Botany, Māori

Date: [1906-1980]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-002

Description: Letters from a variety of people, mostly relating to McEwen's work and interests. Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letter to Erik from Remuera re periodicals and publishing; letter re origin of word pakeha from Rotorua; extract from the `Economist' re a `new Maori war' (1863); letter from A H Turnbull to S P Smith re Mr Macdonald's voting paper (1906); additional material on Ngarimu from R T Kohere; letter to Gordon Wasson re Maori fungus, words re excrement, thunder etc; notes on Tamatea's lizards by R T Batley; letter, Enid Tapsell, to JPS re kumara; correspondence relating to Foss Leach's Skinner Fund grant. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-301

Description: Maori vocabulary giving names of vegetation and their corresponding botanical names. Correspondence with the Department of Lands and Survey about a letter of complaint by J W A Merchant, Chief Surveyor, Wellington, 1889-1890; and about landless Maori of Ngatimaru (and the related Purangi Landless Natives Bill of 1909). Various handwritten notes: note contributed by an Aopouri [Aupouri?] Maori about Kaimatangi, of Three Kings Islands, an early voyager to Sydney; a note about a large ancient cedar log seen at the Chatham Islands in 1868; a note about the road built by the `Dromedary' crew ca 1820; a note about Maori traditions of Lake Waikaremoana; a note about a eighteenth-century battle between Waikato and Ngati Raukawa; and other notes relating to his books. Other Titles - Purangi Landless Natives Bill Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1871-1918

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MSX-8836-8839

Description: Bishop Williams' working copy of T F Cheeseman's Manual of the New Zealand flora (Wellington, 1906) presented by the author; accompanied by notes, photos and specimens; notebook listing Maori names of plants; and letters from Cheeseman and J D Hooker, on museum-related as well as botanical topics Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Manual of the New Zealand flora Arrangement: MS-2444-2447 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter (27cm, illustrated, in red box)

Date: [1880]-1922

By: Williams, Herbert William, 1860-1937

Reference: MS-Group-1020

Description: Comprises two listings of Maori botanical species with their Latin equivalents where known or record of type of vegetation; notes by Williams and various people; and inward letters to Williams Language - Some notes and letters in Maori Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further collections of Williams papers, particularly MS-Papers-0190, donated by Ms Williams in 1962 Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: [1880-1900]

From: Williams, Herbert William (Bishop), 1860-1937 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-7173

Description: Two listings of Maori botanical species with their Latin equivalents where known or record of type of vegetation Quantity: 1 folder(s).