A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti (in French Polynesia), Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB MS 89 and MS 146.

Mgr. Pierre Bataillon, 1810-1877. Titular Bishop of Enos, First Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, 1842-1877. Including Navigators' Islands 1842-1870. -- A. Extant records of Bataillon's period. -- A.1. Incoming letters. -- A.2 Outgoing letters. -- A.3.

B.6. Steinberger paper. -- B.7. Papers Ta'Imua Government, British and German consuls. -- B.8 Miscellaneous.

C. Mgr. Amand Lamaze, 1833-1906. Titular Bishop of Olympos and Third Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, 1879-1906, Administrator of Navigators' Islands, 1879-1896. -- C.1. Lamaze correspondence. -- C.2. Remy correspondence.