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Part of Alice Daisy Baker Collection
Xerox copy of an indexed book of press-cuttings, notes etc. about early history of Tasmania, incomplete
Alice Daisy Baker
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Part of Alice Daisy Baker Collection
Xerox copy of an indexed book of press-cuttings, notes etc. about early history of Tasmania, incomplete
Alice Daisy Baker
Stott's Technical Correspondence College
Part of Alice Daisy Baker Collection
Stott's Technical Correspondence College dated 1938-9. Lessons in story writing. Eleven lessons with exercises by Mrs Baker and comments and some miscellaneous exercises in writing.
Alice Daisy Baker
Collection consists of awards including a Royal warrant on parchment, an insignia for the Companion of the Order of St.Michael and St.George, photograph and various newspaper clippings of obituary.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 29 March 1887
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Oath of Allegiance signed by Bolton Stafford Bird on 28 January 1889 and signed by Governor R.G.C. Hamilton.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Appointment as representative of Tasmania at the Federal Council of Australasia
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as representative of Tasmania at the Federal Council of Australasia dated 20th November 1888
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Royal warrant on parchment, signed by Governor R.G.C. Hamilton. Appointment of Bolton Stafford Bird to Executive Council of Tasmania dated 29 March, 1887.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Appointment as representative to the National Australasian Convention
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as representative to the National Australasian Convention dated 24th Feburary 1891
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 12 October 1899.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Photo-zinco reduction of the Daily Telegraph 2 March 1891 containing portraits and biographies of the members of the Federal Convention, re-published as a supplement to the Daily Telegraph, Sydney dated 21 March 1891.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Notification from the Premier of Tasmania
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Notification from the Premier of Tasmania, C. Braddon, that Her Majesty had approved the retention for life of the title "Honourable".
Bolton Stafford Bird
Photograph of Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Studio portrait photograph of the head and shoulders of Bolton Stafford Bird taken in 1900 by Alfred E. Burrows, photographer of the Quadrant, Launceston.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Proof of Debrett entry for correction dated 1921
Bolton Stafford Bird
Obituaries of Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Various newspaper cuttings of the obituaries of Bolton Stafford Bird who died at his home on Bruny Island, Tasmania on the 15th December 1924.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Portfolio for Premiers Conference
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Empty leather portfolio for Premiers Conference, May 1902.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Part of Bolton Stafford Bird Papers
Legislative Council notice of regret at death of Bolton Stafford Bird dated 17 December 1924. Printed notice, signed by the President,
Tetley Gant and Clerk.
Bolton Stafford Bird
Photocopies of thirty letters written by Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon and published serially in The Calcutta Statesman & Friend of India, May to October 1878, describing life in Tasmania. entitled "A home in the colonies" also THRA article and reprint dated 1979 & 1980
Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon
Braddon's : A home in the colonies
Part of Edward Braddon Collection
Photocopies of thirty letters written by Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon and published serially in The Calcutta Statesman & Friend of India, May to October 1878, describing life in Tasmania.
Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon
A home in the colonies': Edward Braddon's letters to India from North West Tasmania 1878
Part of Edward Braddon Collection
Reprint of Braddon's "A home in the colonies" May - Oct. 1878 . Edited by Scott Bennett as "'A home in the colonies': Edward
Braddon's letters to India from North West Tasmania 1878" Tas.Hist. Research Assoc. Papers & Proceedings vol. 27 No.4 Dec. 1980
pages 119 - 216 (some parts omitted)
Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon
Part of Edward Braddon Collection
Article by Scott Bennett written in 1979 entitled Braddon in India and published in T.H.R.A. Papers & Proceedings; vol. 26 No.3 Sept. 1979 pp. 70-84
Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon
Trooper Blackburn's diary kept between 27 March 1901 and June 1902 while a member of the 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen's Contingent at the Boer War. He noted the voyage, weather, work with the horses, marches, casualties, camps and the return voyage.
Harvey Stanley Hyde Blackburn
Index to B14 - Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston : Accounts
Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston : Accounts
Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston, rough accounts or day book for items received for sale from printers, newspapers, clubs and some private writers, photographers etc. Enclosed: advice notes and bill.
Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston
Collection consists of letters and papers, miscellaneous items and photographs relating to Lawrence John Hayns and Thomas Edgar Burns
Lawrence John Hayns
Soldiers demobilization account
Part of Hayns & Burns Papers
Soldiers demobilization account dated ? 1918/19
Lawrence John Hayns
Part of Hayns & Burns Papers
Letter from J.F. Jones dated 1945 from Burnie. Mr J. F Jones was Inspector of Schools, amateur horticulturalist, amateur anthropologist and once associated with the mines at Beaconsfield Tasmania
Thomas Edgar Burns
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Publications
Publications issued by the Society
The Royal Society of Tasmania
verso-The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal
Produced in 1988 for the Joseph Banks Memorial lecture and features a bust of Banks, the H.M.S. 'Beagle' under sail, and flowers and a lizard.
Obverse: At centre within border of leaves and nuts, a bust of Banks facing 3/4 left; around, incuse, Sir Joseph Banks 1988 memorial lecture.
Reverse Description: At centre, within border of leaves, H.M.S. Beagle under sail away to right with flower behind and lizard below; around, incuse, THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA.
150 medals cast
The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal
Cast bronze medal produced by The Royal Society of Tasmania in 1988 to commemorate the Joseph Banks Memorial Lecture. It features a bust of Banks on one side, the H.M.S. 'Beagle' under sail, a banksia and a lizard on the other. It is number 43 of a limited edition of 150 designed by Tasmanian sculptor Stephen Walker.
Obverse: At centre within border of leaves and nuts, a bust of Banks facing 3/4 left; around, incuse, Sir Joseph Banks 1988 memorial lecture.
Reverse Description: At centre, within border of leaves, H.M.S. Beagle under sail away to right with flower behind and lizard below; around, incuse, THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA.
Stephen Walker
Draft of article by Eric Guiler
Draft of article by Eric Guiler for the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 43, no.3, September 1996 on the history of the Tasmanian Biological Survey. Titled 'Half a century before its time: the Tasmanian Biological Survey, 1936/ 83'
Tasmanian Biological Club
Tasmanian Biological Survey & Biological Club
Collection consists of minutes, correspondence and records and reports of the Tasmanian finding of an Australia wide biological survey conducted by Biological Club. A committee was established consisting of Pearson (chair); Prof. V V Hickman (University - Spiders); Dr 0 Martin (CSIRO- Botany); J W Evans (Dept. of Agriculture - Entomology); 0 Colbrum Pearson (Museum - as secretary).
Later others joined: Dr H Gordon (University - Botany); Prof. H N Barber (University - Botany); Mr L Miller (Dept. of Agriculture - Entomology) & Dr E Guiler (University - Mammals).
Tasmanian Biological Club
Part of Tasmanian Newspaper Collection
One newspaper, The Tasmanian Times published by Donald MacMillan, 10 Elizabeth St., Hobart.
Published daily - this copy marked ms. G B Walker. Tasmanian Times absorbed: Evening mail (Hobart, Tas.); and Weekly news (Hobart, Tas. : 1868) Began in 1867. Ceased in 1870.
Collection consists of material relating to various members of the Mather family, the Society of Friends , miscellaneous correspondence from Quakers and the Friends School
Robert Mather
Index to F5 - Extracts of officers' logs
Extracts of officers' logs: part 1
Part of Extracts of officers' logs - French naval vessel Mascarin
Extracts of the officers' logs of the French naval vessel Mascarin's voyage of exploration led by Captain Nicholas Marion Du Fresne -Tasmanian part of voyage, March 1772.
'Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roy Le Mascarin, commande par Mr. Marion, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de st.
Louis, Capitaine de Brulot, accompagne de la Flutte Le Margqis de Castries, pour faire le voyage de l'Isle Taity ou de Cythere, en faissant la decouverte des terrae Australae passant a la Nouvelle Hollande, a la Nouvelle Zelande etc.
Photographs of Archives Nationales, C 7 197, pp. 1, 7-14;
Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
Extracts of officers' logs: part 2
Part of Extracts of officers' logs - French naval vessel Mascarin
Extracts of the officers' logs of the French naval vessel Mascarin's voyage of exploration led by Captain Nicholas Marion Du Fresne -Tasmanian part of voyage, March 1772.
'Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roy Le Mascarin, commande par Mr. Marion, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de st.
Louis, Capitaine de Brulot, accompagne de la Flutte Le Margqis de Castries, pour faire le voyage de l'Isle Taity ou de Cythere, en faissant la decouverte des terrae Australae passant a la Nouvelle Hollande, a la Nouvelle Zelande etc.
Photographs of Archives Nationales, Marine 4 JJ, 192, no. 19, pp. 1, 12-18
Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
Extracts of officers' logs - French naval vessel Mascarin
Extracts of the officers' logs of the French naval vessel Mascarin's voyage of exploration led by Captain Nicholas Marion Du Fresne -Tasmanian part of voyage to Australia and New Zealand under Marion-Dufresne, March 1772.
'Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roy Le Mascarin, commande par Mr. Marion, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de st.
Louis, Capitaine de Brulot, accompagne de la Flutte Le Margqis de Castries, pour faire le voyage de l'Isle Taity ou de Cythere, en faissant la decouverte des terrae Australae passant a la Nouvelle Hollande, a la Nouvelle Zelande etc.
Photographs of Archives Nationales, C 7 197, pp. 1, 7-14; Marine 4 JJ, 192, no. 19, pp. 1, 12-18
Extra copies of C 7 197, pp. 1,7-14 (3 sets); p. 1 (4 copies); p. 10 (4 copies)
Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
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
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
Part of Hull Family
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
Letter book and insurance policy belonging to Henry Jacob Hookey of Longford, solicitor, admitted in 1839, and practiced In Launceston, Tasmania.
Henry Jacob Hookey
Letter and draft of 'A Manual of Fossil Mammals, being the substance of a course of lectures on the osteology and paleontology...'
Richard Owen
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
Documents relating to William Harris or Harrison including army pay book and personal certificates
William Harris
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
Grant of 80 acres of land at Glenorchy to Edward Barnes, dated 1 January 1817. Signed and sealed (wafer) by Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales
Lachlan Macquarie
Letters written to Francis Hartwell Henslowe while he was Police Magistrate at Campbell Town.
Francis Hartwell Henslowe
Collection consists of shipping papers and bills dated 1848 - 1877
Captain William Walker
Thomas Crouch: Miscellaneous papers
Collection of miscellaneous papers including lease, bank book, letter from G. W. Walker, gold digging license, correspondence of William Woollett about survey of allotment at Great Swanport, birth certificate of James Rothwell Crouch 22 January 1843 (Quaker certificate of witness of birth), bank book of Ann Crouch, small ms. music book inscribed "CC to KL".
Thomas James Crouch
Index to RS111 - Thomas Crouch: Miscellaneous papers
Minutes of a musical society known as the Orchestral Union (originally proposed as the Symphony Society) including musicians' and singers dated 1866 to 1872
Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous items relating to the company also material relating to the Eastern Coast Steam Ship Company.
Alexander George Webster
Part of Montagu-Franklin Correspondence
Index to RS114 - Montagu-Franklin Correspondence
Montagu-Franklin Correspondence
Copy (manuscript) of official correspondence between John Montagu and the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerning Montagu's disagreement with Sir John Franklin.
John Montagu
Jacob Mountgarrett: ships accounts
Ship's accounts dated 1812. Addressed Jacob Mountgarrett for supplies for a boat's crew, including potatoes, rice, pork, sugar, wheat, 2 oars, seal hooks, whaler's lance, skins, etc. and for each man (names listed) rum, tobacco, shirts, trousers etc.
Jacob Mountgarrett
Index to RS116 - Jacob Mountgarrett: ships accounts
Index to RS117 - Thomas Yardley Lowes: auction sales particulars
Thomas Yardley Lowes: auction sales particulars
Particulars of property, mainly in Battery Point Hobart to be sold by auction by Thomas Yardley Lowes (no plans or detailed descriptions). Properties of Robert Quayle Kermode & Sir George Arthur
Thomas Yardley Lowes
Photocopies of documents relating to the Irish political prisoners, 1851 - 1859
Land grant, dated 1805 and signed by Philip Gidley King, of 100 acres on the river Derwent, V.D.L. to Henry Hayes, reserving a road one chain broad communicating with Mill Farm. Endorsed with record of transfers of the property, 1811 - 1825. Final transfer: Joshua Ferguson to Edward Foord Bromley.
Henry Hayes
Paper by William Colenso for the Tasmanian Society
Paper by William Colenso for the Tasmanian Society , dated 1843. 'Filices Nova, Novae Zelandiae, Auct. Guil. Colenso, 1843' A classification and description of some newly discovered ferns collected in the Northern Island of New Zealand, in the summer of 1841 -1842 by William Colenso, Paihia, January 3rd. 1843
Manuscript of article published in the Tasmanian Journal, vol. 2 (1846) pp 161-189, with note by editor (R.C. Gunn)
William Colenso
Index to RS120 - Paper by William Colenso for the Tasmanian Society
'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
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]
Part of Sale of Crown lands at Carnavon
Index to RS122 - Sale of Crown lands at Carnavon
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
Part of Harrison Bequest
Proposed church at Killcooley. Section and ground plan by Architect J Lee Archer. Dated February 1823 (photographic copy)
John Lee Archer
Part of Harrison Bequest
Rendered view of St. Pauls Church, Stanley, Circular Head, V.D. Land. John Lee Archer Architect 1845. Ink and water colour drawing.
John Lee Archer
Part of Harrison Bequest
Police magistrate's residence, Circular Head, Stanley, Tasmania dated June 1844. Floor plan, end and side elevation. Note on manuscript, destroyed by fire January 1848, original manuscript plan, mounted on paper with linen thread work back.
John Lee Archer
Photograph of St. Pauls Church, Stanley
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photographs of St. Pauls Church of England, Stanley, Circular Head, built about 1840, photographed in the 1860s
John Lee Archer
Photograph of St. Pauls Church, Stanley
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photographs of St. Pauls Church of England, Stanley, Circular Head, built about 1840, photographed in the 1860s
John Lee Archer
Photographic view of the wharf at Stanley, Circular Head
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photographic view of the wharf at Stanley, Circular Head taken in the 1860's
John Lee Archer
Photographic view of Circular Head
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photographic view of Circular Head dated 1868 and inscribed "with best love from Aunt Charlotte".
The photographer was J. Bishop-Osborne who had studios in Hobart from 1879-1895..
John Lee Archer
Photograph of St. Pauls Church, Stanley
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photograph of St Paul’s Church of England at Circular Head, Stanley opened in 1846. Photographed in 1866.
John Lee Archer
Photograph of Circular Head from the Nut at Stanley
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photograph dated 1880 of Circular Head, Stanley, Tasmania from the Nut. Unknown photographer.
John Lee Archer
Photograph of "Aunt Charlottes" cottage at Circular Head
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photograph of "Aunt Charlottes" cottage at Circular Head, Stanley, Tasmania. Circa 1870.
John Lee Archer
Photograph of houses at Circular Head
Part of Harrison Bequest
Photograph of houses at Circular Head, Stanley, Tasmania. (n.d.) circa 1880. Unknown photographer.
John Lee Archer
Part of Harrison Bequest
This photograph may possibly be of Charlotte Lee Archer, born 1834, eldest daughter of John Lee Archer and Sophia Mattinson.
John Lee Archer
Part of Harrison Bequest
This daguerrotype may possibly be of Sophia Lee Archer nee Mattinson, who was born in 1809.
She married John Lee Archer, the Colonial Engineer and Architect, in 1833 aged 25. Pocket case constructed of wood frame, covered in embossed leather. When opened, it has one photograph in a frame made of brass and on the back side of the door a blue velvet embossed pad. Case is hinged with leather and closed with two small latches.
John Lee Archer
Correspondence with Archdeacon Whittington concerning the formation of a branch of St. George's Society,1900.
Royal Society of St George