Expeditions - Miss LE Cheesman, 1928-1958

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File CP 360
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(239p.)

Correspondence and BM (NH) memos re Miss LE Cheesman's expeditions to the Pacific.

Correspondents include: LE Cheesman (New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Japen (Dutch New Guinea), Cameroons); J Sidebotham (Colonial Office); Sir Stephen Gaselee (Foreign Office); Dutch Consul General; Miss Steele (passim Africa); GA Joy (Vila).

Subjects include: problems sending specimens; field trips in New Hebrides (1955); problems organising camp; award of OBE; appreciation of LEC's work collecting in the Pacific; expedition to New Caledonia (1950); proposed expedition to Dutch East Indies in 1940; field work at Japen (1938); expedition to New Hebrides, 1929-1930; arrangement to collect with Miss Steele in Cameroons; gift of spear from King Ringapat of New Hebrides to George V.

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Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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