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Combined index to The Royal Society Collection
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Art Collection
Draft report and list of works in the Royal Society Art Collection. Including information on acquisition.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Miscellaneous administration files
Miscellaneous collection of files. Includes annual reports, administration, financial affairs, library, medals and some Northern Branch files.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Library Accession Register
Collection consists of Library accession register's, record of individuals and institutions receiving copies of 'Papers & Proceedings' and other publications and other material relating to the library of The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Bequests and Memorial Funds
Gift and bequest correspondence, establishment, history and rules as well as individual bequests
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Northern Branch Records
Records of the Northern Branch of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes general correspondence and financial records, council papers, publications, lectures, excursions and other material
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Donations and Accessions
Miscellaneous records concerning gifts and purchase of items, for various sections of the Society.
Engraved mounted print carried as a despatch in 1970 on the Barquentine "Regina Maris" to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the voyage made by Captain Cook and newspaper cutting on the sale of Cook's log book and journal.
Engraving by W. Hall, from the painting by Nathaniel Dance (1776), printed by Fisher, Son &Co., with facsimile of Cook's signature. Printed about 1820.
Nathaniel Dance
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Financial Records
Financial records of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes ledger accounts, receipts and expenditure, audited balance statements etc.
The Royal Society of Tasmania
Miscellaneous items collected by the Society on various subjects including Egyptian wheat, fungus grub, Hobart floating bridge, Bruny Island, Dunrobin Bridge, Army & Barracks, excursion notes etc.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Museum
Miscellaneous documents, visitor book and list of paintings
Collection of theatre and concert programs dated 1911 to 1966 also notes and photographs relating to Faulkner's Cottage, Claremont Tasmania.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Botanical Gardens
Collection consists of accounts for the sale of plants, receipted bills and detailed expenses, visitors books, work books, notebooks and administrative papers. See also entries in Council meeting minutes.
The Royal Society of Tasmania
Scrapbook of Theatre programmes
Scrapbook of Theatre programmes - news clippings dated 1949 - 1959. News clippings relating to the reconstruction of the Theatre Royal, programmes for plays, concerts, etc.
'The Theatre Royal: a brief history' 1837 - 1948, collected by Mrs. Olive Burns, at one time acting president of the Hobart Repertory Theatre.
Olive Burn
'The Tasmanian Aborigine' by Owen Reid, School House, Bridgewater, Tasmania.
Typescript (never published) includes chapters 1 - VI II, Introduction, 30 figures and map, plates 2, 6-10.
Owen Willaim Reid
Collection consists of notes, photographs and scrapbooks of Tasmanian music and drama, theatrical figures and events. Including the International Exhibition of 1894 and meeting minutes for the Tasmanian Tourist Association
Eric Dudley Babington Horton
Collection consists of of notes on various aspects of the history of Tasmania and drafts of articles, written mainly between 1935 and 1951, some for The Royal Society of Tasmania Papers & Proceedings
Wilfred Hugh Hudspeth
Mrs Charles Meredith : a biography
MA. Thesis, University or Melbourne, 1950. Titled "Mrs Charles Meredith: A biography", by Joan H. Buchanan.
Joan Buchanan
Miscellaneous single items received from various donors.
Material relating to Mrs. Mary Ann Cox who ran a coach service between Hobart and Launceston
Mary Ann Cox
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings c. 1930 to 1950. Cuttings, formerly in 'information' file, arranged
in alphabetical order of subject. mainly from the 1950s, but also some earlier cuttings.
Hobart Maternal & Dorcas Society
Minute books, correspondence, reports and account books of the Maternal & Dorcas Society Hobart
Hobart Town Maternal & Dorcas Society
Collection consists of scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and other ephemeral material created, collected and collated by Sarah E.E. Mitchell over her lifetime.
Sarah E.E. Mitchell
Collection consists of historical documents, personal and official papers
Ernest Clark
'The camouflage of aerodromes with notes on some technical methods'. From the office of the Technical Director of Camouflage, Camouflage Section, Canberra, A.C.T.
Marked: 'Secret, copy No. 51'
Technical Director of Camouflage
Draft assessment roll for municipality of Glenorchy and reminiscences of T.J.M. Hull, 1940, about the 'Great Flood' of Glenorchy in 1872
Hull Family
Collection consists of five volumes of press cuttings and notes relating to Hobart history, buildings and hotels.
Nathan Oldham
Photocopies of National Trust Acts (U.K.), dated 1907 & 1937
Collection of material relating to the Boer War, federation and parliament. Also includes material relating to the Royal visit to Tasmania in 1901. These papers consist of official circulars, invitations and programmes.
John Stokell Dodds
Miscellaneous Tasmanian Newspapers
Collection of Tasmanian newspapers including, Colonial Times, The Independent, The True Colonist, Tasmanian Trade Circular, Derwent Star, Hobart Town Punch, Tasmanian Punch Preview, Tasmanian Punch, Railwayiana and 'Happy Thwarts '; 'The Derwent Trumpeter'
An incomplete descriptive loose leaf list of fishes by an unidentified author also 42 ink drawings or diagrams of fish.
Small notebook, roughly entered in pencil used on the Discovery Mawson Antarctic expedition, 1929, by M. H. Moyes to note details on stores and packing in holds, including such items as clothing, balaclavas, oil skins, snow-shoes, boots, equipment, instruments, etc.
and notes of use and issues of items.
Morton Henry Moyes
Collection of newspapers including Tasmanian Illustrated Mail, Illustrated Australian News, The Australasian Sketcher, The Australian, The Bathurst Times and The Goldfields Hiring Chronicle.
Furneaux Islands Aboriginal Settlement
Collection of papers regarding Aboriginal settlement, genealogical tables and mutton bird industry on Cape Barren Island and Furneaux Islands. Includes a handwritten article entitled "The Furneaux Islands, their early settlement and some characteristics of their inhabitants"· by Edward William Stephens, State School teacher.
Edward William Stephens
Six volumes of manuscript notes and drawings on Tasmanian plants, with some enclosed correspondence with F. von Mueller and other well-known botanists.
Leonard Rodway
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Sections and Committees
Correspondence and other related material associated with Historical and Geographical Section, Physical, Mathematical & Chemical Section, Medical Section, Education Section, Anthropology Section and Botanical Section
Collection of photographs and transparencies of the erection and unveiling of the Tasman Memorial, Prince of Wales Bay, 1923. The expedition to erect a memorial was led by J. Moore Robinson and included
John Reynolds who took the photographs.
John Reynolds
Newspaper article on Robert Mather, 1922, 1923 and undated notes by Charles Meredith copied by Mr. Walker, on biography of Francis Cotton, Gilbert Robertson, William Kermode, Thomas Mason, Dunn family, John Swann, Charles Meredith himself, etc.
Charles Meredith
Letters, diaries and miscellaneous documents relating to both Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin. Many of the papers are only copies (some with omissions). not original, as, according to Rawnsley, after Lady Franklin's death her niece and companion, Sophia Cracroft, selected some papers for publication and had illegible ones copied or extracted and the originals were destroyed. The copies or extracts have been corrected and edited.
John Franklin
Notes in aid of a history of the early days of Tasmania by R. W. Giblin, made c.1923
Including copies of records of Van Diemen' s Land 1803 - 1818
Ronald Worthy Giblin
Tombstones in St. David's cemetery
Typed list of tombstones in St. David's cemetery, Hobart (St. David's Park) dated 1922
St. David's Cemetery
Copies of tracings made in 1917 from old Government plans of the Port Arthur Convict Settlement, mounted on canvas and bound (by Walch's). Photographic copies of tracings, possible made later. The original tracings were stamped "P.W.D. traced 1917", with a number. The copies are not coloured, although descriptions refer to "parts shaded red", etc. Includes military barracks, penitentiary, model prison, block plan of the settlement, Port Arthur church etc.
Letters received by the Stokell family 1844-1910. Letters and copies of letters to the Stokell family, including a copy of a letter from bushrangers Martin Cope, Alexander Reid, John Reubens & James Prendergrass to George and Miss Stokell 1844 and 2 letters from E. H. Scott (1909, 1910). Also printed Poems and hymns by E. H. Scott undated.
Stokell Family
Scrap book of news clippings dated 1909 to 1910 relating to defence and armed forces.
Box pIan of the Palace Theatre, Elizabeth Street, Hobart, upstairs. Undated. The Palace Theatre was opened around 1914 and was closed November 1925 when it was converted into retail use by H.E. Round. In later years it was occupied by Wales Travel Service and by 1981 it was a bank. It was demolished and a new building was erected on the site. In 2016 an new development was approved Designed by Jaws Architects, the Palace Hotel takes its name from the Palace Theatre, which stood on the site for much of the twentieth century
Collection consists of personal papers, diaries, lecture notes and lantern slides
John Watt Beattie
Collection consist of copies of historical manuscripts and some original manuscripts, press cuttings and notes.
John Watt Beattie
Track Notes from the Weekly Courier
'Track notes' by H. H. Scott, being pages from the Weekly Courier, containing 'The Wallaby 'track' by 'Bluey’ dated Saturday April 18 1903 to 26 December 1907
Also includes 2 loose pages dated 23 November and 3 December 1914; and photograph
from Weekly Courier of harvest scenes & Launceston Museum (new section) 14 January 1908)
Herbert Hedley Scott
Notebook kept by Percy E. O. Carr while on a tour of Tasmanian tin and gold mines, c.1905, with additional
notes added in 1907
Percy E.O. Carr
Documents relating to William Harris or Harrison including army pay book and personal certificates
William Harris
Collection of miscellaneous Australian newspapers: The Record (King Island), Melbourne Advertiser, Commonwealth Gazette, The Colonist, N.S.W.
Letter from Joseph Milligan, from London, to Thomas Giblin, dated 19 Jan. 1861 Refers to jewellery, Fingal gold, exhibitions, etc. also a letter from M.A. Giblin to Sir James Agnew enclosing the above letter. 25 April (1901)
Thomas Giblin
Correspondence with Archdeacon Whittington concerning the formation of a branch of St. George's Society,1900.
Royal Society of St George
Collection of letters and documents presented to the Tasmanian Museum
Launceston & Western Railway Company
Notes relating to the history and finance of the Launceston and Deloraine Railway prepared by Robert M. Johnston, Government statistician in 1899 in response to a request from Hon. William Moore, M.L.C., Chief Secretary and Registrar of Records.
Robert Mackenzie Johnston
James Backhouse Walker Collection
Collection consists of notes and draft articles also a large collection of newspaper clippings regarding Tasmania
James Backhouse Walker
Letters and photocopies of documents regarding Gunn's involvement with convicts and bush rangers and as a police magistrate
William Gunn
Autograph albums and some correspondence
James Wilson Agnew
Two newspapers - Fiji Times, dated 6 & 10th of January 1877 and The Bulawayo Sketch dated 21 July 1894. Mock cyclostyled paper on a fold of account ruled paper - humourous sketches and adverts.
Note ms. at top 'Byrne (6 )'
Hobart Town Turkish Bath Company
Collection of meeting minutes, directors meetings and share register for the Hobart Town Turkish Bath Company
Hobart Town Turkish Bath Company
Letters from Molesworth Jeffery to his sisters Susanna and Catherine (Kate) in U.K. , small water colour of Burnbank Homestead and photographs of St. George's Chapel, Lachlan, and Richard Piggott, Lord Viscount Molesworth.
Molesworth Jeffery
Letter from R. D. Blackmore [Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) English novelist, author of Lorna Doone] to Mannington Caffyn, on the origin of the title 'Cradock Nowell'. 18 February 1890.
Also letter from E. A. Nowell to Mr Morton [secretary of Royal Society of Tasmania] enclosing Blackmore's letter.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Sale of Crown lands at Carnavon
Papers regarding the 1889 sale of Crown lands at Carnavon. Notice, particulars and small plan of land for sale at Carnavon [Port Arthur]
Certificate of award of 2nd class medal to Tasmanian Executive from the Paris exhibition of 1855 signed by Napoleon Bonapart. Photographic copies of Certificates of award from Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions to James G. Moir of Hobart for lead shot, 1879 & 1880-1881 & plan of Melbourne Centennial Exhibition 1888
William & John Clark Family Papers
The William and John Clark Papers are a record of a settler family in Tasmania. They include papers concerning the management of the Cluny property, a few papers relating to Bothwell and John Clark's correspondence concerning his work as a magistrate. There are also letters to John Clark from William Barnes (1791 ?-1848). brewer of Launceston, 1829-1839; Matthew Curling Friend of Newnham, Port Officer
at George Town, 1833-1841, and from Charles Arthur (1808-1884), nephew of and Aide-de-Camp to Lt.
Governor George Arthur, 1827-1829. There are also letters from British army officers' wives and daughters addressed to Jane Clark. Also included are papers relating to the Weston Family, Ann (neeClark) and William Pritchard Weston
William Clark
Log book of schooner 'Malcolm'
Log book of schooner 'Malcolm', master Walter Langworthy. An official printed form Board of Trade log book, but it contains no entries except a list of crew and a report of the death of the First Mate, James Roper, from a fall at Port Jackson.
Walter Langworthy
File of first newspaper published at the town of Waratah, Mt. Bischoff. Waratah Weekly News, 19 March 1881 to 21 May 1881. Manuscript, duplicated by 'centigraph'
Miscellaneous papers and photographs of the Murray and Archer families. Includes some Archer architectural plans, photographs of Circular Head, Tasmania area and collection of carte de visite of unknown subjects by various Tasmanian and Australian photographers.
Robert Lathrop Murray
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Anglo-Indian officiers settling in Tasmania and Colonel Crawford's 'Castra' settlement
Andrew Crawford
Collection consists of various Walker Mill records including ledgers, sales journals and day book. Also included is a cashiers day book for the Derwent Bank. John Walker was the liquidator of the bank.
John Walker
Collection consists of shipping papers and bills dated 1848 - 1877
Captain William Walker
Collection includes letters and cards relating to government house, scrap book of newspaper cutting and a bound volume of Aboriginal vocabularies
James Erskine Calder
List of Tasmanian fish by M. Allport (n.d. c1870-1876)
Includes also "List of Tasmanian fish sent to Dr. Gunther, British Museum, per ship "Windward", March, 1874" ; List of Tasmanian
saltwater fish sent to the Royal Museum of National History, Brussels by Mr. Morton Allport, March, 1874" ;"Dr. Gunther's list 2nd
collection", and letters :-British Museum 12 Oct., 1872 ("thank you and Mrs. Meredith for ... 6 plates of Tasmanian fishes. I return them as requested ..." ; 2 May, 1875, report on fish received - a salmo trutta taken in Derwent estuary, having "in its stomach eight anchovies, a diet which will account for the rapid growth of salmonoids in your waters but which will not improve the flavour of their flesh", surprised that Tasmanian anchovies not yet turned to same use as in Europe; whip-tails - macronurus Novae Zelandiae : 8 Apr., 1876 : further report on collection sent - included new genus (No. 18 in list: "No local name. See 40 in book and drawing by Mrs. Allport.
Morton Allport
Rating list for Hobart torn out of Hobart Town Gazette 1875 - gives owners, occupiers, rateable value, street by street.
Hobart Town Gazette
Catalogue of Tasmanian insects
Catalogue of Tasmanian insects, Tasmanian Museum, Hobart Town, 1875. Manuscript catalogue: number, name and place (all Brighton) in notebook (octavo) Name E. D. Swan?' written in pencil inside cover.
Two volumes of meteorological observations made by Dr. Story at Kelvedon, Great Swanport and letter from patient M.A. Wilson, of Swansea.
George Fordyce Story
Franklin Papers: Sir John & Lady Jane
Letters and addresses of Sir John & Lady Jane Franklin
John Franklin
Two letters dated 1873 relating to a testimonial for Dean Cox - one from Charles Du Cann from Government House
Frederick Holdship Cox
Log book of the schooner "Lavinia"
Log book of the schooner 'Lavinia' on a voyage from Sydney to the Solomon Islands, August 1872 to July 1873
Neil Brodie
Minutes of meetings of the Devon Permanent Committee dated July 1862 - 1872. Relating to a proposed tramway from Ulverstone, annual races at Ulverstone, etc.
Minutes of a musical society known as the Orchestral Union (originally proposed as the Symphony Society) including musicians' and singers dated 1866 to 1872
Royal warrents of appointment of Francis Smith as attorney general and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Francis Smith
Charles Goodfellow: Apprentice Indenture
Apprentice Indenture for Charles Goodfellow, dated 20 Sept. 1870. Indenture of apprenticeship of Charles Goodfellow, son of Robert Goodfellow of Hyler, Co. Cornwall (U.K.), to William Henry Lean of Falmouth, master shipwright, to serve for seven years from 3 November 1863 (sic) Endorsed with certificate of satisfactory completion.
Charles Goodfellow
Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw
Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw dated 7 July 1869 to William Boyer about the 'Castra' settlement - "I think that a society of gentlemen at Castra would do much to establish a sound tone of feeling and manners through the island". He also describes
his own home 'Deans Point' La Trobe, formerly a coal mine and good dairy land.
Michael Maxwell Shaw
Richmond Police Magistrates Court
Material relating to the Richmond Police Magistrates court fr the period 1827-1868, includes cases of debt, plaints, writs and notices from muster master
Collection of material relating to Pearce's time at Somerset House School, diary of his time as an apprentice and ships log of the "Wild Wave" from when he was captain. Also photograph of the Wild Wave
William Alfred Pearce
"Notes taken in the Long Course" 1866 - 1867 :Notes on field artillery, construction of bridges, batteries, field kitchen, etc. with sketches, by Lt. William Vincent Legge (1846-1918)
William Vincent Legge
Publication entitled 'Salmoniana,' by Barri Couta(pseud.)m June 1866. Humorous verse and sketches concerning the arrival of salmon ova in Tasmania. The names of the commissioners and others have been noted on the sketches in this pamphlet which includes advertisements printed by J. Walch & Son.
Salmon Commissioners Tasmania
Collection of committee minutes, accounts and admissions register for St. Mary's Hospital, Hobart.
St. Mary's Hospital
Collection of correspondence and documents relating to family and real estate
George Thomas William Blamey Boyes
Paybooks of two seamen: Dennis Dogherty of the ' Aurora ', page recording payments torn out, no date and John Clarke, of the 'Lady Kennaway' number 3099, 1862 - 31.12.1862. Booklets in a small metal protective case.
Dennis Dogherty
Letter book and insurance policy belonging to Henry Jacob Hookey of Longford, solicitor, admitted in 1839, and practiced In Launceston, Tasmania.
Henry Jacob Hookey
Presentation of colours to the Buckingham rifles dated May - October 1861.
File of papers concerning the presentation of colours and a bugle to the Buckingham Volunteer Rifle Corps, by the ladies of the county; including subscription lists, receipts for payments to the designer of the flag, to the carpenter for erecting a platform, etc., invitation, letter from Lady Young, from Entally, agreeing to make the presentation addressed to the secretary of the (Ladies) Committee Arthur Kennard Chapman
Buckingham Volunteer Rifle Corps
Daily journal of the Bothwell Police Office for 1829-1830 and Cumberland electoral roll for 1860
Miscellaneous Convict and Legal Material
Material relating to convicts including returns and orders, medical certificates, also records, pardons, completion or remission of sentence, warrants and miscellaneous notes.
Insurance averages dated 1857 to 1860
Notes on averages for insurance of ships and cargoes, made by Thomas May Evans, including accounts of voyages, valuation, losses etc. of ships:
• Brig Mary Clarke (A. Avery, master) on voyage from Newcastle, N.S.W. to Melbourne,
• 'Caroline'(John Robertson, master), voyage from V.D.L. to southern Wale fisheries.
• Ann Gales, with sugar from Mauritius to Hobart Town Schooner
• Tamar (Tregurtha, master), V.D.L. to Victoria
• Schooner 'Louisa' - salvage loss (Walter M. Robertson, master)
• Dark (Henry Sansom, master), Hobart to Port Philip Australasia with wool, Hobart to London (Connol, master)
• Dark (Jasper, master) Hobart to Port Philip
• Brigantine Macquarie (A. Graves, master), Hobart to Port Albert
• Circassian (Napper, master) - salvage loss.
• Scotia, London to Port Philip
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of George Meredith
George Meredith
Photocopies of documents relating to the Irish political prisoners, 1851 - 1859
Boyes: Diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes
Collection consists of handwritten diaries and personal family correspondence. The Boyes diaries are detailed and include waspish comment on his contemporaries. His letters to his wife are also informative.
George Thomas William Blamey Boyes
Rev. Archibald Macarthur Papers
Papers of the executors of Rev. Archibald Macarthur a Presbyterian minister who returned to England in 1836 leaving his affairs and three of his children, Mary, Henry William and John, in the care of trustees and guardians, namely John Walker, Henry Hopkins and John Geiss. The eldest son, Archibald, accompanied him to England where he apparently died before his father, who died in January 1847. Macarthur's will, made in 1836, left his property to be divided between his surviving children on reaching the age of 21. The guardians were named as executors and trustees. Collection consists of legal papers including appointment of trustees, will & property trusts also included are some miscellaneous papers of John Walker of John Walker & Son, Barrack Street, Hobart, manufacturers of fine flour.
Archibald Macarthur