Includes plant specimen.

Originally a notebook entitled 'Catalogue of Stamps' (not part of the field list), commenced 13 September 1924. Willis used this notebook, turned upside down, to record plant lists collected on the expedition.

Notebook (16 cm x 10 cm) containing original field lists by J.H. Willis for flora at Mt Eliza, Queencliffe. Lakes Entrance, Foster.

Notebook (23 cm x 17 cm); includes inscription in Willis's hand on the inside cover with his signature, 1938, 63 Durrant St. Brighton, S.S.; and list titled 'Minerals to be known in Part II.'

Notebook (27 cm x 22 cm) numbered 1-2000, containing detailed descriptions of plant species.
Includes an 'Index to Genera' at the back, and a (loose) list of flora in Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1944, and typewritten information about 'Hypholoma'.

Notebook 23.5 cm x 17.5 cm and loose notes inserted in inside front cover, including 'The derivations of several Orchid genera (the majority of Tasmanian genera included)'; 'Structural forms in Vegetation'; newspaper clippings containing information and pictures about orchids; and a list 'The following is a chronological list of orchids seen by J.H. Willis for the first time growing in the wild state and in full bloom.'

Notebook (24.5 cm x 18 cm). Initialled and dated 'Dec. 1928' in pencil by Alfred James Ewart (1872-1937).

Notebook (24.5 cm x 18 cm). Initialled and dated 'Dec. 1928' in pencil by Alfred James Ewart (1872-1937).

Notebook containing plant names (phylum, class, family, genus. species), where they are found in Victoria (and Tasmania), and identifying features.

Plants are listed in a hierarchical structure:-Family name, genus and then alphabetical listings of plant species (and their common name).

Notebook 1 page numbers 1-370.
PHYLUM I. SPERMATOPHYTA (Seed Bearing Plants)
Class I. Angiospermeae (Enclosed Seeds)
Sub-Class Monocotyledoneae
PHYLUM II. PTEERIDOPHYTA (Ferns, Club Mosses and Horse-Tails - Vascular Cryptogams)
Class I. Lycopodineae (Club Mosses);
Class II. Equisetineae (Horse Tails)

Notebook 2, page numbers 371- 764.
PHYLUM I. SPERMATOPHYTA (Seed Bearing Plants)
Class I. Angiospermeae (Enclosed Seeds)
Sub-Class Dicotyledoneae;
Class II. Gymnospermeae (Naked Seeds)
Order Coniferales (Cone-bearers)
and
Class III. Filicineae (Ferns and Fern-like Plants)

List of flora in Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1944.

Cockatoo nature diary, blue cover, 25.5 cm x 20.5 cm, and two bookmarks

Cockatoo nature diary, blue cover, 25.5 cm x 20.5 cm; incriptions in pencil on the front cover (including an address), and a list on the inside back cover of 'Dates Letters to ...'

Belgrave nature diary, green cover, 25.5 cm x 20 cm, bookmarked in July (week starting 14 July) and Novermber (week starting 5 November).

Daylesford nature diary, blue cover, 25.5 cm x 20 cm

Pathology Practical Notebook', black cover inclued gold University of Melbourne crest and 'No. 1', 22.5 cm x 18.5 cm.

Copy of University of Melbourne German Annual Examination, 1939; copy of University of Melbourne French Annual Examination, 1939.

University of Melbourne Botany Part II Plant Physiology Practical Notebook, 23 cm x 18.5 cm.
Inside cover includes pencilled note - 'It is a pleasure to see such thorough work and such good records J.S.P.' (John Stewart Turner)

University of Melbourne Botany for First Year Students Notebook by J.H. Willis. Notebook with black cover covered in brown paper, 24 cm x 18 cm. Also includes information sheet on Part I Excursion, Frankston.

School of Forestry Practical Botany notebook, 24.5 cm x 18.5 cm
Inscription by Willis in the inside front cover - This notebook was kept by William Lister, former Principal of the Victorian School of Forestry (Creswick) from 1928 until his death in 1973, and was returned by his widow Jean Lister to Willis on 28 May 1975. For many years, William Lister was in the habit of showing this record of Practical Botany to first-year students at the V.S.F., as a standard worth achieving. Includes correpondence from Jean Lister documenting the return of the notebook.

University of Melbourne Geology Practical Work Notebook by James H. Willis, black cover, 33 cm x 21 cm. Physiography tutorial notes; University of Melbourne Department of Geology tutorial notes, 1935; copy of The Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America, 1958.

Includes plant specimens.