Catalogue of Curiosities sent to Oxford

The Catalogue of Curiosities sent to Oxford is a sixteen-page manuscript in which George Forster listed the items sent to the Ashmolean in January 1776. It has 179 entries (1 to 177 plus 55a and 101a). Each entry in the manuscript refers to a single object or a group of objects and describes them very briefly.

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The entries are grouped geographically: 'Otaheitee (Tahiti) and the Society Isles', 'The Friendly Isles' (Tonga), 'New Zeeland', 'Easter Island' (Rapa Nui), 'Marquesas', 'Mallicollo' (Malakula, Vanuatu), 'Tanna' (Vanuatu), 'New Caledonia', and 'Terra del Fuego'. The last page comprises an 'Appendix' of items that 'were omitted before'. The Catalogue is today held in the manuscript collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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