Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Haast, John Francis Julius von (Sir), 1822-1887, Haast, Julius von (Sir), 1822-1887, Von Haast, Julius (Sir), 1822-1887

German explorer, geologist, writer and founder of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (1870). Married Mary Dobson in 1863. Haast is buried in the cemetery at Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, Christchurch. (See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1990, Vol 1, 1769-1869, p. 167-169)

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Manuscript

British Museum (Natural History), Palaeontology Library : Miscellaneous collections

Date: 1830-1964

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2767

Description: Selected correspondence and papers from various collections held by the Library, relevant to geology, paleontology and fossils in Australia and New Zealand Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993

Map

Homesteads in the Mackenzie Country. Unsigned, 1860. [ms map]

Date: 1860

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: MapColl-834.48ed/1860/Acc.3733

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 56 x 76 cm. Scale 1:80 000 Transfers: Ms from von Haast papers.

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: [Lake Rotoiti or] Mawhera iti. 6 May 1860

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-094

Description: View of the lake with mountains on the righthandside. Compass bearing added. Peaks numbered 401 & 402. Pages removed from sketch book. View with C-097-114 for full panorama Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Text in German and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet, 110 x 350 mm

Other

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Lake Wanaka from Wilkin's hills, 11 January ...

Date: 11 January 1863

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-002

Description: An extensive view from a high standpoint of Lake Wanaka and the surrounding mountains with Mt Aspiring and Black Peak indicated in the distance. No colouring other than the blue of the lake. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Black Peak; Mt Aspiring [ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink on paper, 162 x 774 mm.

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Russels Creek above Coalmeasure, Kowai. 10 N...

Date: 1861

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-146-1

Description: Lefthand section of a panoramic view of mountains with Kowai River in foreground, looking from south to north (right). Peaks are numbered 101 to 120. Ben More and Castle Hill Peak are identified. Righthand section is C-097-146 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title; Verso - centre - Kowai. Mt Torlesse. Big Ben Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 130 x 660 mm

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Section from Craigieburn Range across Waimak...

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-145

Description: Shows a cross sectional/panoramic view from Craigieburn Range to Puketeraki Bay (on right). Named features are: Craigieburn Range, Hogsback, branches of Bracken River, Broken Hill, Wimsing [?] Creek, No Mans Creek, Stevens Creek, Single Tree Hill, Blackwater Creek, Waimakariri, Puketeraki/Puketiraki Bay. Compass bearings and additional text beneath section. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 84 x 625 mm

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: [View from Mt William to the north]. 11 July...

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-100

Description: View from Mount William looking north-east towards Mount Frederick and Lyell Language - Titles Other Titles - Ansicht von Mount William auf Norden, die verschieden Flugsthaler zeigend. 11 Juli 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ansicht von Mount William auf Norden, die verschiedenen Flugsthaler zeigend. 11 Juli 1860; Verso - centre - Buller Thal von Mount William Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on sheet 110 x 370 mm

Manuscript

Fowler, Sir William : Semi-official papers

Date: 1884-1892

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Flower, William Henry (Sir), 1831-1899

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2843

Description: Selected correspondence relating to natural history in Australia and New Zealand Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1994

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: View from Mt Arthur of Karamea R[iver] [1863]

Date: 1863

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: D-007-004

Description: A distant view along the Southern Alps from a high viewpoint, looking towards the West Coast Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title; Further landmarks & compass points also inscribed in ink on image, recto Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on tracing paper, 138 x 850 mm Provenance: Haast collection, donated 1950 Donation: Von Haast family

Manuscript

Albert Gunther : Papers

Date: 1861-1911

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Gunther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf, 1830-1914

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2123

Description: Comprise selected letters between Gunther and others, mainly concerning zoological matters in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1990

Image

Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Otahuhill, 5 miles south of the Wanganui Riv...

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-096

Description: Profile of the mountain range five miles south of the Wanganui River. Compass bearings added Language - Titles Other Titles - Ansicht von Otahuhill 5 Meile sud von Wanganui River. 5 August 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - Ansicht von Otahuhill 5 Miele sud von Wanganui River. 5 August 1860; Verso - centre - Otahuhill Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pages glued together to form sheet 110 x 990 mm

Manuscript

Ramsay, Edward Pierson 1842-1916 : Papers

Date: 1862-1894?

By: Ramsay, Edward Pearson, 1842-1916

Reference: MS-Papers-0942

Description: Includes one typed copy of letter from Ramsay to H O Forbes. Also catalogue of New Zealand birds including some now extinct in the collection of Mr J C Firth at Mt Eden, Auckland, 1885; letters to Ramsay from New Zealand naturalists: J C Firth, H O Forbes, W A Graham, Sir J F J von Haast, R Henry, T J Parker and D Robertson re NZ natural history and specimens. Letter by W A Graham, 3 Jan [1867] describes conflict with Hau Hau at Omarunui on 12 Oct 1866 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Manuscript

Correspondence - Volumes 11 to 12 EGE to FOW

Date: 1883-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2275

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Manuscript

Correspondence - Volumes 24 (continued) to 26 SOE - WAK

Date: 1839-1886

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2281

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Other

Records

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.

Manuscript

Wedderburn, David (Sir), 1835-1882 : Diaries

Date: 1874-1875

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Wedderburn, David (Sir), 3rd Baronet, 1835-1882

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1968

Description: Very detailed diaries from 1 Apr 1874 to 19 Jan 1875 (volumes 4 and 5) describing voyage to Australia and travels there and in New Zealand., Describes his arrival in Auckland in Oct 1874 and his extensive travels through the North and South Islands, giving his impressions of places visited, his meeting with Sir George Grey, Anglo-Maori relations, and on Maori character culture and future; meetings with Von Haast, Rolleston and James Hector; New Zealand birds and wildlife; the Western and southern goldfields. A description of his movements in Australia may be found in the inventory. Also, a typescript account of the life of Sir David Wedderburn, by D A Percival. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP

Other

Artist unknown: [Dionysus. Italian bronze figurine, probably a souvenir of Pompeii, of ...

Date: 1850 - 1870

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand von, 1864-1953

Reference: Curios-029-011

Description: Identified as Dionysus from the grapes in the hair Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Bronze statuette screwed to circular bronze base 280 x 110 x 110 mm

Image

Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Map

[Geological sketch map, Waimakariri River to Rakaia, Canterbury, by Julius von Haast, 1...

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: MapColl-834.44caq/[186-?]/Acc.3230

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured, 65 x 82 cm. No scale

Other

Burnett, James, 1826-1872: Copy of letters and part of a diary of James Burnett who acc...

Date: 1860

By: Burnett, James, 1826-1872

Reference: qMS-0336

Description: Nelson settler Quantity: 1 volume(s) (22 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, ¼ grey cloth)