Search

Search Constraints

New finding aids search You searched for: Year range 1840 to 1841 xmark Remove constraint Year range: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1840">1840</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1841">1841</span>

Search Results

Collections held by the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale (as filmed by the AJCP), 24 September 1838-02 July 1971

19 items
Abstract Or Scope
Papers 1838-82 of Frederick Walker, Son Dickie, solicitors, relating to lease and conveyance of lands in Australia and New Zealand.
Top 3 results view all 5

Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1770-1960

1358 items
Abstract Or Scope
The War Office records cover a wide variety of material relating to both Colonial and Australian involvements in armed conflicts. Amongst the records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are documents and correspondence of the Commander- in-Chief, Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State and Judge-Advocate General.
Top 3 results view all 101

Papers of the Acland Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840-1902

40 items
Abstract Or Scope
Correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings and a photograph album.
Top 3 results view all 5

Natural History Museum: Papers of the Murray Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1839-1912

94 items
Abstract Or Scope
Surveys 1873-1912 of oceanographic expeditions. The ships include HMS Penguin, HMS Waterwitch, USS Albatross and HMS Egeria.
Top 3 results view all 11

Records of the Board of Trade (as filmed by the AJCP), 1784-April 1956

771 items
Abstract Or Scope
Select items were copied by the AJCP from the following Series and Record Groups: Central Administrative Records; Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Department; Department of Overseas Trade; Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen; Records of Allied Organisations.
Top 3 results view all 37
Document

A15, 1841-07

Online content  
Document

B15, 1841-08

Online content  
Document

C15, 1841-09

Online content  

Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1889

84 items
Abstract Or Scope
Correspondence 1836-1883. Subjects include: discovery of fossils in Australia; observations of Tasmanian Aborigines; self-government in New South Wales; research on Australian and New Zealand fauna including platypus and moa; dispatch of Australian specimens and skulls of Maoris and Aborigines. Correspondents include W. Clift, G. Bennett, Sir Walter Buller, R. Etheridge, W.B. Clarke, Sir Julius von Haast, J.L.G. Krefft, Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, E.P. Ramsay, T.H.C. Hood and H. Woodward.
Top 3 results view all 37

Records of Baring Brothers & Company Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP), 1827-1880

106 items
Abstract Or Scope
Letters of Paine, Stricker Co concerning coffee and sugar production in Java.
Top 3 results view all 29
Folder

China, 1834-1876 2 items

Online content  

Papers of George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1828-1855

59 items
Abstract Or Scope
Correspondence mostly dated 1841-46, dealing particularly with Anglo-French rivalry in the Pacific, the French annexation of Tahiti, actions of Sir James Brooke in Sarawak, and the Dutch East Indies.
Top 3 results view all 12

Collections of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (as filmed by the AJCP), 1837-1970

248 items
Abstract Or Scope
Records selectively filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes Albums 1840-1869 of Rev. John Barlow including letters of Sir John Franklin and King Kamehameha; Papers 1838-1870 of Michael Faraday; Correspondence 1851-1892 of John Tyndall; Papers 1882-1969 of Sir William Bragg; Papers 1883-1970 of Sir Lawrence Bragg; and Discourse 1960-1961 on 'The Southern Milky Way' by B.J. Bok.
Top 3 results view all 6

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

66 items
Abstract Or Scope
Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.
Top 3 results view all 7