Cicadas

Date: 1967

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

Reference: A-304-004

Description: 11 drawings of activities of the Fleming family for the year 1967. This card includes 'January-February, cicada field work, South Island', a mountain scene with a tape recorder, a cicada on a rock and an insect trap; 'Oct-Nov. Whitebaiting (as usual)' written inside a circlet of whitebait; 'November (Jean), School certificate' showing books, a laboratory flask, the formula E = MC 2 [squared] and a long-playing vinyl record of Joan Baez; with a note below that 'And usual family flap about Christmas cards in November!'; 'Aug 19' an image of Charles Fleming being capped; 'Centennial headquarters appeal', an image of a modern building; 'I F U W, triennial conference, Auckland (Peg) August', showing the logo of the Federation of University Women; a horseshoe and riding crop marked 'Winter hunting (Jean)'; a wading bird; 'April (C. A. F.) Aberdeen, Oxford, London, nullis in verba, et nil sine verbis!' showing buildings of Aberdeen University and its Latin motto with Charles Fleming's addition; a UNESCO symbol; and 'Royal Society of N . Z. centenary - Oct 10' showing the Society's medal. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, black and white, 123 x 148 mm (folded)

Date: 1978

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: B-046-019

Description: Shows panels relating to cicadas, snorkeling, kokako, birdwatching, shells, geological histroy of New Zealand,visit to Cook Islands and Fiji, Native Forests Action Council, Dabchick family at Waikanae, Wandering tatler. Quantity: 14 drawing(s) and 10 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. Physical Description: Ink drawings, black and white, mounted on card, 355 x 528 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming of Wadestown, in 1993.

Date: 1806 - 1831

From: [Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Entomological drawings and plates, all collected and many drawn by William Swainson, with some drawn by John Abbot of Georgia]. 1806, 1807, 1831.

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-265-q-116

Description: Five pencil drawings of cicada body parts, possibly the head. Attributed to William Swainson. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 75 x 103 mm

Date: 1983 - 1984

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: B-046-022/023

Description: Verso shows collage of the Flemings' greeting cards for the years: 1951, 1954, 1957, 1966, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1977, and one for 1984 along with a family tree (descendants). Recto shows panels depicting events from the year 1983: Albatross at Taiaroa Heads, Daniel Solander, wading birds at Foxton, cicadas, vist to Greece, Santorini, Istanbul, Assisi, Sweden, Ravenna. Quantity: 11 drawing(s) and 2 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. 23 drawing(s) and 15 pieces of lettering stuck to verso of same board.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, ink drawings, and photocopies, black and white, mounted on card, 357 x 510 mm.

Date: 1968-1971

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

Reference: 87-208-108

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, cicadas and conservation issues particularly native forest conservation and the Save the Manapouri campaign. Includes correspondence about Fleming's suggestion that the Government purchase Little Mangere Island in the Chatham Islands to protect the birdlife. Letters selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1977

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: A-304-021

Description: Shows panels relating to kokako, black robins, shore plovers, blue ducks, cicadas, Chatham Islands, and camping at Motu. Quantity: 7 drawing(s) and 7 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. Physical Description: Ink drawings, black and white, mounted on card, 242 x 432 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming of Wadestown, in 1993.

Date: 30 Oct 1990

By: Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: OHColl-0154/1

Description: Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming was born in Auckland in 1917. Talks about her early childhood, family holidays in the Wanganui region, A.W.B. Powell, shell collections, fossils and Taranaki marine deposits. Describes the early days of the Geological Survey. Talks about the Fordell-Waverley region, Kai Iwi, coastal erosion, ornithology and R.A. Fowler at the Auckland Museum. Discusses early expeditions to outlying islands with Wilson, Stead and Buddle, the discovery of the Chatham Island robin, causes of its decline, Government rescue, the study of the robin population in New Zealand and the role of Alan Wutherspoon. Describes how interest began in the cicada, how sounds were worked out, recording them, the spread of species and the work of Tom Grant Taylor. Describes expeditions to collect specimens in the South Island, specimens from the Correspondence School, the identification of more species and John Dugdale's work. Talks about the campaign to save Lake Manapouri. Gives reasons for her wide range of interests, her urge to explore and enquiring mind and her shyness and preference for investigating alone. Talks about her musical life and the Wellington recorded music society. Interviewer(s) - Brian Busby Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available OHA-5880 agreement form and interviewee details only.

Date: 22 Jan 1988

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-145

Description: Male adult; distance 1m; Oparau, Te Kauri Park; background occasional faint bird calls; weather fine calm warm; recorded 1400 hrs. Biological name not traced, and may have changed. There are several native cicada species. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1720 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other see catalogue card - Insects. Search dates: 1988

Date: 15 Feb 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-124

Description: Male adults (2), male advertising calls, stridulating and wing clicking; distance 2m; York Bay garden; background motorcycle passing; weather cloudy mild, slight SE wind; recorded 1100 hrs. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1693 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other see catalogue card - Insects. Search dates: 1986

Date: 1806 - 1807

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Abbot, John, 1751-1840

Reference: E-265-q

Description: Numbers 001 to 061: life size watercolours of insects of Georgia, U. S. A., by William Swainson, with notes in his hand, some referring to Mr [John] Abbot; 080 to 106: watercolours of moths, probably by John Abbot; 062 to 079 and 107 to 153: chiefly pencil sketches of cicadas by William Swainson, with sketches and proof plates for his Zoological illustrations. Quantity: 130 drawing(s). 23 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: 130 originals, both pencil and pencil and watercolour; 23 art prints, both colour and black and white, various media, in 3 boxes 380 x 240 mm.

Date: Between 1960 and 1963

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8833

Description: Studies of insects, including the monarch butterfly, a stick insect, cicada (emerging from shell, and their eyes), a hedgehog, bees' nest in a tree, a bumblebee on a thistle, and a tortoise beetle. The rest of the slides on this sheet show wild flowers, many picked in posies, others in their natural sites by the road; followed by three birds' nests, two showing mossy nests. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Early 1900s to 1940s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-127

Description: Album of newspaper & magazine cuttings, black & white photographs, coloured illustrations, and written information about New Zealand fauna. Mostly on various birds of New Zealand including different varieties of birds of prey, perching birds (e.g. stitch-bird or hihi, tui, kingfisher or kotare, bell-bird or korimako), kakapo, kaka, kiwi, kuku (or wood-pigeon); penguins, shags, gannets etc. Other sections include illustrations and written information about the tuatara, whitebait (or inanga), New Zealand fish, New Zealand insects and butterflies, and 7 pages of musical notes (p 45-51) indicating the different sounds made by various types of cicada. There are several articles about William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, written after his death in 1940.

Date: ca1949-ca1955

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-01

Description: Skating on the Manorburn Reservoir in the early 1950s; two panoramas of Wellington City ca 1949; harvesting wheat, hay and potatoes; seabirds; maps of New Zealand, and a Goldie portrait of a Maori Woman; Hick's Bay, White Island, and an aerial view of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866-1989

From: Todd, Harry Jackson :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5578

Description: Photographs reflect Todd's activities as editor of `Valley news', a local body politician and as a member of local Wainuiomata organisations concerned with conservation and recreational matters Quantity: 291 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: These papers were handed to Wainuiomata Historical Society by the widow of Harry Todd (also deceased) with the intention they be passed to the Turnbull Library as requested by Harry Todd before his death.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8820

Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows Australian plants and insects; a view of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney; the ship Monowai leaving Sydney Harbour; views of the Taronga Park Zoo including giraffes, crocodiles, kangaroos, black swans and a koala; the Sydney observatory; further views of Sydney Harbour including Darling Harbour and the Sydney Heads, Manly from the sea, and the Harbour Bridge. The last two images show the Cotter Reservoir and the Cotter Dam near Canberra. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1806 - 1831

From: [Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Entomological drawings and plates, all collected and many drawn by William Swainson, with some drawn by John Abbot of Georgia]. 1806, 1807, 1831.

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-265-q-110

Description: Pencil drawing of a cicada with wings spread, including detail of body parts with enlarged drawing of the head, etc. Possibly drawn by William Swainson. Wingspan is 83 mm Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 85 x 117 mm

Date: 24 Jun 1993

From: Women in science oral history project

By: Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: OHInt-0624/4

Description: Interviews this scientist who describes herself as a `survey wife'. Recalls meeting her future husband Sir Charles Fleming, palaeontologist, ornithologist and conservationist, on an Auckland University Field Club outing. Describes how, as a survey wife, she went on field trips and helped with all aspects of the work. Describes her interest and work in geology when her husband was palaeontologist for the New Zealand Geological Survey. Discusses her own work on cicadas revising the New Zealand classification. Comments on the battle for young women wanting a life in science and the qualities of women scientists. Interviewer(s) - Paula Martin Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available OHA-3555 agreement form and interviewee details only.

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-167

Description: Track 1: Native cricket; track 2: Native cicada Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1751 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s).

Date: 1980 - 1985

By: Entomological Society of New Zealand; Hargreaves, Brian, active 1989

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-ESNZ-1980s

Description: All cards published by the Entomological Society of New Zealand, c/o 8 Maymorn Road, Te Marua, Upper Hutt. Four are dated 1982. Includes coloured cards: Three small butterflies: Common copper, long tailed blue, tussock butterfly [1983?] (2 copies) Monarch [1983?](2 copies) Tussock butterfly; Painted lady. Drawn by Brian Hargreaves. 1982 New Zealand coppers and blues: Rauparaha's copper; Boulder butterfly; Common blue. Drawn by Brian Hargreaves. 1982 Red admiral; Yellow admiral. Drawn by Brian Hargreaves. 1982 The largest migrant: Blue moon. Drawn by Brian Hargreaves. 1982 Two rare migrants: Lesser wanderer; Blue moon [1983?] Two endemic butterflies: Forest ringlet; Red Admiral Also includes sepia cards: Deinacrida rugosa Buller 1987 ... Stephens Island weta. Illustrated by D Helmore [1983] Hemideina crassidens (Blanchard 1851) ... Wellington weta. Illustrated by D Helmore [1983] [Insect looking through a microscope] / dh [1983?] Also includes black and white illustrated cards: Percnodaimon pluto (Fereday, 1872) ... Black mountain ringlet. Illustrated by D W Helmore [1983?] Maoricicada nigra nigra (Myers 1921) ... High alpine cicada. Illustrated by D W Helmore [1983?] Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, on cards folded to 150 x 106 mm. Provenance: Two undated cards donated by Anna Veritt, Wellington, in 2012.

Date: 1806 - 1831

From: [Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Entomological drawings and plates, all collected and many drawn by William Swainson, with some drawn by John Abbot of Georgia]. 1806, 1807, 1831.

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-265-q-122

Description: Pencil drawing of a cicada with wings spread, including small detail of body part on righthand side. Possibly drawn by William Swainson. Wingspan is 90 mm Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 107 x 53 mm