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1063875
  • Title
    TAS PAPERS 148: Papers of the Tasmanian Society for the Promotion of Natural Science, 1841-1844, Lieutenant Governor letters received regarding convicts, and miscellaneous court records and private papers, ca. 1825-1843
  • Call number
    TAS PAPERS 148
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca.1825-1843
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1063875
  • Physical Description
    1 volume
  • Scope and Content
    Tasmanian Society for the Promotion of Natural Science : various papers and letters of a scientific nature, 1841-44, including descriptions of Aboriginal language, flora, fauna, prepared as notes for lectures

    Gell, Rev. J. P. : papers, [no date]

    Gregson, Thomas George : private papers, diary, etc. [no date]

    Tasmania. Lieutenant Governor : letters to Governor enquiring of fate of various convicts [no date]

    Tasmania. Supreme Court : Criminal Court papers, 1836-37

    Walker, George Washington and Backhouse, James. Correspondence, 1843

    Tasmania. Civil Courts : Lord v. Smith proceedings, 1825

    Manuscript of a play
  • General note

    "[During his governorship, Sir John Franklin] founded the Tasmanian Society for the promotion of natural science, agriculture and statistics" -- "The lost mariners in the polar seas (first paper)". The Leisure Hour v. 3 no. 106, 5 January 1854 (Google eBook, accessed 20/5/2014). Franklin's entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography states that "[h]e founded the Tasmanian Natural History Society, some of whose members later formed the first Royal Society outside the British Isles" (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/franklin-sir-john-2066 , accessed 20/5/2014).

    Formerly located at A 1178

    Microfilm copy available at CY 1370
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