File containing personal correspondence to J.S. Turner (and K. Turner) from acquaintances and colleagues in New Zealand, including: Geoff Baylis, University of Otago, Dunedin; Geraldine and Ted Chamberlain; Professor V. J. Chapman, The University of Auckland; Dr. Lucy B. Moore; Laurie (?), Auckland.

File containing personal correspondence to J.S. Turner (and K. Turner) from acquaintances and colleagues in Cambridge, England, including: Lord Eric Ashby; Eileen Dan; Alex S. and Annie Watt; Sir Harry Godwin and Lady (Margaret) Godwin; Anne Richards; Dr. and Mrs G.C. Evans; Commander/Mrs N.C.B. Cox; George E. Briggs.

File containing personal correspondence to J.S. Turner (and K. Turner) from friends and acquaintances in Canada, including: Mrs. L.H. Turner (Marge); Mrs. Stanley G. Haynes (Mun?); Peg and Walt Hukarer (or Hukaren/Hukanen).

File containing letters and cards of congratulations to Professor Turner on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Item includes: colour photographs of J.S. Turner and friends at a celebratory gathering (most probably a birthday celebration for Turner's eightieth); manuscript of a list (or poem?) compiled by J.S. Turner entitled "A very fortunate life"; menu for a dinner (University House, October 7, 1988) to celebrate the eightieth birthday of John Stewart Turner.

Personal correspondence from J.S. Turner to his wife (Kaye Turner) and family, sent whilst J.S. Turner was away on sabbatical or on field trips.

Item also includes correspondence from: J.P. and N.S. Turner, Worcester, England; E. Turner, Surrey, England; Mrs. T.E. Jones, Hampstead, England.

File containing personal correspondence from Tom and Mary Turner (England) to J.S. and K. Turner.

Item includes: draft manuscripts of various poems ("Toggerwocky or the Ballad of Yandoit", "Australia - That's Nice", "The Complete Antipode").

File containing personal letters to J.S. and K. Turner from: Jill Turner (England); Mr. W.K. Oliver and Mrs (Ivy) Oliver (England); G.E. Turner (England); "Bunty" (?).

File containing personal letters to J.S. and K. Turner from Miss M. (Margaret) H. Rogers and E. (Elizabeth) Fleure of Bristol (the "Bristol Girls").

File containing personal letters to J.S. and K. Turner from Miss M. (Margaret) H. Rogers and E. (Elizabeth) Fleure of Bristol (the "Bristol Girls").

File containing personal letters to J.S. and K. Turner from various friends and colleagues, including: Miss M. (Margaret) H. Rogers and E. (Elizabeth) Fleure of Bristol (the "Bristol Girls"); Margaret Simes (?); Geoff Baylis; Mary Turner; Paul W. Richards; Jill Turner; Liz Jones; Jim and Mavis Willis; Fred and Barbara Dainton; P.A. Turner.

File containing examples of calligraphy, one (possibly all) by K. Logan.

File containing correspondence from various colleagues of J.S. Turner, including: Carrick Chambers (TCC - T.C. Chambers); Eric Bird; N.D. Hallam; William T. Stern; Dr. D. M. Stokes; Dr. T.F. Neales (Tom Neales);

File containing correspondence from J.S. Turner to his wife (Kaye Turner) and family.

Item also includes: correspondence to J.S. and K. Turner from Alex and Annie (Alex S. and Annie Watt), Cambridge, England; black and white photographs of what would appear to be members of Turner's family in England; correspondence to Kaye Turner from V. Boyce and Elizabeth Jones; correspondence to J.S. Turner from his children, Sue and Peter; news clipping, 'Snowy Leases Move Should Be Opposed', Adelaide Advertiser, 1958.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence (generally personal) from colleagues, friends and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item include correspondence from: George Seddon; R.S. Alcock; CMDR/Mrs N.B.C. Cox; T.S. Turner; Mrs P. Turner; Jenny Young (Mrs Patrick Young); J.H. Willis; Mr. E.C. McPhee; Sir Harry and Lady Godwin; Alex S. Watt; L.H. Turner; P.W. Richards; M. Stones; Sir George Taylor; Jean Galbraith.

Item includes: news clipping (obituary) concerning Herbert Arthur Turner (Bertie Turner).

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, some personal and some work related, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item include correspondence from: CMDR/Mrs N.B.C. Cox; T.S. Turner; The Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England; LiIly Newton; A.C. Hulme; Malcolm and June Calder; Bill Joyce; Professor R.L. Specht; Dr. G.C. Evans; Dr. Frederick Dainton; Professor G. Seddon; Miss H. Aston.

Item includes: copy of a confidential letter written by Professor Turner concerning the proposed promotion of Dr. Y.A. Aitken to Reader in Botany at the University of Melbourne.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, some personal and some work related, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item include correspondence from: Miss D. Dixon; Mrs M. Underwood, Secretary, The Norfolk Island Flora and Fauna Society; T.S. Turner; Sir Harry and Lady Godwin; A.J. Francis; J.W. and D.H. Valentine; J.D. Brooks, Director of Conservation, Ministry for Conservation; Oliver Moriarty, Research Secretary, Association for Regional Parks and Countryside Commission of Australia Inc. (concerning an invitation to meet Professor Kenneth Mellaby).

Item includes: itinerary for a Land Conservation Council trip to North East Area districts 3, 4, and 5; "Report of the inspection tour of cattle leases in the high mountain country of the Mansfield district, 7-8 February 1974"; R.G. Vines, "Heat Transfer Through Bark, and the Resistance of Trees to Fires", reprinted from the Australian Journal of Botany, 16, 499-514, 1968; D.H. Ashton, "The Development of Even-aged Strands of Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell. in Central Victoria", Australian Journal of Botany, 24, 397-414, 1976; D.H. Ashton and J. Frankenberg, "Ecological Studies of Acmena smithii (Poir.) Merrill and Perry with Special Reference to Wilson's Promontory", Australian Journal of Botany, 24, 453-87, 1976; D.H. Ashton, "Studies on the Mycorrhizae of Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.", Australian Journal of Botany, 24, 723-41, 1976; D.H. Ashton, "Studies of Flowering Behaviours in Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.", Australian Journal of Botany, 23, 399-411, 1975; news clipping, 'Roy Turner takes over from Norman Haresnape at Sunbury', BP News, March 1975; Arthur M. Lees, "Should 'Science' be Studied in Science Courses", The Australian Science Teachers Journal, Vol. 23(2), 1977; "M. Ingram: Memorial Service 15.2.77", draft typescript; R.G. Vines, "Crop Yield and the Solar Cycle", typed manuscript, source and date unknown; Jennifer Byrne, ''Bogus plans annoy conservationists' , The Age, Tuesday, January 24, 1978; list (in J.S. Turner's handwriting) of Beethoven sonatas.Reports

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, scientific papers, and obituaries.

Item includes: obituaries, from Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, for Carl Joahn Fredrik Skottsberg and Harry Howard Barton Allan; 'Obituary: Professor H. Burton', Canberra Times, 1983; D.J. Connor, N.J. Legge and N.C. Turner, "Water Relations of Mountain Ash", typed manuscript of paper submitted to the Australian Journal of Plant Physiology; Arthur W. Galston, "The New Biology and Man's View of Himself", text of talk delivered before the Yale Alumni Association in San Francisco, California on March 20, 1965, reprinted from the October 1965 Yale Scientific Magazine; articles on the collotype process; "Ecological Outrage in the Mallee", Victorian National Parks Association; draft letter by J.S. Turner concerning therapeutic goods.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence (generally personal) from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Professor Sir Harry Godwin; Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); Carrick (Carrick Chambers); Sue Turner; Peter Turner; J.S. Turner's grandchildren; Dr. and Mrs A.S. Watt; Lloyd T. Evans, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry; R.O. Slatyer, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry; Joan Valentine; J.H. Willis; Mary Turner.

Item includes reference to: Blackburn and District Tree Preservation Society.

File containing miscellaneous circulars, photocopies of newspaper articles, newsletters, and receipts relating to Turner's various personal interests and activities. File also contains correspondence, generally personal, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); N.C.B. Cox; Jill Turner; Mary Turner; Peter Chance; Max Whitton.

Item includes reference to: Blackburn and District Tree Preservation Society; Langwarrin Reserve Conservation Committee.

Item includes: draft poem about Frederick Dainton entitled, "Our Fred - A Pastiche" (poem is in J.S. Turner's handwriting); list of paintings for Castlemaine Art Gallery Exhibition; lists of different plant species.

File containing correspondence from members of J.S. Turner's family.

Item includes correspondence from: J.S. Turner's grand children; Turner's son, Peter Turner; Mary Turner.

File containing correspondence from members of J.S. Turner's family.

Item includes correspondence from: Mary Turner (Mrs T.S. Turner); Mrs Peter Turner (Muriel); Clare Turner; Roy (Turner?).

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, circulars and newsletters relating to Turner's various personal interests and activities.

Item includes reference to: Castlemaine and District Land Protection Association; Victorian Land Protection Association; botanical artist Celia Rosser (in relation to BHP Awards for the Pursuit of Excellence).

Item includes correspondence from: H.T. Clifford, Department of Botany, University of Queensland; Jill Turner; R.L. Specht; Richard Davis, University of Tasmania, regarding a request for any recollections or memories that Professor Turner may have on his tasks as Commissioner for the 1995 Royal Commission investigation of the University; Warrick Forge, Victorian Conservation Trust (regarding Puffing Billy, BHP Land on French Island and the Australian Alps); Peter Turner.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, generally personal, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Jill Turner; Mary Turner; J.W. Valentine; Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); A.S. Watt; Alfred Dunbavin Butcher; David W. Goodall; Geoff Baylis.

Item includes: news clipping of article (obituary) concerning Professor David Valentine; copy of correspondence from P.K. Chance to the Hon. Mrs. Kirner concerning the Langwarrin Flora and Fauna Reserve; minutes of a meeting of the Langwarrin Reserve Conservation Committee; poem by Mary Turner.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, generally personal, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Jill Turner; Lily Newton; D. and J. Valentine; Geoff Baylis; Mary Turner.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, generally personal, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Cheryl Martin, Secretary, Save the Dandenongs League; Margaret Lees; J.H. Willis; Mary Turner; "Bunty"; Geoff Baylis; CMDR. N.C.B. Cox; Peter Turner; Winty Calder concerning the classification of landscapes in East Gippsland; J.E. Dolby; M. Stones; Carrick Chambers; Tom Neales; Barbara and Fred Dainton.

Item includes: draft of the memoirs of Harry Godwin; Save the Dandenongs League, "Submission to the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands Planning Team: Dandenong Ranges Park Management Plan".Forms

File containing miscellaneous correspondence from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: F.H. Brighton; Pauline Laudiges; Dr. Ian Willis; Dr. John Paterson, Director-General, Water Victoria; Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls").

Item includes: copies of newsletter of the Save the Dandenongs League Inc. and the Blackburn and District Tree Preservation Society.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: CMDR./Mrs. N.C.B. Cox; the Wallaby Club; Mrs. P. Turner (Bunty?); J.H. Willis; P.W. Richards; Jill Turner; Liz Jones; Peter Turner; Mary Turner; Geoff Baylis; Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); Peg and Walt (?); Ian Willis; Clare Turner; Jenny Young (Mrs Patrick Young); Annie Watt.

Item includes: photocopies of obituary of Dr. A.S. Watt; Professor Emeritus Dennis J. Carr, "Obituary: Stella Grace Maisie Carr 1912-1988", typed manuscript.Forms

File containing correspondence from the "Bristol Girls", Elizabeth Fleure and Margaret Rogers.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: "Bunty" (Mrs. P. Turner?); L.J. Webb, Griffith University; Esther Wettenhall; Jill Turner; Land Conservation Council concerning J.S. Turner's submission to the Rivers and Streams Special Investigation; Fred and Barbara Dainton.

Item includes: Steven E. Lindow, "Competitive Exclusion of Epiphytic bacteria by Ice pseudomonas syringae Mutants", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October, 1987; Arepura G. Govindarajan and Steven E. Lindow, "Size of bacterial ice-nucleation sites measured in situ by radiation inactivation analysis", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, Vol 85, pp 1334-1338, March 1988.

Forms

File containing miscellaneous correspondence from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Professor R.G. West; Alex Mitchell; Geoff Baylis; J.E. Dolby; Fred and Barbara Dainton; "Bunty"; Annie Watt; Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); Mary Turner; Sir Harry and Lady Godwin; Eric (possibly Eric Bird or Eric Ashby).

File containing biographical essays or papers, possibly proofs (publication source unknown).

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, from friends, colleagues and acquaintances of J.S. Turner.

Item includes correspondence from: Ernst Hartung; Mr. R.S. Alcock; M. Stones; Donald Cameron; Dr. and Mrs. A.S. Watt; Fred and Barbara Dainton; C.H. Fitts; Jean Balfour; Eric Ashby; T.S. Turner; David R. Given; Peter Turner; Dr. S.L. Thrower; Ray Specht; David W. Goodall; Sir Harry and Lady Godwin; George Seddon; Professor J.L. Harley; Sir Daryl Lindsay.

File containing miscellaneous brochures, correspondence, receipts and promotional material.

Item includes: "Home Brew" recipe; brochures concerning Wilson's Promontory; pen and ink drawings by J.S. Turner, including humorous piece; information leaflets and photocopied documents concerning historic buildings.Forms

File titled "Music - Notes On: Records, Cassettes, Composers, 24 Hours", but actually contains miscellaneous correspondence, none of which pertains to music.

Item includes: correspondence and newsletters from "Buda" Historic Home and Garden Incorporated; copy of a letter from J.S. Turner to the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Castlemaine addressing the concerns of a group of Castlemaine residents about many technical and aesthetic problems with the landscape of Castlemaine (streetscapes, parks and approaches to the city); newsheet, The Probus Club of Castlemaine; correspondence from Kevin Walsh, Julie Hurley, Sir Daryl Lindsay, Margaret S. (?), Mr. F. Daniel, Jean Baylis, Keith Hancock and J.H. Willis; copy of a Victorian National Estate Grants Program grant application for a Chewton and Forest Creek Heritage Park Study (made by the Mount Alexander Diggings Development Association); poem, "Vale, Rochetser St., - Ye Olde Vinerie", author and date unknown.Forms

File containing miscellaneous correspondence, minutes of meetings, promotional material and holiday/travel brochures. Materials included in file were probably placed there to await refiling.

Item includes: watercolour painting (date and artist unknown); correspondence from Margaret Rogers and Elizabeth Fleure (the "Bristol Girls"); Miss M.M. Gibson (Gardens) Trust Committee minutes and correspondence; minutes of meetings of the Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium Scientific Research Committee; Wallaby Club circulars and notices; Australian Academy of Science minutes; G. Seddon, Ann Steel, "Proposal for Environmental Planning Assessment of the Region Associated with the Botanic Gardens Annexe, Cranbourne (to become in part a native botanic garden and research institute)", April 1975; correspondence from L. Gordon Darling, Dr. S. L. Thrower, Margaret Cunningham (Head Mistress, Fintona Girls' School ?), T.R. Garnet (Head Master, Geelong Grammar) and J.W. Manson (Minister of State Development).

Item includes reference to: the Melbourne Club; the National Trust of Australia (Victoria); paintings/art exhibitions.Reports

File containing miscellaneous correspondence (some personal, some general) and various other materials most probably placed in file to await refiling. Materials were probably placed in file to await refiling (file cover is marked "Some quite recent, need refiling").

Item includes: John Turner, "Australia's Natural Legacy", The Heritage of Australia, undated.Reports

File containing miscellaneous correspondence (some personal, some general) and various other materials most probably placed in file to await refiling.

Item includes: Norfolk Island photographs; correspondence from Professor R.O. Slatyer; Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium Scientific Research Committee minutes; correspondence from Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett); photographs of recently logged areas in the Bunyip State Park A11; correspondence from Professor H. St. John; correspondence from Dame Margaret Blackwood.

Item includes reference to: preservation of Franklin River archaeological sites; Wallaby Club; Land Conservation Council Alpine Submissions; VNPA (Victorian National Parks Association); ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation); Bird Observers Club.

File containing correspondence from Peter and Elizabeth Jones, friends/acquaintances of J.S. and K. Turner living in England.

Miscellaneous correspondence from friends and acquaintances of J.S. Turner in Australia.

Item includes correspondence from: J.H. Willis; George S. (George Seddon); Lady Joan Lindsay; Sam Dimmick; Roddy Davies.

Item includes : draft review by J.S. Turner of "The Contented Botanist, Letters of W.H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific", Ed. Sophie C. Ducker; "Edward Bechervaise and John Turner", typed manuscript concerning J.S. Turner's funeral (date and author unknown); Dorothy Hill, "Edwin Sherbon Hills: 1906-1986", reprinted from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 33, 1987; correspondence from Tim Entwisle, University of Melbourne School of Botany.Forms

Item includes: correspondence from Ronald C. Mackenzie concerning submissions prepared by the Wangaratta Fly Fishing Club; correspondence concerning the ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation); copy of correspondence from D.F. Dorward to Alfred Dunbavin Butcher concerning the ACF and the resignation of seven of the organisation's Councillors; correspondence to J.S. Turner from R.J. Hamer (then Premier of the State of Victoria) concerning the "Domain Site" or the "Old Observatory Site".Forms, Reports,

File containing miscellaneous correspondence and various other materials most probably placed in file to await refiling.

Item includes: newsletter/new sheet containing article concerning Professor Carrick Chambers and his move from the University of Melbourne School of Botany to Sydney.Forms

Reports

File containing miscellaneous correspondence and various other materials most probably placed in file to await refiling.

Item includes reference to: the Castlemaine-Chewton Historic Area; correspondence from Jill Turner; correspondence from Professor Carrick Chambers.Forms

File containing miscellaneous correspondence most probably placed in file to await refiling.

Item includes: E.L. French and D.F. Stewart, Lionel Bately Bull 1889-1978, date unknown; correspondence from Peter Turner, Alison Sweet and Fred Dainton; correspondence from one of Turner's grandchildren; invitation to join a celebration of Kenneth Thiman's eightieth birthday and Ann and Kenneth Thinman's fifty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Item includes correspondence from: T.S. Turner; George Seddon; Professor H. Godwin (Sir Harry and Lady Godwin); Neil Hallam; Audrey Blackman; R.D. Hoogland, Research School of Biological Sciences, the Australian National University; Frederick Dainton; Professor G.E. Blackman; F. Daniel; Evan A. Chesterfield.

Item includes: "Particulars of property being offered for sale by Mr. F. Daniel, Gwarfelin, Vale of Rheidol, near Aberystwyth", undated typescript.

File containing miscellaneous correspondence and scientific papers.

Item includes correspondence from: S. Warren Carey; Department of Conservation and Environment (concerning natural heritage sites); A. Hodgson, Deputy Commissioner, Forest Commission of Victoria (correspondence includes comments on one of J.S. Turner's papers); J.G. Mosley, Australian Conservation Foundation, concerning planning in the Dandenong Ranges; R. L. Specht.

Item includes: photocopy of pencil sketch by W.R. Hamilton of Bogong Hut, 1985; Sophie C. Ducker, "History of Australian Phycology: The Significance of Early French Exploration", Brunonia, 2, 19-42, 1979; Raymond E. Girton, "Effects of Oxygen Concentration on the Respiration of Excised Root-Tip Segments of Maize and Rice, and of Germinating Grains of Rice and Buckwheat", Physiologia Plantarum, 46: 58-62, 1979 (paper signed "With the writer's compliments and thanks!, R.E.G"); correspondence, curriculum vitae and forms concerning the nomination of H.T. Clifford for consideration for appointment to a Personal Chair within the University of Queensland; K.A. Pirozynski and D.W. Malloch, "The Origin of Land Plants: A Matter of Mycotropism", Biosystems, 6 (1975), 153-164; "Orpheus and Singing: a song book", typed manuscript, date and author unknown; "Anglesea Native Flora Reserve (Rs. 7498)", minutes of meeting of Committee Of Management (C.O.M.), at home of Professor Turner, Hawthorn, 30 April 1975 (minutes written by J.H. Willis and given to J.S. Turner for his information); photocopy of letters by John Brumming 1851-1901; R.T. Patton, "Ecological Studies in Victoria. Part III. - Coastal Sand Dunes", reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, read 12 July, 1934, issued separately 22 December, 1934; "A Commission for the Lower Yarra Valley Proposal, November 1974", from the Australian Conservation Foundation, Yarra Valley Conservation League, Valley Freeway Action Group and the Public Interest Research Group; Winifred B. Calder, "The Changing Face of Mount Martha: A History of Landscape Evolution", reprinted from Victorian Heritage Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, May 1980.

Item includes reference to: Melbourne Maritime Museum (Barque Pollywoodside).Reports

Item includes: correspondence from Ian Hore-Lacy to J.S. Turner and Dr. David Ashton (researcher at the University of Melbourne School of Botany) concerning a paper by Lacy on the Kentbruck Heath; correspondence to J.S. Turner from Professor Frank Fenner.

File, marked "Miscellany to be checked after my return, J.", containing miscellaneous cards, ephemera and promotional material.