Research notes and correspondence compiled by Crosbie Morrison during research for an article on R.C. Gunn (1808 - 1881), a Tasmanian botanist, which appeared in the July 1951 issue of Wild Life; correspondence and further material collected after publication: letters from R.W. Gunn (a descendant of R.C. Gunn), Ronald E. Smith (Crosbie Morrison's contact in Tasmania who liaised between Crosbie Morrison and R.W. Gunn), W. Baulch (Honorary Secretary of the Launceston Field Naturalists' Club), I. Thomson (Secretary of the northern branch of the Royal Society of Tasmania); original graphic of R.C. Gunn; letter (1886) from M.L. [Margaret Legrand] Gunn, second wife of R.C. Gunn, to her grand daughter 'Daisy'.

Programme from symposium on Australia's part in the International Geophysical Year; black and white print showing three unidentified men in a car, surrounded by crowds.

Reprints: This Tasmania... by Ken Sherrott, a component of the travel portfolio Lets See Tasmania, no publisher, no date; Port Arthur's Convict days: an Historic and Pictorial Review by Coultman Smith, 2nd impression, Hobart: Mercury Press, no date; Shadow Over Tasmania by Coultman Smith, 6th edition, Hobart, 1947; The Port Arthur Guide, published from 'Original Records at the Old Curiosity Shop', Port Arthur: W Radcliffe, no date.

Ampol road map of Tasmania, scale: 3 miles to a centimetre; road map of Tasmania, scale: 4 miles to a centimetre, prepared by Lands and Surveys Department, Hobart, includes inset maps of national parks and a mileage table; Walker's Guide and Map to Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania - includes sketch map, scale: 1 mile to 1.7 centimetres, photographs, and advice and information for walkers; map of the colony of Tasmania, scale ?, published in London by Chapman and Hall; Skyline Climb on Cradle Mountain, by Frederick Smithies, inscribed by author to Crosbie Morrison, 4 page reprint; Tourist Map and Official Road Guide, scale 12 miles to an inch, issued by the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department; Tourist Map of Tasmania, scale: 10 miles to an inch, published by the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau.

Reprints and correspondence: Rotary Club Melbourne, Roster 1957-58 - career information and photographs of members, including Crosbie Morrison; correspondence from John W. Wright, Chairman Program Committee, and H.F. Gurney, Honorary Secretary; History of the Rotary Club of Melbourne 1921 - 1955, 16 page reprint; weekly notice of the Rotary Club of Hamilton, Victoria - includes notice of a talk by Crosbie Morrison, 'The National Park Movement: for all the people - all the time'; Rotary Club of Melbourne, thirty first Annual Report, 1951-52; The Rotary Information Committee News Sheet Number 1, includes welcome to Crosbie Morrison as a new member.

Notice of monthly meeting; Form for Installation of the Master at the Opening of each Monthly Dinner; information notice from G.S. Browne, recorder; Song of the Beefsteak Club.

Typescripts of verse about animals and plants, writers include A.P.H. Herbert, [?] Nash, J. Cottingham, Ruth Chandler, Bert Taylor: 'Sponges', 'The Fish', 'The Pig', 'The Wombat', 'The Cow', 'The Germ', 'The Egg', 'The Calf', 'The Seagull', 'The Turkey', 'The Pigeon', 'The Wapiti', 'The Kitten', 'The Shrew', 'The Panther', 'The Turtle', 'The Centipede', 'The Camel', 'The Oyster', 'The Cobra', 'The Rabbits', 'The Lama', 'The Stork', 'The Rhinoceros', 'The Canary', 'The Shy Scabiosa', 'The Calyx is the outside cup...', 'And this is good old Boston...', 'Dinosaurs'.

16 page reprint - Guide to the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary; map of the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary; newspaper cutting about Crosbie Morrison and his recorded talk on platypi for visitors to the Platypusary; typescript of Crosbie Morrison's recording for visitors to the Platypusary; reprint (three copies) - About the Platypus written by Crosbie Morrison for visitors to the Platypusary; reprint - The Platypus, by Crosbie Morrison, earlier printing of About the Platypus; report to President and members of the Sanctuary Committee from L.J. Clendinnen on an inspection of aviaries and a discussion of feeding arrangements; 'Food Costs and Feeding Methods at the Sanctuary', a report to the Chairman and members of the committee of management by Norman McCance, 21 November 1949 (McCance's report on inspection described by L.J. Clendinnen); report by J.M. Pinches, Director, a reply to McCance's report; three letters to Lucy Crosbie Morrison, two from E.G. Lomas of the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Co Pty Ltd (sponsors of Healesville Platypusary), one from Sir Edward Hallstrom, of Taronga Zoological Trust, about Lucy Crosbie Morrison giving permission for the recording and leaflet made by Crosbie Morrison for the Healesville Platypusary to be used in a proposed platypusary to be installed at Toronga Park Zoological Gardens.

Letter from Jim Kruse to Crosbie Morrison, enclosing typescripts of Crosbie Morrison's recorded talk on platypuses to be used at the Platypusary at the Sanctuary; letter from E.G. Lomas of the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Co Pty Ltd to Crosbie Morrison (20 October 1955) enclosing press release on the proposed platypus display at the Healesville Sanctuary - also attached are three photographs of plans of the display building; photograph of sketch of platypus display; two letters to from E.G. Lomas to Crosbie Morrison (13 May 1955) related to proposed platypus display; press release (23 May 1955) on proposed platypus display; reprint - article by Willey Ley, 'The Unbelievable Platypus'; typescript of recording on platypuses by Crosbie Morrison for visitors to the Platypusary at the Sanctuary; article by W.H. Nichols, 'Biggest Worm Farm Caters to Platypuses', from National Geographic, February 1949.

Prosperine, Queensland, scale of 4 miles to one inch, printed 1942; O'Reilly's Tourist Track map of Green Mountains, Queensland; Craigie's Towns Map of Queensland; map of North Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef, scale of; booklet, The Great Barrier Reef: a Popular Account of its General Nature, compiled by the Great Barrier Reef Committee, Brisbane 1923, includes fold out map of the North Queensland coast and the Great Barrier Reef; leaflet, Attractive Tambourine, tourist information, maps and photographs of Tambourine Mountain; roneod leaflet, 'National Parks Association of Queensland News', including map - 'Glass House Mountains Scenic Areas: Beerwah, Coonowrin, Ngungun and Tibrogargan', August 1965; Green Mountains Location Map; Lamington National Park, Queensland, includes hand written additions by Crosbie Morrison, February 1947.

Untitled map backed with fabric, of Central Australia, including Alice Springs and Ayers Rock; General Map of the Northern Territory of Australia; Northern Territory of Australia, Pastoral Map, scale of 30 Miles to one inch, includes handwritten additions, 1941.

Aboriginal rain making charm, made of mother of pearl and twine [?], identified as having come from Port Hedland, north-west Australia; photograph demonstrating use of rain making charm.

Pepa Aragulinja, by C. Strehlow - book of Aboriginal grammar published by the board of the Finke River Mission of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, 1928; Aboriginals of Australia, by W. Baldwin Spencer, issued in connexion with the Visit of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to Australia, 1914; Aboriginal Art Galleries of Western New South Wales, by Lindsay Black, 1943; The Bora Ground, by Lindsay Black, 1944, inscribed 'With Compliments from the Author Lindsay Black, 10/5/45'; Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia, by Herbert Basedow, from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, volume XXXI, 1907; Stone Arrangements, by Lindsay Black, 1950, inscribed 'Crosbie Morrison with compliments Lindsay Black 20/8/51'; 'Black Brother' by 'Starboard Watch' - newspaper cutting on Aborigines of central and northern Australia, taken from The Star, 6 April 1935; 'A Description of an Aboriginal Dance', by F. Brandis Ragless - manuscript sent to Crosbie Morrison for possible publication in Wild Life, 11 January 1950. 1907

Number 3, volume 2, Friday May 7 1943 - includes an article about Crosbie Morrison's work with the Army Education Service.

Published by the Zinc Corporation Limited and New Broken Hill Consolidated Limited, number 3, volume 8 - includes article and photograph related to address given by Crosbie Morrison at Broken Hill's first aquatic sports carnival.

Letter from T.T. Holloway, Premier, to Crosbie Morrison, thanking him for a report on the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary.

Typescripts, reprints and correspondence related to short wave broadcasts done by the Department of Information, Broadcast Division. Includes list of 33 broadcasts between 20 December 1939 and 21 January 1940, and file contains five of these: typescript of broadcast by R.G. Casey, Minister for Supply and Development; typescript and manuscript of broadcast by Professor Walter Murdoch, 'The Christmas We Dream Of'; typescript of broadcast by R.G. Menzies, Prime Minister; manuscript of broadcast by R.H. Croll, 'The Bush in Australia'; typescript of broadcast by Crosbie Morrison, 'Among the Stone Age Men'. File also includes: letter to Crosbie Morrison from David Rivett; table showing countries served by the broadcasts, languages used, local and Australian times of broadcasts, duration, frequency, call sign and wavelength; newspaper cutting on the broadcasts, 10 January 1940.

by J.A. Leach DSc (eighth ed.), revised and edited by Charles Barrett, CMZS, Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, with Bookplate 'Ex Libris Crosbie Morrison'.

by J.A. Leach DSc (sixth ed.), Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, inscribed 'P Crosbie Morrison, July 1927', with bookplate 'Ex Libris Crosbie Morrison'.

16 page booklet containing: Annual Report and balance sheet for 1927; list of members; 'Story of the Great Slaughter - death knell of the native bear'.

Material photocopied from a copy of an edition of We of the Never-Never, published in London by Hutchinson and Co., owned by PCM. Includes: 'Together again in the never-never', article pasted into the front and back covers of the book; illustration of horses and a stockman, and a captioned photograph of Jeannie Gunn, both pasted on to title page; photograph of the grave of the Head Stockman pasted opposite the Prelude;
Euloowiree: an Australian Aboriginal legend', pasted opposite the first page of chapter one; 'The Literature of the Never-Never' by Charles H. Peters, Managing Director of Robertson and Mullens (booksellers and publishers).

Material photocopied from a copy of an edition of We of the Never-Never, published in London by Hutchinson and Co., owned by PCM. Inscribed by Jeannie Gunn: 'Inscribed with much pleasure and thanks for Mr Crosbie Morrison - very sincerely his [?] Jeannie Gunn, Hawthorn, August 26 1945'. Includes: PCM's bookplate; title page and inscription; handwritten notes on the characters in We of the Never-Never, written by Jeannie Gunn on the last pages of the book; newspaper clipping pasted to last page of the text, on the death of the 'silent stockman'; one page of typed biographical notes on Jeannie Gunn; five photographs - the hotel at Katherine, the house in Mason Street in Hawthorn where Jeannie Gunn wrote her two books (now demolished), the Jeannie Gunn tree, the Campberfield church where Aeneas Gunn's father worked and is buried, an unidentified row of double story terrace houses.

Material photocopied from an edition of The Little Black Princess published in 1938 in Melbourne by Robertson and Mullens, owned by PCM. Inscribed: 'Sincerely your / Jeannie Gunn, Hawthorn - August 18 1845'.

Typed noted of the people on whom the character in We of the Never-Never are based. Includes: 'Details in the lives of my bush folk of 'We of the Never-Never' until June 24, 1937'; photographs of 'Mine Host', 'the quiet stockman', 'the dandy', 'the fizzer', 'the fizzer's grave', David Suttie, 'the sanguine Scot', 'Irish Mac', people in front of 'the famous banyan tree', 'Cheon'; empty envelope inscribed 'We of the never-never characters, courtesy J.K. Moir'; letter to Walkabout about characters in We of the Never-Never, 1954; letter to PCM from Jeannie Gunn.

Correspondence, newspaper cutting and typed notes. Includes: newspaper cutting written at the time of Jeannie Gunn's 88th birthday; letter from Jeannie Gunn to Charles Peters, managing Director of Robertson and Mullens (publishers and booksellers) asking him to help organise a meeting with PCM for PCM to show some film taken of Elsey Station; letter from Charles Peters to PCM regarding the meeting; letter from Jeannie Gunn to Charles Peters written to accompany an inscribed copy of We of the Never-Never for PCM; letter from Charles Peters to PCM regarding the book; 'Literature of the Never-Never', typed notes by Charles Peters on the people whom the characters in the book are based.

Letters to PCM from readers and listeners about willie wagtails. PCM kept this correspondence in anticipation of writing a book on willie wagtails. Correspondents include: Alice Smith; L.A. Margretts; Ian A. Stewart; A.W. Hamilton; A.E. King; Lillian Sugars; ? Goleby; J. O'Shea; Daisy Burnet; J. Bellingham; Percival J. Wood; Roy Lamba; W. Charlton; Jack Williams; Dorothy Stokes; Margaret E. Witchell; E.F. Metcalf; S. Plenderleith; Fred H. Booth; V. Shaw; Keith Matthews; Andew Duncan. File also includes five articles on willie wagtails pasted on to a sheet of paper, dated 1927-1937.

Correspondence and biographical material on PCM, related to his nomination as one of 200 who have made a major contribution to Australia's culture and heritage. The Heritage 200 program was sponsored by the Australian Bicentennial Authority. Correspondents include LCM; Phillip Morrison (grandson of PCM); John Chessells (Museum of Victoria); peter Wright (Australian Bicentennial Authority); Des Walsh (Australian Bicentennial Authority). The nomination is accompanied by four pages of biographical material.

Article and photographs. Includes: 'Report of Expedition to Furneaux Group', photocopied from The Victorian Naturalist, 7 March 1894; copies of sixteen black and white photographs taken on Flinders Island by members of the expedition; photocopies of annotation on the reverse of the photographs (some annotations are copied from relevant parts of the article).

Photocopy of The Geelong Naturalist, vol. VI, no. 2, November 1897; copies of black and white photographs taken on various Geelong Field Naturalists' Club expeditions in 1893 - 1894. Photographs area annotated but notations of locations is indistinct.

Material passed on to PCM in 1945 by Maria Henley. Includes: covering letter from Maria Henley to PCM; a letter written in 1895 from Ferdinand von Mueller to 'Miss Henley' about a fungus which von Mueller had named Cordyceps henleyae; 'A revision of the genus Cordyceos' by George Masse (Royal Herbarium, Kew), which includes a description and a diagram of Cordyceps henleyae; several newspaper clippings, including one about the death of von Mueller, and three about the fungus and the 'vegetable caterpillar' which acts as its host. It is not clear whether PCM's correspondent is the same Miss M. Henley after whom the fungus was named. As a result of having received this material, PCM gave a radio broadcast on the Cordyceos and the 'vegetable caterpillar', which was later included in Along the Track with Crosbie Morrison (see file 3-8) and 2-7).

Preserved autumn leaves and skeleton leaves, some labelled. File also includes: a letter to PCM from Mrs F.H. McCoy referring to some leaves she was enclosing that were from the 'Taipow' (?), apparently from Pitcairn Island; handwritten sheet, 'Method of preserving autumn leaves'; poem 'A tree'.

Souvenirs associated with the first aeroplane flight from Britain to Australia by Ross Smith. Includes programme from the official reception of the Smith party at Flemington Racecourse, and the Sir Ross Smith Flight official souvenir.

Pressed wild flowers collected by PCM. All are mounted, and identified by their Latin names and/or by the date and location of their collection. Includes: Billardiera Scandens; Thyphtomene Mitchelliana; Boronia Surulata; Leucopogon; Daviesia Latifolia; basket fungus. Collected in Ringwood, the Grampians, Sydney, Marysville.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy 7 August 2008.

Pressed orchids collected by PCM. All but one are mounted, and identified by their scientific names and/or by the date and location of their collection. Includes: Diuris Punetata; Thelymitra Antennifera; Billardiera Longifolia; Lyperanthus; Diuris Pedunculata; Pterostylis Barbata; Caleana Major; Acianthus Candatus; Microtis Parviflorus; Caladrina Patersoni; Caladrina Carnea; Pterostylis Nutano; Calochilus Robertsoni; Lyperanthus Nigricanus; Prasophyllum Albuna; Glossodia Major; Caladenia Dilatata. Collected in Ringwood, Panton Hill, West Australia, the Grampians, Marysville.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy 7 August 2008.

Various letter regarding Museum of Victoria, including: letters from LCM to Mrs E. Kennedy (Wilsons Promontory National Park, Committee of Management), and reply; letters between Museum of Victoria and LCM regarding the donation of Aboriginal artefacts to the museum.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy, 7 August 2008.

Documents and letters regarding PCM's biography. Including: letters between David Corke and Dr Barry Wilson (Director, Museum of Victoria); Dr Norman Wettenhall (Museum of Victoria) to LCM; News Magazine of the Friends of the Museum of Victoria Incorporated, October 1992.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy, 7 August 2008.

Contains correspondence, publicity material, invitations and press clippings regarding the Museum of Victoria, including: Museum lecture programs, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1963; Invitations to Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecture; 'Reaping a rich harvest from the botanical baron's fertile pen', John Lahey, 26 November 1992, The Age; 'Paradise Unveiled', Geoff Maslen, The Age, 18 August 1990; letter from R.D. Marginson (President, Council of the Museum of Victoria) to LCM; letter from J. McNally (Director, National Museum of Victoria) to LCM; D.J. Mulvaney, 'Beche-De-Mer, Aborigines and Australian History', Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecture, 21 September 1966.

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PCM's photographs from the 1930 Mackay Expedition in 'Living Survivals of the Stone Age: Australian 'Blacks' Still Palaeolithic' and 'Wonders of Central Australia: A remarkable Set of Geographical Curiosities', Illustrated London News, 11 October 1930.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING. Ann McCarthy, 7 August 2008.

Australian newspapers and journals celebrating Victoria's Centenary including: Australia Today, 1958; Jamboree Daily: Official Organ of the Pan-Pacific Jamboree Camp, Yarra Brae, 29 December 1948 - 9 January 1949; The Australasian, 18 and 27 October 1934; 'Souvenir of a Century of Progress', The Argus, 16 October 1934; The Star newspaper, 28 and 30 October 1933 and 9 April 1936; Table Talk: Centenary Review, August 1934; The Argus, 19 January 1947, the final edition of the paper with PCM's 'Read This and live'; 'The Day the Argus Died', Geoffrey Hutton, The Age, 19 January 1982; The War Pictorial, June, July, August and October 1917; The Weekly Times Annual, Centenary Number, October 6, 1934.

Record described in title includes a photograph taken by Philip Crosbie Morrison.

This item also contains other papers.

This inventory item contains assorted loose publications, booklets, catalogues, journal articles and other similar records.

Subjects include botany, birds, naturalism, geology, forestry, zoology, genetics, the ocean, chemistry, popular science, natural history, entymology.

This inventory item holds carbon paper for use in a typewriter.

This item includes paperwork, correspondence and projector lamp.