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Bell, Edward, fl 1791-1794 : Journal of voyage in HMS Chatham to the Pacific Ocean
Date: Jan 1791-Feb 1794
By: Bell, Edward, active 1791-1794
Reference: qMS-2071-2073
Description: Journal of the voyage of the Armed Tender, HMS Chatham, captained by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton. HMS Chatham was one of the ships under the command of Captain Vancouver in his exploration of the Pacific and of the North American coast. Describes the voyage from England via Cape of Good Hope to Australia and New Zealand; activity at Dusky Sound, the discovery of the Chatham Islands, the voyage to Tahiti, with descriptions of the inhabitants, and of the Bounty mutineers. The voyage to Hawaii, with a description of the islands and their inhabitants, followed by the voyage to Canada and the Californian coast, before returning to Hawaii. Bell gives full accounts of the places and inhabitants visited. Publication - See: `[The journal of Edward Bell] from the time of the Chatham's being put in commission till her departure from England', by Edward Bell and Charles H Read. Edward Bell was the Clerk aboard the HMS Chatham during Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific Ocean, 1790-1795. Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs & typed transcript Finding Aids: Detailed inventory of the journal available.. Provenance: Formerly in possession of Mr R T Pritchett. Purchased by A H Turnbull from Maggs Bros, London, 1908.
Collections MD 2320 - SLPS
Date: 1798-1939
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2725
Description: Selected records from the records and papers of Edgar Allen & Co, the Hall family, Mrs M A Rawson, Bernard Gray, George Hadfield, the Creswick family, the Needham, Veall and Tyzack papers, the Quaker records, the Sorby papers and the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society records Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020: Research notes relating to French explorers to New Zealand
Date: [1985-1994]
By: Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020
Reference: MS-Group-0078
Description: Translations and transcripts of manuscripts on French explorers in New Zealand including Adolphe-Pierre Lesson's botanical notes on the voyage of the `Astrolabe', (Astrolabe Harbour, Jan-Mar 1827); Lesson's medical report on the voyage of the `Astrolabe',(Toulon 3 Apr 1829); a report (Mar 1826) and instructions for Dumont D'Urville, Captain of `La Coquille' (re-named `Astrolabe') on his voyage of exploration, with a covering letter signed by Count de Rosily of the French Admiralty; report by Dumont d'Urville (Bay of Islands 14 Mar 1827) on the voyage of the `Astrolabe' and a report by Dumont D'Urville on possible sites for a colony in New Zealand. Also a transcript of pages 389-859 of Lesson's Journal Historique, the original of which is in the Bibliotheque Municipale de Rochefort. Electronic material of these transcripts and translations accompanied this material. Source of title - supplied title Material supplied by Isabel Ollivier for `Early eyewitness acounts of Maori life'; volume five. Quantity: 57 folder(s). 8 microfilm reel(s). 5 megabyte(s) textual material. 0.60 Linear Metres.