Records of the Auckland Museum (formerly Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum) is our main academic journal. Its 450+ articles incorporate the results of original research on our extensive collections, as well as research by Museum staff and other subject-matter experts. The journal has been published more or less annually since 1930, and includes contributions from more than 150 authors and co-authors dealing mostly with zoology, archaeology, ethnology, and botany.
The articles contain important accounts of archaeological excavations and ethnographic objects, and descriptions of nearly 700 new taxa (mostly new animal species and subspecies)—a major contribution to the documentation of New Zealand's biodiversity.
Below are issues 50–55; selected previous issues of the Records, beginning with volume 1 (1930–1935), are available through our partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Our 2022 volume includes articles on Willie La Roche malacology collections, historic bryophyte specimens, vegetation and fauna of Motueka and Poikeke Islands, Mason wasps, a plaster bust of Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter and the collection of books, pamphlets and serials donated by James Tannock Mackelvie.
Read moreOur 2020 volume includes articles on the Pitcairn stone tool collection, Māori archaeological textiles, John Buchanan’s pre-1880 records and illustrations of New Zealand fungi, the flora and vegetation of the northern Kermadec Island group, the naturalised flora of Niue, moa fauna, and fossil and Recent molluscan types.
Read moreOur 2019 volume includes articles on the papers of our first director, T.F. Cheeseman; correspondence between Cheeseman and Henry Ward, of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York; fossil and recent molluscan types; and the establishment of the green lacewing (Mallada basalis) on mainland New Zealand.
Read moreOur 2018 issue includes articles on the Egyptian collection; the Mackelvie Trust Board; the Rev. A.H. Voyce; the plants of Waya Island, Fiji; and Charles De Kempeneer, one of our earliest employees.
Read moreOur 2017 issue includes articles on the Motherhood of Man movement, archaeological excavations on Motutapu Island and Matakawau Stingray Point Pā, and Māori Kākahu (cloak) fragments from Piha.
Read moreOur 2016 issue includes articles on fossil and recent molluscan types; the provenance of the type specimen of William Colenso’s giant weta; and research by the late Margaret Morley on intertidal micromollusca and the ostracoda of the Cavalli Islands.
Read moreOur 2015 issue includes articles on an undated sampler attributed to Elizabeth Cook; a Predynastic vessel with a potmark; clay as a medium for Māori artefacts, and intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from the North Island. There are also obituaries of former Auckland Museum director Graham Turbott, Q.S.O. and the surveyor and malacologist Walter Oliver Cernohorsky, F.L.S.
Read moreSelected past issues of the Records are available online through our partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library; more will be added as they are digitised and where copyright licensing allows.
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