File containing J.S. Turner's British and Australian Passports: British Passport 5 June 1934 to 5 June 1939; Australian Passport 1949 to 1959; Australian (British) Passport 1964 to 1969; Australian Passport 1969 to 1974; Australian Passport 1981 to 1986; Australian Passport issued March 1990.

Item also includes: correspondence with Department of Immigration regarding formal application for Australian citizenship, February 1990.Forms

File containing J.S. Turner's pocket diaries for the years 1926, 1933 to 1934, and 1934 to 1935.

Item includes: notebooks containing sketches and miscellaneous notes and lists (in J.S. Turner's handwriting) concerning various matters, including botany.

Item includes notebooks for the following years: 1924; 1924 to 1925; 1926; 1927; four notebooks c 1930's but undated; 1966; 1978; 1979.

Item includes: Selwyn College Science Club Dinner and Meeting Cards, 1929 to 1935, some with autographs; estray, return ticket, third class, to Dunkerque, June 1929.

Item includes: 1946 "Quarter Inch" map of Great Britain, Midlands; Peak Park Planning Board, Padley Gorge Nature Trail: A guide to a walk in an area of fine scenery, 1966.

Please Note: For conservation purposes, maps or plans originally included in this Item may have been removed and placed in map/plan storage cabinets held at the University of Melbourne Archives.

Item includes: curriculum vitae and publications list, 23 November 1962; draft curriculum vitae, October 1964; Turner and Turner Conservation Consultants curriculum vitae for J. S.Turner, K. Turner and Professor Bird.

Item includes: J.S. Turner's application for Chair of Botany; testimonials from Dr H. Godwin, Dr L.A. Borradaile and Dr G.E. Briggs.

Item includes: J.S. Turner's application for a Carnegie Travelling Grant, c 1949; manuscript "diary" note of walk near Ring-in-Lowe (?), undated; receipt for meals at Ardenne, June 1929; rail ticket to Dunkerque.

Item includes: correspondence with U.S. Consulate regarding visa application, 1972; correspondence regarding Turner's re-appointment as Honorary Professor, 1978; references (from Brown/Browne, Sheridan Professor of Botany, Oxford University, F.F. Blackman, Cambridge, G.E. Briggs, Cambridge, H. Godwin, Cambridge) regarding Turner's application for Professorship, 1937; congratulations (from University of Melbourne Botany Staff) on Turner's appointment as Professor, 1938; Coronation Medal and accompanying Royal Command, 1953.

Item also included the following photographs which were removed and placed in a separate file (see Item TURN00939 - Series TURNS003 , Unit 011): portrait of J.S. Turner, 8 x 10" black and white, sitting in dugout log (possibly canoe); 35mm passport sized, black and white, c 1970's.Forms

Item includes: F.N. Ratcliffe, CSIRO, to J.S. Turner regarding approaches to the Australian Academy of Science concerning rehabilitation of Norfolk Island vegetation, July 1967; CSIRO Advisory Council, Tour of South-East South Australia; certificate of J.S. Turner's election as an Honorary Member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, August 1979; list of attendance at "J.S. Turner - Presentation and Dinner", December 1973, entry card, and manuscript of J.S. Turner's speech at dinner; manuscript of J.S. Turner, "The Proper Study of Mankind" (on the effects of human activity on the environment), talk at Sixth Biennial Victorian Conference, May 1975; menu of Farewell Dinner at St John's 1938, autographed on verso; roneoed book of poems to J.S. Turner, 1973; J.S. Turner, "Report of Study Leave", 1969, two copies; J.S. Turner speech at farewell dinner for Professor R.D. Wright, 1971; J.S. Turner, "An Illustrated Artificial Key to the Ephemeral Flora of the Scout Hut Association, Bogong High Plains, Victoria, 1947" (sardonic booklet with photographs of research personnel); J.S. Turner, "Occasional Address, Degree Day 1973"; "The J.S. Turner 25 Year Song Book", 1963.

Item also included photographs which have been removed and placed in a separate file (see Item TURN00939). Photographs included: group photograph Bogong High Plains research team; 6" x 5" black and white portrait of J.S. Turner middle years, undated; early family group photograph, undated; 8" x 10" black and white portrait of J.S. Turner in later years in front garden (copyright Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., Melbourne).Reports

File containing photographs extracted from Items TURN00397 and TURN00398.

Item includes: portrait of J.S. Turner, 8 x 10" black and white, sitting in dugout log (possibly canoe); 35mm passport sized, black and white, c 1970's; group photograph Bogong High Plains research team; 6" x 5" black and white portrait of J.S. Turner middle years, undated; early family group photograph, undated; 8" x 10" black and white portrait of J.S. Turner in later years in front garden (copyright Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne).

See also "Passports Etc." file (Item TURN00929), this Series.

File containing letter to J.S. Turner from Wendy Clark, Secretary of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, in confirmation of his receipt of honorary membership of the Club, August 1979. Letter was found loose amongst miscellaneous correspondence.

File concerning J.S. Turner receipt of the Order of the British Empire.

Item includes: correspondence concerning miniature decorations (OBE); "Rules and Regulations of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" (Victorian Association).

Congratulatory correspondence from various parties on award of OBE to J.S. Turner.

Congratulatory correspondence from various parties on award of OBE to J.S. Turner.

Item includes: copy of J.S. Turner family tree 1792 to 1973; photocopy of genealogical documents on the Turner, Hall and Newby families, with cover letter from Thomas Turner, 1974.

Item includes reference to: Professor Geoffrey Leeper; Peter M. Attiwill; and book launch of Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycles, by P. M. Attiwill and G. W. Leeper, 1987.

Item includes biographical material and manuscript notes/drafts concerning: Professors George Briggs, Harry Godwin and Edwin Hills; Dr A.S. Watt.

Item includes reference to: Ellis Stones Memorial Award; Mr. John Marstyn Stevens; Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills; The Hon. Charles Race Thorson Mathews, MLA; Professor J.S. Anderson; Audrey Blackman; Professor R.D. Wright; Annie Watt.

Item includes: letter from J.S. Turner to a Miss Rawson concerning Turner's support for J.M. Stevens' Order of Australia award, 19 April 1987.

Item includes: curriculum vitae and biographical material concerning Associate Professor E. McLennan.

Copy of The University of Melbourne Staff News, Vol 14, No.5, 1986 with obituary by David Caro, "Dame Margaret Blackwood, A Lifetime of Service".

Item includes: correspondence from Professor D.J. Carr to J.S. Turner accompanied by Carr's draft obituary of his wife, Stella G.M. Carr (nee Fawcett), March 1989.

Item includes: copies of obituaries of Fellows of the Royal Society (A.H. Church, A.C. Seward, H.H. Thomas, F.F. Blackman) and microfiche publication, Biogr. Mem. Fell. R.Soc., Vol 34, (1988), "Bibliographies for the memoirs of F. Bergel, L.V.P.R. de Broglie, H. Godwin and D.H. Hey".

Item also contains various estrays, including: Rural Environment Network newsletters 1989; East Gippsland Coalition News, 1989; reprint of James Bonner, "The Ultimate Limit of Our Resources", California Institute of Technology, 1961.

Notes and drafts towards an obituary of Kingsley Rowan, undated.

Copy of M.J.D. White obituary of J.B.S. Haldane, reprinted from Genetics, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1965.

Item includes: G.E. Briggs, "A Half-Century of Plant Physiology", First F.F. Blackman Memorial Lecture, undated; memoir "Medical Backcloth", undated.Reports

Copies of two eulogies for J.S. Turner (authors unknown).

Plant lists and pamphlets on national parks in Queensland and New South Wales.Reports

Pamphlets on English and Welsh walks, national parks, properties and districts.

Personal correspondence, generally from J.S. Turner to Kaye Turner during trip to England.

Various letters to J.S. Turner prior to and during his trip to England.

Item includes: manuscript of J.S. Turner itinerary during trip; draft history of the Soil Conservation Authority and Soil Erosion and Ecology of the Bogong High Plains.Forms

Promotional material, "Information for Clients Travelling on Australis Desert Parks Tours 1990" .Forms

Notes, lists of plants, news cuttings, and pamphlets on gardening and garden equipment.

Item includes: letter from Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria to J.S. Turner regarding inclusion of Campbell Street garden in the Victoria's Gardens Scheme, December 1986; copy of A.R. Duffy, Kelmscott, An Illustrated Guide, 1969.Forms

Item includes: manuscript notes on Yellowstone National Park; postcards from Yellowstone and Canada during visit, c 1972.