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Official circulars, invitations and programmes of John Stokell Dodds (1848-19-14)Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFJohn Stokell Dodds, whose parents settled in Tasmania
in 1853, was a judge and politician. He
became attorney-general, post-master general, and
chief-justice (1898). He represented Tasmania
in conferences in other colonies and was also
interested in education, art & literature. He
served on the Council of the University of
Tasmania and was Chancellor 1907-1914. He
raised subscriptions for troops for the Boer
War. He was awarded C.M.G. in 1889, K.C.M.G.
in 1901. These papers consist of official
circulars, invitations and programmes.
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Correspondence and botanical notes of Leonard Rodway (1853-1936) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLeonard Rodway (1853-1936) CMG, dentist and botanist was born in Devon,
England, son of Henry Barron Rodway, dentist, and Elizabeth (Allin). He trained in
the training ship "Worcester" and served at sea for three years before studying to be a
dentist at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He qualified in 1878 and migrated to
Brisbane where he married Louisa Phillips. They settled in Hobart in 1880. Rodway
practised as a dentist and also acted as dental surgeon to the Hobart General Hospital.
He devoted his spare time to botany and preparing a catalogue of Tasmanian plants.
He published The Tasmanian Flora (Hobart 1903), Some Wild Flowers of Tasmania
(Hobart 1910), Tasmanian bryophyta (Hobart 1914-16) and contributed many papers
to the Royal Society of Tasmania to which he was elected in 1884. He was Honorary
Government Botanist from 1896 - 1932 and established a Herbarium in 1928. He was
a trustee of the Botanical Gardens 1911 - 1928 and then Director of the Gardens. He
was lecturer in Botany to the University of Tasmania 1923 - 1929. He was also a
foundation member of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club and a leader of its bush
excursions. He received the CMG in 1917
Six volumes of manuscript notes and drawings on Tasmanian plants, with some
enclosed correspondence with well-known botanists.
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John Woodcock Graves Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textJohn Woodcock Graves (1795-1886) was born in Cumberland, U.K.,
and emigrated to Tasmania in 1834. He is chiefly
remembered for the song 'D'ye ken John Peel' which he wrote
to a traditional Cumberland air. Includes notes to song, anothre song written on the verso. Programme for the unveiling of a memorial to J.W. Graves in St. Davids Park Hobart 1958. A page of notes on Graves.
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Proclamation to Aborigines Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFCopies of Governor Davey's pictorial proclamation to the
Aborigines, promising equal justice for whites and natives,
with modern tracing (Davey altered to Arthur in a modern hand)
and another copy with a different heading.
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Castra settlement Index: Royal Society of Tasmania Collection
Get PDFNewspaper clippings 1871 - Sept. 1878.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1871 - Sept. 1878 relating to Anglo-Indian
officers settling in Tasmania, and Colonel Andrew Crawford's 'Castra' settlement. Andrew Crawford (1815-1899) was an army officer and immigration promoter. He emigrated to Tasmania with his family in 1864 and was impressed by the potentialities of the colony as a desirable place for Anglo-Indian settlement. He proposed an association with a hundred shareholders to take up land which he had chosen and named Castra near Ulverstone. In October 1867 the Tasmanian parliament passed an Act to amend the Immigration Act of 1855, and set aside 50,000 acres (20,234 ha) for Indian settlers. A committee known as Castra & Co. was set up in the Bombay Presidency and by 1876 Crawford had chosen for himself and other Anglo-Indians 9700 acres (3925 ha) at Castra.
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Marriage affidavits Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFPresbyterian Church Marriage Affidavits - Morven (Evandale) 1848, 1849
Affidavits that there is no impediment to marriage,
with additional affidavit of consent for those under 21,
and of consent of the Lt. Governor for prisoners of
Crown. Both made before Robert Russell, appointee of
Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. Stephen Collins of Morven, widower, and Louisa Freelth - sworn at Logan Falls 10th October 1848, and Thomas Spinks of Morven, bachelor and Mary Jones , spinster, sworn at Evandale 25th July 1849
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William Lyttleton Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFWool sale accounts 1830 - 1836
Accounts of wool sold in London, addressed by various agents
to William Lyttleton of Launceston.
William Thomas Lyttleton (1786-1839), settled near Westbury 1825.
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William Alfred Pearce diary, ships log and letters Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFDiary, ship's log and letter of W A Pearce. He was master of the brig 'Wild Wave', making voyages from Hobart, Taranaki and Valparaiso etc. Miscellaneous documents from 1860 - 1868. RS.8
W.A Pearce Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFChild's copybook, William Alfred Pearce, (Somerset House
School) 1860.
Diary 1863, Aug. 31 - 31 May 1864.
Diary probably of W.A. Pearce - noting weather, jobs on board,etc.
Ship's Log 1865, Feb - Sept. 1866.
Log of the brig 'Wild Wave' (master, W.A.Pearce) on voyages
from Hobart to Taranaki and Valparaiso, etc.
Letter 6 Feb. 1868
Letter from W.A. Pearce to his brother, describing weather,
ship - heavy rigged and making 20 inches water a day,
to be caulked in Mauritius.
Photograph of brig 'Wild Wave', at wharf, red ensign and
'house flag' blue with white star, painted in. N.D.
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John Watt Beattie Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFJohn Watt Beattie (1859 - 1930) who was born in Edinburgh, arrived in Tasmania in 1878 and settled at first in New Norfolk. He was a notable photographer, both of views and portraits and acted as photographer to the Tasmanian Government, and also took over Ansons' photographic studios (1892) in Hobart (the Beattie studios were sold shortly before his death). Many of Beattie's photographs of people and places were published in the Cyclopedia of Tasmania, (1st edn. 1900). He also prepared sets of lecture slides on the topography and history of Tasmania and gave many lectures himself. He was interested in the history and made an important collection of items relating to Port Arthur & convict days, which was sold to the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston in 1927. Another collection was secured for the Tasmanian Museum Hobart after Beattie's death through William Walker, the City paying 250 pounds. Some of Beattie's lectures and photographic notes were placed with the Royal Society's manuscripts on loan by the Museum. Some other papers of J.W. Beattie were bequeathed by him to the Royal Society for safe-keeping. These consist of copies of historical manuscripts and some original manuscripts, press cuttings and notes.
See RS.30. Includes personal papers, diaries and lecture note