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Series 3 - Willis Correspondence
Chronologically Filed General Correspondence
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Date Range1942 - 1987
Quantity98 cm, 20 files
ProvenanceJames Hamlyn Willis
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'General correspondence files' sorted by Willis and filed in shallow boxes.
Correspondence (and lists; forms; plant samples; invitations; forms; postcards; pamphlets, photographs), with various individuals and concerning a variety of matters, including a large number of botanical queries, references, research, specimens, identifications, talks and addresses, publications, subscriptions, acknowledgements, invitations, friends.

ArrangedChronologically.

Inventory Listing

3-1 Correspondence to James Willis 1966

List of plants from Ayer's Rock; Brighton Historical Society newsletter; Australian Photographic Society Inc. Brisbane Convention program; Commonwealth of Australia Department of External Affairs summary of Antarctic research programme.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 123
Date range 4 January 1966 - 20 December 1966    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00085 Box Number 1 Series 3
3-2 Correspondence to James Willis 1965
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 124
Date range 4 January 1965 - 21 December 1965    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier WILL00086 Box Number 1 Series 3
3-3 Correspondence to James Willis 1964

Sample description from Illustrated Handbook of the Grasses of the Australian Capital Territory and Adjacent Areas of New South Wales, by Nancy Burbidge; sketches of unidentified fungi; Australian National Committee for Antarctic Research summary reports; Brassica Seeds for testing sold by Sir William McDonald and sent to Margaret Blackwood for germination and chromosome count.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 125
Date range 9 January 1964 - 31 December 1964    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Loose Notes and Sketches
Inventory Identifier WILL00087 Box Number 2 Series 3
3-4 Correspondence to James Willis 1963

Book review Wildflowers of North America in Full Color by R.S. Lemmon and C.C. Johnson,1963.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 126
Date range 2 January 1963 - 29 December 1963    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, Artefacts or Objects/Realia, Accounts, General Correspondence, Illustrations, Ephemera, Reports, News Clippings, Loose Notes and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier WILL00088 Box Number 2 Series 3
3-5 Correspondence to James Willis 1961-1962

Consignment notice; Olaf Hagerup: A Salute for Australia, by Professor L. Lanjeaw (handwritten paper); receipts; notes on alteration to nomenclature; questionnaire and replies, 5 July 1962; list of amendments considered necessary in Handbook of Trees and Shrubs.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 127
Date range 4 January 1961 - 20 December 1962    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, News Clippings, Loose Notes and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier WILL00089 Box Number 2 Series 3
3-6 Correspondence to James Willis 1966-1967

Report on Araluen Tropical Gardens Pty. Ltd.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 128
Date range 3 January 1966 - 21 December 1967    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Drafts, Ephemera, Reports, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00090 Box Number 3 Series 3
3-7 Correspondence to James Willis 1968

Royal Society of Victoria agenda of meeting; book notice 'Australia's Western Wildflowers' by M.K. Morecombe; Australian Flora in Colour, book review by J.H. Willis; Save the Dandenong League memorandum; receipts; list of eucalypt duplicates sent as a donation.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 129
Date range 2 January 1968 - 23 December 1968    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00091 Box Number 3 Series 3
3-8 Correspondence to James Willis 1969

Notes on Banksia Serrata; Book review by J.H. Willis; programmes; Australian Institute of Landscape Architects; invitations; report on manuscript entitled Keys to the Families and Gerera of Queensland Flowering Plants.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 130
Date range 2 January 1969 - 25 December 1969    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence and Maps
Inventory Identifier WILL00092 Box Number 3 Series 3
3-9 Correspondence to James Willis 1942-1949
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 158
Date range 28 May 1942 - 26 December 1949    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence and Reports
Inventory Identifier WILL00093 Box Number 4 Series 3
3-10 Correspondence to James Willis 1950-1954

McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research committee minutes; notes on the New Australian Plant House for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by J.H. Willis; Save the Forests Campaign material; Walkabout, Australian Geographical Magazine material.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 159
Date range 18 January 1950 - 30 December 1954    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier WILL00094 Box Number 4 Series 3
3-11 Correspondence to James Willis 1955-1958

There is a gap in the correspondence - from June to December 1958 J.H. Willis was in Britain.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 160
Date range 8 January 1955 - 16 April 1958    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Diagrams, Ephemera, Maps, Sketches and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00095 Box Number 4 Series 3
3-12 Correspondence to James Willis 1959-1960

List of plants from Essendon Grammar School; Royal Australian Chemical Institute list of grasses.
There is a gap in the correspondence - from June to December 1958 J.H. Willis was in Britain.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 161
Date range 20 July 1959 - 22 December 1960    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, Accounts, General Correspondence, Ephemera, Loose Notes, Sketches and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00096 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-13 Correspondence to James Willis 1970

National Trust of Australia appeal notice; Royal Society of Victoria agenda; notes on the official life of R.T.M. Pescott by J.H. Willis; papers by J.H. Willis - 'Dyes from plants native to Australia', 'More about Mud-Mats', 'Shining Eucalyptus', 'Flora of West Gippsland', 'Floristic Notes on Arthur's Seat'.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 162
Date range 2 January 1970 - 31 December 1970    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00097 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-14 Correspondence to James Willis 1971-1972

Dustjacket from the publication Flora of New Zealand; book reviews by J.H. Willis; memorandum regarding resolution from the First Australasian Regional International Congress of Park Administration concerning the need for further research on the botany and horticulture of Australian native plants; symposium paper (and later sent for publication) entitled 'Vegetation of Western Victoria' by J.H. Willis; Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria; Geelong Field Naturalists Club excursion newsheet; notes; Environmental Studies Association Field Course notes; Preliminary List of Sites of Special Interest on the Coast of Victoria.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 163
Date range 2 January 1971 - 21 December 1972    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, Newsletters, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles and Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier WILL00098 Box Number 5 Series 3
3-15 Correspondence to James Willis 1973-1974

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division publications list; specimens; list regarding eucalyptus; reference for Jean Galbraith by J.H. Willis; University of Melbourne Graduates Questionnaire; Royal Society of Victoria minutes and report; article entitled 'Vegetation of Western Victoria' by J.H. Willis; receipts; Land Conservation Council Alpine Study Report by J.H. Willis; Victorian Horticultural Society newsletter; Western Port Regional Planning Authority Notice of Determination.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 164
Date range 2 January 1973 - 29 December 1974    Quantity 6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier WILL00099 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-16 Correspondence to James Willis 1975-1976

Society for Growing Australian Plants newsletter; note to the editor by Victorian Naturalist by J.H. Willis; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division publications list; Municipal Engineers Conference programme; referee's submission for authors; Royal Society of Victoria symposium on the Otway Region; paper entitled 'Plants of Special Interest' by J.H. Willis; paper on 'Daisy Wood: At Harmony with Nature' by J.H. Willis.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 165
Date range 20 January 1975 - 22 December 1976    Quantity 6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence, Ephemera, News Clippings, Talks and/or Speeches, Published Papers or Articles and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier WILL00100 Box Number 6 Series 3
3-17 Correspondence to James Willis 1977-1978

Testimonial on behalf of Leon Costermans; Royal Society of Victoria minutes and report to council; Save the Whale Fund material; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division publications list; foreword by J.H. Willis for Encylopedia of Australian Plants Suitable for Cultivation, by D.L. Jones and Rodger Elliot; copy of lecture 'Elements of the Victorian Flora' by J.H. Willis; notes; book review by J.H. Willis; list of seeds required for experimental planting; foreword by J.H. Willis fo Gardening with Australian Plants by Thistle Harris; substance of an address entitled 'Adaptability of Australian Flora' by J.H. Willis.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 166
Date range 8 January 1977 - 28 December 1978    Quantity 6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Diagrams, Ephemera, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Sketches and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00101 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-18 Correspondence to James Willis 1978-1980

Royal Society of Victoria minutes and report to council; north-eastern Historical Society newsletter; submission by Bendigo Field Naturalists Club on the Fryers Ridge area; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division publications list; invitations; diagrams and sketches; notes; examiner's report by J.H. Willis; book review by J.H. Willis; negatives; Melbourne Camera Club syllabus.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 167
Date range 28 August 1978 - 16 December 1980    Quantity 6 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Sketches, Photographic Film Negatives and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00102 Box Number 7 Series 3
3-19 Correspondence to James Hamlyn Willis 1981-1987

Material regarding clearance of crown land at Mouth of Betka River, Mallacoota; Royal Society of Victoria minutes and report to council; final proof for the preface of Wildflowers of South-eastern Australia; list of native and naturalised alien plant species of Lake Goldsmith State Game Reserve; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division newsletter; Western Victorian Conservation Committee newsletter, public meeting, media release; book reviews by J.H. Willis; paper entitled 'The botanical journeys of Ferdinand Von Mueller' by J.H. Willis; Hawthorn Australia Day Celebration material; list of plants of New South Wales; map; Field Naturalists Club of Ballarat newsheet; Australian Flora Foundation material; review by J.H. Willis on Native Trees and Shrubs of south-eastern Australiaby Leon Costermans.

 Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 178
Date range 30 December 1981 - 31 August 1989    Quantity 10 cm, 2 files
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, General Correspondence, Diagrams, Illustrations, Ephemera, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Sketches and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00103 Box Number 8 Series 3
Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, November 2000
With support from Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Norman Wettenhall Foundation, William Buckland Foundation and The Maud Gibson Trust
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