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Scientific Expedition Reports University of Otago Special Collections
This document provides an overview of the Scientific Expedition Reports held in Special Collections, University of Otago. The earliest reports date from D'Urville's expedition in the Astrolabe 1826-29 (published in 1832); ...
Incunabula in Special Collections, University of Otago Library
Special Collections, University of Otago Library, houses 42 examples of pre-1501 early printed books that represent 15th century printmanship from Italy, German, Switzerland, and France. There is one highly unusual English ...
The Archives of Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist
Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his single-handed effort to complete his 16 volume definitive work A Comprehensive ...
John Evelyn (1620-1706) An Inventory of Works, Special Collections, University of Otago
John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey in October 1620. He lived in tumultuous times – the execution of Charles I, the ascension of Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum, and the Restoration of King Charles II, of whose ...
Eric Gill (1882-1940): An Inventory of his Work in Special Collections, University of Otago
Eric Gill (1882-1940) was an artist, engraver, typographer and sculptor. The works he completed in his lifetime have had a lasting effect and influence on the artistic world. Special Collections at the University of Otago ...
Robert Graves: Poeta 1895-1985. Works by Robert Graves in Special Collections, University of Otago Library
On the headstone that marks his grave at Deyá, Marjorca, there is the simple: ‘Robert Graves Poeta 1895-1985’. And it was this aspect that attracted Charles Brasch, editor, patron and poet, to the works of Graves, calling ...
Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project Part 2: A Qualitative Report
When a life scientist pointed to a pile of unpublished, uncatalogued reports, stacked untidily on the floor of his office, he unwittingly started a series of conversations that were to bring the Library and many researchers ...
Census of Alexander Shaw's Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth in the three voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere, 1787 (2015)
This is an attempt to corral all known copies of Alexander Shaw's Tapa Cloth book (1787) held in institutions around the world.
My main objective was to track down institutional copies of Shaw’s work so that scholars ...
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958): An Inventory of his Work in Special Collections, University of Otago
Irish-born Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an incredibly talented artist, engraver, and author. He traveled widely and spent a lot of time in the South Pacific; he even visited Dunedin in the 1940s. Special Collections at ...
Foxcroft Lecture 2015
An overview of three New Zealand book collectors: Sir George Grey, Dr T.M. Hocken, and Frank Wild Reed; their collections and legacy.