Bivalves

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Scharf, George Johann, 1788-1860

Reference: E-330-f-075-1

Description: Four drawings of a bivalve. Viewed from top and side, interior and cross section. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title in ink; Recto - bottom right - Artist and year in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 290 x 228 mm

Date: [ca 1950-1955]

From: A H & A W Reed: Collection

By: Dell, Richard Kenneth, 1920-2002; A H Reed Ltd

Reference: E-967-f

Description: Series of 149 original drawings for Dell's book 'Native shells', part of the 'Nature in New Zealand' series, published by Reed in 1955. As well as six drawings from page 7 of the publication, showing the parts of univalves and bivalves, 143 numbered drawings have been cut out and mounted on card in groups of three, in the same order as they appear in the book: 1. Paua. 2. Slit limpet. 3. Grooved limpet. 4. Shield shell. 5. Greenish top shell. 6. Spotted top shell. 7. Dark top shell. 8. Knobbed top shell. 9. Opal top shell. 10. Small opal shell. 11. Tesselated top shell. 12. Toothed top shell. 13. Large tiger shell. 14. Sun shell. 15. Cat's eye. 16. Cook's turban shell. 17. Circular saw shell. 18. Black nerita. 19. Encrusted limpet. 20. Black-edged limpet. 21. Radiate limpet. 22. Wheel shell. 23. Periwinkle. 24. Ridged conniwink. 25. Large horn shell. 26. Coiled worm shell. 27. Rissoina. 28. Smooth slipper shell. 29. Ribbed slipper shell. 30. Circular slipper shell. 31. Large ostrich foot. 32. Small ostrich foot. 33. Cask shell. 34. Turret shell. 35. Necklace shell. 36. Helmet shell. 37. Swollen triton. 38. Spengler's trumpet. 39. Large trumpet. 40. Violet snail. 41. Wentle-trap. 42. Taron. 43. Lined whelk. 44. Knobbed whelk. 45. Speckled whelk. 46. Mud whelk. 47. Southern siphon whelk. 48. Spiny murex. 49. Octagonal murex. 50. Large trophon. 51. Common trophon. 52. Oyster borer. 53. Dark rock shell. 54. White rock shell. 55. Southern volute. 56. Southern olive. 57. Broad margin shell. 58. Banded margin shell. 59. Notched tower shell. 60. Common auger. 61. Oval bubble shell. 62. Yellow bordered sea slug. 63. Sea butterfly. 64. Banded ear shell. 65. Large siphon limpet. 66. Mud snail. 67. Rock slug. 68. Ear shell. 69. Canoe shell. 70 and 70A. Butterfly chiton. 71. Snake's skin chiton. 72. Noble chiton. 73. Razor mussel. 74. Nut shell. 75. Large dog cockle. 76. Ark shell. 77. Ribbed window oyster. 78. Black edged mussel. 79. Ribbed mussel. 80. Hairy mussel. 81. Date mussel. 82. Nesting mussel. 83. Little file shell. 84. Rock oyster. 85. Scallop. 86. Fan scallop. 87. Grooved fan shell. 88. Horse mussel. 89. Nestling cockle. 90. Purple cockle. 91. Lace cockle. 92. Large wedge shell. 93. Angled wedge shell. 94. Round wedge shell. 95. Hutton's wedge shell. 96. Chevron shell. 97. Toheroa. 98. Pipi. 99. Tuatua. 100. Small trough shell. 101. Triangle shell. 102. Large trough shell. 103. Lance mactra. 104. Scimitar mactra. 105. Dosinia. 106. New Zealand dosinula. 107. Morning star. 108. New Zeland cockle. 109. Frilled Venus shell. 110. Ribbed Venus shell. 111. Oblong Venus shell. 112. Elegant Venus shell. 113. Rough Venus shell. 114. Strawberry cockle. 115. Pink sunset shell. 116. Little burrower. 117. Basket shell. 118. Deep burrower. 119. Rock borer. 120. Box shell. 121. Shipworm. 122. Tusk shell. 123. Common octopus. 124. Paper nautilus. 125. Arrow squid. 126. Rams horn shell. 127. Pale murdochia. 128. Glassy snail. 129. Large charopa. 130. Kauri snail. 131. Greenwood's rhytida. 132. Common wainuia. 133. Flax snail. 134. Native slug. 135. Common (or garden) snail. 136. Fresh water mussel. 137. Pea shell. 138. Spiny water snail. 139. Decapitated water snail. 140. Fresh water limpet. 141. Flat pond snail. 142. Left handed pond snail. 143. Fragile pond snail. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 149 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, cut out and mounted on card, varying sizes up to 225 x 278 mm.

Date: 1940-1960

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-029

Description: Descriptions of molluscs; `List of recent New Zealand marine molluscan genera not yet recorded from Wanganui Pliocence and Pleistocene'; handwritten account `Regional mapping of the Waitotara Valley section'; paper `Correlation of tertiary rocks of Australia and New Zealand committee' by J Marwick and F A Singleton Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1946

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-007

Description: A report by Fleming on records of recent brachiopoda dredged in the Southland fiords during the New Golden Hind expedition 1946 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1840 - 1845

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-210-q-040

Description: Four views a bivalve with captions and explanatory notes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 315 x 198 mm

Date: 1940-1960

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-200

Description: Three notebooks entitled Locality lists; Pectinibranchia [Epitonium] and Pelecypoda and Filobranchia (Anomia) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1840 - 1845

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-210-q-041

Description: Bivalve in situ (numbered `20') Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 202 mm

Date: 1948-1986

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-017

Description: Papers on bivalves; paper `Report on microfaunas associated with specimens of aturia' by H J Finlay; papers on the Parihauhau and other shellbeds; diagram of the sea floor crust at crest of rise; paper `The genesis of Horowhenua' by Charles Fleming and research notes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1843

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-210-q-040-1

Description: Specimen of a bivalve belonging to Mr Skipp Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 102 x 310 mm

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-293

Description: A dentist is holding a mirror up in front of his patient. The patient is horrified when he sees the dentist has cemented in bivalve shells instead of teeth. Extended Title - Sure, they look ghastly - but they never fall out! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1855 - 1865

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook pages including drawings by John Buchanan, prints by John Buchanan and drawings by William Swainson

Reference: E-209-q-013-1

Description: Shows the outside and inside of a bivalve shell, with a concentric line pattern on the outside. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 116 x 105 mm

Date: 1856 - 1890

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

Reference: E-207-q-007-2

Description: Top of a scallop shell viewed from above and back Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 132 x 110 mm