New Zealand
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Expression queries (answers summarised geographically): New Zealand, Malay, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 186: 26r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Invitations: N, 1973 - 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 4/3/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Cattell, Director-General of the National Farmers' Union; Asher Winegarten, Deputy Director-General of the National Farmers’ Union; Rolf Busch, Norwegian Ambassador to Europe, on CS's speech to the Norwegian Knights of the Round Table, Apr 1983 (4).
Also includes: draft and text of CS's speeches to the National Farmers' Union, Mar 1975 and Jan 1974, on Europe and agriculture; draft of CS's speech to the New Zealand Society, Feb 1981, on trade with the...
Dates:
1973 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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It might be well worth to get a list of 46 sp[ecies] from Hooker common to T[ierra] del Fuego N[orth America & Europe, 1869-01-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 15.1: B43r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1869-01-25
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Itineraries: New Zealand, 1974-06 - 1974-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/36
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Papers from CS's visit to New Zealand for trade talks, September 1974, including: correspondence on arrangements; itinerary and programme; text of CS's speech at a luncheon given by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce; records of meetings; press release.
Dates:
1974-06 - 1974-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letter from James Basire, 1788-02-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/16: 311-313
Scope and Contents
Regarding engraving work done on a chart of Australia ('New Holland') and New Zealand.
Dates:
1788-02-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; written at [New Zealand], 1874-08-01 - 1874-08-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 239.1: 2.1
Scope and Contents
Letter from Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; written at [New Zealand]
(Letter)
Dates:
1874-08-01 - 1874-08-31
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Letter from Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; written at [New Zealand], 1875-01-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 239.1: 2.7
Scope and Contents
Letter from Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; written at [New Zealand]
(Letter)
Dates:
1875-01-23
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Letter to the editor 'Press': [4 cut cols], 1863-09-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 133
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "Lunaticus" [Samuel Butler]; written at (New Zealand)
(Printed)
Dates:
1863-09-15
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From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1941-10 - 1941-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/21
Scope and Contents
Letters on subjects including: visiting India, Australia and New Zealand; the Japanese advance; the sinking of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse.
Dates:
1941-10 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Letters from observatories, 1869 - 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/150
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Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies; the foundation of new observatories at Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand; requests for astronomical works; and recommendations for the Indian observatories. The correspondents include H. Merivale, N.R. Pogson, C.E. Delaunay, Sir W. Denison, J.A. Broun, R.L.J. Ellery, B.A. Gould, the Earl of Rosse, R. Grant, Sir D. Gill, W.M. Maskell, J.C. Adams, A.R. Clarke and W. Harkness. There are proceedings and...
Dates:
1869 - 1872
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from observatories, 1878 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/153
Scope and Contents
Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies, the foundation of new observatories in Jamaica and Japan, requests for instruments for New Zealand, and reports from various centres. The correspondents include C.P. Smyth, R. Herbert, L. Mallet, W.H.M. Christie, Sir D. Gill, C. Pritchard, N.R. Pogson, E.J. Stone, A.E.B. Mouchez, the Earl of Rosse, O. Struve and E.B. Baillaud. There are also reports from the Edinburgh, Colaba, Oxford University and Strasbourg...
Dates:
1878 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letters from the Queen to Churchill, 1952-08 - 1962-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 1/8
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Letters from Queen Elizabeth II on subjects including: Churchill's correspondence with Harry S Truman, President of the United States, on a joint message to Mohammed Mussadiq [Prime Minister of Iran, also known as Mohammed Mossadeq and Mosaddegh] over the oil dispute with Iran; the Queen's respect for "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne]; her Christmas broadcast (1952); horseracing; the Bermuda Conference (1953); her tour of the Commonwealth (1953-54), particularly her...
Dates:
1952-08 - 1962-02
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed.
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List of Trees of New Zealand, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 207: 3r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Log entries for June, 1773-06-06 - 1773-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 40-46
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Daily log entries are provided from 6 June when the ship left Queen Charlotte Sound with the Adventure in company, travelling on a course towards the Society Islands and Tahiti. Wales records that Mr Arnold’s watch stopped on 7 June [RGO 14/58: 40v]. On 22 June he went on board the Adventure and found that Mr Arnold’s No. 1 timekeeper was slower than Mr Kendall’s [RGO 14/58: 44]. On 10 and 14 June the Resolution briefly lost sight of the Adventure again, but the two fell in upon firing...
Dates:
1773-06-06 - 1773-06-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Log entries for March, 1773-03-01 - 1773-03-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 31-37
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Log entries covering the voyage through the Southern Ocean and the return voyage to New Zealand, to which the ship bore away on 16 March. Entries include reports on electrical experiments carried out by Wales [RGO 14/58: 31v] and on seeing the Southern Lights. The entry dated 26 March in fact covers the period until 28 March, and includes descriptions of Dusky Bay and Pickersgill’s Cove, New Zealand, where Wales was required to fell some trees in order to take observations [RGO 14/58: 37v]....
Dates:
1773-03-01 - 1773-03-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Log entries for November, 1773-11-01 - 1773-11-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 68v-70
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Entries for 3-25 November take the form of three short summaries while the ship was in New Zealand. The ship sailed from Cape Campbell, via Cape Koameroo, arriving at Queen Charlotte Sound on 3 November, where Wales took observations. In the entry for 23-25 November Wales records having ‘occular demonstration of the inhabitants of this country being canniballs’ (sic) of which he had previously been sceptical; he does not provide further details [RGO 14/58: 69]. He also mentions that the ship...
Dates:
1773-11-01 - 1773-11-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Log entries for October, 1773-10-01 - 1773-10-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 62-68
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Daily log entries covering the journey to New Zealand via the Tongan islands or ‘Friendly Islands’. Wales records that on 1 October they sighted Tasman’s Middleberg, followed the next day by Tonga-Tabu or Amsterdam [RGO 14/58: 62]. On 4 October he went on shore on Amsterdam Island where he took observations and made a sketch of the north side of the island; Wales also records observations on the tides [RGO 14/58: 62]. On 9 October they saw Pӱlstreet’s Island but did not stop there [RGO...
Dates:
1773-10-01 - 1773-10-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Log entries for October, 1774-10-01 - 1774-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 129v-134
Scope and Contents
Daily entries from 1-18 October only, covering the voyage via the Norfolk Islands to Ship’s Cove, New Zealand, and including a map of the Norfolk Islands [RGO 14/58: 134]. An entry for 8 October records that a porpoise was caught and brought on board ‘which made a feast for the whole ship’s company’ [RGO 14/58: 131v]. The entry for 10 October includes a description of Norfolk Islands [RGO 14/58: 132a] while that for 18 October describes landing at Ship’s Cove and the difficulties Wales...
Dates:
1774-10-01 - 1774-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Marl Diapirism Near Gisborne, New Zealand' by R. Stoneley, 1962-11
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/19/Stoneley/1
Scope and Contents
Offprint from the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 5, Number 4.
Dates:
Publication: 1962-11
Sub-Series
Material related to Bull family lineage around the world - a history of the Bulls in America prepared by James Bull, details of the Bull family in New Zealand in Pennsylvania., 1895 - 1994
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL 12/5
Scope and Contents
The Bull family first travelled to New Zealand when Arthur and Andrew travelled in the 19th century. Arthur and Andrew Bull were sons of Simeon T. Bull and Frances Mensal.
Dates:
1895 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access:
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Migration scrapbooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 31
Scope and Contents
Press cuttings, letters, photographs, handbills, reports and other items taken from three albums relating to Sedgwick's trips of 1910 and 1912, and to his activities in trying to persuade private and public bodies and individuals to support juvenile emigration in the Empire. In the first box is a summary list and description of the preservation work carried out on the collection. RCS Library Notes no. 71, Nov. 1962, pp. 1-3, outlines the scope of the collection.
Dates:
1910 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Monotypic Genera / New Zealand Dr Hooker (list and calculation), 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 16: 158
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Mr Macnab a mate in Mr Enderby's discovery vessel the Eliza - gave me the following information [concerning rock embedded in an iceberg], 1839-10-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 5: B89-B90
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1839-10-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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New Zealand, 1924-12 - 1929-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor General and with William Massey (Prime Minister, 1912-24) and Joseph Coates (Prime Minister, 1925-28) on subjects including: Coates's defeat in the 1928 Election; Fergusson's expenses; LSA's visit during his Empire Tour; the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York [later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]; the New Hebrides [later Vanuatu] Commission; communications between the Dominions Office and Governors General and between the British...
Dates:
1924-12 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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