For details see PMB Doc 181

1914-1922

For details see PMB Doc. 181

1896-1898

For details see PMB Doc 181

1927-1930

For details see PMB Doc 181

1931-1935 (nos 354-404)

For details see PMB Doc 181

1936 (nos 404-414)

Documents relating to the establishment and operation of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, 1967-1977; Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Museum and Art Gallery of Papua and New Guinea, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976; Catalogues and Guides published by the Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1965-1974.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Annual list of ministers, compiled 1924 - 1972 for the period 1888 - 1971<BR>Terms of appointment for ministers who have served in Tonga, 1822 - 1906

The Research School of Pacific Studies, established in 1948, was one of the four founding Research Schools of the Australian National University. The foundational departments of the School were Pacific History, Geography, Anthropology and Sociology and International Relations. Within a few years, other disciplines or sub-disciplines emerged: Linguistics, Biogeography and Geomorphology, Economics and Political and Social Change. The broad thrust was the social sciences and to a lesser extent the humanities.

The New Guinea Research Unit was created within the School in 1961. Other cross-disciplinary research carried out in the School include the Austronesian Project, the Economic History of Southeast Asia Project, the Transformation in Communist Regimes Project, Resource Management in Asia Pacific and State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project.

Several distinguished academics have been associated with the School including W.E.H. “Bill” Stanner, Siegrfried “Fred” Nadel, Derek Freeman, A.L. “Bill” Epstein, A. L. Basham, Stephen Wurm (who later established the department of linguistics), Jack Golson, C.P. “Patrick” Fitzgerald, Wng Ling, Jim Davidson, Harry Maude, Richard “Dick” Gilson, Francis West, W.R. “Bill” Crocker, Arthur Burns, J.A. Modelski, Lord Lindsay, J.D.B. “Bruce” Miller, O.H.K. “Oskar” Spate, J.N. “Joe” Jennings, Harold Brookfield, Donald Walker, Sir John Crawford, T. Scarlett Epstein, D.M. Bensusan-Butt, W. Max Corden, Heinz Arndt, Hedley Bull, C.A. Blyth, E.K. “Fred” Fisk, David Bettison, Ron Crocombe, Marion Ward and Ron May.

In 2010 the Research School of Pacific Studies became the College of Asia and the Pacific. The College now includes the following schools:
Crawford School of Economics & Government
School of Culture, History & Language
School of International, Political & Strategic Studies
School of Regulation, Justice & Diplomacy
Australian Centre on China in the World
ANU-Indiana University Pan Asia Institute (PAI)

For more information see: The Coombs : a house of memories. editors: Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley, Canberra : Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, c2006 http://epress.anu.edu.au ,
and http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/

Division of Pacific and Asian History Annual Reports, 1952-2008.
See Finding aids for details.

Methodist affairs in Fiji were administered by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London until the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church in 1855 when Fiji became a District of the New South Wales Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church. The Fiji District was administered by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia situated in Sydney and by the District Chairman whose office was in Bau till 1903 and in Suva after that date. In 1964 the Methodist Church of Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia.<BR>See also PMB 1062, 1063 and 1093.

Minutes and journals of the Fiji District Annual Synod, 1854-1945. Fiji District correspondence, 1869-1899. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

Stephan Lehner (1877-1947) arrived in New Guinea as a lutheran pastor in August 1902. He worked mainly among the Bukawa people of the Huon Gulf.

The papers comprise:

1. Der Bukawac-Stamm
2. Die Naturanschauung de Bukawac
3. Spiritismus, Totemismus und Animismus des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
4. Die Blut-theorie beim Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
5. Psychologie des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
6. Sitten und Rechte des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
   No item 7 listed
7. Volksgesundheit und Wachstumsaussicht des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
8. Der Engolg der Mission beim Melanesierstamm der Bukawac
9. Geschichtliche Skizze des Bukawac-Stammes
10. Jabem-Marchen und Sagen (This work is by H. Zahn)
11. 'Maja'
12. Opa
13. Unidentified. Some of these papers, which were apparently being prepared for publication in a book about 1945, were published earlier in anthropological journals. There may be some variation between versions as published and those microfilmed. See An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea, vol.1, p.150-51 (Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968).