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

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

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings and a photograph album.
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Collections held by the Liverpool City Libraries (as filmed by the AJCP), 1773-1923

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Justices Sessions. Gaol and House of Correction: index to minutes of meetings and selected sections of minutes concerning transport of convicts to hulks and treatment of female convicts 1837.
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Records of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (as filmed by the AJCP), 1793-1928

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Kew Collectors Series: correspondence and lists 1800-59; specimens collected by John Amstrong, George Barclay, George Caley, Allan Cunningham, William Grant Milne and Berthold C. Seemann, Correspondents include Sir Joseph Banks, William T. Aiton and James Bowie.
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Records held by the Methodist Archives and Research Centre (as filmed by the AJCP), 1810-1973

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Correspondence 1903-1928 of A.S. Peake concerning his work in New Zealand.
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Collections held by the Cornwall County Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1844-1925

37 items
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The material filmed by the Australia Joint Copying Project includes: journals of voyages from Melbourne to America, Plymouth to Melbourne and Adelaide to Gravesend; correspondence and legal documents of families including the Victor Family, the Adams Family, the Carlyon Family; emigration lists; mining records; memoirs of Hannah Glasson and papers relating to the Bonython Family.
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Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1889

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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.
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Papers of John Gould (as filmed by the AJCP), 1831-1880

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The bulk of the collection consists of the original manuscript notes and sketches collected by Gould for his book The Birds of Australia. Each folder (or notebook) has the name of the order or tribe written on the outside, and inside the folder the notes are divided by species. At the top of each sheet there is an illustration of the bird in question, of which some are lithographs from Gould's earlier work A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands (1837), while others are original watercolour paintings by Gould. In the margin are headings probably written by his secretary, Edward Prince, such as Latin name, English name, diet and locality inhabited, with manuscript notes and occasional rough sketches by Gould.
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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

66 items
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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.
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Records of the Exchequer and Audit Department (as filmed by the AJCP), 1765-1918

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Records of the Auditors of the Imprest, Commissioners of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department, National Audit Office and related bodies.
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