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The nighthawk's evening : notes of a field biologist / Gretchen N. Newberry.

Tawny frogmouth / [electronic resource] : Kaplan, Gisela T.

Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers.

ALBUMS
PXE 1521/Box 1
Photographs of steamships, ferries, paddle steamers and tugboats. 

PXE 1521/Box 2
Photographs (and newscuttings) of birds, nests, bushmen and their huts near Maryborough, Victoria, 1912-1915; and journeys on the Murray River in 1913 and  to Mallacoota Inlet and East Gippsland in 1914. 

PXA 1772/Box 1
1. Photographs of the R.A.O.U. (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) trip along the River Murray, South Australia, November- December 1913.
2. Photographs of birds, scenes, huts & people. Album is inscribed 'Maggie Chisholm'.
3. Photographs of Deirdre Chisholm as a baby.

PHOTOGRAPHS
PXA 1772/Box 2
Old Family Photos, ca. 1876 - ca. 1925. Include Chisholm's grandparents; his parents Colin Chisholm and Charlotte nee Kennedy; Duncan Chisholm; Alec Chisholm; Margaret Chisholm; Roderick Chisholm; Colin Chisholm.
"Old Photos (unidentified).

PXA 1772/Box 3
Portraits of Alec Chisholm

PXA 1772/Box 4
Portraits of Deirdre Chisholm

PXA 1772/Box 5 & PXA 1772/Box 6
"Personalities". Include Frank Hurley, E.V. Timms, Ion Idriess, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1921), Julian Huxley (1955), Neville H.P. Cayley, N.W. Cayley, Joyce Grenfell, Sir Philip Game, Lord Alanbrooke, Luigi Nobili, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester (1945), With the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in New Guinea & Bougainville (1945)

PXA 1772/Box 7
Lyrebirds

PXA 1772/Box 8
Warblers
Robins
Fairy Wrens
Emus, Bustards

PXA 1772/Box 9 
Parrots
Waders
Heath & Tree Wrens
Thrushes
Crows, Magpies, Butcherbirds, Currawongs & Kookaburras
Finches & Wasps

PXA 1772/Box 10
Honeyeaters
Bowerbirds
Cuckoo Shrikes, Trillers, Oriole
Scrub & Grass Wrens, Blue Wrens, Chats
Scrub Robins
Speckled Warbler, Logrunner, Whipbird
Pigeons & Doves
Nightjars, Owls, Frogmouths

PXA 1772/Box 11
Eagles & Hawks
Whistlers
Shrike Tit, Sittella
Atrichorns
Mound Builders
Sea Birds
Thornbills, Scrub Tit, Pardolotes, Weebill, Whiteface
Crested Bellbird, Bell-Miner
Mudlark, Chough, Apostlebird, Bibbler
Mallee Fowl

PXA 1772/Box 12
Gannets
Gannets (Cat Is., Black Pyramid Rock / R. Fowler, 1938)
Frigma
Kingfishers, Merops, Swallows, Tree Creepers, Swiftlet, Reed Warbler, Larks
Flycatchers

PXA 1772/Box 13
Finches
Fantails
Tailorbirds
Mistletoebirds
Cisticola

PXA 1772/Box 14
"Birds (general)" - mostly unidentified

PXA 1772/Box 15
Orchids and other flowers

PXA 1772/Box 16
Mammals
Lizards
Spiders

PXA 1772/Box 17
Trees (general)
Angophoras

PXA 1772/Box 18
Historic Trees & Memorials. Include Leichhardt Tree, Taroon; Tree marking Union Strike Camp, Hughenden, 1891; The Corroboree Tree in Richmond Park, Burnley; Hume & Hovell Tree, Albury; The Dig Tree (Burke & Wills); The Depot Tree, Camp 65 (Burke & Wills); Foundation Tree, Adelaide; Explorers' Marked Tree, Blue Mountains; Kelly-Police Memorial, Mansfield; Grave of Yuranigh, Molong; Gold Memorial, Maryborough; E.J. Banfield's Grave.
Tree Climbing.
Aboriginal Australians, rock carvings and carved trees.
Chinese.
Bush Huts & other rural buildings.

PXA 1772/Box 19
Maryborough Photos, ca. 1900-1914. Include Chisholm's High School Class of 1914; Temperance Football Club, Premiers 1911.
Mallacoota and Murray River, 1912-1914, undated.

PXA 1772/Box 20
Jamieson and Goulburn Rivers.
Portland.
Victoria - general.

PXA 1772/Box 21
Queensland. Includes Lamington National Park; Blackall, 1888; Bunya Mountains; Macpherson Range; Fraser Island; Dunk Island; Stradbroke Island.
"WarRon" and Ruined Castle Valley; Condamine River; Cave of the Hands and Reedy Creek.

PXA 1772/Box 22
Broken Hill.
Western NSW.
NSW - general. Includes Blue Mountains; Cabbage Tree Island (Port Stephens); Middle Harbour (Sydney.
1932 pageant to celebrate opening of Harbour Bridge.

V/284
The Banfield House, Dunk Island, 1921.

MPG 217
Group of people listening to a talk by Alec Chisholm[?].

SV/288
Princess Alexandra with a koala.

PXA 1772/Box 23
Three photographs of Papua New Guinea, 1940s: Japanese Cemetery at Lae;  small section of graveyard of planes, near Port Moresby; aerial view of Port Moresby.
Photographs for 'Strange new world; the adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1941.
Originals and proofs for 'The incredible year : a naturalist sees Europe in "Adolf Hitler" weather' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1944.

PXA 1772/Box 24
Scotland, 1938 (photos by AHC)
England, 1938 (photos by AHC)
Photos abroad, 1938. Include Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Malta, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Holland, Versailles.

COPYPRINTS (taken from nitrate negatives)
PXA 1772/ Box 25  
Kent, Sussex, Surrey 
Oxford- Selbourne 
Wiltshire and Hampshire
Somerset and Dorset
London and England  
South Scotland
Bass Rock
Inverness & Perthshire, Scotland 
Far North Scotland
Roman ruins

PXA 1772/Box 26
Shipboard
Holland and France
Naples & Pompeii
Aden, Port Said
Columbo 
New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Mt Buffalo under snow - & Barrowmen (20)
Figures in Victorian Bush (15)
Maryborough scenes, old huts etc
Eden (old church etc.), Macpherson Range
"WanRon"[?], Reedy Creek, Ruined Castle

PXA 1772/Box 27  
Goulburn and Jamieson Rivers
Queanbeyan Flood, 1928 (?)
Port Stephens & Myall River, Phillip Island, Riverina, Hindwood & McGillivray
Ruined Castle Valley, Palm Tree Creek
Lambing Flat
Portland
Scenic & General
Angophoras, Mr Chisholm
Angophoras & Casuarinas
Tree climbing

PXA 1772/Box 28
Birds and Flowers
Birds (general)
Trees (general) & Toothbill
Helmeted Honeyeater
Lyrebirds
Golden Bowerbird
Finch - Immelmann
Birds Nests
"WarRon"[?], Bowers etc.

PXA 1772/Box 29
Mammals
Wombats
Koalas, Quail Island
Fossickers & Chinese
Dierdre, see also Lyrebirds (Springwood)
2/5/74 Deirdre
Deirdre & "The Bri" & old hut
Deirdre
Chisholm & George Mackaness at Camp Cove; First Fleeters; Mary Bryant's Tea Leaves
Alec Chisholm, mother - sisters - home
Childhood

PXA 1772/Box 30
Personalities. 
Sir Philip Game probably Bigelow
Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) in Queensland, 1920
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, 1945
Sir Charles Symonds at Dee Why
Graves & Memorials including Owen Stanley & James Ruse
Matthews & Gould also Knight & Alexander
Historic Buildings file.

PXA 1772/31
Unidentified. Include aeroplanes, trees, birds, memorials, country scenes, people, bush huts, houses, towns, churches.

LANTERN SLIDES (black & white and colour) 
SLIDES 269/Box 1
Include Alexander Harris, Ursula Carr, Aboriginal people, birds, bush huts, animals, orchids, trees, aerial views of Sydney, 1933-1937.

SLIDES 269/Boxes 2-6 
Mostly unidentified. Include Aboriginal Australians, birds, bush huts, animals, orchids, flowers, trees, James the Lyrebird, ca. 1935, Dunk & Fraser Islands, Australian scenes and people.

GLASS NEGATIVES
ON 544
Box 1. Bowerbirds
Boxes 2 & 3. Lyrebirds
Boxes 4 & 5. Mallee
Boxes 6 & 7. Robins
Box 8. Robins & Jungle Birds
Box 9. Sea birds
Box 10. Cisticola, Dicaeum, Shriketit
Box 11. Cuckoos
Box 12. Wrens
Box 13. Finch (wasps)
Box 14. Dunk Island Birds
Box 15. Fantails and Flycatchers
Box 16. Gannets
Box 17. Negatives by D.W.  Gaukrodger
Box 18. Honeyeaters
Box 19. Kingfisher, Tits, Chats, Song Lark, Kestrel, Brolga, Turkey, Treecreeper, Frogmaouth and other birds 
Boxes 20-24. Birds in general
Boxes 25-26. Orchids
Box 27. Wildflowers
Box 28. Trees
Box 29. Scenes & People in Queensland
Boxes 30-31. Scenes in Queensland
Box 32. Children in Queensland
Boxes 33-34. Dunk Island
Box 35. Fraser Island
Box 36. Bunya mountains
Boxes 37-38. Macpherson Range
Box 39. Scenes  & Persons in NSW. Also mammals
Box 40. Scenes & Persons in Victoria including Deirdre climbing
Box 41. Children in Victoria
Box 42. Murray River, Nov.-Dec. 1913
Box 43. Mallacoota, 1914
Box 44. Strange New world and Goulds
Box 45. Old men and huts
Box 46. Deirdre in Sydney during babyhood - Melbourne from 1933
Box 47. C.J. Dennis
Box 48. J.R. Marshall plates
Box 49. Ramsay
Boxes 50-52. Untitled

FILM NEGATIVES
ON 545
Include Portrait of John Gould; paradise parrot; nightjars; lyrebirds; town plan of Menindee; Henry Coxen; Alec Chisholm; birds; Selbourne Window; documents relating to George Robertson.

DRAWINGS & PRINT
PXE 1521/Box 3
1. Portrait of Alec Chisholm, pencil / by SMB[?].
2. Two birds and nest (possibly red-backed fairy-wrens), ink and watercolur / by Cayley.
3. Yellow-winged satin-bird[?], watercolour / artist unknown.
4. Yellow-winged satin-bird, print / from a drawing by G.J. Broinowski.
5. Portrait of Alec Chisholm surrounded by Australian animals and birds, watercolour / by Betty Paterson.
6. Address to Alex Chisholm Esq on his departure for Europe, 1938. Includes photograph and caricature in ink of Chisholm and drawings of Australian animals and birds.

SV/286
Cartoon, 'U.A.P. majority - Where did that one go?', ink / by Will Mahony

REALIA
R 2098
Item 1. Australian Natural History Award. Metal plaque in presentation case. Obverse, an Australian Aborigine seated before a fire beneath a carved tree; Reverse, "For special study / and / increasing knowledge / and appreciation of / Australian fauna and flora / awarded to / Alexander Hugh Chisholm / year 1939 (Initial Award)".
Item 2. Metal plaque mounted on wooden stand. Inscribed on plaque, "Australias  / 175th / Anniversary / 1788-1963 / NSW Celebrations". Inscribed on stand, "Mr A.H. Chisholm O.B.E., F.R.Z.S. / General Secretary / Royal Australian Historical Society / Australia Day, 26th January 1963".
Item 3. Enameled metal badge showing a bird and the initials "C.F.N.C." (Castlemaine Field Naturalist Club).
Item 4. Enameled metal badge showing a bird and inscribed "Bird Observers Club / Life Member".
Item 5. Badge inscribed "F.N.C.V. / A.H. Chisholm. Hon. Editor". (Field Naturalists Club of Victoria).
Item 6. Metal badge inscribed "A.H. Chisholm / From / the Queensland / Naturalists Club / 1922".
Item 7. Metal badge with a photographic portrait of Alec Chisolm aged about 11.
Item 8. Gold propelling pencil inscribed 'A.H. Chisholm 13.9.37'.

Forms part of Alec H. (Alec Hugh) Chisholm - papers, ca.1870-1976, at MLMSS 3540 ADD-ON 1542

Alec H. Chisholm photographs, lantern slides, glass negatives, drawings and realia, ca. 1860-1976

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The nighthawk's evening : notes of a field biologist / Gretchen N. Newberry.

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Tawny frogmouth / [electronic resource] : Kaplan, Gisela T.

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Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers.

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Alec H. Chisholm photographs, lantern slides, glass negatives, drawings and realia, ca. 1860-1976

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