Ornithologists

Date: 28 Sep 2006

From: Recordings relating to National Library Gallery exhibitions, events and promotions

Reference: OHInt-0894-02

Description: Mary McEwen, ecologist, writer and editor, talks about Sir Charles Flemming, New Zealand geologist, ornithologist, conchologist, and conservationist. Mary, Charles Fleming's second daughter, is author of "Charles Fleming, environmental patriot : a biography" (Nelson, N.Z., Craig Potton Pub., 2005). Although Harold Wellman is mainly remembered for his discovery of the Alpine Fault, this was only one of his many contributions to New Zealand earth science. A talk by geologist Simon Nathan who has written a biography of Wellman [Harold Wellman : a man who moved New Zealand (Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2005)] and covers some aspects of his career. Other Titles - Talks by Mary McEwen and Simon Nathan Other Titles - Harold Wellman - the man who moved New Zealand Recorded by - Sound Conservation Venue - Recorded in the National Library Auditorium Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - powerpoint slideshow. 1 event(s). 44 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available Powerpoint slideshow OHDL-000163. Search dates: 1916 - 1909 - 2006

Date: 1947-1949

By: American Philosophical Society

Reference: Micro-MS-0879

Description: Comprises journals of Robert Cushman Murphy and inventory of same Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory in Back file under Murphy.

Date: 1974, 1983-1984, 1989, 1994-1995

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

By: Totorore Expedition

Reference: Series-6161

Description: Chiefly colour transparencies taken in the 1980s by James (Jim) Watt during three separate birdwatching and yachting expeditions. Also two reports for voyages made by yacht 'Totorore' to Chile and Auckland and Antipodes islands. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Slides from reference numbers PA12-11102 to PA12-11106 (the first set of slides, as deposited) have been re-ordered by Library staff to bring sets of transparencies together and to best follow the path of the yacht 'Totorore' (as set out in the publication 'The Totorore voyage' by Gerry Clark). Due to time constraints the remainder of the 'Totorore' sequence is largely in the order in which it was deposited to the Library. Some sets relate to the descriptions of sequences on the boxes in which the collection was deposited, but others do not. Slides from PA12-11158 to PA12-11169 were re-arranged by Library staff according to the path of the yacht 'Matariki' (which travelled anti-clockwise around New Zealand, starting at Whangamata and first coming close to land at "the fiords at the bottom of the South Island" - information provided by donor) with images identified by the donor as being of "Milford Sound" being kept together. Where the location of the image is not known, slides have been ordered by subject (i.e. sunsets at sea, fishing boats, albatrosses, other birdlife). The final set of images of the World Wildlife Fund New Zealand trip to the Chatham Islands, reference numbers PA12-11170 to PA12-11179, arrived with a clear original order. This order was maintained. Quantity: 1890 colour original transparency/ies. 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides, mss, typescript, photographic prints

Date: 1979-1998

From: Secker, Hallam Leslie, 1923-1998 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6594-03

Description: Includes correspondence, printed matter, clippings and articles about Perrine Moncrieff Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 6 - 8 May 2009 - 06 May 2009 - 08 May 2009

From: Taiaroa Head oral history project

By: Robertson, Christopher John Rutherford, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0869-04

Description: Interview with Chris (Christopher) Robinson, born in 1941. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001022 - OHDL-001024 Quantity: 3 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s) over 3 days. 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1941 - 2009

Date: 1941-1993

By: Cunningham, John Melville, 1919-1992

Reference: MS-Group-1050

Description: Contains correspondence, arranged in alphabetical order, with organisations and individuals, some prominent in the scientific community, relating to Cunningham's interest in ornithology. Also field observations, registers of birds sighted, articles (some by Cunningham), notes, sketches and photographs all relating to ornithology. Source of title - Supplied Cunningham served as treasurer of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand Quantity: 151 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, photographs and printed matter Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - File box of theatre programmes - To Serials Collection - OSNZ news, 1976-1992.

Date: 31 December 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/4742-F

Description: Sir Charles Alexander Fleming (1916-1987), palaeontologist, ornithologist and conservationist, and his wife, Lady Margaret Alison Fleming (1917-2000), ornithologist, geologist and voluntary worker. Photograph taken 31 December 1976 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-556

Description: The six vignettes in this cartoon refer to the identification of unidentified flying objects. In the top left an astronomer with a telescope pronounces "Venus". In the top middle an ornithologist pronounces "flock of mutton birds". In the top right a pilot pronounces "squid boat lights". In the lower left a meteorologist pronounces "electrical bionospheric atmospheric cyclonic dynamic turbulence". In the lower middle a person peering from underneath a bed pronounces "bit of 'skylab' falling!" In the lower right a man relaxing in a deckchair says "if you ask me, these U.F.O.s are just another ploy of Muldoon's to divert the people's minds from his mis-handling of the economic situation". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 442 mm

Date: 1849

By: Maguire, Thomas Herbert, 1821-1895

Reference: C-016-005

Description: Three-quarters frontal seated portrait of ornithologist and ornithological artist John Gould Title takes form of Gould's signature Inscriptions: Signed: T. H. Maguire 1849 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 340 x 232 mm

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-:Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-296-146

Description: Shows a bird perched on a branch with the face of Warren Cooper. He has two missiles under his wings. Refers to Warren Cooper as a politican, to his perceived aggressiveness in relation to defence matters, and to his perceived stupidity. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 29 - 30 January 2009

By: Young, David Christopher, 1947-; Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013; Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: OHColl-1323-01

Description: Oral history interview with conservationist and recorder of native bird songs, John Kendrick, conducted by David Young from 29-30 January 2009. Commissioned by the Alexander Turnbull Library. See also John Kendrick natural sound history library and film collection, OHColl-0834. Quantity: 2 digital sound recording(s). Search dates: 2009

Date: 23 Nov 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8602-58

Description: N McCrostie (left) and Dr G B Orbell holding re-discovered takahe, 23 November, 1948. Photograph taken by G B Orbell, probably near where the birds were found: a glacial valley at the eastern end of the Murchison Mountains, between the Middle and South Fiords of Lake Te Anau, Fiordland, Southland. The takahe had not been seen since 1898 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11.7 x 15.9 cm

Date: [ca 1870]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-004505-G

Description: Seated portrait of Walter Lawry Buller. Photograph taken circa 1870 by William James Harding. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date from Ross Galbreath, Walter Buller : the reluctant conservationist ([Wellington, N.Z.] : GP Books, c1989). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative

Date: 1905

By: Cox, Walter A, 1862-; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Buller, Arthur Percival, 1866-1910; Buller, Walter Leopold, 1863-1918

Reference: A-087-012

Description: Shows Walter Buller, the noted New Zealand ornithologist in the robes of an honorary D. Sc. conferred by the University of Cambridge. Extended Title - Published in: Buller, W. L. Supplement to the History of the Birds of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Mount recto - "To A. H. Turnbull from W. Leo Buller and A. P. Buller" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 215 x 167 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull.

Date: 1830 - 1840

By: Harrison, George Henry, 1816-1846

Reference: G-499

Description: William Swainson seated at a table, leaning on a writing desk, writing with a quill pen, a dead parrot in front of him. He appears to be between his twenties and his forties and the painting must have been completed in London, before he came to New Zealand. Likely to have been painted after Swainson's visit to Brazil in 1817/1818 but may also have been painted as late as 1838/1839, when he was again working on a publication about exotic birds. The subject is shown with brown hair, but with a bald top. His face appears youthful. Other portraits suggest that he began to lose his hair relatively young. Mary Swainson (later Marshall) had her portrait painted in 1836 by G. H. Harrison. She mentions in a journal or letter that Mr Harrison also painted her father in oils. The suggestion that the artist G. H. Harrison completed this work comes from the family. Other original portraits in family hands are also said to be by this artist. William Swainson's son William John mentions that a large oil of his father painted by G. H. Harrison remained in England when the family came to New Zealand. Acccording to Sheila Natusch, Swainson's biographer, the "Victorian naturalist" mentions a watercolour portrait by Harrison of Swainson at Kew Gardens. Mary Swainson (daughter) mentions a portrait by Harrison of her father "in oil and very like". Without other examples of Harrison's work in oils for comparison it is not possible to be certain that this portrait is by Harrison. See Artists' File in Drawings & Prints for further information about portraits of William Swainson. Other Titles - Artist unknown. William Swainson 1830s? Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 894 x 692 mm (sight) Provenance: By descent through the Swainson family to James Anson of Wanganui