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Out of his 101 papers and books, twenty-two are not on botany, but instead are on zoological or ethnological subjects.
Many of Cheeseman's botanical publications paved the way for a complete flora of New Zealand. In 1906 he produced The Manual of the New Zealand Flora. In 1914 he, Hemsley and Matilda Smith created Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora (1914). Some of his publications were speculative in character, about the possible origins of the New Zealand sub-Antarctic flora. He also had written an early paper on the naturalized plants of the Auckland Provincial District. Some of his early papers were about the pollination of certain species.
As well as his botanical research, Cheeseman developed the Auckland Museum, including what is probably the most extensive collection extant, illustrating Maori ethnology. He donated his own herbarium of the flowering plants and vascular cryptogams to the Auckland Institute.
He published 79 articles in Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand including:
- Cheeseman T. F. 1878. Descriptions of three new Species of Opisthobranchiate Mollusca, from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 11, page 378-380, plate XVI.
- Cheeseman T. F. 1906. Manual of the New Zealand flora. 1199 pp.
- Cheeseman T. F, Hemsley W. B. & Smith M. 1914. Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora. volume 1, volume 2.
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