Guide to the Papers of Ernest Westlake (as filmed by the AJCP), 1826-1976

Summary

Collection number:

M2413 - M2414

Creator:

Westlake, Ernest

Extent:

11 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence and notebooks relating to Westlake's visit to Tasmania. They include: accounts of his journey to Tasmania on SS Africa; landings in Western Australia and Adelaide; his impressions of Tasmania; field work in Tasmania; notes on Trucanini and other Tasmanian Aborigines; his collection of stone implements; Professor Baldwin Spencer; and J.P. Moir.

Biographical / Historical:

Ernest Westlake, (1855-1922) was born in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, son of a quaker cloth manufacturer. As a student he studied science and biology at University College London under Huxley and Tyndall. He decided to concentrate on geology, and to further specialize in flints. At the British Museum he saw some stone implements of Tasmanian aborigines which he thought were similar to the French ones he was studying. In 1908-10 he travelled to Tasmania and made a collection of implements which are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at theNational Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2299034] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford University, Oxford, England. For more information see Ernest Westlake at the Pitt Rivers Museum (https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/westlake-papers).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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