Naturalists

Date: 1882-1899

By: Brough, Jonathan, 1839-1927

Reference: qMS-0274

Description: Mainly daily accounts of government contract work on road-making, repairing and surveying. There are also notes on the geology and natural history of the area plus accounts of gold prospecting expeditions. Letters include several relating to contracts and one written to W L Buller on the flora and fauna of the Karamea River area Source of title - Supplied Brough was a contractor and naturalist, based in Nelson and the West Coast from 1866 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photoprint) (35 cm, ¼ green calf, green buckram case)

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2595

Description: Includes letter from Leonard Darwin to his mother, undated, in which he describes the voyage to Lyttelton on board the Merope. Darwin was travelling as a cabin passenger Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1867-1898

Reference: PAColl-7223

Description: Photographs of: the front of the second St Mary's Cathedral on Hill Street ca 1870; St Mary's ca 1880; Mantell and his son Walter in Mantell's garden with St Mary's behind it ca 1868; Mantell, John Buchanan, Mantell's son holding a croquet mallet and James Hector in Mantell's garden with St Mary's behind ca 1868; view from Mantell's garden of St Mary's on the right and two and three storey houses on Hill Street on the left ca 1890s; St Mary's ca 1890s; and Mantell next to a tree in his garden with another man and St Mary's above it ca 1890s. Photographer unidentified. The first church on the site was built in 1851. The second, with a tower and spire was built in 1867. Between 1880 and 1885 the spire was removed and the tower redesigned but it burned down in 1898. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart is the third building on the site. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1813, 1864-1912

By: Enys, John Davies, 1837-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-0670

Description: Inward correspondence from Sir James Hector and other naturalists with particular reference to New Zealand ferns, butterflies and moths and the fossil beds discovered by Enys on his Castle Hill Station, Canterbury; collection of autographs including a group related to Samuel Butler Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1771-1903

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2591

Description: Comprising selections from the papers of the astronomer William Gooch and voyage on HMS Daedalus to the Pacific 1791-1794; log of HMS Alligator on its voyage to Malaya and India 1823; papers of Lord Kelvin 1884-1903 re Roayl Society of NSW and metric system; diary of Sir James Stephen 1846, and letters from his brother, Sir George Stephen, describing Melbourne 1855; memoirs of Admiral Dicken re the Flying Squadron's voyage 1869-1870; Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 4-10 Mar 1849

By: Strange, Frederick, 1826-1854

Reference: MS-Papers-0976

Description: A naturalist's observations of a trip across the Canterbury Plains. Extract from supplement of `Sydney Morning Herald', 26 Jan 1850. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: [1874-1965]

By: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994

Reference: MS-Group-0549

Description: Comprises transcription by Fell of journal kept by Francis Hutchinson (1893-1900, 1949); four small notebooks of accounts by Hutchinson of trips to Aorangi mountains, Ruahine and Kaimanawa (1914), Tutira (1913), Kaweka and Puketitiri (1915, 1916); draft of `At Omatua's fireside', by Hutchinson (pub 1947), with several drafts of many chapters; `I must go hence, essays of a New Zealand naturalist', edited by Fell (typescript); small collection of letters from scientists including Haast, Hector and Suter; drawing of amphiura rosea by H F Delt; and miscellaneous papers Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s) (5 notebooks in one case folder; two other vols). 5 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Mrs R Fell, San Diego, California, Jan 1997 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two mounted photographs of Francis Hutchinson and several small photographs of Hutchinson family members.

Date: [ca 1905-1930]

By: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994

Reference: PAColl-5355

Description: These photographs relate to a larger collection comprising a transcription by Fell of journal kept by Francis Hutchinson (1893-1900, 1949); four small notebooks of accounts by Hutchinson of trips to Aorangi mountain, Ruahine and Kaimanawa (1914), Tutira (1913), Kaweka and Puketitiri (1915, 1916); draft of `At Omatua's fireside', by Hutchinson (pub 1947), with several drafts of many chapters; `I must go hence, essays of a NZ naturalist', edited by Fell (typescript); small collection of letters from scientists including Haast, Hector and Suter Hector, drawing of amphiura rosea by H Farquhar; and miscellaneous papers Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Purchase, 1996

Date: Dec 1915, Mar 1916

From: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994: Papers relating to Francis Hutchinson

By: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994

Reference: MSX-4558

Description: Journal kept by Francis Hutchinson of observations of journey to Kaweka and Puketitiri including White's Swamp Quantity: 1 volume(s) (one notebook). 0.13 Linear Metres. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two mounted photographs of Francis Hutchinson and several small photographs of Hutchinson family members.

Date: 1996

From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Papers

Reference: MSX-4678

Description: Copy of Natusch's published research on the Traill family with chapters on tracing the family and lines of descent, William Traill, Thomas Stewart Traill, William Acheson Traill, Selina Margaret Traill, Robert Trail, James William Helenus Traill, William Trail of Woodwick, George William Traill, Charles Traill of Ulva, Walter Traill of Ulva, Arthur William Traill of Ringaringa, Robert Henry Traill and Castherine Parr Strickland Traill of Lakefield. Also includes epilogue, appendices, sources and index. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (case folder).

Date: 1861

Reference: Eph-C-PEOPLE-Colenso-1861-01

Description: Notice announcing a reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or people who "besides stealing therefrom several articles, have wickedly and maliciously done a very large amount of damage in destroying Glass, Books, Writings, Natural History Specimens, Medicines, &c., &c." Ten pounds would be awarded on receipt of the information, and a further twenty pounds paid when the culprit was convicted. There follows text in Maori: "E ta ma, e nga Maori, titiro mai, ETORU TE KAU enei Pauna Moni hei utu mo te tangata e hopu ranei e whaka-atu ranei i te whanako nana i pakaru kino te toa a Te Kore-neho ki Waitangi" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 228 x 286 mm. Processing information: Former numbering: EMI 1378 NIW 356 (178696)

Date: 1940

By: Dunedin Naturalists' Field Club

Reference: Eph-A-ASSOCIATION-D-02

Description: Lists the office-bearers for 1940, the excursions and the indoor meetings. The rules of the club are on the back. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded card. Physical Description: Letterpress on card, 135 x 100 mm.

Date: 1846, 1878-1889, 1996

From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6038

Description: Comprises transcripts of correspondence between Charles (of Stewart Island) and Henry (of London) Traill, James Hector and A Gunther mostly re whale skeletons, including their shipment, but also about family matters (1883-1889), and background notes regarding these recently acquired letters of Charles Traill. Also copy of letter by Wohlers to the `Wellington independent' re wrong accusations against Topi and his people (6 Jan 1847). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Bell, Reginald, active 1975

Reference: OHInt-0231/14

Description: Interviewer(s) - Michael King Venue - Kawhia Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000317 ; OHLC-001443 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

Date: 1957-1964

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-25/3

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1882

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-05

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Wilhelm Haacke wearing a pince-nez. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom centre - (Approximately translated from German) To Mrs Von Haast with best wishes on her birthday Christchurch 21 January 1882 W Haacke Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Possibly from one of the Haast donations

Date: 1773

By: Darly, Matthew, -1781; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-038-022

Description: Caricature of Sir Joseph Banks. He is shown seated, dressed as a dandy, a butterfly net in his left hand, a pair of mounted butterflies in his right hand. The buttons on his jacket are made of snails and his hat consists of butterfly wings The term Macaroni derived from the Macaroni Club, to which the most dressy travelled gentlement-about-town belonged, and applied generally to any fop or dandy. There are three companions to this print, 'The fly-catching macaroni', Library ref A-038-021, and 'The simpling macaroni' ref A-042-015, one a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, the other of Daniel Solander. The verses accompanying the engravings allude to the visit made by Banks and Solander to the Arctic circle. A further engraving by Darly, 1772, (no copy held by the Library) is titled 'The botanic macaroni'. This also shows Banks, with plants The reference to Aurelian is to the Aurelian Society established in London in the mid-eighteenth century for collectors of moths and butterflies. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 157 x 114 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Maggs Bros, London, January 1916 for 7/6d

Date: [1945]

From: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994: Papers relating to Francis Hutchinson

Reference: MS-Papers-5858-1

Description: Various drafts of chapters for Hutchinson's book of essays published in 1947 comprising holographs and typescripts Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1772

By: Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798

Reference: MSY-6813-6815

Description: Microfilm print-outs of the original Latin manuscript of Descriptiones animalium by J R Foster, written 1772 Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Photocopy)

Date: 1987

From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6048

Description: Comprises final draft of `William Swainson' by Geoffrey Swainson and Natusch; copy for printer with annotations, corrections and inserts; and list of sources used Drafts of work published by the NZ Founders Society in 1987; Natusch was given a grant to facilitate research and publication Quantity: 1 box(es) (3 pieces in hollinger box). Copies of illustrations by Swainson, photographs of family, places, and many other drawings and reproductions