Author:William Thomas Locke Travers

William Thomas Locke Travers
(1819–1903)

William Thomas Locke Travers

Works

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

• On Hybridization, with reference to Variation in Plants (1868)
• On the Utilization of the Phormium tenax (1868)
• Remarks on a Comparison of the General Features of the Flora of the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough with that of Canterbury (1868)
• On a new Chiton found in Wellington Harbour (1868)
• On a Fluke from the intestinal Canal of a Snapper (1868)
• On the Sand-worn Stones of Evans' Bay (1869)
• On the Changes effected in the Natural Features of a New Country by the Introduction of Civilized Races, Parts I. & II. (1869)
• Notes on the Habits of Podiceps cristatus (1870)
• Notes upon a New Zealand Flesh-fly (1870)
• On the Absence of the Eel from the Upper Waters of the Waiau-ua and its Tributaries (1870)
• On the Changes effected in the Natural Features of a New Country by the Introduction of Civilized Races, (Part III.) (1870)
• Notes upon the Historical Value of the "Traditions of the New Zealanders," as collected by Sir George Grey, K.C.B., late Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand (1871)
• Notes on the Chatham Islands, extracted from Letters from Mr. H. H. Travers (1871)
• Notes on the Practice of Out-door Photography (1871)
• Notes on the Habits of some of the Birds of New Zealand (1871)
• Anniversary Address of the President of the Wellington Philosophical Society (1871)
• On the Life and Times of Te Rauparaha (1872)
• Introductory Remarks on the Avifauna and Flora of the Islands in their Relation to those of New Zealand prefatory to H. H. Travers' paper "On the Birds of the Chatham Islands" (1872)
• On the Origin in New Zealand of Polygonum aviculare, L. (1872)
• Notice of a Parrot-fish (Odax vittatus) (1872)
• On the Spread of Cassinia leptophylla (1873)
• On the Extinct Glaciers of the Middle Island of New Zealand (1873)
• Notes on Dr. Haast's supposed Pleistocene Glaciation of New Zealand (1874)
• Notes on the Extinction of the Moa, with a Review of the Discussions on the subject, published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (1875)
• On the Lake Districts of the Province of Auckland (1876)
• On the Traditions, Manners, and Customs of the Mori-oris (1876)
• On Mr. J. T. Thomson's System of Survey, from a Legal Point of View (1876)
• Destructive brown beetle (1876)
• Remarks as to the Cause of the Warmer Climate which existed in high Northern Latitudes during former Geological Periods (1877)
• Further Remarks as to the Cause of the Warmer Climate which existed in high Northern Latitudes during former Geological Epochs (1877)
• Address by the President of the Wellington Philosophical Society (1877)
• Notes on the Tidal Wave of 11th May, 1877 (1877)
• Anniversary Address of the President of the Wellington Philosophical Society (1877)
• Notes upon the Great Flood of February, 1868 (1881)
• Remarks on the Sand Dunes of the West Coast of the Provincial District of Wellington (1881)
• Remarks upon the Distribution, within the New Zealand Zoological Sub-region, of the Birds of the Orders Accipitres, Passeres, Scansores, Colmnbæ, Gallinæ, Struthiones, and Grallæ (1882)
• Some Remarks upon the Distribution of the Organic Productions of New Zealand (1883)
• Notes on the Difference in Food Plants now used by Civilized Man as compared with those used in Prehistoric Times (1885)
• Notes in reference to the Prime Causes of the Phænomena of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (1886)
• Note on the Prime Causes of the Phenomena of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (1886)
• Remarks on Pathogenic Microbes, and the Means of preventing Diseases originating in their Introduction into the System (1889)
• Notes on the Larger Species of Paryphanta in New Zealand, with some Remarks on the Distribution and Dispersal of Land-shells (1894)
• Presidential Address (1896)
• On Material and Scientific Progress in New Zealand pages during the Victorian Era (1897)
• Notes on Patellidæ, with reference to Species found on the Rocks at Island and Lyall's Bays (1897)
• Remark on Earthquake of 21st September (1897)
• Remarks on Mr. Harding's Paper on Will-o'-the-wisps (1897)
• The Bird as the Labourer of Man (1902)

Works about Travers

• "Travers, William Thomas Locke," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography, by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)