Series TURNS004 - Personal - Paintings, Photography and Manuscripts


Date Range1912 - 1991
Quantity23.1 cm, 23 files
ProvenanceJohn Stewart Turner
Description

This Series consists of various files and manuscripts relating to J.S. Turner's artistic and writing pursuits. This is an "artificial" Series assembled by the University of Melbourne Archives. The Items included in this Series formed part of an Accession of materials collected from the home of J.S. and K. Turner in 1991.

The Items in this Series include: manuscripts of poems, rhymes and speeches by J.S. Turner; manuscripts of papers and newspaper articles written by J.S. Turner; news clippings of articles written by J.S. Turner for a gardening section in The Age newspaper; Wilson's Promontory field notes.

ArrangedItems grouped by format or function/activity with which they are associated. Order imposed by University of Melbourne Archives.

Inventory Listing

TURN00964 Water Colour Notes
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Manuscript list, in J.S. Turner's handwriting, of paints to be purchased (undated).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/1
Date range 1975? - 1991?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier TURN00964 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00965 Painting - Frames
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Item includes: statements from Hargraves Street Gallery for framing of J.S. Turner's paintings; brochure for Turner-Shaw Exhibition.

See also "Turner-Shaw Exhibition - Records and Notes" file (Item TURN00966), this Series.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/2
Date range 1983 - 1985    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, Loose Notes and Public Relations Material
Inventory Identifier TURN00965 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00966 Turner-Shaw Exhibition - Records and Notes
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Item includes: lists of images, notes, and reviews of J.S. Turner-Peg Shaw Joint Exhibition, Robert Johnson Gallery, Castlemaine 1983-1984; notes on easel construction and picture framing; notes on Lithography.

Item contains various estrays, including: personal correspondence from Dr R.L. Specht and D.H. Ashton to J.S. Turner; D.H. Ashton, "An Outline for 'The Plant Ecology of Victoria'"; letter from Jean Galbraith to J.S. Turner, 1985; letter from Dave (?), Cambridge Botany School, to J.S. Turner, 1985; letter from John Anderson (?), La Trobe University, 1985.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/3
Date range 1983 - 1985    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Ephemera, News Clippings, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents, Lists and Public Relations Material
Inventory Identifier TURN00966 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00967 Sir Russell Grimwade, "Cabinetmaking Timbers of Australia", reprinted from Wood, September, 1953
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Estray marked "With the author's compliments".

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/4
Date range 1953    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier TURN00967 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00968 Rhymes for Occasions - File 2
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Typescripts and manuscript notes for poems and speeches, generally by J.S. Turner.

Item includes: R. M. Greenwood and I. A. E. Atkinson, "Evolution of Divarivating Plants in New Zealand in Relation to Moa Browsing", reprinted from Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society, Vol. 24, 1977 (reprint is signed, "To Professor Turner, With our best regards, Michael Greenwood and Ian Atkinson".).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/5
Date range 1967 - 1989    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier TURN00968 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00969 Pentax 1981 - Replacement Data
Manuscripts, Painting, Art, Poems and Photography

Item includes: receipt for camera purchase; manuscript statement recording loss of camera in Oxford.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 1/6
Date range 1981    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, Loose Notes, Public Relations Material and Manuals
Inventory Identifier TURN00969 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00970 Killarney Woods
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Reprints of articles: E.A. Rubel, "The Killarney Woods", The New Phytologist, Vol XI, No.2, 1912; P.W. Richards, "The Bryophyte Communities of a Killarney Oakwood", Annales Bryologici, Vol XI, 1938; J.S. Turner and A.S. Watt, "The Oaklands (Quercetum sessiliflorae) of Killarney, Ireland", The Journal of Ecology, Vol XXVII, No.1, 1939.

Reprints Extracted from "World Wild Life Project 10 File" (Item TURN00928).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/1
Date range 1912 - 1939    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier TURN00970 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00971 The Science Review
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Copies of the Melbourne University Science Club publication The Science Review, 1942, 1943, and 1950-51. The editions include articles by J.S. Turner, including "Botanical Science in the USSR" (1942).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/2
Date range 1942 - 1951    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Journals
Inventory Identifier TURN00971 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00972 Wilson's Promontory Soils - Colour and Texture, February 1960
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Manuscript notes and tables of data on soils research at Wilson's Promontory.

Item includes: typescript copy of J.S. Turner, S.G.M. Carr (nee Fawcett) and E.C.F. Bird, "The Dune Succession on Clonmel and Sunday Island, Victoria"; typescript copy of "Studies on the Heath Vegetation at Wilson's Promontory"; notes on Wilson's Promontory dunes and covering letter to J.S. Turner from Eric (E.C.F. Bird?).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/3
Date range 1960 - 1961, mostly 1961    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Drafts, Memoranda, Loose Notes and Tables of data
Inventory Identifier TURN00972 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00973 Copies of Field Notes relating to areas considered in the MS: "Interrelations of vegetation and seabirds on granite islands of South East Victoria. For Lodgement in the Botany Department Library ..."
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Wilson's Promontory field notes.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/4
Date range 1959    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier TURN00973 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00974 Yannoit Plant List
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Yannoit Research

Item includes: manuscript plant list, 1970; exercise book "Yannoit Plant List 1969" (includes specimens).

Please Note: Item yet be located at the University of Melbourne Archives and therefore has not been fully described.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/5/1
Date range 1969? - 1970?    Quantity 1 cm, 2 volumes?
Inventory Identifier TURN00974 Box Number O/S1 Series TURNS004
TURN00975 Yannoit Plant Specimens 1969
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Yannoit Research

Please Note: Item yet be located at the University of Melbourne Archives and therefore has not been fully described.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/5/2
Date range 1969    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file?
Inventory Identifier TURN00975 Box Number O/S1 Series TURNS004
TURN00976 Web of Life - History Etc.
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Typescript and manuscript drafts for J.S. Turner's paper on the history of the Web of Life science education project for the Australian Academy of Science.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/6
Date range 1963 - 1980, generally 1975    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Drafts, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier TURN00976 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00977 Turner - Wangaratta Oration
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Wangaratta Oration.

Manuscript notes (in Turner's handwriting) for McKay Oration 1975, "The Landscape and Settlement".

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/7/1
Date range 1975    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, Loose Notes and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier TURN00977 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00978 Wangaratta - Mackay Oration
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Wangaratta Oration.

Correspondence and notes regarding Mackay Oration.

Item includes: copy of "The Proper Study of Mankind", by J.S. Turner, accompanied by draft notes for the paper.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/7/2
Date range 1966 - 1975    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Loose Notes, Talks and/or Speeches, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier TURN00978 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00979 Oxygen Effects - Protoplasmic Streaming and Auxin - Letters Etc.
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

File containing typed manuscripts of papers by Professor Turner and colleagues on the effect of oxygen on plant physiology (photosynthesis, growth, etc.).

Item includes copies of the following papers: J.S. Turner, Judith MacRae and Euphenia Grant-Lipp, "Indole acetic acid and protoplasmic streaming in Tradescantia hair cells: an oxygen effect"; E.G. Brittain and J.S. Turner "The Inhibition of Photo-synthesis by Oxygen".

Item includes: correspondence from L.R.D. Pyke, Secretary for Graduate Studies to Dr R.G. Everson regarding passing of his Doctorate and enclosing examiners' comments, June 1964; letters from E.G. Brittain to J.S. Turner, October to November 1957, concerning the state of research and his prospects; letter from Hiroshi Tamiya, Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research, to J.S. Turner, 28 October 1957, concerning their research results on photosynthesis in low CO2 (carbon dioxide) conditions; letter from Melvin Calvin, University of California, explaining points of paper, 11 October 1957; letter from Dr R.N. Robertson to J.S. Turner regarding E.G. Brittain's thesis and further work, 7 August 1957; letter from G.E. Fogg to J.S. Turner concerning oxygen effects in oceanic photosynthesis, October 1957; letter from James French containing details of enzyme reaction; letter from Munro-Fox to J.S. Turner concerning receipt of manuscript, 6 December 1960; letter from Dr R.C. Fuller to J.S. Turner containing details of Fuller's earlier experiment, 4 January 1961; J.F. Turner to J.S. Turner with details of possible work and Calvin's earlier experiments, 23 December 1960, with note from Rose Mucken to J.S. Turner regarding solutions, 22 December 1960; manuscript of paper "The effect of oxygen on growth", with correspondence from C.P. Whittingham, September 1960.Reports

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/8
Date range 1957 - 1964    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Drafts, Reports and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier TURN00979 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00980 JST Papers - Norfolk Islands Architecture
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Multiple copies of paper by J.S. Turner, "Landscape, Architecture and Planning on Norfolk Island", Architecture in Australia, December 1971.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/9
Date range 1971    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier TURN00980 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00981 Norfolk Island Report - JST et al
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Item includes: copy of Turner, Smithers and Hoogland report, The Conservation of Norfolk Island, Australian Conservation Foundation, Special Publication No. 1, undated; copy of The Norfolk Islander, Vol 23, No. 51, August 1989, with articles on Norfolk Island Management Report.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/10
Date range 1970 - 1989    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Newsletters, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles, Published Reports and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier TURN00981 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00982 Heritage Article
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Item includes: "Provisional Flora List - Warrumbungle National Park; "Dry Schlerophyll Forests and Heath Woodlands of the Pilliga Scrub"; C.D. Ollier, "Early Landform Evolution"; George Seddon, "The Loss of the Tropical Rainforest", 1980; Robert Carrick and A.B. Costin, "Nature Conservation in Australia", 1959; W.G.D. Midddleton, "Trees for Wild Life"; letter from A. Newsome, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research, to J.S. Turner regarding endangered species, reserves and Aboriginal land claims, October 1979; correspondence from Anne Chisholm to J.S. Turner regarding the editing of his paper for The Heritage of Australia, May 1980.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/11
Date range 1959 - 1980    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Talks and/or Speeches, Published Papers or Articles, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier TURN00982 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00983 Lothian Publishers
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Item includes: correspondence to J.S. Turner regarding the editing and revision of his essay/introduction "The Living Plant", which appeared in the publication Shrubs and Trees for Australian Gardens, August 1989.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/12
Date range 1984 - 1985    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Loose Notes and Publication Proofs
Inventory Identifier TURN00983 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00984 Conservation, Forests and Lands Research Permit
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes

Estray: Research Permit from Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands for J.S. Turner to use managed areas for research.Forms

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/13
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Forms
Inventory Identifier TURN00984 Box Number 127 Series TURNS004
TURN00985 Age - Cuttings
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Age Articles, Arbutus

News cuttings and photocopies of J.S. Turner articles that appeared in the gardening section of the Age.

Item includes: estray, draft typescript article on J.S. Turner's 80th Birthday University Dinner, with manuscript corrections.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/14/1
Date range 1986 - 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, News Clippings and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier TURN00985 Box Number 128 Series TURNS004
TURN00986 Age, Arbutus
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Age Articles, Arbutus

File containing news clippings and draft articles concerning the "Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo).

Item includes: Jean Galbraith, 'Strawberry fields forever', Age, undated; draft copies of an article by J.S. Turner to be titled "Fond Memories of Ireland" or "The Killarney Strawberry Tree" (draft is undated).

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/14/2
Date range 1986? - 1988?    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, News Clippings and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier TURN00986 Box Number 128 Series TURNS004
TURN00987 Age Articles - Ann Latreille
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Age Articles, Arbutus

Item includes: correspondence between J.S. Turner and Anne Latrielle, Age Garden Editor; cuttings of articles and drafts by J.S. Turner.

Item includes several articles, some annotated, including: Christopher J. Davey, "The Development of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Australia", AusIMM Symposium 1986; J. Robert Sealy "Arbutus unedo", Journal of Ecology, Vol 37, pp365-388, 1949; J.S. Turner and A.S. Watt, "The Oaklands ... of Killarney, Ireland", Journal of Ecology, Vol XXVII, No.1, 1939; Louis P.W. Renouf, "Preliminary Work of a New Biological Station", Journal of Ecology, Vol XIX, No.2, 1931.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/14/3
Date range 1931 - 1989, mostly 1980's    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, News Clippings, Loose Notes and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier TURN00987 Box Number 128 Series TURNS004
TURN00988 Age - Landscape (Australia)
J.S. Turner: Papers, Draft Manuscripts and Research Notes - Age Articles, Arbutus

Item includes: draft article for the Age, "Helping you to make Australia a better place to live in", February 1987; correspondence from Ralph Neale, Landscape Australia, to J.S. Turner and photocopy of material from subscription drive for Landscape Australia.

Creator John Stewart Turner
Control 2/14/4
Date range 1979 - 1987    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier TURN00988 Box Number 128 Series TURNS004

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