Manuscripts, photocopies, Patrick Grant

Maker
Grant, Patrick John
Production date
1928-1992
Current rights
Public Domain

Object detail

Brief Description
Manuscripts attributed to research done by Patrick Grant for his publication Hawke's Bay Forests of Yesterday.

a) Photocopied manuscript entitled: An Exception Gale. Details a storm which hit Palmerston North and the Tararua Ranges on 2 February 1936. Taken from Te Kura Ngahere - New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume 4, Number, 1936.

b) Photocopied manuscript entitled: The Recovery of an Indigenous Forest after Wind-Throw by A P Thomson. Cites examples in the Mangahao and Ohau valleys. Taken from Te Kura Ngahere - New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume 4, Number 1, 1936.

c) Photocopied manuscript entitled: The Life History of the Westland Rimu Stands by F E Hutchinson. Includes an introduction and sections on the natural life cycle without any human interference, some changes taking place consequent on logging and a summary. Taken from Te Kura Ngahere - New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume III, Number 1, 1962.

d) Photocopied manuscript entitled: A Hypothesis in Regard to the Westland Rimu Bush by F E Hutchinson. Taken from Te Kura Ngahere - New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume 2, Number 3, 1928.

e) Photocopied manuscript entitled: An Approach to the Management of the Rimu Forests by F E Hutchinson. Taken from Te Kura Ngahere - New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume 3, Number 1, 1931.

f) Two copies of a photocopied manuscript entitled: Wind Damage - Urewera Forest Tract. Manuscript by John Knowlton, Deputy Conservator of Forests for the New Zealand Forest Service. Dated 19 May 1982. Attached is a letter to Patrick Grant from Willie Shaw introducing the manuscript and dated 18 December 1986. Also attached is a letter to Patrick Grant from Beryl Anderson, Regional Director of Research for the Forest Research Institute, stating that no copies of the article exist in their records.

g) Manuscript entitled: Tropical Cyclones - Determinants of Pattern and Structure in New Zealand's Indigenous Forests by W B Shaw. Includes an abstract details of Tropical Cyclone Bernie, Urewera National Park damage, track of the cyclone and damage by other cyclones in New Zealand history. Printed by Pacific Science, Volume 37, Number 4, 1983.

h) Photocopied manuscript entitled: Soils Under Beech Forest in an Experimental Catchment Area Near Nelson by I B Campbell and G Mew. Taken from the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 16, Number 2, 1986.

i) Manuscript entitled: Soil and Vegetation Characteristics of some Tree Windthrow Features in a South Westland Rimu Forest by J A Adams and D A Norton. Taken from the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 21, Number 1, March 1991.

j) Manuscript entitled: Severe Storms, Climate Change and Coastal Erosion by S J Reid. Circa 1985.

k) Manuscript entitled: A Comparison Between Hurricane-Free and Hurricane-Producing Years in the Southwest Pacific by G F A Ward. Written for the New Zealand Meteorological Service and dated August 1973.

l) Manuscript entitled: Probability of Landslides in Hill Country by H Omura and D Hicks. Written for the Procedures of the 6th International Symposium on Landslides, Christchurch, 1992.

m) Manuscript entitled: Tree Windthrow and Forest Soil Turnover by D A Norton.

n) Handwritten copy of a manuscript entitled: The Vegetation of New Zealand by L Cockayne. Published by Engelmann (J Cramer, London, 1958.
Production date
1928-1992
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Production period
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Media/Materials description
Printed and handwritten ink on paper.
Measurements
Largest Document: Height x Width: 310 x 205mm
Subject period
Credit line
from the estate of Patrick J Grant
Other number(s)
m2010/99/85, 87637

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