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Overview
This series contains natural history files arranged by subject.
This material appears to have been partially arranged by Dr Robert Falla into this order; possibly some time after his retirement.
The boxes containing the records were labelled as reflected on the list, however not all information relating to the subject has been filed. Whether this was due to a lack of time (Falla never completed his project sorting his papers) or some for some other reason which is not now known. As much as possible of Falla's arrangement has been retained.
It is also not entirely clear whether these files were brought together as part of Falla's own research project or whether they were considered part of the Museum record.
What is definite however is that some of the material included was gathered from a variety of sources.
Files in this series are:
• Kakapo - reports; 1953 – 1972
• Kakapo - measurements, various museums; 1963
• Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) - first draft
• Penguins - Photograph album (red)
• Gulls and Skuas - unpublished notes on Skuas
• Cookilaria (Cooks Petrels); 1931 – 1973
• Snow Petrel - general; 1959 – 1962
• Whales - Whaling; 1946 – 1951
• Whales - Cetacea (notepad and references)
• Notornis/Takahe - Notornis reports; 1949 – 1953
• Notornis/Takahe - reports; 1948 – 1951
• Procellariidae (except Puffinus) - photographs and clippings of black petrel; circa 1920
• Penguins - drawings, research notes, newspaper clippings etc; circa 1938 – 1964
• Data on Bird Skin Collections
• Whales - miscellaneous papers, sketches and reports; 1940 – 1974
• Penguins - observation research and photographs; 1919 – 1920
• Notornis/Takahe - draft notes for a book on Notornis (red binder)
• Anatidae - photographs and clippings of birds; 1920 – 1923
• White eyes - newspaper clippings of birds; 1920 – 1922
• Various (unsorted) research notes; circa 1950 – 1970
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - Register of birds received; 1916 – 1923
• Kakapo - correspondence, sketches and newspaper clippings; 1948 – 1960
• Strigidae - newspaper clippings and a photograph of birds (owls); 1924 – 1932
• Charadriidae - photographs and clippings of birds; 1918 – 1932
• Hydrobatidae - research notes etc; circa 1973 – 1975
• Kermadec Islands - newspaper clippings, published articles and miscellaneous; 1887 – 1913
• White Heron/Kotuku - general file, reports and miscellaneous material; 1946 – 1949
• Spheniscidae - photographs and clippings; 1920 – 1948
• Various (unsorted) research notes; circa 1950 – 1970
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - list of birds in Canterbury Museum; circa 1870
• Phalaropidae, Pratineoles, Arenariidae, Plovers - newspaper clippings of birds; 1924 – 1945
• New Zealand Snipe - general research notes; 1970 – 1973
• Introduced birds - newspaper clippings; 1918 – 1931
• Chatham Islands - General including publications, newspaper clippings, correspondence and photographs; 1924 – 1955
• Sub Antarctic - newspaper clippings (Antipodes and Bounty Islands); 1926 – 1972
• Kiwi : Apteryx - some random notes about Kiwis by JD Clark; 1949
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - list of bird skins and eggs; circa 1900 – 1960
• White Heron/Kotuku - observation notes; 1951 – 1967
• Kiwi : Apteryx - Research index cards and notes, specimen schedules, loose photographs and miscellaneous; 1939 – 1952
• Haematopodidae - newspaper clippings and photographs of birds; 1925 – 1931
• Ibises and Spoonbills - newspaper clippings; 1922 – 1925
• Notornis/Takahe - Notornis file (black binder); 1948 – 1961
• White Heron/Kotuku - Purple folder of correspondence regarding the White Heron colony; 1953 – 1954
• Thalassidromidae - clippings and photograph; 1917 – 1918
• Shining Cuckoo [Pipiwharauroa] - records, notes, reported sightings etc; 1936 – 1968
• Fregatidae, Anhingidae, Pelecanidae, Phaethonidae - photographs and newspaper clippings of birds; 1908 – 1922
• New Zealand and Banded Dotterel - publications, sketch and newspaper clipping; 1974 – 1977
• Prions - one photograph, clippings and notes; 1928
• Procellariidae (Puffinus) - photographs and newspaper clippings of birds; 1908 – 1925
• Recurvirostridae - newspaper clippings of stilts; 1920
• Seals - Miscellaneous publications, notes etc; 1946 – 1963
• Notornis/Takahe - reports, observations, publications and miscellaneous; 1948 – 1953
• Shining Cuckoo [Pipiwharauroa] - records, arrival dates recorded for shining cuckoo (black volume); 1908 – 1948
• Rallidae, Gallinulidae - photographs and clippings of birds; 1919 – 1926
• Albatross - sketches, clippings and survey notes; 1932 – 1973
• Seals - Seals in Southern Ocean (EG Turbott)
• Pachyptila, Halobaena : research and survey notes; circa 1930 – 1973
• White Heron/Kotuku - Heron data; 1967
• Treronidae Pigeons - newspaper clippings and picture; 1919 – 1926
• Lariidae stercoraridae - newspaper clippings, notes and photographs of gulls; 1919 – 1932
• Tern Rail - miscellaneous (research notes etc); 1957 – 1966
• New Zealand Birds taxonomic - research, survey notes and some correspondence; 1935 – 1976
• Diomedeiae - clippings on albatross; 1920 – 1930
• Seals - reports, correspondence and research; circa 1934 – 1957
• Phalacrucoridae - newspaper clippings, notes and photographs of birds; 1925 – 1950
• Whales - manuscript on the exploration of seals, whales and penguins in NZ (New Zealand)
• Psittaciforme (Kakapo, clippings relating to); 1919 – 1926
• Seals - Seal data (Antarctic Research Committee); 1957 – 1963
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - Catalogue of bird collections offered for sale for £1,500 by Doctor Otto Finch, Nash Grey General of Birds; circa 1875 – 1885
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - Data slips Favaloro (collector); circa 1903 – 1950
• Seals - Otaria hookeri, Sandy Bay seal count; 1962
• Penguins - correspondence, notes, research; circa 1970 – 1975
• Pterodroma (includes rough research notes, photographs, sketches and miscellaneous); circa 1929 – 1972
• Gulls and Skuas - photographs, newspaper clippings, rough research notes; 1938 – 1972
• Seolopacidae - one piece of paper containing notes
• Sub Antarctic - correspondence, observations, plans etc; circa 1950
• Meliphagidae - photographs and clippings of birds; 1908 – 1933
• White Heron/Kotuku - notes, correspondence, surveys, miscellaneous; 1953 – 1967
• Huia - reports and correspondence; 1924 – 1947
• Notornis/Takahe - Takahe expedition narratives (diary); 1949
• Seals - NZ (New Zealand) Fur Seal, Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson), Falla 1948 - seal report 1947, rookery plan 1947; 1947 – 1948
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - NZ (New Zealand) Bird Skin Collections in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin; 1923
• White Heron/Kotuku - notes, correspondence, surveys, miscellaneous; 1953 – 1967
• Whales - miscellaneous publications, correspondence and reports; 1931 – 1965
• Perdicidae - newspaper clippings of birds (quails); 1922 – 1923
• Nestoridae - newspaper clippings on Kea; 1900 – 1934
• Pelecanoides : research notes, surveys and some publicity material; circa 1930 – 1970
• Penguins - Photograph album (black) and research notes
• Dacelonidae, Alcedinidae (Kingfisher) - newspaper clippings; 1919
• Plants and Forestry - newspaper clippings; 1920 – 1929
• Insects - newspaper clippings; 1920 – 1930
• Sulidae - photographs and clippings of gannets; 1908 – 1923
• Macronectes, Daption, Priocella - research notes and publicity material; circa 1952 – 1970
• Eudyptula (research notes, surveys etc); circa 1940 – 1950
• Lizards - handwritten notes; 1923 – 1924
• Sternidae - photographs and newspaper clippings of terns; 1908 – 1928
• Auckland Island Birds - index cards, notes etc
• Data on Bird Skin Collections - Early catalogue of collection of birds; undated; O'Connor, Albert Creagh
• Chatham Islands - Skeleton Chronology (1791-1898), includes interview with Te Ropiha and Robert Stone Florence in 1902 regarding the Moriori; circa 1900 - 1902; Unknown