Item 253 - Folder on Vanikoro Island.

Includes letter from D Prain (Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) to Woodford, 26 July 1913, identifying sample of gum ; Letter from Woodford to J Scott Keltie (Royal Geographical Society), Tulagi, 28 December 1913, enclosing note on a visit to Vanikoro and relics collected there. Typescript copy ; Letter from Woodford to J H Maiden (Director, Botanic Gardens Sydney), Tulagi, 10 May 1914, about a copy of C Moore's Journal relating to his trip to the Solomons aboard 'Savannah', 1850; Letter from J H Maiden to Woodford, 16 April 1914 enclosing extracts of Charles Moore's diary of his 1850 trip to the Solomons aboard the 'Savannah' [Charles Moore,1820 - 1905, was formerly Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney]. Extracts cover period in Solomons ; Letter from Arthur W Hill (Assistant Director Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) to Woodford, 10 December 1915, acknowledging receipt of copy of Moore's diary ; Letter from J S Keltie to Woodford, Royal Geographical Society, 16 February 1916, requesting revision of a paper submitted for publication ; Draft manuscript of concluding part of the paper dealing with La Perouse and Vanikoro vocabularly ; Note of Prout's massacre 1859.

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