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Sources Guide: Australasia
(Antarctica, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia and Tahiti, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna)
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Jane Foster (fl.1739) and others: cookery recipe book, compiled in various hands, recipes spanning 1739-1794; ownership inscription of Francis Watkins, Paramatta, New South Wales, 1739-c.1825 MS.2416
Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardière (1755-1834) botanist and traveller: two items on his voyage to the Pacific under Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni chevalier d' Entrecasteaux (1737-1793) in search of the explorer Jean-François de Galaup comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788): letter prior to his departure, n.d. (1792?) (no.34) and folios V-VII of a
manuscript description in Latin of the flora of Tasmania and Carteret Atoll (New Ireland, Papua New Guinea), 1792 (no.35) MS.7830/34-35
Claude Urbin Reth (1755-1804) French naturalist, accompanied the expedition of Jean-François de Galaup comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788): note, 1798 (no.50); page from a notebook recording meetings and transactions, 1795-1798 (no.51); biographical notes, n.d. (no.52) MS.7830/50-52
John William Lewin (1770-1819) naturalist, based at Paramatta, New South Wales: note signed by Lewin instructing payment to one Thomas Churchill, 1800 MS.7830/37
Joseph Oliver (fl.c.1800) church clerk, Staffordshire: material on Captain James Cook's explorations in the Pacific and visit to New Zealand, c.1800 MS.3713
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) naval hydrographer and explorer of Australia: letter from Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and traveller, to Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) of the Institut National, Paris, including a request to release Flinders, currently a prisoner of war in Mauritius, and describing the voyage that brought Flinders there, 1804
MS.7830/1
Aimé Jacques Alexandre [Goujaud] Bonpland (1773-1858) explorer, botanist and associate of Baron von Humboldt: letter to Bonpland from one J Kennedy, sending plants from Botany Bay, 1811 MS.7830/2
Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838) President of the Horticultural Society: letter including description of a peach tree in New South Wales yielding fruit at a very young age, 1813 MS.7830/33
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical Society: correspondence, including letters from Lord Glenelg, 1853, re exploration of Northern Australia (MS 5220/45) and from Lord Clanwilliam, 1865, on his son's exploration of Lake Taupo (MS 5220/100), 1815-1871 and n.d. MS.5220
Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) physician and philanthropist: extensive papers with material on the developing world generally, including article copied from the Southern Australian on "Dr Penny's lectures on the Milmenura Natives", 1841 (WMS/PP/HO/D/D195); letter-book with material on Australian aborigines, 1865-1866 (MS 5683); letter to and signed agreement
with his stepson Reginald Scaife on the latter's departure for Melbourne, 1853 (MS 5685); cuttings and letters on New Zealand, chiefly Maori land rights, 1839-1864 and n.d. (WMS/PP/HO/D/D185-194); fragment of unnamed author's description of Tahiti, n.d. (WMS/PP/HO/D/D220), 1817-1866 MSS 5680-5686 and MS/PP/HO/D
Sir Thomas M Brisbane (1773-1860) soldier, astronomer, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: letter to Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) of the Institut National, Paris, announcing that Brisbane has been appointed governor of New Holland, 1821 MS.7830/3
Transportation: manuscript warrant signed by King George IV authorising removal of convicts from various English gaols to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia, 1823 MS.7830/14
Nathaniel Rogers (d.1881) MD, Yorkshire: obituaries of figures of Australasian interest such as Sir Stamford Raffles (MS 4243 p.17); Rev Daniel Tyerman, missionary (MS 4243 p.109); George Bennet, missionary (MS 4243 p.332); Rev Thomas Slatyer, missionary, Samoa (MS 4244 p.228); Colonel Torrens (MS 4244 p.415); and Sir William Hooker (MS 4244 p.434), 1826-1869
MS.4243-4244
Allan Cunningham (1791-1839) botanist and traveller: letter to a Mr Nicol of Edinburgh, sending a piece of Tasmanian wood, 1835 (no.7); printed obituary cutting, c.1839 (no.8), 1835-c.1839 MS.7830/7-8
Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) explorer of Australia: letter to the Royal College of Surgeons, London, concerning use of their Library, 1837 MS.7830/36
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) botanist and traveller: letters to Joseph Milligan, Inspector of Convict Discipline, Hobart (nos.25 and 29), 1838-1866 and n.d. MS.7830/22-29
Emma, Queen of Hawaii (d.1885): letter by Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-1875), widow of the polar explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), discussing a visit to England by the Queen, n.d. MS.7831/8
Robert McCormick (1800-1890) naval surgeon and naturalist: diaries of Antarctic expeditions of HMS Erebus, including visits to Australia and New Zealand, 1839-1843 MSS 3366-3370; "The Auckland Isles", fragment of a printed work by an unspecified author describing the setting up of a settlement in New Zealand, pp.17-24, n.d. and Hobart Town
Advertiser dating from McCormick's visit to Tasmania with the Erebus expedition, 4 Jun 1841 MS.8682/19-20
Frederick Everard Hunt (1840-1900) MRCS, LRCP(Edin), based in Christchurch: testimonials, photographs and other papers, plus later material on Hunt collected by his grandson, 1840-1988 MS.7129
John Gould (1804-1881) ornithologist, traveller in Australia during 1838-1840: letters by Gould, chiefly re Australia's natural history; no.20 is to Sir Paul Edmond de Strzelecki (1796-1873) about a work on the geology of Australia, possibly Strzelecki's Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (London, 1845), 1840-1856
MS.7830/15-20
John Lillie (1806-1866) clergyman and educationalist: lectures on science, delivered at the Mechanics' Institutes at Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania, 1842-1855 MSS 3286-3287
John Philip Gell (1816-1898) Secretary of the Tasmanian Society, first Warden of Christ College, Hobart, and later husband of Eleanor Franklin, daughter of the Polar explorer: letter to James Backhouse in York, concerning the Tasmanian Museum built at the expense of Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-1875), the Governor's wife, 1843 MS.7830/13
Pomare, Queen of Tahiti (1822-1877): letter in Tahitian (with translation into English by the Queen's interpreter, on the reverse), permitting the captain of a French ship to land sick men on an island, 1843 (no.46); letter from S Malletz to Madame Panckoucke, describing Tahiti and Queen Pomare, 1846 (no.47), 1843-1846 MS.7830/46-47
David Geddes (d.1870) naval surgeon: certificate of appointment as Surgeon Superintendent on board the convict ship Oriental Queen, 1852 MS.5221
William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) botanist: letter concerning botanical samples from New Zealand, 1852 MS.7830/21
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) geologist: letter to the anatomist Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) concerning a marsupial fossil, 1857 MS.7830/39
Sir William Thomas Denison (1804-1871) soldier and colonial governor: letter to Joseph Milligan, Inspector of Convict Discipline, Hobart, concerning a plan to collect specimens from Australian coalfields, 1858 MS.7830/11
Daniel Hanbury (1825-1875) pharmacologist, London: out-letter book, including correspondence with F Muller, Victoria (pp.226-227), 1858-1860 MS.5304
George Charles Wallich (1815-1899) marine biologist: material on marine biology including sections disputing the claims of the Challenger expedition to the Pacific, 1860-1898 MSS 4962-4970
Sir Ferdinand J H von Mueller (1825-1896) professor of botany and zoology, Melbourne: letter to August Petermann (1822-1878), German geographer ("the Sage of Gotha"), 1861 MS.7830/45
Harry Hayter Ramsdale (fl.1860) emigrant: diary recording voyage on emigrant vessel Clifton from Gravesend to Queensland, and travel in Queensland (including a description of Brisbane) prior to settling at Allora, 1861-1862 MS.5324
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) botanist and Director of Kew Gardens: letter concerning an offer of Australian plant specimens, 1862 MS.7830/30
Alec Morgan (fl.1862) Adelaide: letter concerning his autograph collection, 1862 MS.7830/44
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: material covering 1863-1967: letters to Sir Thomas Longmore re medical service in New Zealand, 1863-1866 RAMC524/14/5; photo of Wellington, New Zealand, c.1901-1908 RAMC 1206; scrapbook of Lt-Gen Sir (Thomas Herbert) John Goodwin re career in RAMC and as Governor of Queensland, Australia,
1914-1928 RAMC 1089; material re Australian forces at Gallipoli, 1915 (see catalogue index under 'Dardanelles'); photo of an Australian Casualty Clearing Station in France, 1917 RAMC 1907/9; bound typescript annual report of No.1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, 1918, illustrated with photographs RAMC
614; manual on field ambulance organization by Lt Col James Hardie Neil, NZMC, 1919 RAMC 2049; League of Nations pamphlets on public health services in Australia, 1926 RAMC 2063/5/9; article re clinical trials of penicillin treatment, 1944 RAMC 1228/4; notebook recording deaths of Australian and other POWs in Krangi POW
camp, Singapore, 1944-1945 RAMC 1867/16; papers re investigations into anti-malarial drugs undertaken in Cairns, Queensland, by Neil Hamilton Fairley's team during war; with results of US Army field experiment in [New Guinea], 1945-1952 RAMC 1939/6-7; ts account re service on troopships to Far East and Australia c.1941-1942, by Reg Sgt-Maj
John A Cox RAMC 1989/1/3; notes by Quartermaster General, Australian Army, on visit to Allied Land Forces, SE Asia, Nov 1945 RAMC 1900/10; ephemera re 70th anniversary of Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, 1978 RAMC 1422; Sir Arthur Porritt Bt, FRCS, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand:
"Mars and Aesculapius: a New Zealand Memorial Oration" by Sir Arthur Porritt, reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 23 Dec 1950 RAMC 431, and tribute to Porritt in Medicine Today, 1967 RAMC 506
William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1979) geologist: letter to the historian and traveller William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), describing reading a life of John Howard in an "out-of-the-way place" on the River Darling, 1866 MS.7830/5
Sir John Lubbock FRS, later 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913), banker, Liberal MP, author of popular science books: letter to B M Wright, asking about the provenance of an Easter Island statue and of material from Vancouver Island, 1870 MS.7830/38
Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896) Premier of New South Wales from 1870: copies of letters to Florence Nightingale (originals held by Mitchell Library, Sydney), 1866-1874 MS.9100
Fleetwood Buckle (1841-1917) Royal Navy doctor: journals of voyage from Great Britain to Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) then back via a crossing of the Pacific calling at Hawaii, 1869-1870 MSS 1402-1404
Henry Lee (1826-1888) naturalist: letter identifying a species of sponge as Australian, 1869 MS.5377/33; letter from William Carpenter re Pacific currents and depths as found by the Challenger expedition, 1874 MS.5378/9; letter and flyers re William Creswick departing from England for Australia, 1877 MS
5379/14-17; letter concerning seeds sent from New Zealand, 1870 MS.5391/19; letter concerning the Rev Haggarth, formerly resident in Australia, 1878 MS.5391/49; letters from Sir James Arndell Youl, Tasmanian colonist, including two to Youl from Sir Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1874-1879 MS.5399
Sir Anthony Brownless (1817-1897) FRCS: letter from Brownless at Melbourne University to Thomas Madden Stone (d.1894), Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, 1884 MS.7830/4
Sir James Cantlie (1851-1926) FRCS, President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: notes collected on the children of mixed European / non-European unions, including letters on European-Aboriginal unions and European-Maori unions, 1888 MS.1499; map of the Pacific Ocean with additions to show leprosy distribution illustrating
Cantlie's report on leprosy in the Far East, 1894 MS.6940/3; classification of racial types in the Far East and Pacific, n.d. MS.6940/5-7
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935) physiologist: correspondence with various colleagues in Australia and New Zealand, and photographs of Australia and Hawaii, 1892-1932 PP/ESS
Mrs Haines (fl.1896-1897) wife of Dr Humphrey Haines of Auckland: diary describing voyage from New Zealand to Europe and back, 1896-1897 MS.8146
Wellcome Foundation: copious archival material relating to business connections with Australia and the surrounding region, promotion, marketing, of pharmaceutical products, etc, also some material relating to exploration, 1880s-1990s WF
Louisa Martindale (1872-1966) surgeon: diary recording persons met and visits made on world tour, taking in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Hawaii, 1900-1901 MS.3470
British Medical Association (f.1832): papers re Australian branch of BMA, other medical associations in Australia and food and drugs legislation, 1900-1939 SA/BMA
Wellcome Archive: Search the Wellcome Archive database under names of countries and cities. Material covering c.1900-1980s, includes papers re Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceutical business, premises, and marketing in Australia, mainly Sydney, 1901-1902 WA/HSW/CO/Bus/A.6,7,9; objects from the South Sea Islands, 1912 WA/HMM/CO/Ear/590;
Australian surgical and 'primitive' instruments, 1913-1920 WA/HMM/CO/Ear/48,63,540; items collected by C M Woodford in the Solomon Islands c.1919 WA/HMM/CM/Col/105; anthropological expeditions to Australia, 1927-1938 WA/HMM/CO/Alp/53; ethnographical collection mainly from the South Sea Islands, New Zealand and New Guinea
purchased in 1931 WA/HMM/CM/Col/4; collection of ethnographical material from the Marshall Islands and Island of Nauru, 1932 WA/HMM/CO/Alp/73; ethnographical material in Melbourne National Museum, c.1933 WA/HMM/CM/Col/70; objects from Tonga, 1933-1934 WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.11; South Sea Islands materials, 1933-1935
WA/HMM/CO/Alp/18; Fiji objects, 1935-1936 WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.109; medical outfit of Scott's Antarctic expedition, 1940s WA/HMM/CO/Sub/155; stone age man in Australia, c.1947 WA/HMM/CO/Sub/78; transfer of surplus Maori, Polynesian and Melanesian ethnographical material to University Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Cambridge, 1951 WA/HMM/TR/Eth/A.6; transfer/return of objects to Australia and New Zealand museums, 1950s-1980s WA/HMM/TR/Ret/A and C
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (f.1903): letters re supply of Yersin's anti-plague serum to the Colonies, including Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, 1903-1904 SA/LIS
John Murray Gibbes (1842-1928?) MD: essay, "Reincarnation = Evolution", written whilst living in the Australian bush dedicated to meditation and the simple life, 1904 MS.2510
Oliver C Smithson (d.1920) Brisbane medical practitioner: "Mossman fever", later published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine, 1910 MS.1729/9
Alan Deed Brunwin (1879-1934) Medical Officer, Suva, Fiji: "Some observations on the Santonin treatment of dysentery", later published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine 1908 MS.1729/4
Dr George Brown (1835-1917) Methodist missionary, Samoa: notes on medicinal plants used in Samoa, c.1910 MS.1724/2
Denis Gascoigne Lillie (1888-1963) marine biologist to Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic Expedition: newspaper cuttings on Captain R F Scott's last Antarctic expedition, including material from Australian papers, 1910-1913 MS.5253; whale log from Antarctic Cruises 1910-1913 MS.3283; invitation to address on whales by
Lillie at Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1911 MS 5254/61; address to New Zealand branch of BMA on Mendel's principles of heredity as applied to human beings, 1913 MS.3284; extracts, including material from Tasmanian newspapers, on his grandfather, the Rev John Lillie of Tasmania, n.d. MS.5254/39
Dudley Wilmot Buxton (1855-1931) anæsthetist: letter from R W Hornabrook, Melbourne, 1912 MS.5461/70
Eugenics Society (f.1907): papers re Australian Eugenics Societies, 1912-1961, donations and bequest of wealthy Australian benefactor Henry Twitchin, 1925-1938, plus material on activities of the Eugenics Education Society, New Zealand, 1930s SA/EUG
PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.
Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) Australian Antarctic explorer: review in Science, of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, being the story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, by Adolphus Greely (1844-1935), leader of the 1881-1884 US expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, 1915 MS.7486/54
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958) pioneer of birth control and sex education: correspondence re Married Love and birth control from correspondents in Australia and New Zealand, 1919-1946 PP/MCS
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), anthropologist: letter concerning his Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 1923 MS.7830/41
T W Ratana (fl.1924), healer, New Zealand: letter to Major-General H G Robley, urging him to pray and to repent and announcing that he is not seeing Europeans in person, 1924 MS.7712
Major General Sir Leonard Rogers (1868-1962) specialist in tropical medicine: papers on leprosy in Australia, Nauru and Fiji, 1924-1935 PP/ROG
Edward Morell Holmes (1843-1930) pharmacologist: paper on the Eucalyptus genus, mentioning commercial use, by J Bosito of Melbourne, of its leaves' oil, 1925 MS.2920
British Empire Cancer Campaign/Cancer Research Campaign (f.1923): papers re Australian and New Zealand cancer research organisations and affiliation to the Campaign, 1920s-1960s; Dr Henty Smalpage of Australia re his cancer 'cure' Carcino-mycin, 1937-1951; International Cancer Conference, Sydney, 1972 SA/CRC
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) US surgeon: two letters to Professor F Wood-Jones of the University of Melbourne, purchasing rare books, 1931 MS.7830/9-10
Katherine Harman (fl.1935) wife of Nathaniel Bishop Harman FRCS (1869-1945): diary kept by Mrs Harman during the British Medical Association Round the World Tour, on which she travelled with her husband. From the USA, the party travelled by ship to Hawaii, Fiji, Auckland and Australia, then by ship once more to Indonesia and home via Suez, 1935 MS.7394
National Birthday Trust Fund (f.1928): few papers on maternity services in New Zealand, 1930s SA/NBT
Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) pioneer of natural childbirth: correspondence with doctors, mothers, and natural childbirth associations in Australia and New Zealand, 1930s-1960s PP/GDR
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), microbiologist, discoverer of penicillin: photocopy of handwritten draft of BBC talk on penicillin, headed "Pacific Broadcast", 1940 MS.7830/12
Sir Robert Macintosh (1897-1989) Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, Oxford, 1937-1965: correspondence re export of vaporiser anaesthetic machines to Australia for the Australian armed forces during the war, 1942 PP/RRM/A.2/1
Dame Janet Vaughan (1899-1993) medical scientist: memorandum on medical services in New Zealand, 1941 GC/186/3
Robert Henry Steward Thompson (1912-1998) biochemist: travel diaries and correspondence re his RAMC service in Australia during World War Two (diaries may cover New Guinea, where he also served), 1944-1945 PP/RHT
Capt George Blair, RAMC: some material re his period recuperating in New Zealand after liberation from a Japanese POW camp, 1945 PP/GBL
Society of Medical Officers of Health (f.1856): papers of the New South Wales Branch of the Society, 1948-1959, plus information on other Australian branches in the Society's journal Public Health SA/SMO
Strangeways Research Laboratory (f.1905): correspondence with a few Australian and New Zealand scientists, c.1940s-1960s SA/SRL
Donald Hunter (1898-1979) physician: correspondence and cuttings re work of Australian flying doctors, 1950 PP/HUN/D.2/8
John Read (1908–1993), radiobiologist: material relating to his work in New Zealand, 1950–74 PP/JRE
Norman Heatley (1911-2004): files on Australian tributes to Lord Florey, 1950s-2000, including Centenary celebrations PP/NHE/C/2/2
John Bostock (fl.1951): typescript study The Dawn of Australian Psychiatry, covering the years 1788-1850, 1951 MS.8371
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884-1955) physiologist and medical researcher: papers and photographs re his 1951 visit to Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania to advise on medical research PP/MEL
Robert George Ranyard West (1900-1986) physician and social psychologist: material re his practice in New Zealand, 1951-1954 PP/RRW
Sir (William) Allen Daley (1887-1969) Medical Officer of Health: correspondence with medical and public health service officers in Australia (especially Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney), New Zealand and Tasmania, including government ministers, 1951-1968; papers and cuttings re lecture tour of Australia for the Australian Advisory Committee of the Nuffield Foundation,
1952-1953; writings, lectures and addresses given and published in Australia, 1950s PP/AWD
Family Planning Association (f.1930): papers re family planning organisations in Australia, 1952-1969, and reports and correspondence on Fiji and New Guinea, c.1952-1967 SA/FPA
Queen's Nursing Institute (f. 1889): papers on district nursing in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, 1952-1970 SA/QNI
Henry McIlwain (1912-1992) neurochemist: papers re his lecture visit to New Zealand and Australia, 1954, and the International Society of Neurochemistry biennial meeting in Sydney, 1991 PP/MCI
Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham (1887-1983) pathologist and consultant in aviation medicine: reports of inspection of medical and sanitary facilities at Sydney airport, Australia, 1955 PP/HEW
Professor Ronald Hare (1899-1986) bacteriologist: illustrated account of travels in Singapore and Australia in 1955 PP/HAR/A.17
International Confederation of Midwives: correspondence with Australia and New Zealand (member countries), 1950s-80s and Cook Islands, Fiji, New Guinea, Tonga (non-member countries), 1970s; ICM/WHO/UNICEF pre-Congress WorkshopMidwifery Practice - Measuring, Developing and Mobilising Quality Care, Papua New Guinea, Vanatu, 1993-5 SA/ICM
Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors: correspondence between the Royal Society of Health (New Zealand Branch) and London headquarters, 1975-87; minute book of the New South Wales Branch of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 1956-79 SA/RSP
Medical Womens' Federation (f.1916): material on medical women in Australia and New Zealand, notably unequal pay and allowances, 1956-1961 SA/MWF
Mrs Henny J Ligtermoet antenatal teacher in Australia: papers re her use of childbirth methods established by Dr Grantly Dick Read, 1956-1990 GC/72
Professor Michael John Rand (1927-2002): Australian pharmacologist. Correspondence with Prof. J. H. Burn and others, 1956-77, [n.d.] MS.8044
Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit (f.1946): some correspondence with haematologists in Australia and New Zealand, 1958-1985 SA/BGU
Alice Mary Stewart (1906-2002): some material relating to her British Council tour of Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, 1958-9, and correspondence with Australian and New Zealand colleagues, 1960s-90s PP/AMS
Arthur Ernest Mourant (1904-1994) haematologist and geologist: correspondence with several Australian and New Zealand haematologists and scientists, 1950s-1980s, and re his paper for the New Zealand Symposium on Geographical Haematology 1966, 'Genetics and the geographical distribution of diseases'; also correspondence re blood group frequencies of the Chamorros
of Guam, 1968-1970; maps, notes, data and correspondence re blood group distribution in New Guinea and Pacific Islands, and field work in New Guinea, c.1965-1979 PP/AEM
Marthe Vogt (1903-2003), neuropharmacologist: correspondence with colleagues in Australia and New Zealand, 1950s-80s PP/MLV
Sir George Godber (b.1908) Chief Medical Officer, DHSS, DES and Home Office, 1960-1973: reports on health services in Australia and New Zealand, 1970 GC/201/A.3/2-5
Sir John McMichael (1904-1993): Material relating to various professional visits to Australasia, 1960-5 PP/JMM/H/6
Biochemical Society: correspondence with Australian Biochemical Society, 1965-71, including arrangements for guest lecturers to visit Australia and sponsorship of scientists to visit New Zealand; file on international congress in Perth, 1982 SA/BIO
Professor Sir Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) biochemist: papers re visits and conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, 1969-1975 PP/EBC/J.99-111, J.152-155
Stanley George BROWNE (1907-1986) leprologist, medical missionary: accounts of visits to Australasia and the Far East c.1969-1970, the Pacific Islands, Fiji and New Zealand in 1972; South Pacific in 1974 including Samoa and Tonga; report to the Government of Western Samoa following visit to Apia 1974; photograph of missionary Father Damien and spit of land on
Molokai (Hawaii) where he worked WTI/SGB
Robert J Hetherington (b.c.1924) physician: papers re oral contraception in Australia, 1960s PP/RJH
(Robert) Gwyn Macfarlane (1907-1986) haematologist and biographer: notebook of trip to Australia to research a biography on Howard Florey, c.1972-1974 PP/RGM/F.1/11
Abortion Law Reform Association (f.1935): papers re abortion law and reform movements in Australia and New Zealand, 1970s SA/ALR
(Edward) John (Mostyn) Bowlby (1907-1900) child psychologist: papers re term as HB Williams Travelling Professor, Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 1973 PP/BOW
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (f.1971): anti-smoking movements in Australia and New Zealand, 1970s-1990s SA/ASH
Sir James Keith Ross: papers relating to visit to New Zealand for independent review of open heart surgery facilities, 1976-7 GC/238/3/11
BACUP, British Association of Cancer United Patients and their families and friends (f. 1985): Australian Cancer Patients' Foundation newsletter and information leaflets, 1986 SA/BAC/D.2/8
World Federation of Occupational Therapists: file relating to constitution of national association, New Zealand, 1989 SA/WFO/I/5
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