File:Motutaiko Island, Loranthus discovery at Waihi and Tokaanu (near Taupo) - field notebook cover.jpg

English: Motutaiko Island, Loranthus discovery at Waihi and Tokaanu (near Taupo). Undated field notebook by Thomas Cheeseman. Thomas Frederick Cheeseman - Papers and botanical notebooks, 1867-1923, offshore islands (Kermadec Islands/Rangitahua, Little Barrier Island/Te Hauturu-o-Toi) and further into the Pacific (Rarotonga). The collection inventory itemises the places visited and records many of the known dates. Some notebooks feature several collecting areas covering one or multiple period(s) of time. Cheeseman himself appears to have affixed his own title labels to many of the covers. Each volume is numbered on the spine using white ink. The earliest field notebook relates to Cheeseman's plant collecting in the Auckland area from 1869 to 1873. The remainder concern a series of field collecting trips from 1872 to 1895. The trips lasted from several days to nearly several months. Thirteen of the notebooks (Vols. 2, 5, 12 - 15, 17, 18, 20 - 23, 32 and 41) contain some form of dated entries.