British Museum (Natural History) - Department of Zoology - Mammals Section - Miscellaneous collections, 1887-1984

M 2597-2598

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432887

Microfilm : M 2597-2598. See contents list (27pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 15.

microfilm reels 35 mm

Contains: (1) Collector's notes, 1923-1984 [M 2597]. Includes field notes, correspondence, lists of mammals collected in New Guinea, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Fiji. Subjects include: Hubert Wilkins' Australia and Islands expedition, 1923-1924; expeditions to Malaysia, 1967, 1974; Cambridge Sumatra expedition, 1984; and mammals of Oceania and Eastern New Guinea. (2) Library manuscripts [M 2597]: 'List of mammals from the Indian Ocean Islands Andaman, Christmas, Cocos-Keeling and Nicobar', 1969 / John Edwards Hill; and 'Upper molar alveolar patterns of some Muridae in Queensland and PNG' / Elizabeth Knox. (3) Michael R. Oldfield Thomas correspondence from Australasian scientists and collectors, 1868-1928 [M 2597-2598]. Subjects include collecting expeditions to Australia, Malaya, Indonesia and the Pacific and dispatch of skulls and other specimens. Correspondents include Wilfred Alexander, Tom Carter, Charles De Vis, Joseph Fletcher, Charles Hedley, Frederic Jones and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 1923-1927.

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
Available for reference.
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series: M 2597-2598. See AJCP Handbook, Part 8, Entry 64, p.22.
Microfilm copy of originals held by British Museum (Natural History).
Descriptive list available (27pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 15.