Series 1 - Committee Papers


Date Range1906 - 1988
Quantity37.5 cm, 12 files, boxes
ProvenanceJames Hamlyn Willis
Description

Correspondence; agenda, meeting minutes; abstracts and reprints of scientific papers; plant samples and plant specimens (often listed in formats as Artefacts-General); plant lists and descriptions; memoranda; forms; reports; newsletters; handwritten notes; accounts, journals of committees, sub-committees, clubs and societies of which Willis was a member.
These include the National Trust of Australia (Victoria); Ornamental Plants Committee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne; Plant Survey Council of Victoria; Subcommittees of FCNV (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria); Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens; Australian Cultivar Registration Authority; Australian Conservation Foundation; Weed Science Society of Victoria; Australian Systematic Botany Society, Flora of Australia Committee (Australian Academy of Science).

ArrangedPapers filed according to subject i.e. committee/activity and then chronologically.

Inventory Listing

1-1 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Committee Papers 1983-1985

'Register of Significant Trees' produced by the National Trust of Australia and the Royal Botanic Gardens, April 1983; pamphlets.

The papers have been placed in two separate manila folders within the box, and the same order maintained.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 001a
Date range 1 June 1983 - 25 December 1985    Quantity 6 cm, 1 box
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00001 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-2 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Committee Papers 1978-1983

'Register of Significant Trees - Report of Pilot Study' produced by the National Trust of Australia and the Royal Botanic Gardens; copies of assessment forms compiled for the 'Register of Significant Trees' produced by the National Trust of Australia and the Royal Botanic Gardens; pamphlets; miscellaneous copies of Trust News; newspaper clippings regarding trees and tree preservation.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 001b
Date range 11 May 1978 - 27 January 1983    Quantity 6 cm, 1 box
Formats Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00002 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-3 'Plant Survey Council of Victoria' Committee Papers 1964-1970

Plants in various Victorian regions including Mildura, Portland, Colac, Otway, Queenscliffe; plant survey master list; Plant Mapping Council of Victoria statement of income; Plant mapping Council Of Victoria minutes of meetings; 'The Indigenous Vasculat Flora of Far South-West Victoria'; paper entitled 'Vegetation of the Basalt Plains in Western Victoria' by J.H. Willis in Royal Society of Victoria, 12 June 1964.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 002
Date range 12 June 1964 - 21 October 1970    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Reports, Maps, Minutes and Agendas, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00003 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-4 Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Committee Papers 1970-1971
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 003
Date range 28 April 1970 - 30 November 1971    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, General Correspondence and Minutes and Agendas
Inventory Identifier WILL00004 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-5 Ornamental Plant Collections Committee Papers 1987-1988
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 004
Date range 17 July 1987 - 7 October 1988    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence, Ephemera, Minutes and Agendas and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00005 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-6 Australian Cultivar Registration Authority Committee Papers 1968-1988

Agendas; minutes of meetings; correspondence regarding A.C.R.A..; lists compiled of approved and registered cultivars by the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority; applications for plant variety rights; lists of unregistered cultivars; lists of cultivar descriptions; minutes of the Industry for Plant Breeders Rights; report on the meeting of the Council of the International Society for Horticultural Science review in preparation for the Commission for Horticultural Nomenclature and Registration meeting; receipts; descriptions and draft descriptions of Australian cultivars; application forms for registration of an Australian cultivar; constitution of Authority; property inventory; financial statements; newspaper clippings; pamphlets; The Australian Gardener, 1906; Anderson's Descriptive List of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs & Climbing Plants, 1954; International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 1961 (four copies); International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 1980.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 005
Date range 27 September 1968 - 11 February 1988    Quantity 8 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings, Books, Journals, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00006 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-7 Australian Conservation Foundation Committee Papers

Election material; membership subscription; executive members; programme of symposium on conservation, 1967; annual reports 1966-1974 (complete); Australian Conservation Foundation Viewpoint series No. 1, 1969 - No. 7, 1972 (No. 6 missing); Australian Conservation Foundation Occasional Publication No 2, 1970 - No. 9, 1972 (No. 3 missing); report by The Save the Western Port Coalition, 1971; report on environmental pollution (with newspaper clipping attached entitled 'The Pollution of the Yan Yean, 1889); material regarding the Lake Peddlar Action Committee; newspaper clippings regarding environmental pollution and wildlife crisis; notes compiled by J.H. Willis regarding areas of botanical significance in and around Greater Melbourne, 1970.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 006
Date range 18 January 1889 - 19 October 1974    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Journals and Published Reports
Inventory Identifier WILL00007 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-8 Australian Systematic Botany Society Committee Papers

Symposium programmes; constitution of the Australian Systematic Botany Society (formerly Association), 1973; composite draft rules; Inaugural meeting of the proposed association for Australian Plant Taxonomists, 1983; articles including 'Systematic Botany News-Sheet' by P. Wilson reprinted from the The Australian Journal of Science, 1963; handwritten and typed report by J.H. Willis on the activities in the National Herbarium of Victoria, 1966.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 007
Date range 2 June 1961 - 16 December 1987    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Minutes and Agendas, News Clippings, Journals, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00008 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-9 The Weed Society of Victoria Committee Papers

'Weeds' include cannabis, plants, weeds, blackberries, noxious weeds and pesticides, herbicides.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Control Library Catalogue Number 008
Date range 14 December 1943 - 15 May 1972    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Minutes and Agendas, Newsletters, Loose Notes, Journals, Published Papers or Articles, Published Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL00009 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-10 Flora of Australia Committee
Australian Academy of Science
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 26 May 1972 - September 1974    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, Reports, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Facsimile Transmissions
Inventory Identifier WILL01658 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-11 Minutes of the Plant Names Sub-Committee, F.N.C.V. Commenced 22 July 1943
Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria

Includes handwritten notes by Willis.

Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 1928 - 1984?    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence, Minutes and Agendas, Notebooks, Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier WILL01699 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-12 Scientific Sub-Committee of the Matthew Flinders Bicentenary Celebrations
Creator James Hamlyn Willis
Date range 14 August 1973 - April 1980    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports, Minutes and Agendas and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier WILL01733 Box Number 5 Series 1

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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