Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The life and times of Sir Julius von Haast : explorer, geologist, museum builder
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
The author
Place
Date
1948
Physical Description
xxi, [1], 1142 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, 4 folded maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Early life & arrival in NZ -- Drury expedition -- Journeys with Hochstetter in the Auckland & Nelson provinces -- Country & people of Nelson -- Haast's appointment to make geological & topographical surveys of Western Nelson -- State of geology as a science in 1860 -- Outline of the geological history of Canterbury -- Exploration of the western district of the Nelson province : From Nelson to the mouth of the Grey, 1860 -- Continuation & completion of the Nelson exploration, 1860 -- Haast's report on his Nelson exploration, 1861 -- Haast's examination of Mount Pleasant, Lyttelton Tunnel report & appointment as Provincial Geologist of Canterbury -- Haast's province & problems -- Haast's home, Christchurch, 1861 -- People of Canterbury -- Exploration of the rivers Rangitata & Ashburton, 1861 -- Terms of Haast's employment -- Heart of the Southern Alps, 1862 -- Haast founds the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1862 -- High lights of the Philosophical Institute -- Progress & programmes -- Haast's correspondents & co-operators -- Opawa 'Hoax', 1862 -- Report on Canterbury geology -- Discovery of the Haast Pass -- Charles Cameron's claim -- Hector's explorations -- Betrothal, marriage & home -- Ice, water, coal -- Labours of 1864 -- Acclimatisation Society, its foundation & work -- Attitude of press to science -- West Coast, gold & glaciers -- Arthur's & Browning's Passes -- Head-waters of the Rakaia -- George Dobson's murder -- Discovery of moa bones at Glenmark, 1866 -- Journeys, labours & correspondence, 1867 -- Termination of geological survey, 1867 -- Companions & collectors -- Gold-fever, 1869 -- From explorer to museum builder, 1868-1870 -- Thermal springs & saurians, 1869-1870 -- Museum as the centre of higher education -- Growth of the museum in science & art, 1871-1873 -- Moas & moa-hunters -- Moa bone point cave excavations, controversies & reactions -- Professor Henry A. War, 1875-1883 -- Metallurgy, taxidermy & Maori curios, 1876-1877 -- Delusive diamonds -- Colinderies -- Glaciers of the Southern Alps -- Alluvial gold-fields of Westland -- Volcanoes of Banks Peninsula.
Public Access Text
List of papers, reports, publications, addresses, writings, and maps of Sir Julius von Haast: pages 1088-1100. Bagnall V212
Collection Type
Reading Room
General Collection
Natural History Library
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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