Captain Fowler went to the Pacific in 1868 as captain of the London Missionary Society vessel JOHN WILLIAMS III. He was dismissed in 1871 because of his treatment of Pacific Islanders. The logbook begins on 12 November 1868 when Captain Fowler left London. It continues to 25 February 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III passed Jervis Bay, NSW. It resumes on 30 March 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III left Sydney for a cruise to the Pacific Islands, which extended to Tahiti, back to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and then to Raiatea before returning to Sydney on 31 December 1869. The cruise took in Raiatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Aneityum, Mare, Lifu, Uvea, Tubuai and Savai'i. The logbook resumes again on 4 April 1870 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III was at Huahine. Subsequent calls were made at Raiatea, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Mitiaro, Mauke, Atiu, Tutuila, Niue, the Tokelau, Ellice (Tuvalu) and Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), the southern New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. The JOHN WILLIAMS III returned to Sydney on 20 December 1870. Captain Fowler returned to England in 1871 in the ship BUCKLEY CASTLE.

Dr George Alexander Turner (son of the Rev. Dr George Turner, author of 'Samoa A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before', London, 1884) was a medical missionary in Samoa from 1868 to 1879.

The journal describes two voyages through the Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Groups (Tuvalu and Kiribati) in the mission ship John Williams. The first voyage was from 26 May to 2 August 1874; and the second from 11 May to 21 July 1878. Much of the material is on mission matters, with occasional reference to matters of more general interest. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu January-March 1971:22, pp.1-6.

C.2. Remy correspondence continued. -- C.3. Correspondence Catholic mission with Samoan Governments. -- C.4. Documents, most in Samoan, concerning mission lands and buildings.

D. Mgr. Pierre Broyer, 1846-1918. Titular Bishop of Polemonium and Second Vicar Apostolic of Navigators' Islands, 1896-1918. -- D.1. Personal papers Broyer: Correspondence with the S.C.P.F., Rome, and church related aid organisations. -- D.2. Bishops to

D.9. Beginnings of the Catholic mission in the North Solomons and the Mission Seminary in Meppen (Germany).

D.10. Correspondence Catholic mission and Samoan Government 1896-1914. Three volumes. E,G,S,F. Continued.

D.11. Correspondence with other political powers. -- D.12. Miscellaneous papers. Two volumes.

D.19. Diaries, memoires, notes, all MSS. Continued.

E.6. Correspondence, General Superiors of the Society of Mary and Bishop Darnand. 2 volumes, continued. -- E.7. Correspondence, Provincial Superiors of the Province of Oceania and Bishop Darnand.

E.8. Correspondence, Marist Fathers, Samoa and elsewhere and Bishop Darnand, 2 volumes.