Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885

Watercolours relating to natural history includes a Kiwi (13.25" x 8"); HMS ACHERON sounding from near Stephens Island, New Zealand, 61 fms (10.5" x 7.5"); marine gastropod with young (10.5" x 8.5"); bivalve mollusc (8.5" x 6") initialled J.W.H; dried fern, in paper with 'Fern from Captain Wakefield's...', Wairau Plain, April '51' in Stokes's hand, Mrs Natusch notes the 'fern exhibit is very interesting. Captain Arthur Wakefield was killed in the Wairau 'massacre' (a confrontation over land between the New Zealand Company and Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata) in the year 1844. The fern looks like Pteridium esculentum: New Zealand bracken.'

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ID:	STK/73
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Stokes, John Lort
Date made:	1860-1862-12-31; 1860-1862 1860-01-01 - 1862-12-31
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund.
Parts:	Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885. (Manuscript) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 25 Feb-31 Dec 1837 (Manuscript) (STK/1) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Austalian Coast and Woolwich kept by Mate L R Fitzmaurice. Includes three loose folded maps of coastlines on tracing paper (fragile). (Manuscript) (STK/2) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 1 August 1839-6 June 1840 (Manuscript) (STK/3) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 7 June 1840-15 March 1841 (Manuscript) (STK/4) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 25 Mar-29 Dec 1841 (Manuscript) (STK/5) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 30 Dec 1841-31 Dec 1842 (Manuscript) (STK/6) Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New south Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 1 January-14 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (STK/7) Logbook of HMS ACHERON, surveying the New Zealand Coast, 15 June 1848-25 July 1849; 25 Aug-3 September 1849, and 14-18 January 1850 (Manuscript) (STK/8) Logbook of HMS HAVANNAH, Sydney to Spithead via Straits of Magnellan, 14 Aug-4 Dec 1851 (Manuscript) (STK/9) Journal of the South West Coast of England survey, 28 May 1859-13 April 1863, of hired vessels employed until Oct 1860 then ROSE (Manuscript) (STK/10) Out-letterbook of BEAGLE, 3 April 1841-12 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (STK/11) Out-letterbook of ACHERON, official and private, 23 August 1848-18 September 1849. Includes a quill. (Manuscript) (STK/12) Out-letterbook of ACHERON, 19 September 1849-2 Dec 1851 (Manuscript) (STK/13) South-West Coast of England Survey, out-letterbook, 10 August 1860-12 Dec 1862, with some loose drafts inserted (Manuscript) (STK/14) Captain's Orders and Memorandum on Methods of Surveying used in the BEAGLE, 1831-1836. (Manuscript) (STK/15-16) Bound papers relating to the voyage of the BEAGLE, 1831-36: nautical remarks for Bass Strait and Van Diemen's Land, copies of letters from Captain's W Hobson, P P King, C R D Bethune and F Harding. (Manuscript) (STK/17) Bound papers relating to the voyage of the BEAGLE: Game Book, 9 June 1841-14 September 1843. (Manuscript) (STK/18) Bound papers relating to the voyage of the BEAGLE: Heights on the North Coast of Tasmania, South Coast of Australia, Bass and Banks Straits, 1842-43. (Manuscript) (STK/19) Album of miscellaneous pictorial material, inscribed 'Fanny J Marley from Harriet E Gibbes 1840', includes sketches of places visited by the BEAGLE and incidents during the commission (Manuscript) (STK/20) General notebook relating to the voyage of the ACHERON, 1847-51, containing various observations, calculations, lists and a logbook of HAVANNAH, Sydney to Spithead, 1851, (Related Material STK/9) (Manuscript) (STK/21) Captain's orders, ACHERON, signed by Stokes and all the officers after making their copies, 1847-1851 (Manuscript) (STK/22) Bound papers relating to the voyage of the ACHERON, 1847-51. Part 1 and Part 2 (Manuscript) (STK/23) Bound papers relating to the voyage of the ACHERON, 1847-51: New Zealand, instructions for Mr Alexander Usborne, Master, signed by Beaufort, 13 June 1843 (Manuscript) (STK/24) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/25) General notebook, probably begun circa 1830, with bird fragments. 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(Manuscript) (STK/39) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/40) Papers relating to the voyage of the ACHERON, 1847-51: notebook apparently containing lists of articles shipped by ACHERON and on return voyage in HAVANNAH (Manuscript) (STK/41) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/42-46) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/47) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/48) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/49) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/51) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/52) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/53) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/54) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/55) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/56) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/57) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/58) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/59) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/61) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/62) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/63) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/66) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/67) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/68) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/69) Coastal Views (Manuscript) (STK/71) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/72) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/73) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/74) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/75) Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885 (Manuscript) (STK/76) Sketchbook of W.J.W. 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Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885

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