PAMBU-DOC1290 - Papers on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands

Charles Morris Woodford was born in 1852 and educated at Tonbridge School in England. He settled in Suva about 1882 and from Fiji visited Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands group), as Government agent on the ketch Patience. In 1886, as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society he made the first of three successive explorations of the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal, where he was the first white man to penetrate the interior to any distance, collecting natural history specimens for the British Museum. His experiences are described in his book A Naturalist Among Headhunters (1890). In 1895 Woodford became Acting Consul and Deputy Commissioner at Samoa, and in the following year, a part of the Solomon Group having been made a British Protectorate, he was appointed the first Resident Commissioner, a post which he retained until his retirement in 1914. His later years were spent in Sussex. Woodford contributed an account of his visit to the Gilbert Islands to The Geographical Journal in 1895, and a note on Ontong Java in 1909. In 1916 he read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society on Polynesian settlements in the Solomon Islands, published in the Journal in 1926. Woodford helped elucidate the narratives of Mandaña’s discovery of the Solomon Islands by identifying places visited by the Spaniards and taking photographs for inclusion in the Hakluyt Society publications. He also published papers in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, of which he was a Fellow. From The Geographical Journal, 1928, pp.206-207. This microfilm copy of the Woodford Papers was made by the Bureau (as PMB 150-PMB154) in 1971 when the papers were held for a time at the Department of Pacific History, RSPAS, Australian National University. Since then the microfilm negative has been held under restricted access in the Records Room in the Division of Pacific and Asian History where it has been used from time to time by various scholars. The family of Mr Woodford has now given permission for the microfilm to be released. The papers are arranged in 30 bundles which are microfilmed in the following order: Reel 1 – Bundles 2-7. Reel 2 – Bundles 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18 & 19. Reel 3 – Bundles 13, 17 & 21. Reel 4 – Bundles 20, 22, 23, 24 & 25. Reel 5 – Bundles 27, 29, 30 & 11. Bundle 1, photographs, have not been microfilmed. No list of the documents in bundles 9, 14, 26 & 28, which have also not been microfilmed, is available at present. The documents in the bundles are classified in the following 12 series: Series 1 Diaries • 1/1 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group and back. From March 4th to June 22nd 1884'. • 1/2 Diary 16 April - 5 July 1886 • 1/3 Diary 6 Jul-3 Aug 1886 • 1/4 'Diary from 4th August 1886 to November 10th 1886. Chas M. Woodford, F.R.G.S. Gravesend England'. • 1/5 A revised version of Diary, April - July 1880. Original at 1/2 • 1/6 Diary 24 January - 5 June, 1887. • 1/7 Diary 7 June - 25 September, 1887. • 1/8 Diary 16 August 1888 — 3 January 1889. • 1/9 Diary of part of tour of duty aboard ‘Pylades’ 30 May - 10 Aug. 1896. • 1/10 Index to diaries 1886-9 and other works of reference. Series 2 Correspondence Series 3 History, geography, voyages, expeditions, administration Series 4 Ethnography and natural history Series 5 Languages, vocabularies Series 6 Zoology Series 7 Reprints Series 8 British Colonial reports, notices, proclamations, etc. Series 9 Press cuttings Series 10 Photographs Series 11 Sketches, tracings, maps, plans Series 12 Manuscripts, cards. See Finding aids for details. PMB Identifier: AU PMB MS 1290 The digitisation of these microfilms was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.. Language as given:

查尔斯·莫里斯·伍德福德（Charles Morris Woodford）于1852年出生，在英国汤布里奇学校（Tonbridge School）接受教育。约1882年他定居苏瓦（Suva），以政府代理人的身份搭乘纵帆船“耐心号”（Patience）从斐济赴基里巴斯（原吉尔伯特群岛）履职。1886年，作为皇家地理学会（Royal Geographical Society）会士，他开启了对所罗门群岛三次连续考察的首次行程，重点考察了瓜达尔卡纳尔岛（Guadalcanal）——他是首位深入该岛内陆一定范围的白人，并为大英博物馆（British Museum）采集了自然历史标本。其相关经历收录于著作《猎头者中的博物学家》（*A Naturalist Among Headhunters*，1890）。

1895年，伍德福德出任萨摩亚（Samoa）代理领事兼副专员；次年，所罗门群岛部分区域被划为英国保护国，他被任命为首位驻地专员，并担任该职务直至1914年退休。他晚年在萨塞克斯郡（Sussex）度过。1895年，伍德福德为《地理学报》（*The Geographical Journal*）撰写了吉尔伯特群岛考察报告，并于1909年发表了一篇关于翁通爪哇环礁（Ontong Java）的短文。1916年，他在皇家地理学会发表了关于所罗门群岛波利尼西亚定居点的论文，该论文于1926年刊发于《地理学报》。伍德福德通过确认西班牙探险家门达尼亚（Mandaña）到访过的地点，并为哈克路特学会（Hakluyt Society）的出版物提供照片，协助厘清了门达尼亚发现所罗门群岛的相关记述。他还在皇家人类学会（Royal Anthropological Institute）会刊发表多篇论文，并成为该学会会士。本段内容摘自1928年《地理学报》第206-207页。

这份伍德福德档案的缩微胶片副本由该局于1971年制作（编号为PMB 150-PMB154），当时该档案曾暂存于澳大利亚国立大学太平洋与亚洲研究学院（RSPAS）太平洋历史系。此后，该缩微胶片负片被限制访问，存放在太平洋与亚洲历史部档案室内，曾被多位学者陆续查阅。近日伍德福德家族已许可该缩微胶片对外开放。

该档案共设30个卷宗，按如下顺序完成缩微拍摄：
第1卷：卷宗2-7
第2卷：卷宗8、10、12、15、16、18及19
第3卷：卷宗13、17及21
第4卷：卷宗20、22、23、24及25
第5卷：卷宗27、29、30及11
卷宗1为照片，未进行缩微拍摄。目前尚无卷宗9、14、26及28的文档清单，且该部分卷宗同样未完成缩微拍摄。

卷宗内的文档分为以下12个系列：
系列1 日记
• 1/1 《1884年3月4日至6月22日从斐济苏瓦前往吉尔伯特群岛往返航行日志》
• 1/2 1886年4月16日-7月5日日记
• 1/3 1886年7月6日-8月3日日记
• 1/4 《1886年8月4日至11月10日日记》，查尔斯·M·伍德福德，皇家地理学会会士，英国格雷夫森德
• 1/5 1880年4月-7月日记修订版，原件见1/2
• 1/6 1887年1月24日-6月5日日记
• 1/7 1887年6月7日-9月25日日记
• 1/8 1888年8月16日—1889年1月3日日记
• 1/9 1896年5月30日-8月10日“皮莱德斯号”（Pylades）值勤部分日志
• 1/10 1886-1889年日记及其他参考著作索引
系列2 信函往来
系列3 历史、地理、航行、考察、行政事务
系列4 民族学与自然史
系列5 语言、词汇表
系列6 动物学
系列7 重印本
系列8 英国殖民报告、公告、告示等
系列9 剪报
系列10 照片
系列11 素描、描图、地图、平面图
系列12 手稿、卡片
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PMB编号：AU PMB MS 1290
本批缩微胶片的数字化工作由澳大利亚研究理事会语言动力学卓越研究中心（ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language）资助。
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