Guide to the Collections of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Characteres breves avium in itinere nostro [i.e. Captain Cook's 2nd voyage] (13p.), n.d., c.1772 (File (a))

Zoologia nova sui characteres & historia animalium hactenus incognitorum qui in itinere nostro [i.e. Cpt Cook's 3rd voyage] (38p), 1776 (File (b))

Manuscript notebook, 1910 - 1913 (File (a))

Containing data relating to parasite protozoa collected during the British Antarctic Terra Nova expedition (13p).

Two manuscript notebooks, 1910 - 1913 (File (b))

Containing data relating to parasitic worms collected during the British Antarctic Terra Nova expedition (35p and 27p)

(Three pages at back containing daily work and notes)

Manuscript notebook of birds and ornithological literature of Eastern Polynesian Islands (54p)(Z 89 oB), 1925 (File)

Covers Galapagos Is, Marquesas, Society Is, Henderson Is., Easter Is., Pitcairn and Cook Is. and includes list with description of birds likely to be seen at each port of call.

Manuscript notes on birds collected in north and north-western Australia in 1886 (136p), 4 May 1886 - 11 November 1886 (File (a))

Includes: details of journey and of birds caught - size and colour of plumage.

Description of Australian birds (80p), c.1886 (File (b))

Detailed description of each bird, differences of sex and young, habits, measurements.

Field notebook on birds of Point Cloates and north-west Australia (118p and index), c.1887-1916 (File (a))

Field notebook on birds of Broome Hill and south-west Australia (134p and index), c 1905 - 1922 (File (b))

Includes notes on breeding habits, discriptions of nests, dates when sighted.

Related Materials

SEE ALSO: Oldfield Thomas correspondence in Mammals section list for letters from Carter to BM(NH)

Mounted manuscript sheet list of cirripeds, n.d. (File (b))

Includes shells from New Zealand and New South Wales (1p).

Catalogue of the drawings and of the collections of animals made on Cook's 2nd voyage, 1772 - 1775 (File)

Two parts in one (38p).

Gives place of sighting or capture.

Related Materials

SEE ALSO: Zoology Library list of original art work.

6 letters from Gerard Krefft, 22 January 1865 - 22 August 1865 (File)

(Australian Museum, Sydney) re whales.

Four photographs of whale vertebrae, 1865 (File)

Galapagos Islands report, photographs, records and notes on expedition from Hyde Park, Massachusetts (125p.), 17 March 1897 - 11 May 1897 (File)

With notes from the diary of F P Drowne. (97p)

Manuscript notes relating to specimens of Nemertina collected in the Antarctic regions during the expeditions of Southern Cross, 1898-1900 and Discovery, 1901-1904, 1906 (File)

In German; 8 photographs and rough notes (79p).

Vol 1, 1820 - 1854 (File)

Filmed Selectively

Includes:

Thomas Horsfield, Quadrupeds and birds of the Island of Java. [n.d.] (23p)

List and general notes. [1820]

Thomas Horsfield, Catalogue of birds and mammals collected in Java by Unknown. [1820]. (21p)

List of birds from Sumatra; Sir Stamford Raffles collection; comparative list of quadrupeds of Sumatra and Java compiled from preceeding catalogue by T Horsfield; birds selected; list of duplicates of birds from Sumatra; catalogue of the duplicate specimens of the quadrupeds and birds collected in Sumatra by Sir Stamford Raffles; Sumatra and Java by Vigors. [n.d.] (32p)

List of birds from Malacca sent by William Griffith. [1843] (6p)

Catalogue of Malayan fish presented by Theodore Cantor. [1850] (21p)

Packing lists of Malayan Collections specifying the contents of each of the 19 cases presented by T Cantor. Includes mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, molluscs, insects and human skulls of executed murderers. [1854] (87p)

Numerical list of reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands and other localities. [n.d.] (6p)

Lists of Malayan collections and of Indian and Chinese molluscs presented by Dr. Theodore Cantor. Includes memorandum on Dr Cantor's stay on Prince of Wales Island. [1854] (93p)

John Gould, life on Parsee en route to Australia, plans for the trip, 30 April 1838 (File)

John Gould (Maitland River, Hunter, NSW) re successful collection of birds in Australia, including new species, 28 September 1839 (File)

John Gould re safe return of himself and specimens, including six new species of kangaroo, 9 September 1840 (File)

Snails from Trengannu River (4p) (File 1))

3 photos.

Records. Occurrence of Saptaria lineata; Neritina malabarica, Neritina of curriculata, Clithon avellina and fauna ater.

Malayan Hermit Crabs (46p) (File 2))

With key to Malayan Species.

The decapod crustacea of Singapore Beaches (24p), c.1962 (File 3))

Crustacea (22p.) (File 4))

Popular account of them in Singapore.

Some new records of decapod crustacea from Malaya (14p.), 14 March 1966 (File 5))

Includes letter from Editor of Bull. National Museum Singapore that unable to publish.

Crustaceans of Singapore (42p) (File 6))

'Some fish cleaning prawns and cleaner mimics' by L.G. Harris and D.S.J. (13p) (6 photos) (File 7))

Key to hermit crabs of Malaya (13p) (File 8))

Periclimenes oesophagus (3p) (File 9))

List of brackish water species of prawns, lobsters and mysids in Singapore (5p) (File 10))

Catalogue and guide to the prawns of Singapore waters (9p) (Introduction and glossary only) (File 11))

On the nomenclature and significance of the antero-lateral carapace spines of the Palaemoninae (Decapoda: Natantia) (9p) (File 12))

Crabs and prawns of Singapore (13p) (File 13))

The occurrence of the unusual Palinurid Linuparus triganus (ron Siebold), (Crustacea; Decapoda, Palinura) in Malaysian waters (File 14))

With some notes on its morphology (9p) Plus two drawings.

Notes on some grapsoid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from a Singapore mudflat (DST and 1. Polunin 12p) (File 15))

Crabs, prawns, lobsters and their allies in Malaysia and Singapore (49p) (File 16))

Incomplete. (Popular account typed on back of other documents).

Ghost crabs at Pangkor Island (Ocypode ceratophthalmus) (Crustacea; Ocypodidae) (3p) (File 17))

A first note on the Rotifera of Singapore Island (10p) (File 18))

Distributional notes on Malaysian Freshwater fish and fish associations (89p) (File 19))

Freshwater snails and bivalves of Malaya (29p) plus 36 drawings identified on back (File 20))

Fish from acid blackwater streams in Malaya (2p) (File 21))

New records of freshwater fish from Malaya (2p) (File 22))

Notes on some Indo-west Pacific Caridea (Crustacea; Decapoda) mainly in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History) (14p) (File 23))

A classified bibliography of Malayan inland water biology. (83p) (File 24))

Some notes on the structure of Malayan freshwater fish communities (14p) (File 25))

Notes on freshwater fish associations in Malaya. (10p) (File 26))

Some additional notes on the freshwater fish of Singapore. (19P) (File 27))

The studies on Malayan freshwater fish: The fish of Northwest Malaya. (35p) (File 28) 1.)

Notes on the local distribution and associations of freshwater fish South Central Malaya. (11p) (File 29))

Notes on the distribution and ecology of the Malayan species of the sub-family Rasborinae (Actinopterygii family Cyprinidae) (13p) (File 30))

Freshwater shells of Malaya (15p) Illustrated map (File 31))

Notes on the taxonomy and biology of lesser mud-lobsters of the Genus Upogebia (Decapoda: Thalassinidea) at Singapore (File 32))

By D.S.J and N.E. Ferguson. (26p)

A weird porcelain crab. (Decapoda: Porcell anidae) (3p) (File 33))

The belachan shrimp, Acetes vulgaris in Malaya (2p) (File 34))

Freshwater prawns of Malaysia (55p) (File 35))

Notes on the freshwater crustacea of Malaya: A freshwater Alpheid prawn (1p) (File 36) 3)

The occurance of an alpheid prawn and a portunid crab in a freshwater stream in S. Johore. (2p) (File 37))

Notes on the freshwater crustacea of Malaya (File 38) 2)

Branchiopoda other than Cladocera (5p).

Notes on the distribution and biology of the Mysids of Singapore by Lim Bee Cheng and DSJ. (23p) map tabs (File 39))

Prawns in Malaya (9p) (File 40))

Problems and discoveries in Malayan Freshwater biology (10p) (File 41))

The fish of Malaya (26p) (File 42))

Fish consocies of Malayan inland waters. (21p) (File 43))

A guide to prawns, lobsters and prawn like crustacea of brackish waters in West Malaysia. (26p) (File 44))

Studies on Malayan freshwater fish (File 45))

1. Fish from freshwaters and low salinity waters of Malaya: east coast (11p) (incomplete)

The flapjack lobsters (scyllaridae) collected by the former Singapore Regional Fisheries Research Station. (9p) tabs (File 46))

A rare land crab from an East coast Island P. ULOS., c. 1962, 11 April 1962 (File 47))

1p plus two photos. Letter from Editor Malayan Native Journal asking for more information

Commercial porcellanid crabs (Decapoda: Anomura) from West Malaysia and Singapore (17p ) (File 48))

Malayan Cladocera (92p) (File 49))

Freshwater prawns of Malaysia (57p, includes three illustrations) (File 50))

Crabs, prawns and allied creatures of Malaysia (184p) (File 51))

33 photos (not all identified).

Malayan Cladocera (84p. tabs), Covering note by J.P. Harding (File)

Margaret Broadhead (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington) to N. Kinnear, 1 June 1954 (File)

Re service record of Major Drury.

N. Kinnear to Margaret Broadhead acknowledging letter, 28 June 1954 (File)

Alec Chisholm (Sydney) to N. Kinnear, 3 July 1951 (File)

Re his work as editor Australian Encyclopedia.

Willoughby P. Lowe (Exeter) to N. Kinnear, 29 February 1944 (File)

Re bird presented by Miss Fox from Port Essington expedition, 1844; list of birds presented.

Volume of watercolour and pencil drawings illustrating the natural history of New Zealand (60p), 1863 - 1883 (File Z 88 ffL (a))

Includes: Scenic sketches, Mt Egmont, Nelson, Maori carvings, New Zealand falcon, New Zealand quail, insects, reptiles, flora.

Gleanings of natural history in New Zealand (351p), n.d. (File Z 89 oL (b))

Descriptions of birds, insects, reptiles, fishes, spiders intended to be illustrated by above drawings.

Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake: catalogue of Radiata and Mollusca (61p), 1846 - 1850 (File)

Includes date and location of specimens taken on voyage: Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Australia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

Manuscript list of Sydney Parkinson's drawings of fishes made on Cook's 1st voyage 1768-1771 (11p.), c.1860? (File)

Gives locations.

Notes on birds of Penang and Province Wellesley (36p and index), 1884 - 1887 (File)

Birds of the Malay Peninsula. Vol. 5 (unpublished text by E. Banks and 25 plates by H. Gronvold) (File)

The open country and rice field birds and migrating birds by E. Banks (94p.)

The original text by F.N. Chasen was lost at sea in 1942 during the occupation of Singapore. Mr Banks then rewrote the text to accompany the extant twenty-five water colour paintings of birds by Henrik Gronvold.

Correspondence with K.A. Hindwood (Sydney), 18 April 1950 - 11 September 1950 (File Z 89 fS (a))

Re the connection between the Watling and Lambert collections.

Includes:

K. Hindwood to F. Sawyer, 18 April 1950

F. Sawyer to K. Hindwood, 29 April 1950

K. Hindwood to F. Sawyer, 13 June 1950, re including determination of Lambert drawings and equivalent in Watling.

F. Sawyer to K. Hindwood, 12 July 1950

K. Hindwood to F. Sawyer, 18 July 1950

K. Hindwood to F. Sawyer, 19 July 1950

F. Sawyer to K. Hindwood, 31 July 1950

K. Hindwood to F. Sawyer, 11 September 1950

Original drawings of Australian birds in the Lambert, Latham and Watling collections. (6p), 1950 (File (b))

Arthur Wilson Parrott (Nelson, NZ), 23 September 1954 (File)

Re his work on Systematics of Australian and New Zealand Ichneumonidae.

Arthur Wilson Parrott, 29 September 1955 (File)

Re location of Haliday's type of Rogas tricolor at National Museum of Ireland.

John V. Peters (Brisbane), 13 January 1965 (File)

Re trip to Cairns collecting butterflies.

Manuscript notes on shells of the genera Cypraea, Amphidromus and Olivella, c.1915 (File)

(302p. index)

Includes references to Australasian and Pacific species; gives description, measurements, location.

Manuscript catalogue of the T.L. Taylor shell collection: with additional slips in hand of G.B. Sowerby. (438p. and 247p.), n.d. (File)

Index.

Includes references passim to Pacific Area. Arranged by genus giving location.

Notebook recording mammals studied in museums abroad (131p. index), c.1882-1924 (File)

(Mammal notebooks 6)

Includes notes on Australian and Pacific animals in European museums and notes on museums in Brisbane, and Perth.

Two manuscript notebooks giving localities for his collection of birds [and insects] in the Malay Archipelago, 1855 - 1861 (File)

(179 + 92 p; 64 + 98 p)

Includes description and measurements of specimens. (A variety of inks and pencil have been used)

Manuscript notebook containing critical comment on report of Challenger Expedition, 1895 (File)

With summarised details of Sir James Ross dredgings from Baffin Bay and Antarctic Sounds. 35p with inserts, and p.6 of separate paper. (In pencil and ink).Includes transcription of page between 32-33.

Series b) Z 89 qW. Pencil sketches of whales, dolphins and seals with MS notes made by E.A. Wilson in British Antarctic on the Terra Nova expedition, 19 June 1910-4 January 1911; 1958

Includes:

Diary 19 June 1910 - 4 January 1911 44p and 13 pages of sketches.

At back daily note of ships position.

Land of 'Parrots': wild life in the frozen wastes of Antarctic by P F Mills, Eagle Annual 1958 p50-52 re Wilson's sketches.

C.A. Wood (Suva) to 'Folks', 12 November 1923 (File)

Contains ornithological notes of voyage Fiji, Australia, New Zealand (35 p)

(cyclostyled)