Series 22 - William Henry Nicholls


Date Range1881 - 1959
Quantity86 cm, 23 files
ProvenanceWilliam Henry Nicholls
Description

William (Bill) Nicholls's notebooks and bound volumes of reprints and journals. The pages of the notebooks are interspersed with loose notes, photographs, correspondence, pressed plant specimens and botanical illustrations (sketches and water colours). The records were donated to Willis by Bill Nicholls or by Nicholls' family.

ArrangedAll records, e.g. notes, journals, correspondence and reprints of papers, are bound together according to format and/or subject. No overall system of arrangement (alphabetical, chronological) is apparent for bound volumes.

Inventory Listing

22-1 Notebook
Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1 September 1926 - 3 October 1941    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles, Sketches, Loose Photographic Prints, Indexes, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00594 Box Number 1 Series 22
22-2 William H. Nicholl's Notebook.

Incomplete notebook with olive green cover.
Dimensions: 22 cm x 14 cm x 43cm.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 13 September 1930 - 19 September 1941    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, Artefacts or Objects/Realia, General Correspondence, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00595 Box Number 1 Series 22
22-3 The Southern Science Record

Copies.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range February 1881 - May 1882    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Journals
Inventory Identifier WILL00596 Box Number 1 Series 22
22-4 Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria Annual Reports

Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria annual reports and list of members, fifth annual report 1884/85 - twelfth annual report 1891/92 (complete).

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1884 - 1892    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Published Reports
Inventory Identifier WILL00597 Box Number 1 Series 22
22-5 Orchid Aceae

Early lists, reprints and notes regarding orchid aceae, collected by William Nicholls for his library.
Assorted monographs and reprints by Dr. R.S. Rogers, 1909 - 1933;
Assorted monographs and reprints regarding pollination and other botanic themes by Edith Coleman, 1927 - 1932;
Assorted monographs and reprints by H.B. Williamson, 1913 - 1927;
Assorted reprints by other authors including W.H. Nicholls; J.W. Audas; E.E. Pestcott; J. Searle.
Copy of Australian Orchid Preview Consolidated Index Volumes 1 and 2, 1936-1937.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1906 - 1937    Quantity 10 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, News Clippings, Journals, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00598 Box Number 1 Series 22
22-6 Contributions to the Orchidology of Australia etc.

Blue notebook, bound compilation of reprinted articles. Includes correspondence to W.H. Nicholls regarding orchidology; Orchid Society of New South Wales Notes on the Distribution of Australian Orchids; list of family orchidaceae; partial notebook on orchids.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 26 September 1935 - 13 January 1951    Quantity 7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Numeric Data, Illustrations, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00599 Box Number 2 Series 22
22-7 Orchids Reprints

Bound compilation of reprinted articles entitled Orchids Reprints. Bound book with black cover. Dimensions: 26 cm x 22.5 cm. Also enclosed - handwritten index.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range July 1904 - June 1937    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Journals, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints and Indexes
Inventory Identifier WILL00600 Box Number 2 Series 22
22-8 The Southern Science Record and Victorian Naturalist

Miscellaneous copies of The Southern Science Record, 1881-1882 and Victorian Naturalist, 1884-1925. Bound folder with green cover. Dimensions: 21.5 cm x 14 cm. Also enclosed - handwritten index.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1881 - 1925    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Journals and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier WILL00601 Box Number 2 Series 22
22-9 Contributions to the Orchidaccous Plants of Australia

Bound folder with maroon and green cover; compilation of reprinted articles entitled Contributions to the Orchidaccous Plants of Australia, by R.S. Rodgers, H.M.R. Rupp, H.A. Pittman.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range November 1927 - October 1928    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats Illustrations, Loose Notes, Journals and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier WILL00602 Box Number 3 Series 22
22-10 On Orchids

Bound compilation (green cover) of reprinted articles entitled On Orchids. Also enclosed: handwritten index. Dimensions: 25 cm x 16 cm.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range September 1921 - May 1933    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Journals, Published Papers or Articles and Indexes
Inventory Identifier WILL00603 Box Number 3 Series 22
22-11 Notes on Australasian Orchids
Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1930 - 1932    Quantity 7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Illustrations, News Clippings, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints, Indexes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00604 Box Number 3 Series 22
22-12 Notes on Chiloglottis, Glossodia and Calochilus
Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1933    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks, Loose Notes, Indexes, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00605 Box Number 3 Series 22
22-13 Notes on Prasophylla
Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range April 1930 - November 1932    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints, Indexes and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00606 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-14 Notes on Caladenia
Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range Date unknown.    Quantity 4.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00607 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-15 Notes on Caleana, Spiculaea, Acianthus, Microtis

Notebook with green cover.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1931 - 1933    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats News Clippings, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints, Indexes and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00608 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-16 Notes on Orchid Records

William Nicholl's notebook regarding orchid records, grey cover, 22 cm x 13 cm.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1950    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00609 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-17 Notes on Plerostylis and Orchids

Notebook with green cover.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1939    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats News Clippings, Notebooks, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00610 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-18 Notes on Orchids

Notebook with green cover, includes extracts from letter relating to Australia's orchids.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1925 - 1927    Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00611 Box Number 4 Series 22
22-19 Notes on Orchids

Notebook with blue cover and red binding, includes extracts from letter relating to Australia's orchids.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1939    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00612 Box Number 5 Series 22
22-20 Contributions to the Orchideae of Australia and New Zealand

Bound compilation (with maroon cover) of reprinted articles by R.S. Rodgers, W.H. Nicholls, and others.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1906 - 1946    Quantity 7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Journals, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints, Indexes, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00613 Box Number 5 Series 22
22-21 Flora of Queensland

Bound folder with green cover.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 1902 - 1947    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes, Journals, Published Papers or Articles, Lists and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL00614 Box Number 5 Series 22
22-22 Alfred Tadgell's Correspondence Regarding Orchids

Correspondence to and from Alfred Tadgell regarding orchids. Includes letters to and from: R.S. Rodgers; E. Rossitor. These papers were transferred to Bill Nicholls and kept in a newspaper cuttings book.

Creator William Henry Nicholls
Date range 15 July 1921 - 15 May 1931    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier WILL00615 Box Number 5 Series 22
22-23 Original plant drawings by W.H. Nicholls from 1928

39 cm x 46.5cm.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 1927 - 1928    Quantity 1 file
Formats Unmounted Artworks and Drawings
Inventory Identifier WILL01706 Box Number O/S Series 22

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
Listed by Rachel Tropea with Andrea Barnes and Fay Anderson
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Updated 15 November 2007
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