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Tasmanian Catholic Standard, 1867 - 1869 Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFTasmanian Catholic Standard,20 July 1867 - June 1868, 20 July 1868 - June 1869
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Diaries and letters of George Thomas William Blamey Boyes (1787-1853) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFGeorge Thomas William Blamey Boyes (1787-1853) public
servant and diarist arrived in Sydney in January 1824,
by the 'Sir Godfrey Webster’ as deputy-assistant-commissary-general
in New South Wales. In November 1826 he
transferred to Hobart and was soon after appointed
auditor of civil accounts. He also served on the
Legislative Council, was acting colonial secretary
(1842-3) and held a number of minor government
offices. He went to England in. 1832, returning in 1834 with
his wife, Mary (Ediss) whom he had married in 1818. They had
seven children. Boyes diaries are detailed and
include waspish comment on his contemporaries. His
letters to his wife are also informative. Other
letters are in RS.26 and Uni.Archives B.18
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Papers of George Thomas William Blamey Boyes (1787-1853) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLetters to George Thomas William Blamey Boyes G.T.W.B. 1831 - 1852
From: George Macleod. W.T.Parramore. P. Yeoland. G. Frankland. Judge Pedder. J.S.Pltcairn, L. Lithgow, Royal Society of Tas., Lt.Governor, W. Fletcher. Also a description of a grant of land between Davey Street and Fitzroy Place. Agreement to rent property at New Town to brickmaker, 1849 and receipt for shares held In Van Diemen's Land Auction Co., 1847 Letter to Capt. W. Neilly, agent for G.T.W.B.Boyes, from J. Lee Archer re New Town Allotments 24 Jan. 1834. Sale agreement for land at New Town between Henry S. Hurst vendor & John James purchaser 19 Sept. 1850. Boyes, Henry (d. 1909) Letter from Colonial Secretary about his position as Purveyor at Queens Asylum 17 June 1862. & from J.S.Dodds 22 Nov. 1901.
Notification of appointment of Henry Boyes as Second Lieutenant in Buckingham Rifle Company Volunteers
30 Nov. 1860
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Irish exiles Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textCopies of letters from John Martin dated June - November 1849.
Letters written by John Martin, Irish political prisoner transported
to Van Diemen's Land, to his brother David, from Dublin, the ship
'Elpbinstone' and from Bothwell, Tasmania.
(typed copies of 4 letters) RS 13
Antarctic Expedition Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFIn September 1929, at Mawson's request, Morton Henry Moyes (1886-1981) was seconded to the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, which was to assert British territorial claims in Antarctica by means of two voyages in the auxiliary barque, Discovery. Moyes joined the scientific staff as survey officer, spending long hours operating a defective echo-sounder, taking sights and drawing charts, helping with tow-nets, and assisting Mawson in executive matters. This note book notes details of 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.
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Launceston & Western railway material : Royal Society Collection
Get PDFRobert M. Johnston was the Tasmanian Government statistician. In 1899 and he prepared some notes relating to the history of the Launceston and Deloraine Railway in response to a request from Hon. William Moore, M.L.C., Chief Secretary and Registrar of Records.
Collection consists of handwritten notes by R.M. Johnston dated 25.9.1899, titled Launceston and Western Railway Company Case. Includes some copy book sheets, stapled together (RS76/1) . Also pamphlet titled Launceston and Western railway no loss to the country : Promoters v. Antagonists - signed CRITO, Launceston July 1872, Stephenson and Whitaker, Printers, Launceston (RS76/2)
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Martyn Coutts & Luke Smiles (Art forum)
No full textMartyn Coutts & Luke Smiles are in Hobart as part of Mobile States 2011 Mini-Festival. Both artists work collaboratively with theatre, dance, media & design & could engage in a discussion about interdisciplinary practice.They will be speaking on the role of video in their practice & especially live feed video in performance.
Coutts is an interdisciplinary artist working across Australia & the Asia Pacific.
He creates collaborative performance works which are cross media & cross platform.
He is a founding member of the art collective Field Theory & founder & editor of the online Live Art resource LALA. He is also one half the research & art collaboration Deadpan with Willoh S.Weiland. In 2009 Martyn won a green room award for his video design on the Harry Harlow Project – a solo performance work that explores the life & work of American psychologist Harry Harlow. Written & performed by James Saunders, directed & designed by Brian Lipson, sound composition by Kelly Ryall.
Smiles is the sound designer of I left my shoes on warm concrete & stood in the rain, a performance that harnesses emotion as a physical force. Intricate dance, haunting words & a striking soundtrack take the audience on a journey through struggle & the creative resourcefulness it inspires in humankind. The evocative collaboration between movement, text, sound & light is accentuated by
simple staging & encourages space for the imagination of the audience. The technical elements of the performance are exposed & define the reality of the physical space around the makeshift fantasy world of the performer. The work unfolds over a series of ‘chapters’ as the performance darts between scenes of fantasy filled darkness & physically charged light. The accompanying narration
awakens images, commands action & guides the audience through the independent elements of a multi-textured experience
Paul O'Neill (Art forum)
No full textDr. Paul O'Neill is an independent curator, artist and writer based in Bristol. Until recently, he was the Great Western Research Alliance (GWR) Research Fellow in Commissioning Contemporary Art with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
O’Neill has curated or co-curated more than fifty exhibition projects including: We are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (2011); Coalesce: happenstance, SMART, Amsterdam (2009); D.B, Four Gallery, Dublin (2008); Tape Runs Out, Text and Work Gallery, Bournemouth (2007); Intermittent, Gallery for One, Dublin (2007); Making Do, The Lab, Dublin (2007); Our Day Will Come, Zoo Art Fair, London (2006); General Idea: Selected Retrospective, Project, Dublin (2006); Mingle-Mangled, as part of Cork Caucus, Cork (2005); La La Land, Project, Dublin (2005). He is an associated visiting lecturer on the de Appel Curatorial Programme and on the MFA Curating, Goldsmiths, London. His writing has been published in many books, catalogues, journals and magazines and he is a regular contributor to Art Monthly. He is reviews editor for Art and the Public Sphere Journal and on the editorial board of The Exhibitionist and The Journal of Curatorial Studies. He is editor of the curatorial anthology, Curating Subjects (2007), and co-editor of Curating and the Educational Turn with Mick Wilson (2010), both published by de Appel and Open Editions (Amsterdam and London), and Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art (Amsterdam, Vaiz, 2011) edited with Claire Doherty. He is currently working on an authored book with MIT Press, entitled The Culture of Curating, Curating Culture(s), (2012)
Map Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFMaps, printed and manuscript, held in the Royal
Society of Tasmania's Library collection, many of which include early 19th century Hobart, Launceston and other regional centres. RS.M
The lice (Insecta : phthiraptera) of short-tailed shearwaters, ardenna tenuirostris, in Bass Strait, Tasmania
Get PDFThere is a paucity of research into the louse fauna of Shorttailed Shearwaters, Ardenna tenuirostris (Temminck, 1835), despite this species being one of the world's most studied seabirds (Bradley et al. 1991 and references therein). Research has been undertaken on these shearwaters at their breeding grounds in Bass Strait, Tasmania, since 1947 (Bradley et al. 1991). As Short-tailed Shearwaters are long-lived, with an estimated average longevity of 38 years (Skira et al. 1985), they may offer a long-term host potential to host-dependent ectoparasites (i.e., lice) (Crompton 1997). Also, with approximately 23 million shearwaters breeding in burrows in dense rookeries on the islands and headlands of southern Australia, from southern New South Wales to Tasmania and from Victoria to Western Australia (Marchant & Higgins 1990), there may be the potential for increased transmission of ectoparasites between individual birds. Increased infestation rates by lice have been shown in colonial living birds. For instance, Rozsa et al. (1996) found an increase in louse infestation on Colonial Rooks, Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758, as compared to the territorial Hooded Crow, Corvus corone cornix Linnaeus, 1758. Short-tailed Shearwaters undertake an annual transequatorial migration to the Bering Sea for the austral winter (Serventy 1967), and so may act as vectors for the transmission of parasites across hemispheres (Lopez et al. 2005, Price et al. 2003). There are three publications that list the lice of Shorttailed Shearwaters. Green & Munday (1971) were the first to document the ectoparasites of Tasmanian fauna, albeit from personal communications- no published literature was cited. Twenty years later, Green & Palma (1991) listed the lice of Tasmania's vertebrates. They essentially used Green & Munday's (1971) list of lice on shearwaters and added Austromenopon paululum, listed as Austromenopon sp. in Green & Munday (1971). Price et al. (2003), in their checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera) of the world, also listed the lice of Short -tailed Shearwaters. Included in this list were two louse species, Naubates harrisoni (Bedford, 1930) and Ancistrona vagelli (Fabricus, 1787), not mentioned in Green & Munday (1971). As part of the long-term research into Bass Strait's Short-tailed Shearwaters, this study aimed to confirm their current louse fauna, detailing the specific location, and collection method, to fill a gap in the primary literature