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Clarke, William Branwhite (1798 - 1878)

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Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
 
[Repository details]
Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:MS 28
Date Range:1842 - 1876
Description:Microfilm and photocopies of correspondence from the William Branwhite Clarke papers held at the Mitchell Library.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:0.05 m
Related Entries:Dana, James Dwight (1813 - 1895) | Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811 - 1869)
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Australian Museum
 
[Repository details]
Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:Series 1 and 6
Date Range:1841 - 1871
Description:Records relating to Clarke's involvement with Australian Museum as Secretary and Curator 1841-43 and as Trustee until 1874: Trust Minutes [Series 1] and Outwards Letters [Series 6]. Portrait photograph c1860 [Series 160 number 12].
Access:Available for reference
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Fisher Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney
 
[Repository details]
Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Date Range:1852 - 1874
Description:Notebooks containing copies of report to New South Wales government on the northern goldfields 1852-53; copies of miscellaneous letters and scientific papers 1872-74; sketches; scientific equipment and instruments; medals and other relics.
Access:Available for reference
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Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
 
[Repository details]
Title:Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson - Records
Reference:A4496-501
Date Range:1859 - 1908
Description:Correspondence 1859-1908 including letters from W.B. Clarke, W. Woolls, and F. Mueller, manuscript of part of 'A Voice in the Country' published in the "Sydney Morning Herald" 1861-70 and newspaper cuttings on Calvert and Woolls and articles by Mueller [A4496]. Full copy of 'A Voice in the Country' with newspaper cuttings of other articles by Calvert 1861-70 [A4497]. Watercolours of ferns, apparently intended as iluustrations for a book on Australian ferns [40 items, A4498]. Calvert sketchbook including sketches and watercolours of Oldbury, birds, plants and butterflies, and practice drawings [A4499]. Calvert sketchbook including watercolours and sketches of scenes [A4500]. Sketches by Calvert and others including five specimen plates for book on Australian animals and birds to be published in Germany [A4501]. Notes by Louisa Calvert; copies of presentation books [ML MSS 3849]. See also uncatalogued materials [Pic Acc 4928]. Ambrotype of Calvert [MIN 180].
Formats:Artwork and Photographs.
Quantity:5 volumes
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring (1834 - 1872)

Title:Clarke Family - Records
Reference:ML MSS 368
Date Range:1797 - 1954
Description:Includes: papers of William Clarke, 1797-1831 - re family affairs, (MS and printed with MS annotations); papers of W. B. Clarke, 1827-1878 Correspondence 1843-1857, mainly re personal & clerical affairs, including letters from P. G. King and R. J. Childe Miscellaneous papers, 1827-1954, mainly re clerical charges, personal affairs; papers of M. W. S. Clarke 1833-1902 Correspondence, 1833-1902 Miscellaneous papers 1867-1902, include receipts; letters to Georgina Alice Mann 1855-1890 - mainly personal correspondents include her grandmother, Georgina Hely, and Blanche Mitchell; papers of the Mann family, 1855-1884 Correspondence 1859-1884, includes letter from E. H. Hargraves. Miscellaneous papers 1855-1857 include military drawing by Capt. G. K. Mann; miscellaneous papers 1825-1927 -(Contents list); annotated printed material belonging to W. B. Clarke, 1821-1839? - Family Bible, inscribed, 1824 with MS annotations. Maps, 1821-1839? Mainly of Europe, annotated. Pictorial material also held. Includes material on R. Daintree.
Quantity:1 volume, 2 boxes
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878)

Title:Clarke Family Papers - Records
Reference:ML MSS 139
Date Range:1789 - 1879
Description:Records of W.B. Clarke in the Clarke Family Papers 1789-1948: personal records including correspondence 1822-78, diaries 1833-78, financial and legal documents 1818-76, records regarding associations with various societies 1820-77; records dealing with his clerical duties 1821-78; correspondence concerning scientific and personal interests 1819-78 arranged alphabetically by correspondent (20 files); records dealing with geology including field books 1820-72, maps 1824-39, gold exploration and discovery in Australia 1848-69, reports 1829-77, newspaper cuttings 1841-78; records dealing with meteorology including observation notebooks 1824-75, extracts from ships' logs 1841-57, 'Observations on the causes and phenomena of hot and pestiferous winds: especially with the hot winds of Australia' 1839+, records on the Nass Valley, 1843-51, the gale of April 1842, a meteor at Newcastle 1846, solar eclipses 1845-61, newspaper cuttings 1834-66.
Formats:Microform.
Quantity:60 boxes approx.
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Dana, James Dwight (1813 - 1895) | Darwin, Charles Robert (1809 - 1882) | Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811 - 1869) | Liversidge, Archibald (1846 - 1927) | Macleay, William Sharp (1792 - 1865) | Thomson, Alexander Morrison (1841 - 1871) | von Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (1825 - 1896)

Title:Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records
Reference:C154 and C160
Date Range:1842 - 1847
Description:Notebooks used by Leichhardt in 1842-1847 mostly in German regarding natural history, books read, remarks made by others especially W. B. Clarke, with copies of letters sent 1846-1847 and a draft manuscript 'Contributions to the geology of Australia'.
Quantity:0.22 m
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813 - 1848?)

Title:Linnean Society of London - Records
Reference:FM 4/2699
Date Range:1792 - 1870
Description:Correspondence, 1805-1870, and manuscripts, 1792-1861.
Formats:Microfilm.
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Archer, William (1820 - 1874) | Backhouse, James (1794 - 1869) | Banks, Joseph (1743 - 1820) | Bauer, Ferdinand Lukas (1760 - 1826) | Bloxam, A. | Cunningham, Allan (1791 - 1839) | Darwin, Charles Robert (1809 - 1882) | Gipps, George (1791 - 1847) | Gould, John (1804 - 1881) | Hooker, William Jackson (1785 - 1865) | Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895) | Macarthur, D. | Macarthur, James (1798 - 1867) | Macleay, William John (1820 - 1891) | Macleay, William Sharp (1792 - 1865) | McLeay, Alexander (1767 - 1848) | Swainson, William John (1789 - 1855)

Title:Phillip Parker King - Records
Reference:A3599 and on microfilm FM 4/66
Date Range:1824 - 1855
Description:Correspondence 1824-55 received by King including letters about exploration from T.L. Mitchell, C. Sturt, A. Cunningham, L. Leichhardt, the discovery of gold from W.B. Clarke, R.I. Murchison and P. Strzelecki, and on other subjects from J. Franklin.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:363 pages
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:King, Phillip Parker (1791 - 1856)

Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:MS Q371
Date Range:1839 - 1903
Description:Correspondence 1848-78 including a collection of letters to him 1850-77; notes, poems and other records; overall dates 1839-1903.
Access:Available for reference

Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:ML MSS 3608
Date Range:1858 - 1878
Description:Letters received 1858-78 mainly from F. Mueller (manuscript and newspaper cuttings).
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:von Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (1825 - 1896)

Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:ML MSS 141
Date Range:1846 - 1877
Description:Notebook containing a list of contributions to the Sydney Morning Herals, 16 March 1846 - 16 November 1877; MS Notebook containing Annual Address to the Royal Society of New South Wales by W. B. Clarke, 12 May 1869, and 'Notice of a new fossil gigantic Bird of Australia, now named "Dromornis Australia" (Owen)' by W. B. Clarke, read before the Royal Society of New South Wales, 6 June 1877, printed, with MS additions and corrections; Notebook containing anniversary address to the Royal Society of New South Wales, by W. B. Clarke, presented with MS additions and corrections. Includes material on R. Daintree.
Quantity:1 box
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878)

Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:ML MSS 454
Date Range:1827 - 1951
Description:Includes: correspondence and papers, 1835-1934 including 2 letters to Leichhardt, 1844; geological notebooks, 1829-1868 - on geology of Suffolk, Cape Town, Cherbourg and Queensland; miscellaneous papers, 1828-1883 includes material on St. Thomas' Church 1872-1877 and Army Barrack stores, Sydney, 1837-1838. Also maps and pictorial material. Includes material on R. Daintree.
Quantity:1 volume, 2 boxes
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878)

Title:William Branwhite Clarke - Records
Reference:ML MSS 490
Date Range:1827 - 1951
Description:Papers of W. B. Clarke, 1839-1951, mainly relating to his clerical charges. Also correspondence, 1839-1908, including letters from W. G. Broughton. Papers re St. Thomas' Church. Papers re geology of N.S.W., 1831-1902, including papers re publication of Southern Goldfields. Also account book, list of books etc. Papers of M. W. S. Clarke, 1856-1897. Academic Degrees, 1856-1866; commissions and papers, Volunteer Artillery N.S.W. 1866-1876; miscellaneous papers, 1856-1897, including miner's rights, correspondence and hunting register. Includes material on R. Daintree.
Quantity:1 volume, 1 box
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878)
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University of Wollongong Archives
 
[Repository details]
Title:Reverend W.B. Clarke Research Collection
Reference:D212
Date Range:1970 - 1980s
Description:A collection of photocopies of newspaper articles and publications by, and about, the Reverend W.B. Clarke. Material compiled by Michael Organ.
Quantity:1.3 m
Access:Open
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