Guide to the Albums of photographs of Ronald Wood Paine (as filmed by the AJCP), 1924-1951

Summary

Collection number:

M2727

Creator:

Wood Paine, Ronald

Extent:

3 items

Language:

English

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Three albums of photographs of Hawaii and Fiji. Each album contains a summary listing of the photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Ronald Wood Paine (1903-1992) was born in Norwich, England. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge, where he studied natural sciences. In 1924, while doing a postgraduate course on entomology, he was recruited by John D. Tothill to assist in a campaign to control the Levuana iridescens in Fiji. Since about 1916 this moth was gradually spreading from Viti Levu to the copra-producing islands and threatened one of Fiji's major export industries. Paine arrived in Suva in 1925 and was attached to the Department of Agriculture, which was headed by Tothill. His principal task was to study the activities of the moth in different parts of Fiji, while his colleague T.H.C. Taylor travelled to New Guinea and Malaya in search of a parasite that might keep it under control. The Malayan tachinid fly (Bessa remota) proved to be highly effective in reducing the Levuana to relatively small numbers. Paine assisted Tothill in writing his report, The coconut moth in Fiji: a history of its control by means of parasites (1930).

After returning to England on leave in 1928-1929, Paine spent over a year in the Dutch East Indies, where he studied the Tirathaba rufivena (coconut spike moth). He left Fiji in 1934, following his marriage to Noel Fawcett, and became a horticulturalist in Scotland. He resumed his career as an entomologist in 1956 when he returned to Fiji to do work on the banana scab moth and the coconut flat moth. In subsequent years he spent long periods in Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Indonesia. Paine retired in 1966 and settled in Cambridge.

Reference: R.W. Paine. Recollections of a Pacific entomologist 1925-1966 (Canberra, 1994)

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1539115] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England. Collection reference: Add. 8824/1. For further information see Ronald Wood Paine at the Cambridge University Library (https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.8824).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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