Information on collectors

Te Papa's hebarium holds various kinds of information on its major collectors and their collections.  This includes  field notebooks, diaries, and correspondence, or as card indices and databases. Visitors to the herbarium are welcome to access this material.

In addition, the following collection listings, biographies, and itineraries of major collectors associated with the Te Papa herbarium have been published.  

Adams NM. 1980. The botanical excursions of B C Aston. Tuatara 24: 49-58.

Adams NM.  1988.  The first illustrations of New Zealand plants:  the Banks and Solander proofs held in New Zealand.  National Museum of New Zealand Records 3: 93-99.

Adams NM. 2002.  John Buchanan F.L.S. botanist and artist (1819-1898).  Tuhinga 13: 71-115.

Adams NM.  1990.  The botanical collections of John Buchanan F.L.S. in Short, P S, ed. History of Systematic Botany in Australasia. Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society.

Bagnall AG.  1970.  Sven Berggren in New Zealand.  Turnbull Library Record 3: 29-42, 143-151.

Brownsey PJ.  1979.  Type material in the herbarium of the National Museum of New Zealand (WELT). National Museum of New Zealand Records 1: 243-269.

Hamlin BG.  1958.  Itinerary of Donald Petrie’s botanical expeditions, with a bibliography of Petrie’s botanical papers.  Records of the Dominion Museum 3: 89-99.

Hamlin BG. 1965. Itinerary of Thomas Kirk’s botanical expeditions.  Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 93-100.

Hamlin BG.  1967. Itinerary of Leonard Cockayne’s botanical expeditions.  Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 265-276.

Hamlin BG.  1971. The bryophyte collections of William Colenso in the Dominion Museum, Wellington. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 695-698.

Hamlin BG. 1971. Bryophyte collections in the Dominion Museum (WELT). New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 703-705.

Kell FM.  2001.  Herbarium WELT in New Zealand’s national museum, 1865-1997.  Tuhinga 12: 1-15.

Nelson WA, Phillips LE, Adams NM.  1998.  Algal type material and historical phycological collections in the herbarium of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga 10: 63-85.

Pitt FDH. 1982. The botanical collecting trips of W R B Oliver.  National Museum of New Zealand Records 2: 65-79.

Thomson A D. 1983. The life and correspondence of Leonard Cockayne. Christchurch, privately published.