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Articles, letters and miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 1042
  • Collection
  • 1873 - 1907

Please see PMB 1039 for full entry
This collection (MS 7080, Box 3) consists of the following:
FOLDER 1 - Letters to Lorimer Fison: Items 9-11; George Taplin, 1873: Meru tribe kinship, Murray River; Items 12-19; R.H. Codrington, 1892-3: New guinea and Melanesian languages; Items 20-22; H.M. Jackson, Government House, Suva, 1903; Items 23-24; Wm MacGregor, 1888: New Guinea ethnology and languages; Items 25-37; Basil Thomson, 1893: Fijian culture; recall to London; Items 38-39; A.W. Howitt, 1905; Items 40-41; J.G. Frazer, 1907: Frazer compliments Spencer and Gillen on their work and discusses his plans for an anthropological fund at Liverpool, UK.; Items 42-48; W. Skeat, 1903-4: Fiji/Tonga linguistics; publication of Fison article; Items 49-59; J.B. Thurston, 1872 (incomplete) and 1893; Items 60-61; W.E. Bennett, 1903; Items 62-63; S.E. Peal (incomplete); Items 64-65; Letter from J. Hall, Fison's secretary, to J.G. Frazer, 1905; Item 65a; List of distinguished acquaintances
FOLDER 2 - Correspondence with J.G. Frazer; Item 66-104; 1896-1907: mostly anthropology of Australian Aborigines
FOLDER 3 - Notes and Tables: Item 105-167; Mostly in Fison's hand, includes 7 returned questionnaires. Principal subjects are kinship and language among the Australian Aborigines, but there is also material on Dobu (New Guinea) and Fijian languages. Includes kinship tables for tribes in the Murray River, SA; Murray/Darling; Yorke Peninsula, SA; Omeo & Gippsland, VIC; Jervis Bay, NSW areas.
FOLDER 4 - Articles: Item 168-208; A signed mss copy of 'Land tenure in Fiji': Item 209-224; Fellows, Rev. S.B. 'Grammar of the Pannieti dialect, British New Guinea, together with comprehensive vocabulary'. Proof copy.; Item 225-233; Sketch maps (2) and comparative lists of the vocabulary of New Guinea dialects: Saibai, Uroi, Baribara, Kaura, Moi, Wapi, Ari, Moipalo, Kubilo, A'loto, Bau, Gaiga, Kaipu, Kaurarega, Gudang; Item 234; Note (incomplete) on numerals of New Guinea dialects; Item 235; A comparative vocabulary of New Guinea languages.
FOLDER 5 - Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol.X, February 1874; Item 236; On pp.154-179 is Fison's article 'The classificatory system of kinship'. The volume bears the signature of E.M. Curr and his handwritten critique of Fison's article. Also marked in the table of contents is an article, on pp. 100-105, 'Abstract of a paper on Aboriginal art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its decay' by H.E. Pain.

Fison, Lorimer

Articles relating to the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 113
  • Collection
  • 1880 - 1896 (Vols 1-17)

The articles mostly concern Australia, Hawaii and Samoa. Contributor was published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City.<BR>For other publications by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 110 for Improvement Era and PMB 112 for Juvenile Instructor.

Contributor

Articles relating to the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 105
  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1916 (Vols 1-9)

The Journal of History is a former quarterly publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was issued from Lamoni, Iowa.

Articles on the Pacific Islands. In the period covered the church was active largely in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands, Tuba, as well as the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, and Tonga. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald; PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves;, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign; and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.

Journal of History

Articles relating to the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 110
  • Collection
  • 1898 - 1969 (Vols. 1-72)

To 1969, Improvement Era was being published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City.

The articles mainly concern the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Pacific Islands. The church was largely active in the period in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands and Tubuai, as well as being active in the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga. For other publications by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 112 for Juvenile Instructor; and PMB 113 for Contributor.

Improvement Era

Articles relating to the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 112
  • Collection
  • 1868 - 1921 (Vols. 3-56)

The articles mainly concern Hawaii, the Society Islands in French Polynesia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Samoa, Tonga, Pitcairn Island and Fiji. The Juvenile Instructor was published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City. For other publications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 110 for Improvement Era; and PMB 113 for Contributor.

Juvenile Instructor

Articles relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 92
  • Collection
  • 1874 - 1903 (Vols. 21-50)

The Saints Herald is an offical publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Vols. 21 to 28, No. 20, were published at Plano, Illinois, USA. From then on, Lamoni, Iowa, was the place of publication. Until the end of 1882 (Vol. 29), the journal was published fortnightly. It then became a weekly publication. The volumes of The Saints Herald prior to Vol. 21 contain no material relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons. See also PMB 89, 93 and 100

The Saints Herald

Articles relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 93
  • Collection
  • 1916 - 1945 (Vols. 63-92)

The Saints Herald is an official weekly journal of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints published at Lamoni, Iowa, USA.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago (See PMB 100 for items not available on this microfilm for the period 1918 - 1931). See also PMB 92.

The Saints Herald

Articles relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 100
  • Collection
  • 1918 - 1931

The Saints Herald is an official weekly journal of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, published at Lamoni, Iowa, USA.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. This film complements film PMB 93 in that it contains copies of articles from issues of The Saints Herald, which were not available when PMB 93 was filmed. See also PMB 92, The Saints Herald, Vols 21-50. Autumn Leaves, another publication of the Reorganized Church, has been filmed as PMB 94 (Vols 1-21) and PMB 109 (Vols 22-44) 1888-1931 inclusive.

The Saints Herald

Articles on the Solomon Islands

  • AU PMB MS 67
  • Collection
  • 1350 - c.1961

The Rev. John R. Metcalfe (1889-1970) was born in Yorkshire and served as a Methodist missionary in the Solomon Islands for 37 years. He served as a home missionary in Great Britain before moving to Victoria in 1914. He became a candidate for the Methodist ministry in 1916, and after being ordained was appointed to the Solomon Islands in 1920. After a brief period at Roviana, he was appointed to Choiseul as assistant to the Rev. V. LeC. Binet. Apart from four years at Teop, he remained on Choiseul until 1951. During the war, he served as a Coastwatcher. He became chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons in 1951, a post he held until he retired to Australia in 1957. He continued to take an active interest in the mission until his death in 1970.

A collection of 39 articles with the following titles: Lauru; The Three Brothers; Harry Raeno; Stephen Gandepeta; The Two Friends; Timothy Loe; Solomon Damusoe; Methodism in the Marovo; A Footnote to Rickenbacker; The Vurulata Senga Feud; Pioneering on Choiseul; The Gumi Family; Methodism on Guadalcanal; The Helena Goldie Hospital; The Melanesian Cargo Cult; Our Time at Teop; Osea Tambipunda; How the Lauruans met the Japanese; Thoughts on Etoism; Aola Methodism; San Marcos or Choiseul Island; The Fisherman who Got Lost; Sub-Hospital No.3; The Coming of the Uniform; The Coming of the Aeroplane; Christmas in the Battle Area; Broadcast at Honiara (8/4/51); How I Left Munda; The Methodist Church and the Development of North-East Bougainville; How the Japanese Descended on Lauru; The Beginning of the Kamanga Tribe; The Problem of the Tropical South Pacific; Co-operation in the Solomon Islands District; My Years as Chairman; Vangunu: The Tragedy at Egolo... Rendova; and three broadcasts made in August and September, 1943, entitled Readings from a Missionary's Diary.

Metcalfe, John R.

Articles on the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 109
  • Collection
  • 1909 - 1931 (Vols 22-44)

Autumn Leaves, renamed Vision from Vol.42, is a publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church in Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. For items from Vols. 1-21, see PMB 94. For other publications of the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald; PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign; PMB 105 for Journal of History and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.

Autumn Leaves

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