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Lucy Beatrice Moore - Field notebooks and plans, 1930 - 1954

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Collection consists of the following eighteen (18) Field notebooks and notes:

    1 -- Urewera, Waikaremoana, Rainbow Mt, plus others, indexed, March 1930 (16cm, black cover) 192 pages of notes. Includes two loose cards with notes.

    2 -- Papatotara, Maungapohatu, Rainbow Mt, [March 1930] (16cm, black cover) 19 pages of notes.

    3 -- Pukemako, August 1930 (16 cm, black cover) 42 pages of notes. One folded loose page of typed notes titled 'Pukenako, East of Mangapehi, Near Ellis and Burnnand's mill 24.8.30 (Field notes, L.B. Moore)'.

    4 -- Springfield to Castle Hill, January 1931 (16.5cm, black cover) Two pages of notes attributed to L.B. Moore. Seven pages attributed to 'A. Wall with L.M.Cranwell and L.B. Moore'.

    5 -- Castle Hill Basin, January 1931 (17cm, black cover) 17 pages of notes. One loose handwritten page of notes titled 'List by Prof. A. Wall 1931'.

    6 -- Mount Torlesse, January 1931 (17cm, blue cover) 10 pages of notes.

    7 -- Westland, January 1931 (16.5cm, black cover) Has three pages of notes attributed to L.B. Moore and four pages attributed to L.M. Cranwell.

    8 -- Opotiki-Hikurangi, March 1932 (16.5 cm, red cover) 14 pages of notes,

    9 -- Maungapohatu, January 1932 (16cm, black cover) 17 pages of notes.

    10 -- Muriwai, 1932, Anawhata, May 1934 (16.5cm, blue cover) 10 pages of notes.

    11 -- Tararuas, December 1932 - January 1933 [part only, loose] 7 pages of notes.

    12 -- Manapouri, Bluff Hill, Bluff intertidal, Tapanui Mts ', January 1940 (20cm, Grey/green cover) 32 pages of notes.

    13 -- Lyall Bay, January 1945, March 1945, Island Bay, January 1946, Titahi Bay March 1952, Bluff September 1953, Queenstown, September 1953. (17cm, blue cover) 25 pages of notes.

    14 -- [Marlborough], October 1947, Picton. Wither Hills, September 1948 (16.5cm, cardboard cover) 39 pages of notes. One folded loose page of typed notes titled 'HORMOSIRA'Picton Lagoon 17.11.47'.

    15 -- Omarama, February 1951 (16.5 cm, red cover) 14 pages of notes.

    16 -- McKenzie Country, November 1952 (17cm, brown cover) 32 pages of notes.

    17 -- Mostly notes from Otari Open-Air Native Plant Museum, September 1949 - September 1954 (16.5 cm, brown cover) 112 pages of notes.

    18 -- Volcanic Plateau, no date (16 cm, black cover) 10 pages of notes.

    19 -- Milford Sound, April 1941 [loose] Four pages of notes.

    20 -- Collingwood January 1947 [loose] One page of notes.

    21 -- Earnscleugh, March 1951 [loose] One page of notes.

    22 -- Arthurs Pass, January 1931 [3p, loose] Three pages of notes.

    23 -- File titled Mount Highfield, Waiau containing various notes and correspondence.

    24 -- Notes and extracts relating to the Annan Settlement Sale plan (1903), including field inspection reports.

    Reports:

    1 -- Animal Ecology Section, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Report No. 10. Investigations of Mount Highfield Section, Waiau, North Canterbury. Report on Relationships between rabbits and vegetation. By K. Wodzicki, Animal Ecology Section, and L.B. Moore, Botany Division. February 1950. 10 pages.

    2 -- Animal Ecology Section Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Report no. 35. Progress report on work of the Animal Ecology Section for the period October 1953 to April 1954. by K.Wodzicki, Officer-in-Charge. 10 pages.

    3 -- Animal Ecology Section Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Report no. 36 Progress report ' estimation of rabbit populations by dropping counts, by R. Taylor, Animal Ecology Section, and R.M. Williams, Applied Mathematics Laboratory. Nine pages.

    Photographs:

    1 -- Folder, labelled Waiau N Canterbury, containing twenty-one (21) pages with photographs attached (and loose).

    2 -- One envelope containing five photos, three with information on the back..

    3 -- One brown folder containing five pages with photos attached - some having come loose. Also two pages of handwritten notes.

    4 -- One envelope containing twenty-eight (28) photos. Have some descriptions on back.

    5 -- One envelope of fifty-seven (57) photos. 1948-1954 Captions on back mostly read 54/ Paxette [#]. Some captioned Mt. Highfield. Waiau.

    6 -- One envelope containing seven photos. Four have descriptions on back.

    7 -- One folder containing one page with photos attached (and loose).

    Extra-Outsized Items:

    1 -- Map of Molesworth Station (880 mm x 590 mm) ' Molesworth photo points.

    2 -- Molesworth , Experimental Plot, hand drawn map, (300 mm x 210 mm). [no date]

    3 -- [Molesworth] (420 mm x 300 mm) approximate photo points in red. (2 copies)

  • Other Id

    3675 (Presto content ID)

    MS-2007-20 (Reference Number)

    70120 (DBTextworks system ID)

    2007/20 (Registration number)

  • Department

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Lucy Beatrice Moore - Field notebooks and plans, 1930 - 1954
  • Primary Maker
  • Date
    1930-1954
  • Physical Description

    1 box + 1 extra-outsized item

  • Level of Current Record
    Parent
  • Related Object Notes
    MS-1990-55
  • Provenance Details
    Provenance: This collection of notebooks and plans was discovered by Dr Peter A. Williams, of Landcare Research, Nelson, during an office relocation in April, 2006. How this collection came to be in the possession of Landcare Research is yet to be determined.
  • Credit Line
    Donated by Dr Peter A. Williams, Landcare Research, Nelson, in April 2006.
  • Last Update
    07 Jul 2023
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