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Documents related to Woodford's honours and appointments - military, professional and official appointments,

Documents include: Letter from John Bates Thurston, Consul General, Fiji, dated 24 December 1894 appointing Charles M. Woodford to be the acting British Consul at Samoa ; Handwritten letter From John B. Thurston, dated 28 December 1894, informing him of his appointment as Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific, for the district comprising the Samoan and Union Groups (plus amendment letter dated 1 February 1895), together with the sealed commission document, 29 December 1894 ; Letter dated 15 February 1896 from Acting Colonial Secretary (Fiji) to Woodford appointing him as temorary Stipendiary Magistrate in the Province of Nadroga ; Commission dated 17 February 1897 as British Resident in the Protectorate established by Her Majesty in the Solomon Islands ; Letter dated 13 June 1912 informing Woodford of his apointment to the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, together with Woodford's replies dated 10 August 1912 ; Annual Service in St Paul's Cathedral, 23 April 1928 ; Woodford's Commission as an Officer (Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 21 September 1875) ; Commission as an Officer (Sub-Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 6 January 1874) ; Letter from the Director, American Geographical Society requesting Woodford's acceptance as a Fellow of the Society ; Letter from L. Harcourt, Downing Street, dated 15 June 1912, congratulating Woodford on his C.M.G. ; Certificate from the Zoological Society of London, electing Charles M. Woodford as a corresponding member of the Society, dated 21 November 1889 ; Certificate of Proficiency for Captains, Subalterns in Infantry and Artillery Drill, dated 27 October 1874 ; Letter from Henry Lambert, Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, January 1915 accepting Woodford's resignation of the 28 ultimo ; Newspaper clipping from the Morning Post, 23 June 1909, The King's Levee.

Articles by E P Ramsay published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1879 - 1882: 'Notes on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands. - Part IV', Read Wednesday January 25th 1882 [annotated by Woodford]; 'Notes on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands, Part I. Aves' ; 'Notes on some recently described birds from the Solomon Islands, with remarks on some Australian birds mentioned in Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Cat. of Bds., Vol. IV.'

Folder entitled 'Historical Notes'.

Includes a letter from N. Amherst to Woodford, London, 5 July 1888, enclosing sketches to compare with Gallego's Sesarga (Guadalcanal) ; W. R. H. Rivers to Woodford, Cambridge, 10 July 1907 requesting help during his proposed trip to the Solomons in 1908 ; Henry Welchman to Woodford, Mara Na Tabu, 30 March1908 ; J. Edge-Partington to Woodford, nd, with extracts from Dalrymple of Mendana's discovery of the Solomons ; Proclamations and Instructions, Western Pacific High Commission, 1899-1903 (Extension of Protectorate, 28 January 1899 and 6 October 1900 ; Revocation of Protectorate over Tasman Group, 8 January 1902, and others) ; Booklet, 'Australia and the New Hebrides', reprinted from Sydney Daily Telegraph of article by Senator Staniforth Smith, 1904 ; Press clippings ; Article by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The late Dr Hyde, R.L. Stevenson's noble vindication of Damien', The Austral Light, January 1900, pp61 - 4 ; Typescript of article by Senator Pulsford ‘The Western Pacific’, Melbourne, The Senate, 28 November 1905, 6pp ; plus various handwritten notes by Woodford mainly about ships, Betel nut, kava, toddy.

Five journal articles on natural history.

Proof copy of 'Coral Islands and Savage Myths', by H.B. Guppy, a paper for presentation to a meeting of the Victoria Institute, 19 March1888, 16pp ; Reprint of Woodford, C M, 'Exploration of the Solomon Islands', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, June, 1888, 26pp ; Mason, George E, 'On an extinct undescribed fruit-bat of the genus Pteropus from the Mascarenes', Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, Vol XX, September 1907, pp 220 - 222 ; Bernays, Claude L, 'The British Solomon Islands, Read before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland, 27 May 1909 ; Thurnwald, Richard, 'Im Bismarckarchipel und auf den Salomoinseln 1906 - 1909', Reprint from Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, book 1, 1910, pp98 - 147.

Official reports on ships visiting the Australian Station, Solomon Islands: Report for New Guinea and Solomon Islands, 1890. Dates on which, and by whom, the various places on the Division were last visited by one of Her Majesty's ships, 3pp 2 copies ; and for the Australian Station, Solomon Islands, 1896. Correspondence respecting Outrages by Natives on British Subjects, and other matters which have been under inquiry during the year 1896, by Naval Officers in the Solomon Islands. 20pp. Proof copy

Smith, Percy S, 'Notes on the geographical knowledge of the Polynesians, Part I', Transactions of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol III, 1891, pp 280 - 310 and Part II, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, read before the Association, January 1898, pp 1 - 16. Reprints. Includes a letter from Percy Smith (President, Polynesian Society, New Plymouth, New Zealand) to Woodford 10 September 1916

London Family business papers

Includes contracts, patents, correspondence and assorted papers relating to properties and land in England and Australia. Oversized house plans removed.

Correspondence about the vessel, the Albatross.

Letter dated 16 June 1897 to Woodford from the Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London expressing gratitude for Woodford’s help to the vessel Albatross while it was engaged in scientific pursuits in Solomon Islands; a second letter to Woodford dated 23 October 1902 from Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Charge d’Affaires, on the same matter; and a calling card of Le Chevalier Joseph Mauler d’Elisenau, Capitaine de Corvette, Commandant S M cannon ere, Albatross.

Articles and reports on the Solomon Islands, by various authors

Contains: a paper from the AZAAS 42nd Congress (Port Moresby 17-21 August 1970): paper No. 11. The Role of the Civil Engineer in Developing Societies by R. G. A. Feachem; West Indian 'Dioscorea alata' Cultivars by H. J. Gooding (1960); The Scientific Report of "S. M. Albatros" 1895-1898 by K. u. K. Fregatten-Kapitan J. von Mauler and K. u. K. Linienschiffs-Lieutenant Wilhelm Kesslitz (1899); The Management of Coconut Plantations in Western Samoa by D. R. A. Eden (1953); Premier Troc, Double Illusion by Daniel de Coppet (1973)

British Indian Ocean Territories legislation

• The Seychelles Judicial Order in Council, 1899, p/c, 6pp.
• Seychelles Judicial Order in Council, 1903, p/c, 2pp.
• The Seychelles Legislature Order in Council, 1903, p/c, 3pp.
• British Indian Ocean Territory Royal Instructions 1965, P/c, 4pp.
• British Indian Ocean Territory Order 1965; p/c, 5pp.
• Merchant Shipping (Registration of Colonial Government Ships) (Amendment) Order 1967’ p/c, 2pp.
• Overseas Territories. Emergency Powers (Amendment) Order 1968, p/c, 1p.
• Seychelles Royal Instructions 1970, p/c, 4pp

Collected historical documents of or about Fiji

Includes:
• Fiji Ministry of Information, News release, ‘Statement from Lt. Col. Rabuka, Royal Fiji Military Forces’, 14 May 1987, 1p., p/c
• ‘Commission to Review the Constitution’, Fiji Republic Gazette, Vol.9, No.24, 21 Apr 1995
• Man’s Emigration Pass, Calcutta, 15 May 1901, for Chiria on board SS Fazilka proceeding to Fiji, 1p., p/c
• Department of Education, School Certificate Examination, 1964, Geography, p/c
• Poster, ‘Fiji Silenced, Public Forum, 17th August 1987, Teachers Federation , 300 Sussex St...’, authorised by the Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Co-ordinating Committee

Photograph of native police or army, German New Guinea

Photograph taken by E. S. Merriett, an American tourist, in 1901. The photograph was sent to Sub-Inspector Max R. Haynes of the Rabaul Police Station after an appeal for material relating to the early Police Forces of Papua and New Guinea in Pacific Islands Monthly.

Folder entitled 'Lord Howe's Group'.

Includes correspondence between Clements R. Markham and Woodford, dated '1907' dealing with Tasman's 'Onthon Java' and Woodford's reply dated 17 January 1908 ; Letters 19 January 1908, 19 January 1908 ; Letter from Dr Sarfert to Woodford, Leipzig, 17 May 1911, about the publication of his book on Lord Howe as 1913 (includes translation from German and Woodford's reply 5 September 1911 ; Handwritten manuscript on the 'Lord Howe's Group', written in 1886 ; Typescript of 'Notes on Leuneuva or Lord Howe's Group', 'written c1906 or 7' ; Handwritten notes on 'Lord Howe's Group, Turtle, cooking stones', November 1909 ; various handwritten notes by Woodford ; Photograph of a 'Cemetery at Lord Howe's group showing tombstone erected to memory of late chief Biba? c1903 (Photo by F. J. Barnett) ; Photograph of two groups of natives of the Lord Howe's Group (Photo by F. J. Barnet) ; Manuscript of notes made by Woodford of an interview with Shackell into the cause of complaints against him, 1910(?), related press clippings and a clipped copy of an article written by Reverend Dr Brown, 'Notes of a visit to the Solomon Islands and Ontong Java', published in The Missionary Review in 1911.

Folder entitled 'Sikaiana', includes 'An account of Sikaiana or Stewart's Islands', Typescript copy, 4pp ; 'Some account of Sikaiana or Stewart's Island in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate', Typescript 9 pp, includes an attached list of seventy words in the language of Sikaiana ; Copy of letter from Woodford to T A Joyce, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7 June 1908, accompanying information on the Sikaiana canoe ; Journal article by Woodford, 'Some account of Sikaiana or Stewart's Island in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate', Man, 1906, pp 164 - 109 ; Notes on Sikaiana equivalents for the names of shells

Folder entitled 'Notes on Malaita Shell money with a notice of the old Guadalcanal bead-money' includes: 'Notes on the manufacture of the Malaita shell bead money of the Solomon Group', Typescript, Woodford's note 'Copy', original sent to C H Read, 7 July 1907 ; Notes of interviews with Sio and Savo informants, December 1910 ; Notes on Malaita and Gela, Florida, etc money ; Notes on Auki Malaita money ; 'Appendix' on native currency

Miscellaneous documents and letters to and from Woodford.

Includes:
(a) Letter dated 21 April 1864 from Henry Pack Woodford to his son 'Charley'; (b) letter dated 3 October 1890 from William MacGregor, Government House, British New Guinea, to Woodford; (c) letter dated 5 August 1893 from Walter Rothschild to Charles M. Woodford; (d) letter dated 3 October 1921, identity of signatory uncertain (e … Oswalds …?) to Woodford; (e) letter (in Samoan?) dated 1894 addressed to 'Le Ali’i Konesula Peritania'; (f) Draft [in Woodford’s hand?] of letter to Admiral Wharton about problems with charts, 4p ; (g) letter dated 23 July 1895 from Wharton, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Woodford, thanking him for his report; (h) letter dated 17 October 1895 from Foreign Office to Woodford expressing approval of Woodford's performance while in charge of Apia consulate.

Letters between Woodford and the British Museum (Natural History) ; Letters from G A Boulenger, S F Harmer (Keeper of Zoology), 1909 -1915, regarding specimens of fish and a lizard sent by Woodford ; Woodford to Director Natural History Museum, Tulagi 12 October 1912 about despatch of lizard. Carbon copy ; Letter from Woodford to Boulanger, Sussex, 24 October 1915 requesting help in compiling a list of reptiles and Batrachians [frogs and salamanders] of the Solomons

Correspondence to and from C. M. Woodford, June 1910 - September 1914.

Includes one sepia photograph with no identifying text, showing three Europeans in white (one of them Woodford?), a line of standing Solomon Islanders in uniform ( police?) and other Solomon Islanders, men and women, seated. Among the letters is correspondence between Woodford and Charmian Kittredge London (the wife of the American writer Jack London).

Newspaper clippings on the Solomon Islands from Australian newspapers, including the suggested removal of the seat of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from Suva to Australia, 1910 - 11 ; the Massacre of missionaries on Rennell Island ; the deportation of Reverend Ernest Shackell, Methodist Missionary from Java and general contemporary views about the Solomon Islands

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