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Early exchanges 1900-1914. Box 1

Author: Geological Survey of Western Australia; New South Wales. Dept. of Mines; Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Campbell, A. G. ; Sanderson, Finlay; National Museum of Victoria; Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1837-1918; Lonnberg, Einar; Naturhistoriska Rikamuseets (Sweden); Turner, A. Jefferies; Mjoberg, Eric, 1882-1938; Western Australia. Registrar General's Office; Kessell, A. C.; Queensland Museum; Ash, W. E.; Harrison, Launcelot, 1880-1928; Hanford, A.; Gale, Charles Frederick, 1860-1928; University of Western Australia; Anderson, A. L.; Museum national d'histoire naturelle (France); Kerr, T. Graham; Mouldey, F. L.; Walsh, M. E.; Le Souef, E. A. (Ernest Albert), 1869-1937; Madras (India: state). Fisheries Bureau; Mathews, Gregory M. (Gregory Macalister), 1876-1949; Indian Museum; Simpson, Edward S. (Edward Sydney), 1875-1939; Heads, R. M. W. ; National Museum of Ireland; Beck, R. & J.; Plunkett, George Noble Plunkett, Count, 1851-1948; Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney, N.S.W.); White, H. B.; Hartmeyer, R. (Heinrich Herman Robert), 1874-1923; Mobius, Karl August, 1825-1908; Zoologisches Museum in Berlin; Smith, Geoffrey Watkin; University of Cambridge. University Museum of Zoology; Burt, O.; Sowerby & Fulton; Technological Museum (N.S.W.); Reading Museum (Reading, England); Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery; Ashby, Edwin; Zoological Gardens (South Perth, W.A.); Norton, C.; Montague, P. D.; Montague, W. H. ; Michelides, P.; Bonnet, Andre; Imperial Academy of Arts (St Petersburg); Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia; Natural History Museum (Port Louis, Mauritius); Rhodesian Museum; Loat, W. L. S. (William Leonard Stevenson)

Year: 1900-1914

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Africa

St Louis Museum Mauritius- 1903, birds, mammals, insects, butterflies, parrots. A letter from the Honourary Secretary [A Clanton]. A list of specimens (Mammals and Birds) provided to the Western Australian Museum by the St Louis Museum, Mauritius. Specific detail of Dodo bones are provided and mention is made of an enclosed photograph of the skeleton of the Dodo.
The Rhodesian Museum- 1912/13, minerals. Two letters regarding the proposed exchange of mineral and insect specimens as well as the method of packing and data to be included with the samples corresponding with Assistant Curator [A.M. Macguyor].

Australia Part 1

Registrar Generals Office. 21 Oct 1914, Exchange of a Book of Pigeons for a Boer rifle.
Letter written by O. Burt, Perth- 1903, aboriginal artefacts.
Botanic Gardens, Sydney- 1909, plants, botanical specimens
Zoological Gardens, South Perth- 1901, Two lists documenting the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates and mammals.
UWA, Perth and Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery- 1903, Document listing items of fish, insects, snakes, lizards exchanged.
Bank of Victoria, Dunelly, Victoria- 1902-1912, Six letters between the Bank of Victoria and the Museum in relation to the exchange of shells and aboriginal artefacts.
Parliament House, Melbourne- 1911, Letter to Sir J.W. Hackett West Australian Newspapers in relation to the Museum. no specimens exchanged.
Burrangong, Sydney- 1912, Letter discussing potential transfer of pictures. No specimens exchanged.
Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1902-1912, Various letters detailing the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates, opossum skins and a detailed list of birds.

Australia Part 2

E. L. Grant Watson. Bernier Island - 13 March 1911, Various land and sea animals received from Mr Watson.
A. Jeffries Turner. Brisbane - 22 Nov 1912, Collection of Lepidoptera sent to Dr Turner.
W. E. Ash. Harvey -22 April 1909, List of aboriginal artefacts exchanged.
A. L. Anderson. Kalgoorlie - 25 Feb 1919, List of various antlers exchanged for unlisted African items.
Mr Robb. Perth - 19 June 1914, List of various aboriginal implements sent to Mr Robb in exchange.
A. Hanford. South Perth - 20 Nov 1908, List of Afghan swords exchanged for aboriginal artefacts.
C. F. Gale, Aboriginines Department, Perth - 5 Feb 1913, " Three Kylies" sent to Mr Gale.
A. C. Kessell. Palace Hotel, Perth - 5 May 1904, List of aboriginal weapons sent.
Queensland Museum, Brisbane- 1901-1913, Three letters detailing the exchange of wasps, insects.
National Museum, Melbourne- 1900-1907, Various letters and lists detailing the exchange of bird eggs, snakes, lizards and frogs.
E. Ashby, Adelaide- 1902-1913, Various letters and lists detailing the exchange of skins and birds.
Launcelot Harrison, Sydney- 1906-1907, Two letters listing various bird eggs and birds exchanged.
NSW Department of Mines- 1910, Letter seeking exchange of fossils.
National Art Gallery of NSW- 1902-1912, Six letters discussing the exchange of artwork, pictures of Sydney
Geological Survey Department Perth- 1909 & 1913, List of aboriginal artefacts, ethnological specimens.
Technological Museum Sydney- 1908-10 , Five letters relating to the exchange of the Linnean Society's Proceedings and specimens of marble.

Great Britain

T. Graham Kerr, Glasgow University Scotland. 1904. Letter relating to the exchange of reptiles.
R and J Beck. London, England - 26 Feb 1904, Request for a "Focostat" lens.
The Reading Museum, England- 1914, List of ethnological specimens and aboriginal artefacts.
Sowerby and Fulton Conchologists, London- 1900, Letter relating to an exchange of shells
Oxford University, London- 1914, List of insects exchanged.
Gregory Smith, New College, Oxford England. 1908. Exchange of Gilgies from Chidlow's Wells and Cannington.
Gregory Mathews, British Museum England- 1908-1910, List of birds exchanged.
L.S. Loat, Devon England- 1912, List of ethnological specimens and aboriginal artefacts exchanged.
University Museum of Zoology Cambridge- 1912, Two lists of lizards and mouse skins exchanged.

Asia

M.E. Walsh, Java- 1914, Correspondence relating to the exchange of Australian and Javanese Butterflies and insects.
Fisheries Bureau, India- 1911, Bulletin of the Madras Fishing Bureau.
Indian Museum- 1914, Letter and list of Crustacea exchanged.
R.M.W. Heads, Bankok (Bangkok, misspelled) 1909, Several list of rocks sent to Mr Heads from the Geological Survey of Western Australia.

Europe

Andre Bonnet. 1903. Letter detailing an exchange of arrow heads for Paleolithic implements.
Imperial Academy of Science in St Petersburg. 1912. Letter from P. Michelides, Russian Consul to the Museum in relation to an exchange with the above agency.
Imperial Academy of Science in St Petersburg. 1908-1910. Series for letters between W Radloff from the Imperial Academy and the Museum about an exchange of aboriginal artefacts and Russian Porcelain.
Naturhistoriska Rikamuseets (Sweden), 1913. Letter with list of specimens requested by Y. Laurell.
Einer Lonnberg, 1911-1913. Series of letters discussing the exhange of the duplicate specimens in Dr Myoberg's Australian mammal collection.
Museum national d'histoire naturelle (France), 1914. Several letters detailing exchanges of aboriginal artefacts crustacea and insects.
Count George Noble Plunkett & H. B. White- National Museum of Ireland (Dublin). 1909-1915. 15 letters, including lists and a photograph detailing the exchange of marsupial skins and skuls, aboriginal aretfacts and the Monasterboice Cross.
Dr Hartmeyer & Dr Mobius, Zoologisches Museum in Berlin. 1901-1909.Five lists detailing the exchanges of fish, birds, mammals and marsupials.

New Zealand

F.L. Mouldey, Christchurch 1912, List of ethnological specimens and fossils exchanged.

Miscellaneous

C. Norton, Colombia Park Club- 1 Oct 1909, List of aboriginal artefacts exchanged.
Letter to unamed person dated 16 Jan 1912 listing animal specimens sent.
P. D. Montague, 2 Oct 1912. Collection of aboriginal artefacts sent to receipient.
W. H. Montague, 20 Oct 1901. Request for a swan to be sent.
A. G. Campbell, 16 October 1902. List detailing West Australian birds not in his collection. Notation added for those sent and available.
Finlay Sanderson, 12 May 1908. List of aboriginal artefacts exchanged for craftwork.

Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
Archives room (Bay 5, shelf 4)			Available

Anthropology - Exchanges

Author: Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916; Whittle, B. H.; McClay, Mary; Williamson, A. J.; Smith, Reginald; Simpson, Edward S. (Edward Sydney), 1875-1939; Thomson, James; Newall, R. S.; Rathbun, Richard; Rainbow, W. J.; Wiltshire, G.; Oest, N.; Strelitz, Richard; Neville, A. O. (Auber Octavius), 1876-1954; Barrett, H.; Morton, Alexander, 1854-1907; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Reading Museum (Reading, England); Laurell, Yngve; Emo, Nicholas Maria, 1853-1915; Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929; Ashby, Edwin; Lane-Poole, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1885-1970; Shaw, C. H.; Crowther, W. L. E. H.; Etheridge, Robert, 1846-1920; Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945; Bleazard, Colin; Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, 1836-1905; Bonnet, Andre

Call no: A364-71-1

Year: 1895-1925

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Collections of letters to the Curator of the Perth Museum, either B.H. Woodward or L. Glauert, regarding ethnographic specimens which the writer would like to receive or offer to the Perth Museum:

1895 - 1903 (June); from the Australian (R. Ethridge), Tasmanian (Alex Morton), British (O.M. Dalton) and Cantebury Museums (F.W, Hutton), the Anthropological Society of Paris (Andre Bonnet) and private requests from C. Bleazard, M. McLay, for rare W.A animal species and ethnographical specimens from aboriginal Australians.
1903 (May) - 1908 (Oct). 8 detailed Letters from A.J. Williamson (Bank of Victoria, Rushworth) suggesting exchanges of Western Australian ethnographical specimens (the list is later annotated with Perth Museum specimen numbers (in 1964)) in return for material from lake dwellings in Switzerland. He asks specifically for a kadjo. He lists material (numbered) sent to him from Perth for which he requests locations. He also offers bone utensils of Aborigines from near his location in Victoria and token coinage used in australian colonies. Annotated is a list of specimens already sent from the W.A. Museum.
1904 (Feb - Mar). Letter from N.Oest (Telephone Dept. Perth) asking for native weapons for the Ethnographic Museum in Copenhagen, in return for Scandinavian weapons and relics. A detailed list of the specimens sent from the Perth Museum is included.
1905 (July) - 1907(Oct). Letter from James Thomson arranging a visit to discuss a proposed collection for Canada.
1906 - 1907. Letters from Harry Johnson mentioning Central African ethnological objects that he will send to the Museum. A second letter has a numbered, descriptive list of objects sent.
1907 (Oct) - 1913 (Jan): R. Etheridge, Australian Museum, Sydney. 7 letters regarding specimens to and from the Australian Museum, including fishes and frogs, shields. A detailed description of "Pituri", from Mulligan River, Queensland, is given in one as a sample was sent by him to the Perth Museum. 3 letters to and from Australian Museum regarding shields from Broome, Isdell Ranges and King Leopold Ranges sent from the Perth Museum per W.J. Rainbow.
1909 (Feb) Letter of thanks from Edward Sydney Simpson, for sundry aborigine weapons which he received from the Perth Museum.
1910 (July). A Letter from Woodward to the Royal Society of Edinburgh asking for copies of their January Proceedings which included a paper by Drs. Perry, Robertson and Mr. S. Cross on the physical anthropology of the races of Australia.
1912. Letters (2) between R.S. Newall and Reginald Smith regarding stone implements found near Roebourne with discussion about their possible age.
1913 (June - July). 5 letters between the Director of the Perth Museum and G. Wiltshire of Kirupp regarding the donation of Murchison Aboriginal spears or kylies (boomerangs), woomera, shields and churinga in exchange for which the Museum sent him a box of shells. The aborigine artefacts were procured at Yalgoo and were brought down by Murchison River and Gascoyne Natives.
1913 (July). Letter from the Smithsonian Institution (R. Rathbun) noting the receipt of material forwarded to the Perth museum in January, acknowledging Perth's intention of forwarding skins of marsupials, rodents and honeyeaters and asking for a skeleton in bark wrapper from a cave in the far interior, as offered on a letter of 15 Oct. 1910.
1914 (Mar). Letter of thanks from the Museum of Reading for material sent to them.
1914 (May). Letters between Woodward and R. Strelitz regarding exchange of Western Australian Aboriginal samples for Swedish and Lapland ethnographical material, and with Y. Laurell of the Central Museum in Stockholm.
1915 (Sept - Oct). 4 letters between the Chief Protector of Aborigines (A.O. Neville) and the General Secretary of the Museum regarding the exchange of 2 Lbs worth (approved by the Trustees of Goods - for possibly cotton fabric) for native weapons left by Father Nicholas (Emo) of Lombardina Mission. Mr. Neville states that the "articles which appear to please the natives most at the Moola-Bulla Station are mirrors, lollies, strings of beads, belts, handkerchiefs and fireworks". Monthly reports for September 1915 are printed on the reverse.
1915 (Nov). exchange of letters between Mr. H. Barrett of Tasmania and the "Albany Museum" regarding an exchange of Tasmanian chipped stone implements. Declined, as the Keeper of Ethnology believed that the collection sent to the Museum by Mr. Whittle was fairly comprehensive.
1915 -1916. 8 letters between the General secretary of the Perth Museum and Mr. B. H. Whittle of Tasmania, regarding the exchange of ethnographic material. A letter from Whittle of 4 Sept. 1915 includes a detailed list of 29 specimens and an exposition of the appearance, use and names of items given by local collectors in Tasmania. In exchange for the specimens from Tasmania, Glauert sent 2 ground stone tomahawks from the Kimberley district and briefly discusses the types of these articles found in W.A.
1916 (May - Aug). 3 letters between W. B. Spencer of the Victorian Museum and Glauert referring to the "Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection of the Victorian Museum" and discussing the possibility of exchange of Central Australian ethnographic materaial for some W.A. samples. Glauert asks for particular objects which were not held by the Perth Museum but which were described in the Victorian guide, including a knife, Tabba, Kangaroo skin cloak, Booka, Kangaroo skin bag, Goto. He says that the W.A. collection is in the main well duplicated and he offers items in a collection from Alligator River in the Northen Territory (1904), which were not mentioned in the Victorian Guide. Spencer declined to provide such specimens saying that they were purchased from Sir John Forrest after his return from his overland expedition and they had no duplicates.
1917 - 1919. 4 letters between C.E. Lane-Poole, the W.A. Inspector General of Forests, and Glauert regarding the exchange of ethnological specimens with the Dijon Museum. There is an extensive, itemised list of Perth Museum specimens (Museum number listed) to be sent and acknowledgement of the items received by Dijon.
1918 - 1920. 12 letters between C.H. Shaw, Headmaster, Public School, Lake Bathurst, N.S.W. and Glauert, General Secretary and Librarian, asking for a boomerang and shield. In exchange a model of a Fijian war canoe was sent to Perth. In 1919, Shaw asked for several carved weapons from W.A. and offered prehistoric weapons from North America (45 specimens). This suggestion was repeated in 1920 and the North American items ranging from Alaska to California, Mississippi and Ohio Valleys were sent to Perth. Museum numbered artefacts, including, spear throwers, a spear point, Uhuringa, bull roarers and pearl shell ornaments were sent from the Perth Museum.
1922. 2 letters between Edwin Ashby, Wittunga, Blackwood, South Australia on behalf of the museum of the West China University in Chentu requesting ethnographic specimens. A list of numbered artefacts was sent by Glauert in November.
1925. A request from W.L. Crowther of Tasmania for specimens form the Perth Museum was declined by Glauert.

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