Series 12 - Reserves Files


Date Range20 December 1899 - 23 October 1993
Quantity30 cm, 13 files
ProvenanceJames Hamlyn Willis
Description

Correspondence; minutes of meetings; submissions; Willis's own handwritten plant lists for flora found in various reserves and National Parks; notes; newspaper clippings; reports; photographs; promotional material; talks; draft manuscripts regarding various nature reserves and National Parks in Australia (mostly Victoria).

ArrangedAccording to subject e.g. name of reserve, etc. No overall system of arrangement (alphabetical, chronological) is apparent.
Related Series
Related

13  Field Notes, Notebooks and Nature Diaries 1924 - 1976

18  Flora and Plant Lists, Locality Lists 1887 - 1995


Inventory Listing

12-1 Grange Heathland Reserve (Oakleigh)

'The Grange, Management of Urban Bushland Remnant and Sport Ground Alternatives', submission to National Trust of Victoria, by A. Hughes; handwritten list entitled 'Plants of Grange Reserve' by David Albrecht; handwritten list entitled 'Heathland Flora along a gully at North Oakleigh', noted by J.H. Willis.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 701
Date range 1 October 1947 - 19 April 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00239 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-2 Little Desert

Flora in the Wimmera region; 'Little Desert Flora', a checklist by J.H. Willis, June 1951; 'The Botany of 'The little Desert', Wimmera, Victoria' in Victorian Naturalist, by St. Eloy D'Alton; A Guide to Plants in the Little Desert and Mt. Araphiles Area, by F.J.C. Rogers; Little Desert Wildlife, by I.R. McCann; list entitled 'Native and Naturalized Plants', by J.H. Willis.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 702A
Date range 1 August 1913 - 26 September 1989    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Diagrams, Maps, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Journals and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00240 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-3 Little Desert Flora

Botanical Report on Little Desert for the Secretary for Lands by J.H. Willis; The Victorian Naturalist, August 1931; 'Little Desert Flora', a checklist of vascular Plants by J.H. Willis, June 1951; Little Desert National Park site; J. Ros Garnet's Survey of case for a National Park in the Little Desert, September 1960; Report on the Vegetation at Broughton's Waterhole, Little Dessert, by J.H. Willis; Little Desert Census by Eric Muir, February 1949; lists of flora at Little Desert; notes on germination of seeds by J.H. Willis; copy of 'The Legislative Assembly Bill to include additional land in certain National Parks...'; photograph of Percival Williams, Alex Hicks and Evelyn Coutts; Notes of Proceedings of Little Desert Forum, 15 November 1969.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 1 August 1913 - 20 April 1970    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Diagrams, Reports, Maps, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Journals, Loose Photographic Prints and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00241 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-4 Melbourne Zoological Gardens Trees and Shrubs

Papers regarding Melbourne Zoological Gardens Trees and Shrubs. Correspondence from Zoological Board of Victoria; list entitled 'Trees and Shrubs in Zoological Gardens, Royal Park, Melbourne', by J.H. Willis; site plan of the Gardens; specimens.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 703
Date range 16 April 1985 - 19 August 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00242 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-5 Point Cook

Report on the Existing Vegetation and Most Likely Previous patterns of Vegetation at Point Cook Metropolitan Park, by David Cantrill and Ian Lunt, 1984; handwritten list entitled 'Plants of Werribee River Banks Island', by J.H. Willis.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 704
Date range January 1984 - September 1986    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports, Maps and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00243 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-6 Courtney Road Flora Reserve

List of vascular Plants in Courtney Road Flora Reserve by J.H. Willis; bird list.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 705
Date range 8 October 1983 - 25 June 1990    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Maps and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00244 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-7 Freycinet Peninsula National Park, Tasmania

Freycinet National Park Internal Draft; Freycinet National Park indigenous plant species; walking track information.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 706
Date range June 1991    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00245 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-8 Miscellaneous National Parks

Papers regarding miscellaneous national parks including Hattah Lakes National Park, Fraser National Park, Cathedral Range, Wyperfield National Park, Whipstick National Park, Lake Peddar National Park, Wilsons Promontory, Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve, Warrandyte State Park.

Correspondence regarding National Parks, research, flora, lectures, vegetation, park proposals, conservation; photographs; lists; drafts entitled 'Plant Life in National Parks', by J.H. Willis; Victorian National Parks Association newsletters; newspaper clippings; pamphlet and notes regarding the nature trail in Fraser National Park; Wyperfield National Park leaflets and catalogues; report regarding birds in the park; miscellaneous reports; paper entitled 'The Collection and Preservation of Insects', by Gary Anderson; Save Lake Peddar National Park material; National Parks Authority training course material; paper entitled 'Flora of Wilsons Promontory', by J.H. Willis; pamphlets regarding Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve; 'Warrandyte: A Natural Reserve Close to Melbourne, State Park Proposal'; 'A National Park Service for Victoria', by J. Ros Garnet; photographs.

Also publications:
Victorian Forest Facts. Issue by Save the Forests Campaign, 1944;
The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 64, No.4, August 1947;
Victoria's Resources, 1963-1972 (incomplete);
Living Monuments: A Practical Guide to Conservation, by H.A. Lindsay;
The Flora of the Proposed Whipstick National Park;
National Parks in New South Wales;
Victoria's 15 National Parks;
The etruscan: Staff Magazine of the Bank of New South Wales, September - December 1962;
Queensland National Parks;
National Parks of Western Australia.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 710
Date range 1 March 1944 - 26 October 1979    Quantity 7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Reports, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Publication Proofs, Published Papers or Articles, Published Reports, Loose Photographic Prints, Lists and Proposals and/or Submissions
Inventory Identifier WILL00246 Box Number 1 Series 12
12-9 Flora of Coranderrk Reserve

Papers regarding Flora of Coranderrk Reserve (Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary), near Healesville. Lists of larger fungi noted in the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary and Coranderrk Bushland reserve, by J.H. Willis; list of species of vascular plants present in the Coranderrk Bushland, by J.H. Willis; list of Cryptograms of Coranderrk Bushland; illustrations; 'Healesville sanctuary Tracks', Issue No. 5, August 1992; lists of Coranderrk Bushland flora; Report of the Sir Colin MacKenzie Zoological Board, Healesville Review Group to the Zoological Board of Victoria, 1983; 'Use of Coranderrk Bushland Report'; draft entitled 'Plant Life of Coranderrk Bushland Reserve', by J.H. Willis; 'Flora of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve', by J.H. Willis; Natural History of Coranderrk Bushland Portion of the Sir Colin MacKenzie Fauna Park. June 1978.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range April 1968 - August 1992    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Illustrations, Drafts, Reports, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00247 Box Number 2 Series 12
12-10 Cocopara Nature Reserve

Papers regarding Cocopara Nature Reserve, New South Wales. Provisional flora list and flora list of Tabletop Nature reserve; recording census; lists and notes of flora of Cocopara Nature Reserve, by J.H. Willis.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 21 July 1966 - 4 March 1970    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00248 Box Number 2 Series 12
12-11 Rotamah Island, Gippsland Lakes National Park

Papers regarding Rotamah Island, Gippsland Lakes National Park, East Victoria, Flora Grid W.50. Correspondence from Isabel Crawford and Allan Burbidge; Rotamah Island Bird Observatory pamphlets; Friends of Rotamah Island Bird Observatory newsletters; Rotamah Island Lakes National Park preliminary list of fungal species by J.H. Willis; plants noted in Lakes National Park by J.H. Willis; Rotamah Island Bird Observatory Report 1980-1981; Rotamah Island Bird Observatory Report 1982-1984.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range January 1982 - June 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Illustrations, Loose Notes, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00249 Box Number 2 Series 12
12-12 Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Papers regarding Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Island visited by J.H. Willis, March 1983, October 1985 and October 1993. Correspondence; list of Indigenous Vascular Flora of Kangaroo Island, South Australia by J.H. Willis; 'F.N.C.V. Excursion to Kangaroo Island, South Australia', by Elizabeth Turner; list of birds and plants; map; Kangaroo Island tour pamphlets and tour operator's publications.
The Story of Kangaroo Island, by Alan Osterstock, 1975;
Kangaroo Island Wildflowers, by Ida Jackson, second edition 1976;
Talented Kangaroo Islanders, by Ruth Goldthorpe, 1981;
The Full Story of Flinders Chase, by Samuel Dixon, 1981;
Natural History of Kangaroo Island, 1981;
Kangaroo Island Orchids, by Ida Jackson, 1983;
Kangaroo Island Wildflowers, by Ida Jackson, 1993.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 1 February 1975 - 23 October 1993    Quantity 7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Maps, Loose Notes, Books, Journals, Published Papers or Articles and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00250 Box Number 2 Series 12
12-13 Mallacoota

Plant lists, plant specimens and four copies of the Eight Progress Report of the Royal Commission on State Forests and Timber Reserrves, East Gippsland (1899).

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 20 December 1899 - 29 August 1993    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, General Correspondence, Reports, News Clippings, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL01669 Box Number 3 Series 12

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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