1063883
- TitleTAS PAPERS 152: Tasmania. Commissariat : correspondence and other papers, 1814-1829; Tasmanian Society for the Promotion of Natural Science papers, 1843-1844; private correspondence, 1827-1848, and other papers
- Call numberTAS PAPERS 152
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1814-1829 - Type of material
- Reference code1063883
- Physical Description1 volume
- Scope and ContentCommissariat : miscellaneous receipts, letters etc. 1814-29, and papers of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Assistant Commissary General, Launceston, 1818-20
Colonial Treasury : returns of the Colony, 1820
Gatenby, Andrew : correspondence with John Nicholson, 1836-37, Roderic O'Connor, 1827-35, H. Reed [Read?], 1848
Gregson, Thomas George : private papers, diary, etc. [no date]
Laurence, W. E. : private correspondence with Lieutenant Governor Sorell, 1823-5
Tasmanian Society : papers, 1843-44, including descriptions of Tasmanian Aborigines, flora, fauna, prepared as notes for lectures, including press-cuttings on the Bunyip
Walker, George Washington and Backhouse, James : correspondence, 1843 - 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).
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