Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Mollusca of the southern islands of New Zealand
Other Name
Cape expedition series bulletin ; no. 15 (Series)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Department of Scientific and industrial Research
Place
Date
1955
Physical Description
151 pages, 5 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Public Access Text
At head of title: Cape expedition - scientific results of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Expedition, 1941-45. Includes bibliographical references (pages 138).
Subject Notes
Arthur William Baden Powell (known throughout his life as "Baden"), was born on 4 April 1901, at Wellington, New Zealand. He studied art under Frank and Walter Wright and at the Elam School of Art. He worked as a commercial artist and lithographer for 11 years (1918 - 1929) until he was appointed to the staff of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 1929 as Conchologist and Palaeontologist. He was encouraged in his molluscan studies by Thomas F. Cheeseman and had acted as Honorary Conchologist for 13 years prior to his appointment to the staff. In 1936 Powell became Assistant Director, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 1968. He continued his association with the Museum as Honorary Research Associate in Mollusca up until the time of his death on 1 July 1987, aged 86. Powell's malacological research interests were the New Zealand, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic mollusca, specialising in the families Turridae, Speightiidae and Patellidae. [For further biographical details, see the 'Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum', Vol. 25, 19 December 1988. pp.1-38, and R.K. Dell's obituary in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand', 1987-1988, Vol. 116, pp. 68-77.]
Collection Type
Reading Room
Reserve Collection
Marine Library
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
16 Dec 2023
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