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The Hunterian Oration in Honour of Surgery … Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. February 14, 1822 by Sir Everard Home (36 p.), London (1822). The subject of the oration was Sir Joseph Banks. A page of typescript notes 'collected in conversation with Sir Everard Home' 10 October 1825 identifies certain events and people referred to in the oration.

When Jones left Sydney to study at Cambridge in 1840 his friends presented him with an album of drawings, watercolours, engravings and poems. They depict members of the Jones Family, Sydney Heads, Hyde Park, St Philip's Church, the La Perouse Monument, and other places and people in Sydney.

Newspaper cuttings concerning the death of Sir John Murray on 13 March 1914. They are taken from English as well as French, German, Canadian, American and Australian newspapers and describe his death in a car accident, the execution of his will and the establishment of a bequest to commemorate his work.

The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes scrapbooks 1923-46 of Lady Stonehaven and photograph albums 1889-89 and 1927-30 of Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer. They include content relating to Canberra, Central Australia, New Guinea, South Australia, Hobart, Singapore, New Zealand and Malaysia.

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

Life history of James Dannock, written in 1898 and copied by his son, Jesse Dannock, of Box Hill, Victoria, in 1909.

Account of his early life and education, his journey to Australia, life on the Victorian goldfields and his later life in New Zealand.

Records of the Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue and Customs. Selected items from the Series: Papers Relating to Plantations (CUST 34) were copied by the AJCP.

Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.

Many of the records filmed concern expeditions to Australia (including the Australian Bird Expedition of the 1960s), Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Galapagos Islands, Malaya, North Borneo, Rennell Island, Antarctica, New Zealand, and G.H. Wilkins expeditions to Australia, Solomon Islands and the Arctic. Also includes Colonial Office correspondence re Pacific fauna; correspondence with other museums; records re bequests, meteorites and the Plumage Bill.