MQ Museum Quarterly Issue 113 Summer 2007-2008 [Final issue]

Cover: Tom Trnski Curator Marine Importance of collections (shells).

Page 2: Director’s Message – Message from Dr Vanda Vitali.

Page 3: Contents page.

Page 4: News in brief – Cheeseman Portrait, Historic Samoa.

Page 5: Darwin and the Wedgwood connection; Image – Facsimile of the Portland vase by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd purchased by James Tannock Mackelvie and bequeathed to the Museum upon his death.

Page 6-9: The New Zealand fans of Charles Darwin – Article by Garry J Tee Department of Mathematics at University of Auckland on the 20 prominent New Zealanders who were correspondents with Charles Darwin. Brief summaries of William Colenso, Sir Julius von Haast, James West Stack, Samuel Butler, Thomas Frederick Cheeseman, Sir George Grey, William Swale, and Dr Thomas Morland Hocken; Images – Josiah Clifton Firth, William Colenso, Thomas Cheeseman, Governor George Grey.

Page 10-11: Buffon an evolutionary thinker? – Article by John S Wilkins marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of Buffon the respected 18th century French naturalist who Darwin refers to in The Origin of Species; Image – Musee-Site Buffon.

Page 12-15: How To explain New Zealand – from a lecture by Dr George Gibbs on Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker’s respective trips to New Zealand; Image – Archey’s Frog brooding eggs. Photo by Rod Morris; Image – Kowhai flower photo by Ewen Cameron.

Page 16-19: Trailing Bubbles – Article by Terry Snow on the new Curator Marine at Auckland Museum, Tom Trnski; Image – Tom retrieving a light trap near Lizard Island Great Barrier Reef; Image – Tom diving with diagonal banded sweetlip on the outer barrier reef off Lizard Island; Tom and PhD student Kelly Piola swimming over deep water, outer barrier reef off Lizard Island.

Page 20-21: Systematics of fish larvae from the tropical Indo-Pacific and temperate Australia – Research by Dr Tom Trnski; Image – Tom with a plankton net for collecting fish larvae off Sydney’s South Head; Images – Illustrations by Tom Trnski of parore juvenile and young snapper larva; Image – Tom Trnski recording depth in Lake Macquarie New South Wales.

Page 22-23: The Shore Whalers – Article by Nigel Prickett on the importance of Shore Whaling in New Zealand history of both Maori and Pakeha; Images – Trypots behind the beach at Te Awaiti whaling station at Tory Channel and Whalebone fence post at the Waiopuka whaling station at Kaikoura.

Page 24-25: Museum Membership; The year in review and looking forward – General Members, Museum Institute, Museum Circle; Images – Professor Lord Robert Winston speaking at Lion Foundation Events Centre, Professor Lord Robert Winston speaking informally with attendees, Stevenson Dinomite Club members make insect boxes; Christmas Shopping.

Page 26-28: Gondwana is here – Live theatre performance Gondwana Land of the Giants created by ERTH Visual and Physical Inc; Images – Unlabelled photos of dinosaur puppets from the performance.

Page 29: Vatican exhibition a major coup for Auckland Museum – Vatican The Story The Art The Architecture is the most significant exhibition of its kind to come to New Zealand that includes art and artefacts by Michelangelo, Bernini, and Giotto; Image – A mosaic angel from Giotto’s Navicella; Image – Angel from the dome of the chapel of Madonna of Colonna by Giacomo Zoboli; Image -The official cast of Michelangelo’s famous Pieta.

Page 30-31: From Horses to UFOs – Images showing the varied history of the Auckland Domain; Image - Horses graze in the outer Domain, Photograph: E Tower. ID: 68353; Image - Auckland's first taxi takes a ride through the Domain, hired by the photographer for this image. Photograph: George Bourne, 1875-1924. ID: 32855; Image - Strolling past the temporary pavilion erected in the Domain for the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition, 1913. Photograph: WT Wilson. ID: 66708; Image - UFOs visited Auckland in 1954, seen from the Museum steps over Parnell, according to this photo montage. Photograph: Sparrow Industrial Pictures; Image Viewing the exhibition by air: the NZ monoplane Britannia flying over the Domain during the 1913 Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition. Photograph: William Beattie, 1864-1931. ID: 54782; Image - Camp Hale, Auckland Domain, 1943. An aerial view of the U.S military barracks and hospital. ID: 68759; Image - Rajah the elephant leaving the Museum for restoration work, March 1994. Photograph: Krzysztof Pfeiffer. ID: 68713; Image - Rajah returns to the Museum by night. ID: 68718; Image -The statue of Robbie Burns, Scotland's most famous poet, was funded by Auckland City Councilor Mennie in 1921.

Page 32-33: Those business friends – The Armistice Symposium emphasizes the close business links with the United States.

Page 34-35: Hidden Treasures – Kororarikia Beach reproduction of the lithograph originally published by R Martin London, after drawings by Augustus Earle.