Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 47, Issue 1 (2017)

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Special issue: Finding New Zealand’s scientific heritage: from Mātauranga Māori to Augustus Hamilton. Guest Editors: Simon Nathan and Rebecca Priestley

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Finding New Zealand’s scientific heritage: from Mātauranga Māori to Augustus Hamilton
Simon Nathan & Rebecca Priestley
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 08 Mar 2017
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Mātauranga Māori—the ūkaipō of knowledge in New Zealand
D. Hikuroa
Pages: 5-10
Published online: 16 Nov 2016
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The 1848 earthquakes and building damage in Wellington, New Zealand: coping with a new reality
R. Grapes
Pages: 11-18
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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William Grayling (1820–1902): an early practical chemist in the Antipodes
V. Wood
Pages: 19-26
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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Science and species of politician in the nineteenth century—monkeys or bullfrogs?
J. E. Martin
Pages: 27-32
Published online: 08 Sep 2016
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‘Not merely a scientific society’: the New Zealand Institute and its affiliates c.1868–1900
R. Barton
Pages: 33-40
Published online: 06 Oct 2016
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Conversazione in the Colonial Museum
R. Rice
Pages: 41-47
Published online: 21 Jun 2016
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The scientific exertions of an enterprising colonial son: Walter BD Mantell
C. Hodder & A. P. W. Hodder
Pages: 48-52
Published online: 21 Jun 2016
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‘Things in their relations to other things’: scientific collecting at the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute
T. Z. Robinson
Pages: 53-60
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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Show and tell: TJ Parker and late nineteenth-century science in Dunedin
R. Crane
Pages: 61-66
Published online: 08 Sep 2016
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Thomas Cheeseman: the quiet captain of early New Zealand science
J. Braund
Pages: 67-72
Published online: 27 Sep 2016
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Between starving and living: Swiss naturalist Henry Suter’s pursuit of a scientific career in New Zealand
Pamela Hyde
Pages: 73-79
Published online: 11 Sep 2016
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New Zealand geophysical observatories 1862–1931
F. J. Davey
Pages: 80-87
Published online: 11 Sep 2016
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James Hector, Arthur Stock and early astronomy in Wellington
Wayne Orchiston
Pages: 88-93
Published online: 05 Oct 2016
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James Hector and JT Thomson in strife over names and time
M. Roche
Pages: 94-99
Published online: 18 Aug 2016
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Rāhui and conservation? Māori voices in the nineteenth century niupepa Māori
Hēmi Whaanga & Priscilla Wehi
Pages: 100-106
Published online: 02 Feb 2017
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Situating the local in a global expedition: HMS Challenger expedition in New Zealand, 1874
E. Zuroski
Pages: 107-111
Published online: 27 Sep 2016
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Thomas Kirk’s Students’ Flora of New Zealand
B. Abbott
Pages: 112-117
Published online: 31 Aug 2016
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The Oamaru diatomite: in and out of the archive
W. Barrar
Pages: 118-124
Published online: 02 Aug 2016
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Sir Julius von Haast: exploring an archival documentary heritage collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library
Sascha Nolden
Pages: 125-131
Published online: 02 Oct 2016
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Augustus Hamilton’s ‘scientific specimens’ or ‘Māori Art’: agency and the social life of things
E. Pishief
Pages: 132-137
Published online: 02 Nov 2016
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Augustus Hamilton—creating a visual database
A. McCredie
Pages: 138-144
Published online: 30 Aug 2016
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