Manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville Toulon'

Containers:

Box 4 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 62

Content Summary:

Photocopies including the inventory of the contents of the d'Urville home in Toulon (includes details of d'Urville's library), compiled after the death of d'Urville, his wife Adèle and son Jules: 'Inventaire des effets mobiliers dressé par Maître Vallavieille, notaire à Toulon, le 30 juillet 1842 . . . dépendant des successions réunies de feu M. Dumont D'Urville, de son épouse et de son fils décédés ensemble le 8 mai 1842 domicilé à Paris', Office Notarial Boyer, Toulon; 'Plan du cadastre napoléonien, 1827, Section D de St Antoine, 2ème Feuille levée par M. Fouque, cadet géomètre de 1ère classe', Archives municipales, Toulon, 6Fi60; 'Liste alphabétique des membres résidants de l'Académie du Var de 1800 à 1999.'; dossier held by the Académie du Var for André Marius Honnoraty (1814-1886), a pharmacist who resided next door to d'Urville and his family on the outskirts of Toulon and ultimately purchased their property after their deaths; dossier held by the Académie du Var for Dumont d'Urville; Bonnome, S., 'Dumont-d'Urville à Toulon', Bulletin de la Société des Amis du Vieux Toulon, no. 60, janvier-mars 1939, pp. 27–30; Marmottans, A., 'Un Enfant Surdoué', Bulletin de la Société des Amis du Vieux Toulon, no. 126, 2004, pp. 321–2; Photocopy of two pages reproducing historic postcards of the Toulon faubourg of St-Roch (in which Dumont d'Urville resided) from Fédoroff, I., Roché, Y., Au fil du Béal: de la source de la Foux au Moulin de Tourris, Marseille, Autre temps, 1999. Steele, J. G., 'Pamphlet, Uniacke and Field', Queensland Heritage, vol. 2, no. 3, 1970, pp. 3–14. Anon., 'Some Account of Tooi, The Late New-Zealand Chief', Missionary Register, June 1826, pp. 302–4; Also includes copies of emails between Edward Duyker and Ms Di Pin Ouyang, Senior Chinese Librarian, National Library of Australia regarding the plant genus Lophatherum and Chinese materia medica texts Dumont d'Urville collected the type specimen of the grass Lophatherum gracile, Brongiart, 1829. Although new to Western science, it was long known as 淡竹叶dan zhu ye in Chinese medicine; Also includes Black and white photograph of the north-western outskirts of a scale model of Toulon, completed in 1800, showing the location of the property 'La Juliade' (owned by his wife Adèle) in the parish of Saint-Roch. The Béale canal flowed on the northern boundary of the property. The photo was taken in the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, Les Invalides, Paris, by Edward Duyker in 2007

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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