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Pamphlets on the moa

documentary heritage
  • Ingoa Kē

    Papers on moa (Alternate title)

    Moa pamphlets (Alternate title)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    2 volumes of collected articles on the moa, with the majority sourced from volumes of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. The first volume also contains original drawings and annotations by Walter Mantell, and both volumes are annotated by Johannes C. Andersen.

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  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    QE872.D5 PAM (Library of Congress Call Number)

    18638 (Cat ID)

    11974 (DBTextworks system ID)

    9595 (Presto content ID)

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  • Momo Taonga
  • Ingoa/Taitara
    Pamphlets on the moa
  • Ingoa Kē

    Papers on moa (Alternate title)

    Moa pamphlets (Alternate title)

  • Kaiwaihanga Matua
  • Kaituku Kōrero/Kaiwhakaputa
    [publisher not identified]
  • Wāhi
  • 1848-1917
  • Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

    2 volumes (various pagings) : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

  • Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
    Bib record
  • Ahanoa Mema

    2 ngā tūemi kei tēnei kohinga. Tirohia ngā tūemi katoa.

  • Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai
    MS-7 Johannes Carl Andersen - Papers
  • Huinga Kaupapa
  • Ngā Taipitopito Tātai Takenga
    J.C. Andersen
  • Kōrero o Roto
    VOLUME 1:
    [Illustration of moa on card attached to inside front cover as bookplate.]
    [2 tipped in prints of moa on one page. Handwritten 'Johannes C. Andersen' at head of page.]
    On the fossil remains of birds collected in various parts of New Zealand by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, no. 15, August 1, 1848, pages 225-241.
    [Handwritten notes and corrections to previous, with illustrations (some colour)] / Walter B. D. Mantell, 1850.
    On the fossil remains of birds collected in various parts of New Zealand by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, no. 15, August 1848, pages 1-19.
    On the remains of the gigantic and presumed extinct wingless or terrestrial birds of New Zealand / Sir Richard Owen, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 11 January, 1848, pages 1-11 [Signature of G. A. Mantell at head of caption title]
    [Prospectus of a lecture on the Fossil ostrich-like birds of New Zealand] / Gideon Algernon Mantell, at the Marylbone Scientific Institution, 25 March, 1850, 3 pages (tipped-in).
    Notice of the remains of the Dinornis and other birds, and of fossils and rock-specimens, recently collected by Walter Mantell / Gideon Algernon Mantell, from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, August 1850, v. 6, pages [319]-343, plates xxviii-xxix (Running title: Mantell on the geology of New Zealand ; lightly annotated by hand of Johannes C. Andersen?)
    [3 original drawings (reproduced in above article?)].
    [Hand-drawn folded colour map of Otago Harbour coast].
    Fossil remains of colossal birds of New Zealand / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Illustrated London News, 18 May 1850 : page 348 (folded, divided into 2, 1 part loose from binding)
    [Original drawing of fossilized moa foot, reproduced in above article].
    [Original drawing of man, moa, and kiwi, reproduced in above article].
    [Address on the moa] / Gideon Algernon Mantell, in the Proceedings of the Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Western Medical and Surgical Society of London, 12 April 1850 : pages 7-8.
    [Report on Gideon Algernon Mantell's lecture on the extinct birds of New Zealand for the British Association] / in The Witness, Edinburgh, 5 August 1850.
    [Handwritten note regarding Sir Richard Owen's identification of moa bone] / copied from the Quarterly Review, v. 90, 1852 : page 402.
    [Report on Walter Mantell's lecture on South New Zealand - the gigantic birds for the Mechanic's Institution] / s.l., s.n., [1857?].
    Notes on the moa-bones in the New Zealand exhibition of 1865 / James Hector, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 12 December 1865.
    Notice of an egg of the great moa / James Hector, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 12 December 1867.
    On the causes which seem to have led to the extinction of the New Zealand moa / by James Melvin, from the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1868, 7 pages.
    Moas and moa hunters / John Francis Julius Von Haast. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, anniversary address, delivered 1 March 1871, 16 pages (handwritten note at head of page, in hand of William Mantell)
    Extinct animals of New Zealand / Richard Owen, in the Lyttelton Times, 14 July 1879 (folded page)
    The Maori and the moa / Edward Tregear, reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute (London), May 1888, pages 292-304.
    The moa : (Dinornis) and the probable cause of its extinction / Vincent Pyke, 1890, 8 pages (inscribed by Pike at end of article)
    On the classification of the moas / Frederick Wollaston Hutton, 1891, 3 pages.
    History of the moas / Frederick Wollaston Hutton, [c.1891?] (newspaper article stuck onto pages)
    The moas and the moa hunters / Armand de Quarterfages de Breau, translated from the French by Laura Buller, in Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, v. 25, 1892, pages [17]-49.
    Kuranui as a name for the moa / by Hare Hongi, in Journal of the Polynesian Society, v. 26, no. 2, 1917, pages [66]-67.
    [Extracts on an address given by Walter Mantell on the moa to the New Zealand Institute, 5th meeting, 19 September 1868], pages 17-20, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates.
    VOLUME 2 :
    Papers on the moa from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1879-1894:
    On the moa / by W. Colenso, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1879, vol. 12, pages 63-108.
    On the moas of New Zealand / by Captain F.W. Hutton, including plates xv-xvii, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1891, vol. 24, pages 93-172.
    Loose black bordered leaf, with details on the Australian pelican and a moa egg, in handwriting of Johannes C. Andersen.
    On moa gizzard-stones / A. Hamilton [from the Transactions, 1891], pages 173-175.
    On the genus Aptornis, with more especial reference to Aptornis defosser, Owen / by A. Hamilton [1891, pages 175-184]
    Preliminary notice of Additions to the extinct avifauna of New Zealand (abstract) / by H.O. Forbes ; communicated by J. T. Meeson [1891], pages 185-189.
    Note on a species of Platcercus from Antipodes Island / by H. O. Forbes [1891], pages 191-192.
    Following taken from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1892, vol. 25:
    On the classification and mutual relations of the Dinornithidae / by Professor T. Jeffery Parker, pages 1-3.
    On the presence of a crest of feathers in certain species of moa / by Professor T. Jeffery Parker, pages 3-6.
    Plates vol. xxv, pl. I- pl. III.
    New species of moas / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 6-13.
    On Anomalopteryx antiqua / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 14-16.
    Plates vol. xxv, pl. iv.
    The moas and the moa-hunters / by Monsieur A. de Quatrefages ; translated from the French by Laura Buller ; communicated by Sir Walter L. Buller, pages 17-49.
    The extinction of the moa / by Edward Tregar, pages 413-426.
    On a Maori waiata / by R. C. Bruce, pages 426-428.
    On the antiquity of the moa / by Captain G. Mair, pages 534-535.
    [Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
    Following taken from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1893, vol. 26.
    Notes on moa-skulls / by Professor T. J. Parker, pages 223-225.
    Result of a further exploration of the bone-fissure at the Castle Rocks, Southland / by A. Hamilton, pages 226-229.
    Plates: vol. xxvi, pl. xxiii- pl. xxiv.
    Materials for a bibliography of the Dinornithidea, the great extinct birds of New Zealand, usually called moas / by A. Hamilton, pages 229-257.
    [Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
    Notes and observations on M.A. de Quatrefages' paper 'On moas and moa-hunters'... / by W. Colenso, pages 498-513.
    A Maori pa at Lake Te Anau / by Taylor White, pages 513-515.
    Note on the supposed fire-drill found in the cave at Moa-bone point, Sumner / by Captain F. W. Hutton, pages 516-517.
    [Handwritten note on preceding articles in the hand of Johannes Andersen.]
    The date of the extinction of the moa / by H.C. Field, pages 560-568.
    On the axial skeleton in the Dinornithidae / by Captain F. W. Hutton, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 157-173.
    On the occurrence of a pneumatic faramen in the femur of a moa / by Captain F. W. Hutton, from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 173-174.
    Plate: vol. xxvii, pl. ix.
    Further contributions towards a bibliography of the Dinornithidae, the great extinct birds of New Zealand, usually called moas : supplement no. 1 / by A. Hamilton, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 229-231.
    On the feathers of a small species of moa (megalapteryx) found in a cave at the head of Waikaia River... / by A. Hamilton, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 232-238.
    [Bibliographical reference handwritten by Johannes C. Andersen]
    On the occurrence of moa-footprints in the bed of the Manawatu River, near Palmerston North / by H. Hill, from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. 27, 1894, pages 476-477.
    Plate: vol. xxvii, pl. xlvii.
  • Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

    Spine title, volume 1 : Pamphlets on the Moa. Spine title, volume 2 : Papers on Moa, 2. Both volumes inscribed : Johannes C. Andersen. To be viewed under staff supervision only. Some articles are annotated by Walter Mantell. Includes maps and drawings of the moa. Includes bibliographical references.

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    http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/search/results.html?text=moa

    Archive of back issues of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand Institute available to search and read online (keyword search 'moa') (accessed 15/12/2016)

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