lark Treasury Island, Sydney), 3 June 1884 - 28 November 1884 (Item 143-144)

Future exploration of the islands, sending specimens

B M(N H): Receipt of specimens from Sydney, 14 January 1885 (Item 145)

A Musgrave (Brisbane) that has been elected member of the Committee of Queensland Fish Association, 13 September 1884 (Item 244)

Louis A Peers (Deniliquin, NSW): Womat, n.d. (rec'd 6 August 1884) (Item 266-266A)

that a species of wombat will soon be extinct owing to destruction of rabbits with bi-sulphide carbon in burrows

Ramsay (Australian Museum): order to be passed to Mr Cliff, 4 July 1884 (Item 271)

CH Robson (Wellington): poisonous spider, 29 May 1884 (Item 284)

sending specimen of poisonous spider discovered on Portland Island via Dr Muller

J Thorpe (Brisbane): specimen found by J A Gulliver on Norman River, 5 April 1877 (Item 362)

Julius von Haast (Canterbury Museum): S C Farr (Salmon ova), 17 August 1884 (Item 365)

George H Banow (Australian Museum) sending specimens, 4 May 1885 (Item 4)

S C Farr (Canterbury Acclimitisation Society): specimens of fish, 27 May 1884 (Item 96)

H B Guppy (London; HMS Lark; Solomon Islands; Sydney; Falmouth), 1884 - 1885 (Item 154-161)

Requesting ticket for BM; scheme for exploration of the interior of the islands of Guadalcanal and St Christoval (2 copies); owing to illness invalided home.

James Hector (Colonial Museum of New Zealand): collection of NZ fishes, 1 January 1885 (Item 184)

Frederick McCoy (National Museum, Melbourne): seeking a taxidermist, 17 November 1884 (Item 238)

Rowell (Singapore): sending fish specimens, 26 June 1884 (Item 387)

Theophile Saves (Noumea): sending lizards and rats, 12 June 1884 - 7 July 1884 (Item 398-399)

(In French)

R Murray Smith (London), 19 January 1885 - 23 May 1885 (Item 442-447)

Appointment of taxidermist for Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria

Includes: Copy of 27 November 1884. George Verdon (Melbourne) to Agent General for Victoria (Murray Smith) re appointment.

George H Banow (Australian Museum): catalogues, 16 September 1885 (Item 11)

Frank Beddard (Zoological Society):Galapagos tortoise, 4 September 1885 (Item 13)

Nicolay (London, Colonial, Indian Exhibition, 1886; Western Australian Commission, Perth, Fremantle), 25 September 1885 - 10 October 1885 (Item 236-237)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum): catalogues, 16 October 1885 (Item 267)

Charles Read (BM): Australian spears, 29 May 1885 (Item 270)

Edgar Reid (Friendly Islands): specimen of Malau, 16 February 1885 (Item 272-272A)

Manager, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (London), 21 September 1885 (Item 273)

re case of specimens from Friendly Islands

R Murray-Smith (London): appointment of taxidermist for National Museum of Victoria, 29 September 1885 (Item 334)

C Woodford (Gravesend): trip to Fiji, 6 October 1885 - 19 October 1885 (Item 385-386)

Wray (Perak Museum): reptile specimens, 13 September 1885 (Item 389)

RGS Buckland (Port Darwin), 6 January 1886 (Item 39)

sending specimens, due to promotion is going to Nelson, NZ

Malcolm Fraser (Bristol, London), 15 February 1886; 23 February 1886; 3 March 1886; 4 June 1886 (Item 130 - 134)

re Western Australian exhibits at Colonial and Indian Exhibition

EM Holmes (Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain), 30 January 1886 (Item 190)

re corals from Sandwich Islands

John Judd (London): identification of 'sea serpent' of Western Australia, 24 February 1886 - 25 February 1886 (Item 214-215)

R Lendenfeld (London): sponges from Australia, 11 May 1886 (Item 223-223.a)

Frederick McCoy (Melbourne): specimens for identification, 27 December 1885 (Item 228)

Nicolay (Fremantle), 13 February 1886 (Item 262)

re attendance of Western Australian commissioners at London, Colonial and Indian Exhibition

Oldfield Thomas (B M (N H)), 15 January 1886 (Item 406)

Re his work on marsupials and requesting permission to study New Guinea specimens in Museo Civico at Genoa.

John Thurston (Fiji), 23 February 1886 (Item 408)

re letter of introduction for C Woodford who is to visit Solomon Islands on collecting expedition

Charles Woodford (Suva; on board Christine, Shortland Island), 14 April 1886 - 23 June 1886 (Item 432-433)

Re trip from England to Brisbane on Dorunda; meeting with Governor Thurston; intends to spend 6 months in Solomons; voyage to Solomons in Christine; collecting insects; intends to distil own preserving spirit from bananas in a tea kettle.

Wray (Perak Museum): birds, butterflies, 8 March 1886 - 21 March 1886 (Item 437-438)

Buller (Colonial and Indian Exhibition, New Zealand Court): specimen exhibits, 15 July 1886; 19 July 1886; 20 July 1886 (Item 50-52)

Julius von Haast (Colonial and Indian Exhibition, New Zealand Court): bill, 14 November 1886 (Item 178)

Alfred C Haddon (Bedford): possible election to chair at Melbourne, 30 December 1886 (Item 180)

James Hector (Colonial Museum of NZ): mess made by Haas of his casts for exhibition, 13 August 1886 - 17 November 1886 (Item 192-193)

F McCoy (Melbourne) re species of Lipia, 7 July 1886 (Item 247)

T Parker (Dunedin): New Zealand fish sent to the exhibition, 26 March 1886 (Item 293)

N P Trevenen (Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Straits Settlement Commission): exhibits, 23 October 1886; 10 November 1886; 29 October 1886 (Item 413-415)

MJ Woodford (Gravesend): safe arrival of Charles Woodford at Sydney, 28 December (1886) (Item 452)

Charles Woodford (Sydney), 16 November 1886 (Item 453)

Re successful collecting expedition to Solomon Islands; specimens he is sending to the museum.

Conrad Baer (SS Yarra, Marseilles): platypus for sale, 10 February 1887 (Item 4)

S Buckland (Gt Torrington), 25 January 1887 - 7 February 1887 (Item 58-59)

re receipt of specimens sent by son from Port Darwin, he has been transferred to NZ

Burns Philp Co (Thursday Island), 24 March 1887 (Item 63A)

re establishment of trading and coaling posts in British New Guinea

F D Godman (Horsham): butterflies from Solomon Islands, 22 January 1887 (Item 168)

G Mathew (Dovercourt), 24 March, 29 April, 2 May 1887 (Item 252-254)

re sale of his collection of Australian and Pacific moths

William McGregor (Fiji): specimen of new mammal caught in Fiji, 16 February 1887 (Item 255)

W Mitchell (Mararoa): list of New Zealand birds and skins he can supply with prices, 24 May 1887 (Item 259.b-c)

Edward Ramsay (Australian Museum): desiderata list of fishes, 11 March 1887 (Item 319.a)

Charles Read (B M): H H Romilly in New Guinea, 1887 (Item 323-326)

F Sandager (Auckland): list of New Zealand fishes he can supply, 2 May 1887 (Item 342)

Bracebridge Wilson (Geelong): polyzoa, 6 May 1887 (Item 436)

Scott B Wilson (Honolulu) re Barnfield's drawings of the Islands, 18 May 1887 (Item 444)

Charles Woodford (Sydney), 19 January 1887 (Item 445)

Rreturning to Solomon Islands; distribution of cockatoos and hornbills in the islands

L Wray (Perak Museum): reptiles and list of specimens collected, 21 March 1887 (Item 454-455A)

Maschmedt & Co (Cooktown): supply specimens and curios, 5 September 1887 (Item 251)

G Mathew (Harwich): Australian moths, 28 March 1887 (Item 253)

F McCoy (Melbourne) re specimens, 21 April 1887 (Item 254)

Rowland Pollock (Tunbridge Wells) re Cassowary egg, 24 November 1887 (Item 331)

W H Sewell (Yaxley) re emu egg, 15 April 1887 (Item 375)

FA Skuse (Australian Museum): testimonial, 19 August 1887 (Item 391)

Copy of A Gunther's Reply (on reverse), 29 September 1887 (Item)

J F Bridge[?] (Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria): publication by McCoy, 9 December 1887 (Item 453)

Bracebridge Wilson (Geelong): specimens, 19 September 1887 (Item 477)

AG McCombe (Melbourne) to Wilson: specimens on Australasian, 16 September 1887 (Item 478)

Charles Woodford (Gravesend): Austral leaking case of specimens, 28 December 1887 (Item 483)

R G S Buckland (Nelson): insects in New Zealand, 25 January 1888 (Item 37)

William Davison (Raffles Library and Museum): snake for identification, 27 February 1888 - 13 March 1888 (Item 63-64)

Arthur Dendy (Geelong): specimens, 13 May 1888 (Item 67A)

Arthur Dendy (Melbourne) re Professor Spencer on sponges, 29 March 1888 (Item 68A)

H B Guppy (London): collecting equipment, 18 June 1888 - 22 June 1888 (Item 113-114)

F Hutton (Christchurch) and James Hector, 18 March 1888 (Item 158)

re detachment of Chair of Geology & Palaeontology from curatorship of Museum

W? Legge (Hobart) requesting publications, 14 September 1885/8[?] (Item 183)

F McCoy (Melbourne) requesting name of taxidermist, 4 May 1888 (Item 208)

P Bassett-Smith (HMS Rambler, Hong Kong), 19 March 1888 (Item 321)

re specimens from North Borneo, with sketch map

Bracebridge Wilson (Geelong): naming of his specimens, 13 February 1888 (Item 403)

Enclosing letter below.

Professor F Jeffrey Bell re his specimens, 15 February 1888 (Item 403)

Enclosed by letter above.

Charles Woodford (Gravesend), 9 January, 13 Jan, 23 January 1888 (Item 410-412)

re payment for his collections from Solomon Islands

L Wray (Perak): collecting expedition in mountains, 6 February 1888 (Item 413)

Harry Burgess (Cairns): formation of Fishing Company, 15 September 1888 (Item unnumbered (bt 34 and 35))

Gunther (BM(NH)) to Burgess: sending shells, 23 October 1888 (Item unnumbered (bt 34 and 35))

Arthur Dendy (Melbourne): report on sponges, 19 July 1888 - 16 October 1888 (Item 62-63)

Henry Forbes (RMS Cuzco, Naples): crania from New Guinea, 21 October 1888 (Item 89)

Cecilia Hamilton Wyndham Hill (London): Centennial Exhibition, Melbourne, 22 August 1888 (Item 139)

Charles Hose (Baram): sending birds, 1 May 1888 (Item 146)

F W Hutton (Christchurch): fish caught in Lyttelton Harbour, 25 July 1887 - 1 October 1888 (Item 153-155)

Robert Kay (Adelaide), 12 July 1888 (Item 174)

re receipt of BM publication by the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia

A Kenyon (Richmond) re shell, 1888 (Item 178)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum): echinoderms of Australia, 4 August 1888 - 6 October 1888 (Item 303)

WH Sewell (Yaxley): Tui bird sent by a New Zealand bishop, 24 October 1888 - 15 December 1888 (Item 329-330)

Baldwin Spencer (Melbourne): giant earthworm of Gippsland, n.d. (Item 346)

Graham Berry (Agent General for Victoria), 15 Oct, 23 Oct 1888; 17 Oct 1888 (Item 376, 378, 379)

re taxidermist for National Museum at Melbourne, and Gunther's reply of 17th October 1888

John Whitehead (Bickley): collections from Kina-Balu, with lists, 4 November 1888 (Item [403 - 415])

Bracebridge Wilson (Geelong) re fish, 14 November 1888 (Item [420])

Henry Woodford (Gravesend), 19 September 1888 (Item 421)

re news from Charles in Sydney en route to Solomon Islands

Correspondence of H. Day and Arthur Dendy, 23 January 1889 (Item No no. (bt 109, 110))

Re Dendy's work on sponges, Professor Spencer is in the bush and museum property.

R Etheridge (Australian Museum) re photographs of birds, 5 March 1889 (Item 138)

SC Farr (Christchurch) re introduction of salmon, 2 April 1889 (Item 140)

Henry Forbes (Christchurch) re fish caught in Selwyn River, 2 April 1889 (Item 153)

J Cashel Hoey (Agent General for Victoria, Office) re taxidermist for National Museum, 22 May 1889 - 29 May 1889 (Item 227-228)

Charles Hose (Baram): collection of edible nests and birds, 30 January 1889 - 2 May 1889 (Item 239-242)

FW Hutton (Christchurch) re fish, 8 January 1889 (Item 255)

J Lister (Auckland) re trip to New Zealand, 4 March 1889 (Item 295)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum) re exchange of specimens and enclosing list of percidae, 31 May 1889 (Item 410)

Enclosing list of percidae, 1 April 1889 (printed).

FA Swettenham (Selangor) re Malay Sladang, 30 March 1889 (Item 517)

John Whitehead (Bickley) re his collection from Kina-Balu, with price list, 1889 (Item 568-574)

Arthur Dendy (Melbourne) re his work on sponges, 3 September 1889 (Item 114)

S C Farr (Christchurch): fish specimens from Selwyn River, 3 October 1889 (Item 142)

J Cashel Hoey (Agent General for Victoria, Office) re appointment of Charles Burton, 15 November 1889 (Item 211)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum): exchange of specimens, 30 July 1889 (Item 337)

GH Raynor (Brentwood): sale of Australian lepidoptera, 7 November 1889 (Item 341)

FA Swettenham (Perak [?], 21 June 1889 (Item 412)

governor wishes sladang to be returned; his move to Perak; Wray is an intelligent curator

Charles Traill, July 1889 (Item 424)

memorandum on skeleton of Neobalaena Margineta from Stewart Island

RH Traill (London), 7 October, 17 October, 26 October, 2 November 1889 (Item 425-428)

re purchase of skeleton and other specimens

J Cashel Hoey and Graham Berry (Agent General for Victoria Office), 1889 (Item 436-441)

Re appointment of Charles Burton as taxidermist for National Museum.

C De Vis (Queensland Museum) enclosing observations on Lyddekers view of Notatherium and Zygomaturus, 21 May 1889 (Item 444-449)

Gilbert Raynor (Brentwood) to Lord Walsingham: sale of collection of Australian lepidoptera, 9 September 1889 (Item 456)

Lord Walsingham (Thetford) re Raynor's collection, 29 October 1889 - 1 November 1889 (Item 457-458)

A Everett (Labuan) re shells from Borneo, 13 March 1890 (Item 98)

AC Haddon (Dublin) re collections from Torres Straits, 20 March 1890 - 21 April 1890 (Item 142-143)

Charles Hose (Baram): Fellow of Zoological Society, 23 April 1890 (Item 211)

Leo Layard (Noumea) sending beetles, 31 January 1890 (Item (bt 263 and 264))

F McCoy (Melbourne): drawings of Tasmanian fishes by Mrs Meredith, 25 February 1890 (Item 185)

William MacGregor (BNG): Queensland bird specimens, 14 November 1889 (Item 186)

James Patton (Brisbane) re his collection of insects, 24 April 1890 (Item [245])

Charles Read (BM) re shells from Tasmania, 18 June 1890 (Item 269)

William Davison (Raffles Museum): duplicate snake specimens, 9 December 1890 (Item 88)

Henry Forbes (Canterbury Museum, Christchurch) re fish, 8 August 1890 (Item 119)

Charles Hose (Baram) re trip to mountains, 26 September 1889 - 15 April 1890 (Item 178-178A)

John Lewis (Sarawak Museum): otter skins, 15 April 1890 (Item 211)

Lt Gerald Oliver (HMS Penguin, Port Darwin): bird eggs, 10 August 1890 - 10 September 1890 (Item 270-271)

WH Purvis (SS Jonie) re Hapuka fish, 16 September 1890 (Item [292])

George Denton (Wellington) to Purvis: specimen of Hapuka, 15 July 1890 (Item [293 - 293A])

E Ramsay (Australian Museum), 3 July; 6 August, 10 August 1890 (Item [297-299])

re his ill health, sending specimens

S Sinclair (Australian Museum), 4 July; 13 April; 25 July, 25 July 1890 (Item 382- [385])

sending specimens of fish and reptiles, with localities

James Walker [HMS Penguin, Port Darwin], 19 August 1890 (Item 430)

sending specimens, expedition up Adelaide River

Admiralty re case of specimens from J J Walker, 23 June 1891 (Item 13)

Robert Barnfield (Honolulu) re colours of Hawaiian fish, 7 January 1891 (Item [bt 30 and 31])

AH Everett (Labuan), 1 March 1891 - 26 May 1891 (Item 131-134)

Re difficulties of obtaining spirit in Singapore; the Museum should exercise caution when dealing with Charles Hose.

Charles Hose (Baram): skins from Mt Dulit, 23 March 1891; 9 Nov 1890 (Item 199-199A)

Thomas Illidge (Gayndah, QLD): specimens of Burnett salmon, 11 February 1891 (Item 210)

Robert Kingsley (Nelson, New Zealand): difficulty of collecting, 23 March 1891 (Item 234)

R Kirkpatrick (Batavia), 12 February 1891 (Item 235-236)

re voyage out, description of Batavia, collecting expeditions

W Purvis (SS Jonie): Hapuka, 23 June 1891 (Item 352)

Ramsay (Australian Museum): skins, 15 Dec, 30 April 1890 (Item 353-354)

Rev R Rickard (Sydney), 30 March 1891 (Item 367)

Re native skeletons and birds collected while missionary in New Britain, New Ireland and Duke of York Islands.

F Turrill (Honolulu), 10 December 1890 (Item [456])

T Walker (HMS Penguin, Port Darwin and Hobart), 1891 (Item [462-463])

Sending specimens, future surveying plans, fine collection of beetles from Tasmania.

A Whitehouse (HMS Tauranga, Devonport): petrel bought from Capt Carpenter in Singapore, 4 February 1891 (Item [475])

R Barnfield (Honolulu): requesting reply to previous letter, 24 August 1891 (Item 13)

P Bassett-Smith (HMS Penguin, North West coast of Australia) re collecting, 17 September 1891 (Item 14A)

Arthur Dendy (Melbourne), 21 July 1891 (Item 90-91)

sending specimens; obtained his Doctorate of Science

A Everett (Labuan) re Charles Hose's expedition to Mt Dulit, 19 October 1891 (Item 112a)

Henry Forbes (Canterbury Museum Christchurch), 22 August; 8 September; 16 October; 30 October; 3 November; 14 December; 30 October 1891 (Item 123a-130)

Sending and obtaining specimens wanted by the BM(NH); digging out Moa bones.

James Hector (Wellington), 19 August 1891 (Item 178-179)

Re problems of obtaining tuatara lizard, which is almost extinct; method of cooking Hapuka.

Charles Hose (Baram): Mt Dulit, 20 December; 21 August; 19 October 1891 (Item [bt 192 and 193])

TC Hose (Roydon) re letter from Charles, 18 December 1891 (Item 193)

Walter Kennaway (Acting Agent General for NZ): cause of mortality among New Zealand fish, 1891 (Item 209-213)

P MacGillivray (Sandhurst, Bendigo), 27 July 1891 - 23 November 1891 (Item 250)

: paintings by his father; his work on polyzoa

Capt W Moore (HMS Penguin, Port Darwin): forwarding specimens, 13 July 1891 (Item 280-281)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum): Nautilus taken from New Britain, 23 July 1891 (Item 322)

Charles Read (B M), 12 October 1891 (Item 324)

sending Australian natural history specimens received from Christy Collection and from G Holsworth

Rev R Rickard (Sydney) re collection, 15 April 1891 (Item 330)

Arthur Stock (Wellington) re salmon in New Zealand, 10 June 1891 (Item 414)

(newspaper cutting not in file)

J J Walker (HMS Penguin, Baudin Island, Port Darwin), 9 August; 25 October 1891 (Item 438.a - b)

Collecting with Dr Bassett-Smith; results of dredges; reports of sea monster.

W Wharton (Hydrographic Dept): scientific supplies needed by HMS Penguin, 14 October; 21 October; 31 October; 11 November 1891 (Item 453-458)

P Bassett-Smith (HMS Penguin, Chusan) with lists of specimens with locations, 8 June [1892] (Item 18-19)

George Coates (Townsville) re butterflies from North Queensland, 5 December 1891 (Item 72)

W S Day (Cairns), 16 January 1892 (Item 86)

bone breccia from Wellington caves; offers yellow bower birds

Henry Forbes (Canterbury Museum): visit to Chatham Islands, 23 February 1892 (Item 122)

C French (Dept of Agriculture, Melbourne): specimens, 29 February 1892 (Item 125)

Charles Hose (Baram) re Mt Dulit collection, 7 May; 17 Feb 1892 (Item 177A - B)

LP Beaufort (Sandakan) to Sir Hugh Low: wild ox from North Borneo, 8 October 1891 (Item 228-230)

Evan MacGregor (Admiralty): specimens from HMS Penguin, 31 March 1892 (Item 236-237)

D McNabb (HMS Dart, Sydney) re collecting in Sydney, New Guinea and New Hebrides, 11 April 1892 (Item 238)

E Ramsay (Australian Museum) re publications, 14 March 1892 (Item 331)

Henry Travers (Wellington) re specimen of Epiodow Chathamiensis, 1 February 1892 (Item 442)

J J Walker (HMS Penguin, Hong Kong), 6 January 1892 - 18 January 1892 (Item 448-449)

Re specimens sent from Port Darwin and collecting in Timor-Laut Group.

Henry Forbes (London, Aberdeen), 29 September; 12 October; 20 October; 11 December 1892 (Item 123 - 126)

) re Moa bones; Mrs Forbes health; possible future employment at the museum

Charles Hose (London, Diss) re visit to the museum, 29 August 1892 - 14 November 1892 (Item 186-187)

DM McNabb (HMS Salamander) re collection from New Hebrides, 8 August 1892 (Item 233)

A Schreiber (Barmen) re butterflies from German New Guinea, 4 July 1892 (Item 341b)

J J Walker (HMS Penguin, Hong Kong) re collecting and coleoptera from Tasmania, 8 May 1892 (Item 413)

P Wolff (Apia) re collecting in Solomon Islands for Australian museums, 21 October 1893 (Item 444)

C French (Melbourne) re specimen sent for identification, 2 May 1893 (Item 143)

Graham Harris (London), 16 May 1893 (Item 159)

re sending specimens from Australia or New Zealand in Messrs Nelson Bros frozen meat ships

F Hutton (Canterbury Museum): Maori rat and New Zealand bats, 14 March 1893 (Item 185)

Edward Bartlett (Sarawak): specimens of fish and reptiles, 4 September 1893 (Item)

P Bassett-Smith (HMS Egeria, Singapore) re results of dredging, 21 May 1893 (Item)

William Davison (Singapore) re sending a snake, 28 December 1892 (Item)

W Grigor Taylor (Singapore) re death of Davison on 25 January 1893, 14 May 1893 (Item)

C French (Melbourne) re sale of skins of animals from Queensland, 3 November 1893 (Item)

G Haviland (Singapore) re snake supposedly sent by Davison, 19 September 1893 (Item 182)

C Hose (Baram) re upset on a rapid, 11 October 1893 (Item 204)

F Hutton (Canterbury Museum) sending skeleton of Didina, 27 November 1893 (Item [bt 207 and 208])

E Ramsay (Australian Museum) re advertisement for post at the Australian Museum, 10 June 1892 (sic) (Item [bt 207 and 208]/1)

Edward Bartlett (Kuching) with list of species of Draco found in Borneo, 16 January 1894 (Item 21)

E Cross (Grange over Sands) re identification of bird from the Pacific, 1 February 1894 (Item 88)

Henry Forbes (Liverpool) re new post, 18 April 1894 (Item 138)

C French (Melbourne) acknowledging his letter, 3 May 1894 (Item 141)

Correspondence of C. Hose and G.B. Howes, 1894 (Item (bt 199 - 200))

Re attack by Rajah on Dyaks; collecting specimens with [Hose's] brother.

F Hutton (Canterbury Museum): bones from Enfield swamp, 10 May 1893 (sic) (Item 214)

John Irvine (Melbourne) re sale of shell collection, 29 January 1894 (Item 217-218)

J Maiden (Technological Museum, Sydney) with list of silk producing moths he wishes to obtain, 23 February 1894 (Item 265-266)

W M Maskell (Wellington) re his study of Coccidae, 26 March 1894 (Item [268-270])

Henry Travers (Wellington): specimens of Tuatara lizard, 27 Dec 1893 (sic) (Item 455)

W Wharton (Admiralty) re specimens from Bassett-Smith, 13 December 1893 (Item 500)

P Wolff (Fiji): list of specimens he can offer, 27 April 1894; 20 Jan 1894 (Item 513-514)

Woodford. Expedition to New Guinea, n.d. (Item 515-516)

Arthur Dally (Castleton, North Queensland): butterflies, 4 July 1894 (Item 103)

R Etheridge (Australian Museum) re exchange, 10 August 1894 (Item 137)

Henry Forbes (Liverpool) re specimens from New Zealand and Chatham Islands, 16 November 1894 (Item 154)

Clarence Hamilton (Suva) re proposal to travel in Pacific and Southeast Asia, 20 August 1890 (Item 184)

(rec. 26 September 1894)

Correspondence of C. Hose, Hubrecht, H. Hunter and H.G. Hutchinson, 1894 (Item [bt 230 - 231])

Re use of eggs, catalogue of birds, photographs, misunderstanding with the museum; 13 murders in his district - problems obtaining return of the heads.

F Hutton (Canterbury Museum) re Moa bones, 29 October 1894 (Item 243/4)

Rachel Leather (Suva) re moths and butterflies, 25 July 1894 (Item 285)

John Little & Co Ltd (Singapore) re specimens sent by C Hose, 25 July 1894 (Item 293-294)

T Jeffery Parker (Dunedin) sending specimens, 20 February 1894 (Item 343)

Henry Potter (Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston) sending specimens of duck and platypus, 26 February 1894 (Item 354)

William Maxwell (Raffles Museum, Singapore) with list of specimens Mr Everett is taking to London, 30 April 1894 (Item 367-368)

Le Souef (Melbourne) re misidentification from Gould's illustration, 15 July 1894 (Item (bt 445 - 446))

Edward Bartlett (Sarawak) sending specimens, 30 January 1895 (Item 17)

Edward Bartlett (Sarawak) sending shells and other specimens, 1894 - 1895 (Item 20-22)

Edward Degen (National Museum, Melbourne), 27 May 1895 (Item 85)

Problems with museum authorities; attempts to find employment elsewhere, support of Professor Spencer.

Ha Buey Hon (Sarawak) re butterflies and moths he can supply, 6 May 1895 (Item (bt 172 - 173))

C Hose (Baram) sending specimens, 17 February 1895 (Item 207)

S Sinclair (Australian Museum) re specimens of crustacea; retirement of Dr EP Ramsay, 11 December 1894 - 1 January 1895 (Item 416-417)

J E Woodward (Bickley, Kent) re receipt of skin of platypus, 17 June 1895 (File 499)

WO Mansbridge (East Murchison Gold Fields) sending insects, 6 September 1896 (Item 90)

Edward Bartlett (London) re collection of butterflies from Borneo, 29 May 1897 (Item 8)

Fred Dodd (Toowong) re his entomological studies, 5 February 1898 (Item 11)

GF Hawthorn (Wellington) sending butterfly specimens, 9 June 1898 (Item 56)

Henry Woodward (BM(NH)) to Dr Butler re the publication by the Museum of CW Andrew's monograph on Christmas Island, 1 December 1898 (Item 140)

WD Fraser (Corolla) re specimens from Honolulu, 2 December 1898 (Item 141)

Walter Kennaway (Office of Agent General for NZ) re sale of collection of NZ butterflies, 14 December 1899 (Item)

Also: following press cutting.

HJ Lake (Thursday Island) that he can collect specimens on south and southwest coast of New Guinea and North Queensland, 26 June 1899 (Item)

Oswald Lower (Broken Hill) re insects, 27 July 1899 (Item)

R Shelford (Sarawak) sending insects, 11 July [1899] (Item)

H Bullen Beatty (Sydney) re book on mosquitoes, 14 April 1900 (Item)

A Staines Manders (London) re collection of Australian specimens for sale, 31 October 1900; 7 November 1900; 7 November 1900 (Item)

Includes: 3 November 1900. Butler to CE Fagan re collection.

Correspondence of AA Welch and W. Adams, 1901 (Item)

A.A. Welch, 7th September 1901, sending beetles.

W. Adams, 4th June 1901, regarding P. Crowley's estate.

F Hutton (Christchurch) sending NZ insects, 1 September 1902 (Item)

SA Le Souef (Melbourne) sending specimens of Mallophaga, 31 March 1902 - 18 June 1902 (Item)

Herbert C Robinson (Liverpool) re collections of insects from Malaya formed by him and N Armandale, 7 October 1902 (Item)

Includes: BM(NH) memos on collection; 14 October 1902. N Armandale (Oxford) to EA Smith (BM(NH)) and draft letter from Smith to Armandale, 11 October 1902, re the collection.

WH Cusack (Roebourne) re new species of Australian beetles, 10 June 1903 (Item)

Clarence Dowell (London) re Queensland beetles collected in Mitchell district, 11 August 1903 (Item)

GO Manning (British New Guinea) sending leaf insect, 14 August 1903 (Item)

R Shelford (Sarawak) sending insects, 31 July 1903 (Item)

Walter H Ince (Laverton, WA) re animals found in lake Miranda, a salt pan when it rained after 9 months drought, 14 July 1904 (Item)

Herbert Robinson (Kuala Lumpur) re termite damage to rubber trees, 30 June 1904 (Item)

GF Hampton (BM(NH)) to Director re Robinson's enquiry, 27 July 1904 (Item)

(next letter in file)

Correspondence of Herbert Robinson and H. Rolle, 1903 - 1904 (Item)

Sending specimens.

D Sharp (Sandwich Islands Committee, Cambridge) re insects sent, 15 December 1904 (Item)

J Burges (West Kempsey) re literature for school, 31 August 1905 (Item)

HD Jensen (Sanga Sanga, E Borneo) re beetle collection, 17 April 1905 - 14 September 1905 (Item)

Richard McGregor (Manila) re sending insects, 9 February 1904 (Item)

Professor A Watson (Adelaide) re meeting McGregor in Philippine Islands, 20 May 1905 (Item)

(next letter in file)

D Sharp (Cambridge) re collections from Hawaii, 29 July 1905 - 20 October 1905 (Item)

Includes: Extracts from letters.

GA Waterhouse (Sydney) re exchange of specimens, 2 October 1905 (Item)

F Wood-Jones (Cocos Keeling Islands) sending specimens from the islands; his plans to return to the islands (in 1906), 31 August 1905 (Item)

Edwin Arnold (Wellington) sending insects, 28 April 1906 (Item)

Date is when the letter was received.

BM (NH) note on material collected by G Shortridge and presented by WE Balston, 18 August 1906 (Item)

(Filed under Balston).

Rev T Blackburn (Adelaide) re sale of his collection of beetles, 8 May 1906 - 23 July 1906 (Item)

FP Dodd (Kuranda) re specimens sent, with list of material available, 31 March 1906; 12 May 1906; 7 July 1906; 14 December 1906 (Item)

HD Jensen (Sanga Sanga) re problem of preserving specimens in climate, 10 October 1906 (Item)

Charles Knowles (Fiji) re cocoanut pest, 5 December 1905 - 7 November 1906 (Item)

Herbert Robinson (Kuala Lumpur) sending insects, 6 October 1906 (Item)

Rev T Blackburn (Adelaide) re selling his collection, 29 January 1907 - 16 April 1907 (Item)

FP Dodd (Kuranda) re payment for specimens sent, 6 April 1907 (Item)

H Hillier (Hermannsburg, NT) re preserving specimens, 22 October 1906(sic); 23 August 1907 (Item)

Edmund Jarvis (Emerald PO, Victoria) re entomological collections, encloses price list, 20 May 1907 (Item)

H Jensen (Sanga Sanga) re insects, 7 January 1907 - 16 March 1907 (Item)

PA Le Souef (Perth) recommending HM Giles as collector for the museum, 24 June 1907 (Item)

Includes: Press cuttings of interview with GC Shortridge on his trip to WA and Glimpse of West Australian entomology by HM Giles.

Rev T Blackburn (Adelaide) re sending specimens, 5 August 1908; 19 November 1907; 3 January 1908; 22 October 1908; 17 November 1908; 25 November 1908 (Item)

Major Brown (Auckland) re moving house; his collection of beetles; expedition to Kermadec Islands, 26 June 1908; 26 May 1908 (Item)

C Chilton (Christchurch) re expedition to Bounty Islands, 24 June 1908 (Item)

H Hillier (Hermannsburg) re naming of cicada after mission station; sending specimens, 13 January 1908; 9 March 1908; 28 July 1908 (Item)

RCL Perkins (Honolulu) re exchange of insects with a list of available specimens, 5 January 1908; 2 May 1908; 12 June 1908 (Item)

Includes: Note by BM(NH) at front of sequence.

D Sharp (Cambridge) re material from Hawaii, 27 January 1908 - 30 January 1908 (Item)

Melaine Webb (Belfast) re best time of year to find butterflies in Solomon Islands, 27 May 1908 (Item)

F Wood-Jones (Enfield) re difference in insect species between Cocos-Keeling Islands and Christmas Island, 26 October 1908; 16 October 1908 (Item)

Rev T Blackburn (Adelaide) re despatch of specimens on Moldavia, 9 February 1909; 8 March 1909; 16 March 1909; 13 July 1909; 21 July 1909; 11 November 1908; 26 December 1908 (Item)

Includes: 15 December 1908. P & O (London) re sailing of Moldavia.

Major Brown (Mount Albert, Auckland) forwarding specimens from Kermadec Islands, 26 February 1909; 6 July 1909; 12 October 1909 (Item)

JW Ellis (Pahang, FMS) re collecting butterflies, 4 April 1909 (Item)

H Murray Giles (Zoological Gardens, South Perth) sending insect specimens, 22 May 1909; 28 June 1909; 28 June 1909 (rec) (Item)

Also: 2 photographs.

H Hillier (Hermannsburg) sending insects which the 'black children' have collected in return for 'a few sweets'; preserving specimens, 5 March 1909; 30 June 1908; 24 July 1909 (Item)

Charles Knowles (Fiji) re damage to cocoanut trees, 18 March 1909 (Item)

Australian Museum (Sydney): R Etheridge (Sydney) re exchange of specimens, 10 September 1912 (Item)

Australian Museum (Sydney): B M (N H): formality of relations between B M (N H) and Australian Museum, 22 May 1912 (Item)

Correspondence and memoranda on 'Benoni Monster' said to inhabit cave of North Borneo, 1909 - 1910 (Item)

(11pp)

Correspondents include: Charles Hose (Bournemouth) 26 October 1909; Assistant Secretary, British North Borneo Co (London) 30 August 1909; Godfrey Hewett (Langholm) 18 August 1909.

Rev Thomas Blackburn, 15 February 1912 - 2 September 1912 (Item)

Correspondence with Rev Thomas Blackburn (Adelaide) and Dr C Bickerton Blackburn (Potts Point); death of Rev Blackburn and sale of his insect collection.

(24pp)

Borneo Company: J V Packard, Manager (London) re specimen transhipped on Nebus, 18 February 1914 (Item)

Patrick Cahill (Darwin) re black kangaroo he has sent to National Museum, Melbourne, 31 January 1913 (rec) (Item)

Dr Charles Chilton, 16 November 1912 - 7 November 1914 (Item)

Correspondence and BM(BH) memoranda on sending Terra Nova amphipods to Dr Charles Chilton (Christchurch).

(10pp)

Clunies-Ross, 9 January 1912 (Item)

re misunderstanding with the museum; 13 murders in his district - problems obtaining return of the heads

Miss Dobree (Beverley) re 'duck-billed platabus' in her possession, 21 April [1912] (Item)

TE Donne, 20 June 1912 - 28 November 1912 (Item)

Correspondence and BM(NH) memorandum on New Zealand collection of T Edward Donne (London), including Chatham Island skulls.

(4pp)

Eclipse Expedition, 1911 (Item)

Correspondence and memoranda on Eclipse Expedition to Friendly Islands.

Correspondents include: Robert Harrison (Royal Society) and William Lockyer (Solar Physics Observatory)

19 Dec 1910 - 24 Jan 1911. (5p)

HJ Hillier (Hermannsburg) re expenses of collecting, 24 July 1909 (Item)

Dr C Hose, 31 January 1909 - 6 November 1909 (Item)

Correspondence with Charles Hose (Bournemouth) re specimens he is selling to the BM(NH), including skins of Baikal seals.

(15pp)

WA Haswell (Sydney University) introducing Dr Harvey Johnston of Queensland University, 3 January 1913 (Item)

WA Haswell (Sydney University) introducing Dr SJ Johnston; Assistant Lecturer in Zoology, 11 June 1913 (Item)

R Kirkpatrick (Oceania, Christmas Island) re voyage; results of dredges, 1 September 1910 - 6 October 1910 (Item)

DG Lillie, 10 August 1909 - 18 December 1914 (Item)

Correspondence with DG Lillie (Christchurch, Cambridge) re Terra Nova expedition.

(106pp)

BM (NH) memorandum, 25 April 1910 (Item)

Charles Maplestone (Eltham) re polyzoa, 23 March 1910 (Item)

Melbourne National Museum acknowledging receipt of Discovery specimens, 21 February 1910 (Item)

Perth Museum: B M (N H): memoranda, 3 November 1913 (Item)

Perth Museum: Bernard Woodward (Perth) re Montebello Island specimens collected by PD Montague, 18 June 1913 (Item)

Related Materials

For other correspondence re Montague see Oldfield Thomas correspondence in Mammals Section List.

HC Robinson, 3 February 1910 - 22 March 1914 (Item)

Correspondence with Herbert C Robinson (Sumatra, Kuala Lumpur) sending specimens and re expedition to Sumatra.

(7pp)

W Rodier, 20 June 1910 - 30 October 1910 (Item)

William Rodier (Hawthorn) re trade in plumage birds; rabbit problem in Australia.

Includes: The rat problem: the practical solution W Rodier, Sydney, 1910. (4pp)

State Fisheries Office (Sydney), 27 June 1914 (Item)

G King (Sydney) re fish specimens to be brought to the Museum by David Stead

Agent General for Victoria (London) re collection of Victorian birds and eggs, 27 January 1909 (Item)

Victoria - Agent General: R Bowdler-Sharpe (B M (N H)) to Harmer re collection of Victorian birds, 10 February 1909 (Item)

Charles Woodford (British Solomon Islands) sending lizard, 12 October 1912 (Item)

William Benham (University of Otago) re work on Discovery material, 14 January 1915; 28 June 1915; 19 August 1915; 26 November 1915 (Item 81-85)

Charles Chilton (Christchurch) re work on Terra Nova material, 11 February 1915 (Item 186)

WA Haswell (Sydney): polyzoa collected on Mawson Antarctic Expedition, 1915-09-06; 1915-10-14 (Item 327-8)

Charles Hose (Diss) re stuffing of Orang and its nest, 7 October 1915 (Item)

C Boden Klos (Kuala Lumpur) sending specimens, 1915 (Item)

Includes: BM (NH) memoranda and note by Oldfield Thomas on Kuala Lumpur bats

Robinson, 1915 - 1918 (Item)

Correspondence with Herbert Robinson and C Boden Kloss (Kuala Lumpur) re expedition. (9pp)

Bainbridge, Oliver (Reigate), 1916 (Item)

Re expedition to South Seas, offers to collect for the Museum. (c 80p.)

Haswell, W A (Uni of Sydney), 23 December 1915 (Item)

Re Polyzoa and BM (NH) memo. (3p.)

Kloss, C Boden (Kuala Lumpur), 1916 (Item)

Re publications. (10p.)

Queensland Museum, 3 August 1916 (Item)

R Hamlyn Harris (Q'land Museum) re specimen of Oreoscopus gutturalis de Vis.

Robinson, H C (K L), January 1916 - July 1916 (Item)

Re Rhinoceros sondarcus; problems of despatching specimens in wartime, (12p.)

Also includes: BM (NH) memoranda and correspondence with Messrs Rowland Ward.

Pacific Phosphate Co, 3 September 1912 (Item)

C Voss (London) enclosing 2 photographs of coral from Tahiti.

Montague, P.D.: Collections from New Caledonia and Montebello Islands (29p.), 1913 - 1918 (Item)

Comprises: Correspondence, notes and BM (NH) memoranda re whereabouts of specimens collected by PD Montague from New Caledonia and Montebello Islands, following PD Montague's death in Salonika.

Correspondents include: Oglivie-Grant (Bexhill); AC Haddon (Cambridge); RH Compton (France); GF Hampson (BM (NH)); J Stanley-Gardiner (Cambridge); Bernard Woodward (Perth).

Robinson-Kloss Expedition: BM (NH) memos on Robinson-Kloss expedition to Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, (6p.), 1918 (Item)

Waite E.R.: Edgar Waite (Adelaide) to PD Montague re Typhlopidae ammodytes (Item)

Includes BM (NH) note.

Benham, W (Dunedin), 21 August 1919 (Item)

Offerring to examine Polychaets gathered by Scott expedition.

Kloss, C Boden (KL): Sending bird collection (9p.), May 1919 - August 1919 (Item)

Potter, Gunner: New Guinea Expedition (78p.), 1918 - 1919 (Item)

Comprises: correspondence and BM (NH) memo on proposal by William Potter to collect for the museum in German New Guinea.

Correspondents include: R. Etheridge (Sydney); W. Baldwin Spencer (Melbourne); William J. Potter (AIF, Heytesbury Hills, Sydney, Rabaul); Lt. Col. Marsden (AIF).

Robinson, HC (KL): Sending birds, 15 September 1919 - 17 November 1919 (Item)

Includes: BM (NH) memos. (4p.)

Angus and Robertson Ltd. (Sydney): enquiry from W. Dixson re ascription of drawings to Watling, 15 March 1920 (Item)

Angus and Robertson Ltd: Campbell Dodgson (BM) to BM (NH), 24 April 1920 (Item)

Angus and Robertson Ltd: Watling collection, 17 May 1920 (Item)

Angus and Robertson Ltd: Australian Institutions which have received History of Collections, n.d. (Item)

Buller Collection: Sir Walter Buller's collection of New Zealand birds, January 1920 - July 1920 (Item)

Buller Collection: Goodall, T.B., February 1920 - October 1920 (Item)

Re photograph of skull of Squolodon sent to him by daughter in Tasmania. (8p.)

Buller Collection: Haswell, W.A.: (Sydney), 19 May 1920 (Item)

re return of specimens of Pteroberanchia from Austral-Asian Antarctic Expedition to Australian Museum

Sultan of Jahore: Rowland Ward Ltd. (London), 31 May 1920 (Item)

re skin of Seladang to be presented to the Museum by Sultan of Jahore

Sultan of Jahore: 3 British Museum (N H) notes (Item)

Re accepting donation.

Sultan of Jahore: Kloss, C.B. (KL), 15 June 1920 - 30 August 1920 (Item)

re specimen of Rhinoceros Sondiacus shot by T.R. Hubback

Sultan of Jahore: Lord, Clive (Hobart), 10 May 1920 (Item)

E exchange of publications, forwarding note on Nototherium (wanting). Includes note by CM Andrews.

Mathews, GM (Hants): re Latham's drawings and other books he intends to present to the museum, 30 July 1920 - 6 August 1920 (Item)

Includes 2 BM (NH) memos.

Potter, W. (Madang), 1919 - 1920 (Item)

Re problems of collecting in German New Guinea, hopes new civil administration will be more helpful; problems of shipping specimens due to Australian shipping strike and red tape; plans to visit Finisterre Mountains, Sepik River and Victor Emmanuel Mountains. (18p.)

Also includes: 15 January and 20 January George Hogben (Australia House) re sending 60 gallons of spirit to Potter at Rabaul.

Potts, Frank A (Pago Pago), 21 June 1920 (Item)

: re work of scientists in American Samoa, his work on reef, comparison with Great Barrier Reef

Robinson, HC (KL): appointing Etomologist and Botanist to staff of FMS Museum, 4 January 1920 (Item)

Scott, H H (Launceston), 15 April 1920 (Item)

Re circumstances of finding skull of Squalodon.

Includes note by CM Andrews.

Tillyard, 11 April 1920 (Item)

Comprises: WA Haswell (Sydney) introducing RJ Tillyard.

AM Adamson (Honolulu) sending specimens from Marquesas and Society Islands, 6 August 1932 (Item A. General 4/17)

Ack. by BM (NH), 28 September 1932 (Item A. General 4/17)

BM (NH) memo, n.d. (Item A. General 4/17)

AM Adamson (Honolulu) re job application; experience gained in Hawaii, 17 January 1933 - 6 May 1933 (Item A. General 5/4)

BM (NH) ack, 27 May 1933 (Item A. General 5/4)

To Edwin Ashby (Blackwood, SA) re Polyplacophora, 31 December 1923 (Item A Personal 1/10)

Correspondence with Gilbert Archey (Auckland Institutional Museum) re resignation of Chilton; lenses. (4p.), 28 October 1927 - 11 August 1928 (Item A Personal 2/6)

HC Ten Boom (Taloe, Sumatra) offerring to collect Orang Pandak and Orang Gadang, 18 February 1925 (Item B Personal 1/44)

BM (NH) that not interested in these animals, 1 April 1925 (Item B Personal 1/44)

W Benham (Dunedin) re report on annelids, 3 October 1926 (Item B Personal. Firms 2/11)

PA Buxton (London) re insects of Samoa, 28 January 1930 (Item B Personal. Firms 3/28)

To Buxton, 1930-02-01; 1930-06-28 (Item B Personal. Firms 2/28)

Re distribution of Atyidae and wife's criticism of museum.

Correspondence, lists and BM (NH) memos re offer by Joseph Baldwin (Tambellup) to collect West Australian animals. (18p.), 16 July 1930 - 30 January 1931 (Item B Personal. Firms 3/46)

J Baldwin (Tambellup) re receipt of specimens, 4 May 1931 (Item B/4/14)

Includes following BM (NH) memos. (9p.)

Correspondence with John R Baker (Oxford and Hog Harbour) re Oxford University Expedition to New Hebrides. (25p.), 28 December 1932 - 2 December 1934 (Item B/5/6)

Beresford E Bardwell (Broome) re visit from Wilkins en route to South Polar regions; offers to collect marine specimens for museum, 13 August 1934 (Item B/5/50)

BM (NH) ack. and memo, 6 October 1934 (Item B/5/50)

FC Backhouse (Rabaul) with list of rodents and mites he is sending for identification, 16 January 1935 (Item B/6/12)

Clunies Ross (London) sending photographs of fish (wanting), 24 January 1922 (Item C Personal 1/11)

C Clunies Ross (Keeling Cocos Islands) re capture of horned Tetradont, 23 January 1923 (Item C Personal 1/11)

Correspondence with Cpt. JD Campbell (Rarotonga) and BM (NH), 5 September 1927 - 4 June 1928 (Item C Personal and Firms 2/18)

Memos re his offer to collect on Cook Islands; necessary to get permit from New Zealand Government. (8p.)

Correspondence with Cyril Crossland (Tahiti) re drawings of fish and corals. (4p.), 16 September 1928 - 13 October 1928 (Item C Personal and Firms 2/22)

Cyril Crossland (Tahiti) re Chevrelange's coral pictures, 13 November 1928 (Item C Personal and Firms 2/bt 25/26)

Cyril Crossland (Tahiti) re work in Tahiti, 9 April 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/6)

To F Chapman (Melbourne) re descendants of Ray, 15 July 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/9)

F Chapman (Balwyn) ack, 4 September 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/9)

Correspondence with Charles Chilton (Christchurch), 16 July 1929 - 2 September 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/11)

News of Mawson, his health, work by Cockayne proving many NZ plant species are wild hybrids. (4p.)

Correspondence with Cyril Crossland (Tahiti) re work on coral Lobophyllia. (4p.), 9 July 1929 - 11 October 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/14)

Obituaries of Charles Chilton. (5p.) (Item C Personal and Firms 3/18)

Cyril Crossland (Tahiti) to go to Red Sea to build Biological Station, 1 December 1929 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/19)

BM (NH) memos on corals received from Crossland in Tahiti, 14 May 1930 - 28 June 1930 (Item C Personal and Firms 3/30)

WJ Crump (Blenheim, NZ) re collection formed by his father Rev A Crump, missionary in New Britain, c 1895, 27 January 1933 (Item C/5/8)

BM (NH) ack, 20 March 1933 (Item C/5/8)

C Carrington (Cambridge University Press) re proposal by GM Thomson for complete catalogue of New Zealand crustacea, 18 March 1933 (Item C/5/9)

To Carrington, appreciation of Thomson, 22 March 1933 (Item C/5/9)

Carrington ack, 23 March 1933 (Item C/5/9)

Correspondence with and BM (NH) memoranda re Lucy Cheesman (Dutch New Guinea) re conditions in camp, species collected, headhunters. (16p.), 11 July 1936 - 25 April 1938 (Item C/7/2)

Lucy Cheesman (Waigeu) to Cpt. Riley re duck specimens; lack of supplies, 12 May 1938 (Item C/7/38)

Lucy Cheesman (Japen) to Cpt. Riley re specimens from camps 2 and 3, 30 November 1938 (Item C/7/38)

Correspondence with Edith Coleman (Blackburn) re 'sea serpent' found on Orkney. (5p.), 30 Sept-14 June 1942 (Item C/8/29)

Includes covering letter from AW Stuart Smith (Australia House).

BM (NH) memorandum on CO report on Dr Jim Lambert's visit to Rennell and Bellona Islands, 25 April 1931 (Item Colonial Office 4/2)

Correspondence with C.O. on instruction to be provided for MWF Tweedie of Raffles Museum. (12p.), 1 April 1932 - 1 June 1932 (Item Colonial Office 4/4)

BM (NH) memorandum re Tongan birds, 20 May 1932 (Item Colonial Office 4/6)

Correspondence with CO re Oxford University Expedition to New Hebrides. (7p.), February 1933 - May 1933 (Item Colonial Office 5/2)

BM (NH) memoranda re list of fishes from Ellice Islands. (5p.), January 1934 - May 1934 (Item Colonial Office 5/4)

Roger Dolbey (Labuan) sending insects, 17 July 1926 (Item D Personal and Firms 2/2)

C Durham (Singapore) that able to provide skins of various animals, 17 September 1926 - 21 September 1926 (Item D Personal and Firms 2/3)

To Sir TW Edgeworth David (Sydney) re publication, 2 April 1929 (Item D Personal and Firms 3/1)

Sir TW Edgeworth David (Hornsby) re fossils from Adelaide series, 8 May 1929 (Item D Personal and Firms 3/1)

Correspondence with Cedric Dover (Calcutta) re specimens of parabathynella from Malaya. (4p.), 10 June 1929 - 28 July 1929 (Item D Personal and Firms 3/2)

G Dennes (Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville) sending parasites for identification, 30 August 1929 (Item D Personal and Firms 3/5)

WJ Dakin (Sydney) re staffing problems at Australian Museum, 6 May 1931 (Item D/4/10)

To Dakin re salaries and conditions of service at BM (NH), 9 June 1931 (Item D/4/10)

James Drummond (Christchurch) sending spider and appreciation of work, 20 November 1931 (Item D/4/15)

BM (NH) memo, 1 January 1932 (Item D/4/15)

TW Edgeworth David (Sydney) sending tracings of new class of arthropoda, 21 April 1932 (Item D/4/21)

To Edgeworth David ack, 24 May 1932 (Item D/4/21)

Correspondence with TW Edgeworth David (Sydney), 12 July 1932 - 20 December 1932 (Item D/4/23)

Re fossils from pre-Cambrian Adelaide beds and controversy re Edgeworth David and Tillyard's interpretation. (22p.)

Includes: 22 September 1932. Edgeworth David to Lang re his rejection of the paper by ED and Tillyard.

Correspondence with TE Donne (London) re specimens of New Zealand birds, lizards and insects. (6p.), 18 July 1933 - 12 March 1934 (Item D/5/6)

Obituary of Sir Edgeworth David. The Times, 29 August 1934 (Item D/5/18)

Correspondence with TE Donne (London) re purchase of his collection of New Zealand specimens. (11p.), 28 June 1943 - 10 March 1944 (Item D/9/3)

Correspondence and BM (NH) memoranda re exchange with Geological Survey Office, Wellington of Tertiary Mollusca. (5p.), 28 July 1922 - 1 January 1923 (Item Exchanges 1/13)

Correspondence with C. Boden Kloss (Federal Malay States Museums), 21 January 1927 - 9 May 1927 (Item F General 2)

re collection of mammals and birds from FMS to be presented to BM (NH). (13p.)

Correspondence with T Thomson Flynn (Hobart), 26 April 1929 - 24 July 1929 (Item F General 3/1)

Re visit to Tasmania of Sidnie Manton; Flynn's work on Pycnogonida; Flynn's family. (4p.)

Correspondence with C Boden Kloss and HM Pendlebury (Federal Malay States Museums), 23 February 1929 - 9 December 1929 (Item F General 3/2)

Re Sars' paper on Parabathynella. (8p.)

Correspondence with C Boden Kloss (Federated Malay State Museums), 26 August 1930 - 15 September 1930 (Item F General 3/7)

Re Phaedura pahangensis and with Norman Smedley (Raffles Museum and Library, Singapore) re identifying collections. (5p.)

Correspondence with J Thomson Flynn (London and Belfast), 31 January 1931 - 30 November 1932 (Item F/4/2)

Re his visit to England; VV Hickman's paper on spiders of Tasmania. (18p.)

Includes: 19 November 1931. GAC Herklots (Hong Kong) to Flynn (Hobart) re Pycnogonids.

RA Lever (Suva) sending prawns and other specimens for identification, 19 July 1943 (Item F/9/9)

Includes BM (NH) memoranda. (5p.)

Lieut. C. Fourie: African Geographical Expedition (Item F/9/10)

Note regarding plans for expedition and Museum's lack of interest in nature films.

RA Lever (Suva) sending millipedes from Waiqa Gorge, 14 June 1944 (Item F/9/11)

To CL Glauert (Perth) re species of Polyxenus not previously recorded in Australia, 28 June 1927 (Item G Personal and Firms 2/12)

Herbert C Robinson (London) re proposed expedition to Batu caves, 1 December 1927 (Item G Personal and Firms 2/15)

To H Gunnery (Manchester) re proposed expedition to F.M.S, 3 December 1927 (Item G Personal and Firms 2/15)

Theodore Hubback (Pahang) re specimens of ovis dalli, 5 April 1922 (Item H Personal 1/23)

FE Ward (Dept of Agriculture, Hobart) re introduced European slugs, a serious pest in Tasmania, 23 November 1929 (Item H General/3/3)

To FE Ward re natural predators of slugs, 2 January 1930 (Item H General/3/3)

Includes BM (NH) memoranda on slugs.

Correspondence with and BM (NH) memoranda on proposed visit by Prof. Dr Harms (Tubingen) to Christmas Island. (13p.), 20 January 1931 - 6 October 1932 (Item H/4/1)

KA Hindwood (Sydney) re identification of Watling paintings, 17 December 1930 (Item H/4/5)

T Arthur Highton (Adelaide) re 'petrified blackfellow' specimen, encloses press cuttings, 26 August 1931 (Item H/4/17)

To TA Highton that no trace of such a specimen, 22 October 1931 (Item H/4/17)

Correspondence with and BM (NH) memoranda re visit by Prof Harms (Tubingen) to Christmas Island. (13p.), 27 June 1933 - 24 May 1934 (Item H/5/11)

BM (NH) memoranda re collection of specimens offerred by W Heron of New South Wales. (6p.), 15 December 1934 - 21 December 1934 (Item H/5/39)

Lucille Iremonger (Funafuti) re collecting on Ellice Island Group, 16 March 1940 (Item I/8/13)

Correspondence with T Harvey Johnston (Adelaide University) re material from BANZAR Expedition for identification. (17p.), 26 February 1936 - 17 December 1936 (Item J/6/9)

To T Harvey Johnston (Adelaide) that material has been sent to AA Livingstone, Australian Museum, 19 January 1937 (Item J/7/3)

BM (NH) memoranda re collection of insects from Sumatra presented by C Boden Kloss. (12p.), 7 October 1926 - 8 February 1927 (Item K General 2/2)

Stanley Kemp (Weybridge) enclosing HS Swarth Statement regarding a fauna and flora refuge upon the Galapagos Islands. (8p.), 20 July 1934 (Item K/5/1)

EJ King (Melbourne) re stories of man having been swallowed by whale and surviving, 20 December 1933 (Item K/5/8)

To EJ King ack, 2 February 1934 (Item K/5/8)

HJ Kitchener (Pahang) re collecting for the museum, 12 December 1935 (Item K/6/7)

Correspondence with Jessie S. Litchfield (Darwin), 12 February 1924 - 13 August 1925 (Item L Personal 1/24)

That she can supply animals and native weapons from N.T.; hopes to farm in coastal district. (8p.)

JS Litchfield (Darwin) sending calling crabs and sea lice. (2p.), 28 April 1928 (Item L Personal 2/19)

PA Buxton (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) forwarding paper on Insect fauna of Samoa (5p.), 24 May 1926 - 10 June 1926 (Item L General 2/1)

To JS Litchfield (Darwin) that do not want any specimens of shells or corals, 27 February 1929 (Item L Personal and Firms 3/1)

JS Litchfield (Darwin) that sent several specimens of shells and sponges, 15 April 1929 (Item L Personal and Firms 3/5)

RA Lever (British Solomon Islands) forwarding specimens of local fauna, 11 February 1932, 9 June 1932, 15 July 1932 (Item L/4/24)

Correspondence with RA Lever (Tulagi) sending specimens from BSI. (20p.), 25 March 1935 - 9 July 1936 (Item L/6/6)

Correspondence with Australian Museum, Sydney. (11p.), 14 May 1931 - 16 November 1932 (Item Museums 4/14)

Subjects include: material from Great Barrier Reef; material collected by Sir Douglas Mawson in Antarctic.

Particulars of a vacancy for an assistant curator (male) at the Raffles Museum, Singapore. (3p.), November 1931 (Item Museums 4/26)

Correspondence with Australian Museum, Sydney. (9p.), 9 February 1933 - 3 October 1934 (Item Museum 5/2)

Subjects include: Antarctic material; Great Barrier Reef material; crayfish.

To Gilbert Archey (Auckland Institute and Museum) re finding specimens, 3 October 1934 (Item Museum 5/42)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland) re visit to Rotorua, 5 December 1934 (Item Museum 5/42)

To W. Benham (Dunedin) re sending specimens, 3 October 1934 (Item Museum 5/47)

Correspondence with R Speight (canterbury Museum) re crayfish. (3p.), 5 January 1935 - 27 February 1935 (Item Museum 6/2)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland Institute and Museum) re visit of AT Pycroft to England, 5 March 1936 (Item Museum 6/5)

Waldo L. Schmitt re Miss Rathbun's 75th birthday, 8 December 1934 (Item Museum 6/6)

E Banks (Sarawak Museum) re birds collected by Oxford University Expedition, 24 July 1935 (Item Museum 6/16)

D J Mahony (National Museum, Melbourne) sending specimens, 3 June 1935 (Item Museum 6/19)

To Mahony ack, 30 July 1935 (Item Museum 6/19)

Glauert (Perth) sending sawflies, 7 August 1936 (Item Museum 6/42)

HA Longman (Brisbane) sending spiny crayfish from Nth Queensland, 6 August 1936 (Item Museum 6/44)

To Longman ack, 8 October 1936 (Item Museum 6/44)

Joseph Pearson (Tasmanian Museum) enclosing proposal to conduct biological survey of Tasmania, 23 September 1936 (Item Museum 6/45)

To Pearson ack, 5 November 1936 (Item Museum 6/45)

BM (NH) letters to and memoranda, 13 July 1937 - 23 July 1937 (Item Museum 7/23)

Re AWB Powell (Auckland Institute and Museum) re Discovery material. (3p.)

WB Benham (Otago Museum, Dunedin) re Cephalodiscus, 4 March 1938 (Item Museum 7/34)

To Benham ack, 13 July 1938 (Item Museum 7/34)

Mawson Antarctic Expedition, 1921 - 1922 (Item 1)

Comprises correspondence with Agent General for New South Wales and lists of specimens from expedition. (38p.)

Sidnie Manton (Hobart, Brisbane, Gt Barrier Reef Expedition), 24 January 1929 - 28 April 1929 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/4)

Re activites of Gt Barrier Reef party; Anaspides; possible extermination of Paranaspides due to introduction of English trout. (14p.)

W Stewart McColl (Kew), 10 July-31 May 1929 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/8)

Re proposed natural history trip to obtain specimens of allegedly extinct spinifex Parrot and to film aboriginal tribes. (5p.)

Sidnie Manton (Gt Barrier Reef Expedition), 12 June 1929 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/9)

That paranspides killed off by raising of water level by a dam; activities of Gt Barrier Reef party.

Sidnie Manton (Cambridge) re anaspides, 1 November 1929 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/11)

Sidnie Manton, 7 November 1929 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/11)

Sidnie Manton (Cambridge), 28 November 1929 - 20 February 1930 (Item M Personal and Firms 3/13)

Re publishing her paper on Anaspides and paranaspides. (16p.)

H E E Brock (Adelaide Univ) re specimens sent by Sir Douglas Mawson. (9p.), 27 November 1930 - 26 January 1931 (Item M4/1)

W Stewart McColl (Melbourne) that ill health has prevented his trip through unexplored parts of Australia, 30 May 1931 (Item M/4/13)

Includes BM (NH) note.

W J Phillips (Dominion Museum, Wellington), 28 October 1932 - 3 December 1932 (Item M/4/25)

Re his proposal to introduce New Zealand whitebait into rivers of England and Scotland; the Museum is against introducing animals or plants into countries where they are not native. (5p.)

Sir Douglas Mawson (London), 16 January 1933 - 21 June 1933 (Item M/5/2)

Re trip to London; the Museum purchasing his surplus stores; pynogonoda. (17p.)

Edward P. Mumford (Pacific Entomological Survey, Hawaii) re Marquesas Islands. (10p.), 13 March 1933 - 4 April 1933 (Item M/5/7)

Lord Moyne (London) re specimens collected by his yacht cruising South Seas. (4p.), 25 April 1935 - 30 April 1935 (Item M/6/6)