6763 research outputs found
Sort by
Hookey Letters Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFHenry Jacob Hookey (c 1805 - 1879) of Longford was a solicitor, admitted in 1839, and practised in Launceston.
RS. 10
Captain William Walker Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFShipping papers and bills 1848 - 1877 :
Including, orders, letters of credit, shipping expense
accounts, charter agreement for North Sea ports (1848-1851),
letters concerning shipping (Australia 1856), lease of the
"Liverpool Tea Warehouse" , Liverpool street, Hobart, from
Mrs Margaret Mead (1861), bills from Hobart shops, etc. (1859-1877)
(62 papers)
RS.11
Rev. Robert Knopwood diaries Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFRev. Robert Knopwood (1763-1838) kept a fairly detailed
and lively diary most of his life. According to
Miss Mabel Hookey (1871-1953) some of the diaries were
purchased at the sale of Knopwood's effects by her grandfather
George Stokell (? d. 1874 aged 86) of Rokeby House, Rokeby.
These covered the years 1801 - 1804, 1805 - 1808, 1814 - 1820,
1822 - 1834 and. 1836 - 1838. They passed to Stokell' s
daughter, Henrietta, who gave the first volume (1801-1804)
to her brother George whose daughter Alice sold it to the
Mitchell Library. The others were given to Mabel Hookey
who kept the second volume (1805-1808) but sold the other
three volumes to Angus & Robertson, who re-sold them to the
Mitchell Library. The Royal Society of Tasmania had
microfilm copies made of the diaries in the Mitchell
Library of Knopwood' s life in Tasmania (from 7 Feb. 1804)
and the diary owned by Miss Hookey (see RS.15.) Miss
Hookey later bequeathed the diary in her possession
(1805-1808) to the Royal Society.
A transcript of this diary (1805-1808) made by W.H. Hudspeth,
was published in Papers &Proceedings of the Roy. Soc. of Tas.,
1946 & 1947.
See also M. Hookey, “Bobby Knopwood in his times”, Hobart .
(Fuller) 1929, and The Chaplain, being some further account
of the days of Bobby Knopwood, Hobart (Fuller's Book Shop) [1970] RS.1
Diary of Robert Knopwood, 1804, 1814-1836 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFCopied on microfilm negative from the original diaries
held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney (Mitchell
Library reference No.: ML. C.236 - C.243)
Photographic prints were made from the negative by the
Tasmanian Government Photographic Dept. 1947 RS.1
Exhibition Awards, 1880-88 Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFExhibition awards from the Paris Exhibition 1855, the Sydney/Melbourne Exhibitions 1880-88 and the
Paris Exhibition, 1855.
Certificate of award of 2nd class medal to Tasmanian Executive for (1) wood turned objects and furniture and (2) wood carvings, signed by Napoleon Bonapart
(80 cm. x 60 cm.)
Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions
Moir Shot 1879, 1880-1
Certificates of award from Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions
to James G. Moir of Hobart for lead shot.
(photographic copies 58 cm. x 49 cm.)
Includes a plan of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888
RS.15
Papers of William Nevin Hurst I.S.O (1868 - 1947) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFA collection of pamphlets articles and newspaper
cuttings compiled by William Nevin Hurst (1868 - 1947)
and notes made by him on topics of historical
interest. William Nevin Hurst was a draughtsman and
Secretary for Lands. He was the son of
John Hurst a surveyor on the North West
Coast. RS.2
Minutes, papers and accounts of St Mary's Hospital (1841-1863) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFSt Mary's Hospital was started by Dr Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford
(1809-1876), younger son of Rev.William Bedford. It opened on 1
January 1841 as a subscription hospital, especially for the
'labouring classes', under a committee of management, and 5 trustees,
with Dr Bedford as medical officer. It was situated at first in
Campbell Street but a new building was erected in Davey Street
(corner of Davey & Salamanca Place, later used as public offices)
and opened about 1849. Bedford hoped in 1856 to make the hospital
a training school but recognition was not granted by the Royal College
of Surgeons and the hospital declined and was closed in 1862 owing to
lack of financial support. Dr Bedford then moved to Sydney and
became medical adviser to the N.S.W. government. Dr Bedford was a
founder member and keen supporter of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
RS. 2
George Martin Letter Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLetter written by George Martin to his wife
and a copy of a location extract of a grant of 800 acres. The letter refers to his voyage out from Dartmouth, U.K. as captain of the schooner 'John Firie' which later traded between Kangaroo Island, S.A. and Hobart. On arrival at Kangaroo Island he joined 'together two couple in Holy Matrimony', one being Mr Stephens 'our manninger' [Samuel Stephens (1808-1840), colonial manager of the South Australian Co., who married Charlotte Hudson Beare on 24 Sept. 1836 The letter also describes Hobart, as compared with his first voyage there - 'all the place from around Battery Point around old Knopwood' s place is made a fine wharf where ships lay alongside to load and unload'. He refers to the Roberts family: Roberts now dead and Mrs Roberts, with her daughters Caroline and Betsy keep a respectable boarding school for young ladies, Robert Roberts married to Miss Sherwin. Martin's sons Robert and George were to start school with Mr Giblin's father at Newtown.
RS 13
Barnard family papers Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFJames Barnard (1809 - 1897) was the son of John George Barnard of Blackfriars, London, a printer and, a freeman of the City of London Company of Stationers. James was apprenticed to his father to learn the printing trade in 1825. In 1838 he was appointed Government Printer ,VDL. and arrived in Hobart with his wife and sister on the Pyramus in March 18.39. He lived and worked in Macquarie Street (Surrey House). as well as a daughter, Emily, he had three sons, James, Henry Sultzer and Charles E. born in Tasmania.
RS 6
Scrap book of news clippings 1901-1910 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFScrapbook containing news clippings relating to defence
and armed forces. Royal Society RS.8