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New Zealand science xvi, 368 p. : ill., maps
edited by Rebecca Priestley
Table of contents: Polynesian navigation / Peter Adds -- The transit of Venus / Chris Orsman -- General account of New Zealand / Joseph Banks -- 'Not a pleasant place' / Charles Darwin -- Whales and whaling / Ernst Dieffenbach -- To Ernst Dieffenbach / Ian Wedde -- Magnitude eight plus / Rodney Grapes -- The remarkable Pink and White Terraces / Ferdinand von Hochstetter -- The great New Zealand ice period / Julius Haast -- On the vegetable food of the ancient New Zealanders / William Colenso -- Beautiful plumage / Walter Buller -- Huia / Anna Jackson -- Search for the stitchbird / Andreas Reischek -- The skeleton of the great moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch / Allen Curnow -- After the Tarawera eruption / James Pond and Percy Smith -- The insect-hunter / George Hudson -- Rutherford and the discovery of radioactivity / Ernest Rutherford -- A most incredible event / Ernest Marsden and Ernest Rutherford -- Booming kakapo / Richard Henry -- Kakapo / Sonja Yelich -- A trip to the seaside / G.M. Thomson -- The much-maligned mangrove / Leonard Cockayne -- From sea floor to coastal plain / Charles Cotton -- Shell collecting in the 1920s / Charles Fleming -- The two Lucies / Lucy Moore -- Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station / Herbert Guthrie-Smith -- Beginnings: Guthrie-Smith in New Zealand, 1885 / Peter Bland -- The Maori way of birth / Peter Buck / Te Rangi Hiroa -- A man who moved New Zealand / Harold Wellman -- Paradise lost / P?rrine Moncrieff -- The passing of the forest: a lament for the children of Tan? / William Pember Reeves -- How to cook paua / A.W. Baden Powell -- The rediscovery of the takahe / Joan Telfer -- Takahe / Anna Jackson -- Love-habits of the yellow-eyed penguin / Lance Richdale -- The third man of the double helix / Maurice Wilkins -- Making waves: a poem for Maurice Wilkins / Chris Orsman -- Establishment of a Carbon-14 laboratory / Athol Rafter -- The Allende meteorite / Brian Mason -- Premature birth and respiratory distress / Graham Liggins -- Valley of the dragons / Joan Wiffen -- Plastics that conduct electricity / Alan MacDiarmid -- Bright star / Beatrice Hill Tinsley -- Lovemaps! / John Money -- A survivor from the dinosaur age / Charles Daugherty and Alison Cree -- Tuatara / Nola Borrell -- The recent African genesis of humans / Alan Wilson and Rebecca Cann -- Ghosts of Gondwana / George Gibbs -- Mismatch / Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson -- To find a planet / Karen Pollard
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