Ellen Heine: Botanist: Photographs & Ephemera

Black white photographs and ephemera previously belonging to Ellen Heine, ex Botanist, Dominion Museum 1929 - 1935.

These photographs relate to the Dominion Museum's staff field trips and have a direct correlation to the botany collections held by Te Papa.

This material was collected from a Mr Eric Heine in 2006.

Includes:

1. Text and photos from a trip by Dominion Museum staffto collect 'vegetable sheep' from the Cass/Castlehill
2. Photos of trees plants-photos from a range of field trips - Mountain vegetation to coastal views.
3. When Ellen Heine moved to Canterbury College in 1935 there were trips to the Cass area. Note: There were two separate visits to this area, the first with the Dominion Museum for the vegetable sheep, later with Canterbury University to their Botany Station.
4. Staff photos from Dominion Museum, little identification, early 1930s.
5. Two pages of notes by Maurice Bleakly "Location of Breeding Grounds, Callorhynchus, Sumner".