Forster, Raymond Robert, 1922-2000

Forster, Ray, 1922-2000

Arachnologist, zoologist, former head of the Otago Museum.

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Salmon album 9

Date: [Between December 1943 and February 1946]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-205

Description: Photographs from three expeditions in the Homer area, between the Upper Hollyford Valley and the Cleddau Valley, December 1943-January 1944; December 1944-January 1945; and the Homer Tunnel Museum Expedition in February 1946, all taken by John Tenison Salmon. Many of the photographs are landscapes, but others show native plants growing in the area. Two sequences show the damage caused by avalanches, one showing damage to bush and to a bridge in 1944; the others show damage from a major avalanche which buried the eastern portal of the Homer Tunnel which was under construction at the time (September 1945). Members of the first two expeditions include George Howes and Murray Smith, and Walter Reginald Brook Oliver and Ray Forster. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

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Salmon album 7

Date: [Between 1933 and 1958]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

Reference: PA1-q-203

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1933 and 1958. There are various sequences as follows: Museum trip to Lake Waikaremoana, December 1946; Holiday trip in 1937 which included Mohaka, Lake Waikaremoana and Urewera Country; Cass-Torlesse biological trip, February 1936; South Island trip, March 1939; and a Southern Lakes and Hollyford Valley trip in January 1940. The holiday trip in 1937 includes photographs of the Mohaka Viaduct under construction. At the beginning of the album a photograph shows Lake Waikaremoana after 21 years of deterioration due to state Electricity Department actions. This image was taken in January 1958, from approximately the same spot as one taken in February 1937. The Cass-Torlesse biological trip includes an image of "vegetable sheep" (page 48). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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Salmon album 12

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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Awards and honours

Date: 1964-1998

From: Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11376-35

Description: Correspondence and other supporting material for nominations for awards and honours for various people Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Forster, Raymond Robert 1922-2000 :The small world; the community life of small land an...

Date: 1976

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Forster, Raymond Robert, 1922-2000; Forster, Lyndsay McLaren, active 1976

Reference: B-131-13-078

Description: A booklet mainly illustrated with photographs. Includes a coloured cover and hand-drawn diagrams by Eileen Mayo. Library holds another copy at P J595 FOR 1976 Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset printing, 63 p, illlustrated, some coloured, coloured cover, stapled, 180 x 240 mm

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Forster, Raymond Robert 1922-2000 :The small world; the community life of small land an...

Date: 1976

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Forster, Raymond Robert, 1922-2000; Forster, Lyndsay McLaren, active 1976

Reference: B-131-13-078-a

Description: A booklet mainly illustrated with photographs. Includes a coloured cover and hand-drawn diagrams by Eileen Mayo. Library holds another copy at P J595 FOR 1976 Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset printing, 63 p, illlustrated, some coloured, coloured cover, stapled, 180 x 240 mm

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W Gregg & Company Ltd :Land birds of New Zealand. This series of picture cards has been...

Date: 1963

By: W Gregg & Company; Coombe, Michael, active 1960s

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-CARDS-Greggs-1963-01

Description: Booklet with 40 colour illustration cards of New Zealand birds (when complete), and text and monochrome illustrations. There is an introduction by R.R. Forster, director of Otago Museum. One copy complete; another with 38 of the 40 cards stuck in. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 137 x 225 mm. Provenance: Both copies donated by Ms Janet Horncy, Wellington, in 1996 and 2011.