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“It Was Chiefly by Our Intimacy with the Natives That We
‘“It was chiefly by our intimacy with the natives that we succeeded in getting so many new birds”: Travelling Knowledges, Indigenous/European Encounters, and Colonial Science: Case Studies from Australia and Aotearoa in the wake of Cook’ Dr Michael Davis Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Policy The University of Sydney [email protected] Continuing a long line of imperial scientific collecting voyages in the wake of James Cook, in 1850 John MacGillivray, naturalist on the British survey ship HMS Rattlesnake, which travelled to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea during 1846-1850, wrote to the ornithologist John Gould, ‘It was chiefly by our intimacy with the natives that we succeeded in getting so many new birds’. Only a few years earlier, on his many botanical collecting expeditions into the interior of New Zealand’s North Island, William Colenso, like MacGillivray, also acknowledged the role of local Indigenous knowledge. In one journey in December 1842, Colenso observed that ‘in the houses of the natives at this place a quantity of a thick succulent species of Fucus hung up to dry which they informed me was used as an article of food’. Colenso had a reflective sensibility, engaging Cook’s 1769 voyage as a point of reference for his own botanising. He wrote in December 1841, while in Tokomaru Bay, that this was ‘a spot which by the Naturalist will ever be contemplated with the most pleasant association of feeling, for here it was that Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Solander first botanized in October 1769. This bay was called Tegadoo by Cook’/ In this paper I interrogate writings from these two mid-19th century natural history collectors – one coastal voyager, the other predominantly inland explorer - to contemplate the complex entanglements between local Indigenous, and intruding Western, scientific knowledge systems in the decades following Cook and Banks, and inquire into the ways these knowledges melded together in situated encounters in time and place, to result in new knowledge formations. -
Aboriginal Camps and “Villages” in Southeast Queensland Tim O’Rourke University of Queensland
Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand 30, Open Papers presented to the 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, July 2-5, 2013. http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/sahanz-2013/ Tim O’Rourke, “Aboriginal Camps and ‘Villages’ in Southeast Queensland” in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 30, Open, edited by Alexandra Brown and Andrew Leach (Gold Coast, Qld: SAHANZ, 2013), vol. 2, p 851-863. ISBN-10: 0-9876055-0-X ISBN-13: 978-0-9876055-0-4 Aboriginal Camps and “Villages” in Southeast Queensland Tim O’Rourke University of Queensland In the early nineteenth century, European accounts of Southeast Queensland occasionally refer to larger Aboriginal camps as “villages”. Predominantly in coastal locations, the reported clusters of well-thatched domical structures had the appearance of permanent settlements. Elsewhere in the early contact period, and across geographically diverse regions of the continent, Aboriginal camps with certain morphological and architectural characteristics were labelled “villages” by European explorers and settlers. In the Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture, Paul Memmott’s entry on Aboriginal architecture includes a description of semi- permanent camps under the subheading “Village architecture.” This paper analyses the relatively sparse archival records of nineteenth century Aboriginal camps and settlement patterns along the coastal edge of Southeast Queensland. These data are compared with the settlement patterns of Aboriginal groups in northeastern Queensland, also characterized by semi-sedentary campsites, but where later and different contact histories yield a more comprehensive picture of the built environment. -
Memoirs of Hydrography
MEMOIRS 07 HYDROGRAPHY INCLUDING Brief Biographies of the Principal Officers who have Served in H.M. NAVAL SURVEYING SERVICE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1750 and 1885 COMPILED BY COMMANDER L. S. DAWSON, R.N. I 1s t tw o PARTS. P a r t II.—1830 t o 1885. EASTBOURNE: HENRY W. KEAY, THE “ IMPERIAL LIBRARY.” iI i / PREF A CE. N the compilation of Part II. of the Memoirs of Hydrography, the endeavour has been to give the services of the many excellent surveying I officers of the late Indian Navy, equal prominence with those of the Royal Navy. Except in the geographical abridgment, under the heading of “ Progress of Martne Surveys” attached to the Memoirs of the various Hydrographers, the personal services of officers still on the Active List, and employed in the surveying service of the Royal Navy, have not been alluded to ; thereby the lines of official etiquette will not have been over-stepped. L. S. D. January , 1885. CONTENTS OF PART II ♦ CHAPTER I. Beaufort, Progress 1829 to 1854, Fitzroy, Belcher, Graves, Raper, Blackwood, Barrai, Arlett, Frazer, Owen Stanley, J. L. Stokes, Sulivan, Berard, Collinson, Lloyd, Otter, Kellett, La Place, Schubert, Haines,' Nolloth, Brock, Spratt, C. G. Robinson, Sheringham, Williams, Becher, Bate, Church, Powell, E. J. Bedford, Elwon, Ethersey, Carless, G. A. Bedford, James Wood, Wolfe, Balleny, Wilkes, W. Allen, Maury, Miles, Mooney, R. B. Beechey, P. Shortland, Yule, Lord, Burdwood, Dayman, Drury, Barrow, Christopher, John Wood, Harding, Kortright, Johnson, Du Petit Thouars, Lawrance, Klint, W. Smyth, Dunsterville, Cox, F. W. L. Thomas, Biddlecombe, Gordon, Bird Allen, Curtis, Edye, F. -
The Falkland Islands As a Scientific Nexus for Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, Robert Mccormick and Bartholomew Sulivan, 1833-1851
Reprinted from -The Falkland Islands Journal 2020 11(4): 15-37 THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AS A SCIENTIFIC NEXUS FOR CHARLES DARWIN, JOSEPH HOOKER, THOMAS HUXLEY, ROBERT MCCORMICK AND BARTHOLOMEW SULIVAN, 1833-1851. by Phil Stone Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and Joseph Hooker (1817–1911) became two of the best- known figures in 19th century British science and have enduring reputations. For both men, the starting point of their careers was a round-the-world voyage on a Royal Navy vessel: 1831-1836 aboard HMS Beagle for Darwin, 1839–1843 aboard HMS Erebus for Hooker. Both ships spent time in the Falkland Islands engaged on survey and scientific work and Darwin and Hooker are both credited with originating research themes there in the fields of zoology, botany and geology. Appropriately, both men are celebrated and pictured in The Dictionary of Falklands Biography. The circumstances in which they travelled were very different, but both enjoyed certain advantages. Darwin was supernumerary to Beagle’s crew and was effectively the guest of the captain, Robert Fitzroy (1805–1865). As such he had considerable liberty of activity beyond the confines of the ship (Figure 1). Hooker held only a junior Naval commission as assistant surgeon on Erebus but enjoyed good social connections, an influential father, and had the cooperative support of the captain, James Clark Ross (1800–1862), in pursuit of his botanical research. Of course, neither man operated in isolation and what they were able to achieve was strongly influenced by their interactions with other members of the ships’ complements. Darwin had the financial backing of a wealthy family and was able to employ a personal assistant, Syms Covington, whose role has been recently described in Falkland Islands Journal by Armstrong (2019). -
Atoll Research Bulletin No. 252 Bird and Denis Islands
ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 252 BIRD AND DENIS ISLANDS, SEYCHELLES by D. R. Stoddart and F. R. Fosberg Issued by THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Washington, D. C., U.S.A. ~ul~'l981 Contents 1. Geography and ecology of Bird Island, Seychelles Introduction Morphology and structure Climate Vegetation Flora Invertebrates Reptiles Mammals Birds History 2. Plants recorded from Bird Island 3. Geography and ecology of Denis Island, Seychelles Introduction Morphology and structure Climate Vegetation Flora Invertebrates Reptiles Mammals Birds History 4. Plants recorded from Denis Island 5. References Manuscript received May 1980 --Eds. List of Figures 1. The Seychelles Bank following page 11 2. Bird Island in 1976 following page 11 3. Beach sediment at Bird Island following page 11 4. Denis Island in 1977 following page 50 5. Monthly rainfall at Denis Island, 19 71-1962 following page 50 List of Tables 1. Scientific studies at Bird Island 2. Characteristics of Bird Island beach sands 3. Monthly rainfall at Bird Island, 1951-1962 4. Key to the literature on insects collected at Bird Island 5. Scientific studies at Denis Island 6. Monthly and annual rainfall records at Denis Island iii List of Plates Bird Island: Suriana zone on the northeast shore following page 11 Bird Island: Pisonia and Cordia woodland with Suriana on the northeast shore Bird Island: Tournefortia parkland in the northeast Bird Island: tree-like Tournefortia in the northeast Bird Island: pioneer sedges and Scaevola on the east shore Bird Island: pioneer Ipomoea pes-caprae on the east shore Bird Island: pioneer sedges, Scaevola and Tournefortia on the northeast shore Bird Island: airstrip from the southeast Denis Island: phosphate cliffs with Casuarina woodland, southwest shore following page 50 10. -
CHESHIRE RECORD OFFICE Reels M845 – M847
AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT CHESHIRE RECORD OFFICE Reels M845 – M847 Cheshire Record Office Duke Street Chester Cheshire CH1 1RL National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Filmed: 1971 CHESHIRE RECORD OFFICE ZQ CHESTER QUARTER SESSIONS Reel M845 Orders by Quarter Sessions and Chester Sessions for transportation of convicts, 1803-29 Orders from the Clerk of the Peace or the clerk of the Crown to the constable of Chester castle, the Sheriff of the County of Chester and the Justices of the Peace of the County of Chester stating that the convicts named were to be transported to New South Wales. 4 bundles: 1803-18, 1821-22, 1825-26, 1829 Orders by the Secretary of State for transportation of convicts to the hulks, 1802-40 Orders signed by the Home Secretary to the Sheriff of the County of Chester directing that convicts in Chester Gaol under sentence of transportation be transferred to the hulks. The convicts are named in the margin of the orders. The hulks were at Portsmouth, Langstone Harbour, Woolwich or Chatham. 4 bundles: 1802-21, 1822-29, 1831-35, 1836-40 Reel M846 Reports and returns of convicts transported and under sentence of transportation, 1802-56 The records comprise receipts for convicts from Chester received on board the hulks, lists of convicts despatched from Chester Gaol with details of their physical appearance, age, occupation, character and behaviour, copies of surgeons’ certificates, and returns of convicts at Chester Gaol under sentence of transportation. 6 bundles: 1802-6, 1810-18, 1819-21, 1822-27, 1835-36, 1843-56 Circulars and correspondence on the transportation of convicts, 1802-51 Correspondence between the Home Office and the Sheriff of Chester concerning individual convicts, requesting returns of convicts, or financial matters. -
Great Southern Land: the Maritime Exploration of Terra Australis
GREAT SOUTHERN The Maritime Exploration of Terra Australis LAND Michael Pearson the australian government department of the environment and heritage, 2005 On the cover photo: Port Campbell, Vic. map: detail, Chart of Tasman’s photograph by John Baker discoveries in Tasmania. Department of the Environment From ‘Original Chart of the and Heritage Discovery of Tasmania’ by Isaac Gilsemans, Plate 97, volume 4, The anchors are from the from ‘Monumenta cartographica: Reproductions of unique and wreck of the ‘Marie Gabrielle’, rare maps, plans and views in a French built three-masted the actual size of the originals: barque of 250 tons built in accompanied by cartographical Nantes in 1864. She was monographs edited by Frederick driven ashore during a Casper Wieder, published y gale, on Wreck Beach near Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague, Moonlight Head on the 1925-1933. Victorian Coast at 1.00 am on National Library of Australia the morning of 25 November 1869, while carrying a cargo of tea from Foochow in China to Melbourne. © Commonwealth of Australia 2005 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth, available from the Department of the Environment and Heritage. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to: Assistant Secretary Heritage Assessment Branch Department of the Environment and Heritage GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government or the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. -
Author Title Hasluck Paul Workshop of Security. 2/14Th QMI Memorial Service: the Battle of Eland River. Australians in the Boer
Author Title Hasluck Paul Workshop of Security. Memorial Service: The Battle of Eland River. 2/14th QMI Australians in the Boer War. A History of the 2/17 Australian Infantry 2/17 Battalion Committee Battalion, 1940 - 1945. "What We Have We Hold". A History of the 2/17 Australian Infantry 2/17 Battalion Committee Battalion, 1940 - 1945. "What We Have We Hold". Abbot Willis J. The Nations at War Abbott C.L.A. Australia's Frontier Province. The Missiles of October. The story of the Cuban Abel E. missile crisis. Abernethy J A Lot of Fun in My Life. Surgeon's Journey. The autobiography of J. Abraham J.J. Johnston Abraham. Abraham Tom The Cage. A Year in Vietnam. Abrahams P. Jamaica An Island Mosaic. Military Professionalization and Politiical Power. Abrahamsson Bengt (1972) Abshagen K. H. Canaris. Abu H. Tales of a Revolution. Accoce P. & Quat P. The Lucy Ring. Present at the Creation. My years in the State Acheson D. Department. Acheson O. Sketches From Life. Of men I have known. Ackland J. & Word from John. An Australian soldier's letters Ackland R. eds from his friends. Ackroyd J.I. Japan Today. The Great Delusion. A study of aircraft in peace Acworth B. 'neon' and war. A Life of John Hampden. The patriot, 1594 - Adair J. 1643. Adair Lawrens Glass Houses, Paper Men. Adair Lawrens Glass Houses, Paper Men. Adam Smith P. Prisoners of War. World War 2 Time-Life Books, v33, Italy at Adams Henry. War.. The South Wales Borderers (The 24th Adams J. Regiment of Foot). Adams M. -
Is Agrosaurus Macgillivrayi Australia's Oldest Dinosaur?
Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 57: 191-200 (1999). Is Agrosaurus macgillivrayi Australia's oldest dinosaur? 1 2 3 Patricia Vickers-Rich , Thomas H. Rich , Gregory C. McNamara and Angela MilnerA 1 Monash Science Centre, Earth Sciences Department, Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3168; email: [email protected] 2 Museum Victoria, PO Box 666E, Melbourne, Vic 3001 }Albert Kersten Geocentre, PO Box 448, Broken Hill, NSW 2880 4 Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Abstract - The holotype and only known specimen of the prosauropod Agrosaunls macgillivrayi Seeley, 1891 probably comes from the Late Triassic Durdham Down locality near Bristol, England. Originally it was reported as being from the northeast coast of Australia. Firsthand examination of the most plausible northeast Australian source for such a fossil, outcrops of the Jurassic Helby Beds exposed on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, have demonstrated that the rock in that unit was quite unlike that associated with the holotype. Gross and trace element comparisons between possible fossil bone fragments from the Helby Beds and the holotype also showed them to be quite different. On the other hand, similar comparisons between the holotype and fossil bone from Durdham Down showed them to be quite comparable, as were the rocks and microvertebrates there and the ones associated with the holotype. Furthermore, A. macgillivrayi is probably a junior synonym of Tlzecodontosaurus antiquus Morris, 1843 from Durdham Down. INTRODUCTION (Figure 3). The only locality information available In 1844, four British ships headed by H.M.s. -
Hunting Magic, Maintenance Ceremonies and Increase Sites Exploring Traditional Management Systems for Marine Resources in Northern Cape York Peninsula
56174_Extreme_heritage_Part 2_Historical Environment 14/09/11 8:38 AM Page 19 Hunting Magic, Maintenance Ceremonies and Increase Sites Exploring Traditional Management Systems for Marine Resources in Northern Cape York Peninsula. Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy Abstract Introduction Emerging archaeological evidence from archaeological sites in This paper explores the current situation regarding indigenous northern Cape York has the potential to shed light on use of marine turtles in northern Cape York and uses indigenous cultural practices relating to turtle hunting. This archaeological and historical/ethnographic information to paper explores the nexus between cultural practice and identify changes in this ‘indigenous system’ in recent times. In indigenous ecological knowledge and ‘lost’ knowledge which doing this I stress that this is a ‘work in progress’ and it is has implications for how Traditional Owners may chose to expected that on-going research will continue to illuminate this manage resources today. Often when we hear of Indigenous issue. Ongoing research in Northern Cape York (Greer et al. environmental management techniques the focus is on 2005; Greer et al 2011 submitted) is looking more broadly at management ‘practices’ e.g mosaic burning, rather than change and influence in this border between mainland Australia ‘systems’. While not denying that some practices may be and the Torres Strait Islands. This paper focuses on evidence useful or cost effective alternatives to other ‘western science’ from some sites in Northern Cape York -
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW Records and Collections, 1768-1954 Reels M730-88
AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW Records and collections, 1768-1954 Reels M730-88 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond London TW9 3AE National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Filmed: 1970-71 CONTENTS Page 4 Historical note 7 Kew collectors series, 1814-55 9 Papers relating to collectors, 1791-1865 10 Official correspondence of Sir William Hooker, 1825-65 17 Official correspondence, 1865-1928 30 Miscellaneous manuscripts 30 Manuscript of James Backhouse 30 Letters to John G. Baker, 1883-90 31 Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1819 33 Papers of George Bentham, 1834-1882 35 Papers of Henry Burkill, 1893-1937 35 Records of HMS Challenger, 1874-76 36 Manuscript of Frederick Christian 36 Papers of Charles Baron Clarke 36 Papers of William Colenso, 1841-52 37 Manuscript of Harold Comber, 1929-30 37 Manuscripts of Allan Cunningham, 1826-35 38 Letter of Charles Darwin, 1835 38 Letters to John Duthie, 1878-1905 38 Manuscripts of A.D.E. Elmer, 1907-17 39 Fern lists, 1846-1904 41 Papers of Henry Forbes, 1881-86 41 Correspondence of William Forsyth, 1790 42 Notebook of Henry Guppy, 1885 42 Manuscript of Clara Hemsley, 1898 42 Letters to William Hemsley, 1881-1916 43 Correspondence of John Henslow, 1838-39 43 Diaries of Sir Arthur Hill, 1927-28 43 Papers of Sir Joseph Hooker, 1840-1914 2 48 Manuscript of Janet Hutton 49 Inwards and outwards books, 1793-1895 58 Letters of William Kerr, 1809 59 Correspondence of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 1821-40 59 Notebooks of L.V. -
William Macgillivray
WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William MacGillivray HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY 1796 January 25, Monday: William MacGillivray was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the product of William MacGillivray upon Ann Wishart out of wedlock. We are unable to track the father and one possibility is that while a “Cameron Highlanders” fighting in the Peninsular wars, he was one of the battle casualties. This child would be brought up on the isle of Harris off the north coast of Scotland by the family of the father and would then as an adult go to reside in Edinburgh. Bastardy would seem to have been consequential as, although Charles Darwin would in private notations make reference to MacGillivray as “accurate,” we also can now observe that there had been a side comment by the gentleman naturalist of Down — that this ornithologist with whom he had dealings was not in possession of “the manners or appearance of a gentleman.” NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT William MacGillivray “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY 1815 William MacGillivray graduated from King’s College at Aberdeen. He would attempt but not complete the course in medicine, deciding that instead he would “devote his attention exclusively to natural history.” Back home on the island of Harris to the north of Scotland, he would for a period teach at his old school, while studying a dead walrus, and while stuffing a bear he had been asked to kill.