PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWS ^ Y ° f HA’VAM UBRA«V

Desk-top publishing makes many things feasible that were once only dreams in the minds of authors and editors. Consider the recent proliferation of newsletters. Historians of the printed word may one day cite the 1980s as the period of logarithmic growth for the academic newsletter. This is certainly true for the "newsworthy" Pacific. As evidence, the eleventh number of the Australian Development Studies Network Newsletter (November 1988) carries a section (pp. 27-28) listing a dozen recently established newsletters and bulletins of the Pacific region. Entries range from Asian Pacific Environment to Women and Geography Study Group Newsletter.

At the same time, however, desk-top publishing tempts us to imagine that we can take on more projects than time realistically allows. Publishing may be vastly accelerated and simplified, but the creation of original prose still requires human real time. Early in 1988 your editor was enticed into a temporary (we hope) post in academic administration, with responsibilities that are expected to run at least until mid-1989. Our semi-annual publication schedule proved to be sanguine. Thus PCN5 will reach you nearly a year after PCN4. Nevertheless, this issue carries all of the usual sorts of news: announcements of recent and forthcoming conferences, publications, and other notes to enliven the history and social studies of Pacific science.

The Pacific Circle will hold its first official meeting since its founding in 1985. The XVIII International Congress of the History of Science, to be held in Hamburg and Munich 1-9 August 1989. will include (in Hamburg) the symposium "Western Science in the Pacific." Current plans call for three sessions of five papers each (themes: "Politics and Pacific Science," "Oceanography and Marine Biology," and "Anthropology in the Pacific"), followed by a Pacific Circle business meeting. During the latter, a permanent slate of officers will be elected, followed by discussion of various issues, including the establishment of a nominal subscription fee for the Newsletter. All interested scholars are urged to participate, or to communicate their views to the editor or co-editor. (For calendar 1989, Roy MacLeod can be reached at: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560; tel: [202] 357-2836; fax: [202] 357-1853.) 2

BRENDA BISHOP (1920-1987) "Landmarks of Natural History" will In October 1987, the Pacific Science be the theme of the next international Association lost its long time executive conference of the Society for the History of secretary, Brenda Bishop. A New Natural History, 25-27 April 1989. at the Zealander, Ms. Bishop moved to Honolulu Natural History Museum, London. The in 1950 when the PSA established its conference will focus on events, contro­ secretariat at the Bishop Museum. She was versies, publications, and personalities of editor of the Pacific Science Information international significance in the whole field Bulletin, and played a central role in the of natural history and from any period of organization of die Pacific Science history. Congresses for the next 37 years. * * * j o h n e . b a r d a c h , president of the Pacific Science Institute of the PSA, indicates that the Information Bulletin will The Society for the History of continue, at least until the newly appointed Technology will hold its annual meeting in Special Publications Committee of the Sacramento, California, 12-15 October Association, headed by p r o f . d ie t e r m u e l l e r - 1989. The organizing committee especially d u m b o is begins to develop its program. solicits contributions on gender, the Third World, the West as a region, and cross- disciplinary perspectives on technology. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 AND April 1989: they should be sent to: CALLS FOR PAPERS THOMAS J. MISA, Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616

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"Contributions to the History of Scientific Exchanges: European Expansion and the Scientific Development of Asian, African, Oceanian and Latin American Countries (1850-1914)" is to be the theme of an international symposium in Paris in March 1990. For further information: The Vlth Pacific Science Inter PATRICK PETTUEAN, Congress will take place in Viña del Mar, REHSEIS (CNRS) Chile, 7-10 August 1989. with the theme Tour 45 (2ème ét.), "The Pacific: Bridge or Barrier?" In Université de Paris VII, addition to numerous scientific sections, 2 Place Jussieu, there are to be two General Symposia, 75005 Paris, France entitled "The Pacific, Bridge or Barrier?: International Relations in the Pacific in the * * * Twenty-First-Century" and "Science, Technology and Development in the Pacific Following proposals from p r o f . jo h n Basin: The Contribution of the Americas, m o r r is o n of the University of the South Asia and the Pacific." Copies of the Second Pacific, p r o f . r o y m a c l e o d visited the USP in Circular are available from: p r o f . f r a n c is c o Suva in mid-July to discuss the program of a o r r e g o v ic u ñ a , Chairman of the Organizing conference devoted to "Science of the Committee, P.O. Box 14187, Sec 21, Pacific Island Peoples." It is proposed to Santiago, Chile hold this international and regional conference in December 1990. Themes will * * * range from the Nature of Natural 3

Knowledge before European Contact, 200 words) of their prospective papers along through Science Policy in the Pacific; and with a brief vitae to: The Director, special attention will be devoted to Modem Vancounver Conference Uses of Traditional Knowledge. A call for Department of History papers will be issued during 1989. In the Simon Fraser University meantime, those interested should contact Burnaby, British Columbia p r o f . jo h n m o r r is o n , School of Pure and Canada, V5A 1S6. Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji * * *

* * * The International Conference on Chinese Scientific and Technological The Edgeworth David Society, History is scheduled for the city of graduate society of the Department of Hangzhou, 5-10 May 1989. The conference Geology and Geophysics at the University will focus on the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, of Sydney, will celebrate the second the "Second Golden Age of China." For Edgeworth David Day on 14 June 1989. further information contact Hangzhou with a symposium on "The Geological Association for Science and Technology, Mapping of the Continent, from Edgeworth 211 Yan’an Road, Hangzhou, People’s David to 1:50,000". The first symposium, Republic of China held last year, addressed "The Geology of Antarctica: From Exploration to * * * Exploitation." "Transitions to Modem Science and * * * Technology in China: A Seminar in Honor of the Sesquicentennial of John Fryer’s "Civilizations of the Pacific Rim" Birth" is the special theme of the Regional and "East-West Relations" will be the twin Seminar in Chinese Studies, 7-8 April themes of the 1989 meeting of The 1989 at the Center for Chinese Studies, International Society for the Comparative University of California, Berkeley. Study of Civilizations, 1-4 June at the Inquiries: f r e d d a g e n a is , University of California, Berkeley. Center for Chinese Studies Inquiries: p r o f . corrinnegilb , Program University of California Chair, ISCSC 1988, 111 El Camino Real, 2223 Fulton St., Rm. 505 Berkeley, CA 94705 Berkeley, CA 94720

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A Conference on Exploration and A conference on the History of Discovery will be hosted in Vancouver by Alchemy will be held at the University of Simon Fraser University, 17-19 April 1992. Groningen in the Netherlands, 17-19 April Commemorating the arrival of Capt. George 1989. Various aspects of the subject will be Vancouver on the Pacific Coast of North illuminated by p r o f . m . c r o s l a n d , p r o f . a .g . America in 1792, the conference will DEBUS, PROF. K. FIGULA, PROF. R. HALLEUX, PROF. provide an opportunity for the presentation N. SIVIN, PROF. H.A.M. SNELDERS a n d PROF. B. of new research on social, cultural, v ic k e r s . Inquiries: economic, scientific, technological, and Z.R.W.M. VON MARTELS, B.A. literary aspects of exploration and discovery Schaepmanlaan 15, in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. 9722 NP Groningen, Attention will be given to all parts of the The Netherlands world, but particularly the North Pacific. Proposals for papers will be accepted up to 15 September 1989. Those interested in participating should send summaries (100- 4

COMPETITION of Sydney. Cosponsor was the Miklouho- Maclay Society of Australia. Association These-Pac has announced its latest competition for the best university work on New Caledonia, on the NEW PRESIDENT areas served by the South Pacific Commission, and on the French language in Our correspondent for Mexico, ju a n the Pacific. The Association’s Bulletin jo s e s a l d a Na , reports that d r . u m b ir a t a n These-Pac, edited by f r e d e r ic a n g l e v ie l d ’a m b r o s io was elected the new president of contains information on recent theses and the Latin American Society for the dissertations relating to the French-speaking History of Sciences and Technology Pacific. For further information: (SLHCT) in July. Official business and These-Pac, BP 920 matters regarding the SLHCT Newsletter Noumea, New Caledonia should be directed to Dr. D’Ambrosio, Caixa Postal 6063, CEP 13081, Campinas- SP, Brazil. Dr. Saldana continues to edit DOCUMENTARY Ouipu. the society’s journal.

In September the Australian Broadcasting Commission televised a 51- COLUMBIA LECTURESHIP minute documentary on Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and . Utilizing The Columbia History of Science material from the Library of Congress and Group, with support from the History of the Bishop Museum, the film, by f r a n k Science Society’s Independent Scholars h e im a n s , sheds new light on the controversy Program, has established the Columbia over Mead’s Samoan research. It was Lectureship Program. Under the program televised in the ABC’s "Discovery Series." active scholars, especially those currently CNewsletter, Centre for South Pacific without permanent academic positions, will Studies) visit colleges and universities in the Pacific Northwest to promote the teaching of history of science. Further information is LAPÉROUSE MUSEUM avaiable from the directors of the program: DR. ANN HIBNER KOBLTTZ a n d A museum commemorating the DR. JOELLA G YODER achievements of Lapérouse and other French 6547 17th Avenue NW navigators in the Pacific was officially Seattle, WA 98115 opened in February 1988. The museum is housed at the Cable Station at La Pérouse, in the Botany Bay National Park near Sydney. SUMMER INSTITUTE At its opening, the museum was presented to the New South Wales government by a n d r e "Iberia and the New World 1500- g ir a u d , president of the Comité Français 1800: Cultural Encounter and Mutual pour le Bicentenaire de l’Australie. Exchange" is the subject of a National Museum hours are 10:30-4:00 daily. Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 10 July - 12 August EXHIBITION 1989. Fellowships are available at US$2750 each; applications must be submitted by 15 An exhibition marking the centenary March 1989. of the death of Nicolai Nicolaivich de Inquiries: Institute for Reseach in the Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) explorer, Humanities ethnographer and naturalist of the South 1401 Observatory Drive Pacific, opened last May 7 for a three-month University of Wisconsin period at the Macleay Museum, University Madison, WI 53706 5

RECENT CONFERENCES MUELLER CORRESPONDENCE The First Indo-Australian An editorial consortium has been Conference on Science, Technology and formed at the University of Melbourne Colonialism took place in New Delhi, 9-11 under the direction of p r o f . r .w . h o m e to May 1988. Co-conveners were p r o f . r o y collect and edit the correspondence of m a c l e o d (University of Sydney) and d r . Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896). d e e p a k k u m a r (NISTADS). Sponsors were Botanist, explorer, and director of Australia’s CSIR and the Department of Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens, Mueller was Science and Technology of India. a prodigious letter-writer. Several thousand Following the publication of selected of his letters have now been located, and the papers, it is hoped to hold a sequel meeting editors are appealing for help in locating in Australia within the next three years. others, as well as letters written to him. Please contact: * * * MS. SARA MAROSKE, Department of History and Philosophy of A conference on "British Marine Science Science and Meteorology: the History of University of Melbourne Their Development and Application to Parkville, Vic. 3052 Fisheries Problems" took place at the (tel. [03] 344-6556) University of East Anglia, Norwich, 8-9 April 1988, under the auspices of the Royal Meteorological Society History Group, the OCEANOGRAPHIC RECORDS Buckland Foundation and the Challenger Society. A project is underway to compile a listing of oceanographic records created * * * between 1600 and 1950. An international working party, consisting of d e b o r a h d a y "The History of Geomorphology (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), from James Hutton to John Hack" was the Ma r g a r e t d e a c o n (Southampton University), theme of the Nineteenth Annual JACQUELINE CARPINE-LANCRE (InStitUt Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Oceanographique, Monaco), and lan jo n e s held in September at Brock University, St. (Marine Studies Centre, University of Catherines, Ontario. Among the papers Sydney), will arrange for the publication of presented was d a v id r . s t o d d a r t ’s "Colonial a directory. Science to Scientific Independence: Australian Reef Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century." SIRIUS EXPEDITION 1988 * * * In October 1988 a 12-person expedition, led by maritime archeologist A one-day "Seminar on Scientific g r a e m e h e n d e r s o n , spent a month on Norfolk Biography" was held last August 20th in Island examining the wreck of HMS Sirius Sydney by the Colonial Science Club, in and cataloguing its remains. association with the Royal Australian Flagship of the First Fleet, Sirius had Historical Society. The program included: sailed from Sydney to in Introduction by a n n m o y a l ; "Sir Charles 1790 with a party of 275 to alleviate the Todd" by k . l iv in g s t o n (Capricomia CAE, strain on the colony at Sydney. In bad Queensland); "20th Century Scientists and weather the ship drifted onto a nearshore Their Papers" by g a v in m c c a r t h y (Aust. reef and subsequently broke up. (Marine Science Archives Project, Univ. of Studies, University of Sydney) Melbourne); "Geologists I Have Sought" by d a v id b r a n a g a n (Univ. of Sydney); "Women 6

in Science" by m a r io n o r d ; "Prof. J.T. Meio Ambiente; Area de Educacao Wilson" by p a t r ic ia m o r is o n ; "H.C. Russell, Aplicada as Geosciencias /IG-UNICAMP. Govt. Astronomer" by d r . r a g b ir b h a t h a l (Power House Museum); "Sir Marcus * * * Oliphant" by d a v id e l l y a r d (NSW Science and Technology Council) and a panel "‘Environment’ Impact of Electricity discussion featuring d r c a r o l u s t o n over the Last 100 years" was the theme of (President, RAHS), d r a l l a n s a u n d e r s the Edison Science Youth Day, 15 March (ABC), c o l in s m it h (Archivist, CSIRO) and 1988, sponsored by the Auckland Electric l is a n e w e l l (Power House Museum), p r o f . e . Power Board. The program included: "The c o l e delivered the summing up. Life, Works and Achievements of Thomas Alva Edison" by g a r r y t e e ; "The * * * Environmental Impacts of Electric Power Generation and Transmission in New The French-Australian Research Zealand" by p r o f . jo h n h a y ; "Environmental Centre organized a symposium on Science" by je a n e t t e f it z s im o n s ; and "A "Australian Aborigines and the French" at Theologian’s Look at Science" by r e v . the University of New South Wales, 21-23 AUSTAIR RAE. July 1988. Conveners were d r . m . b l a c k m a n a n d PROF. J. CHAUSSIVERT. NEW PERIODICALS * * *

The Centre for South , University of New South Wales, held its first conference 1-4 December 1988, on the theme "Australia and the South Pacific in 1988." Eight sections were scheduled, bearing the following titles: "Archives, Libraries and Museums"; "Resource Development and Law of the Sea"; "Health Issues"; "The French The Contemporary Pacific: A Territories"; "Women in Development"; Journal of Island Affairs is to be published "Comparative Economic Development"; by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Plural Politics in the South Pacific’"; and School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific "South Pacific Arts." Studies, University of Hawaii, in cooperation with the University of Hawaii * * * Press. Editor will be p r o f b r d v . l a l and chair of the editorial board will be r o b e r t c . "Museum Anthropology in Australia k is t e . The journal will focus on current & the Pacific: The Past, the Present, and the issues and concerns from a wide range of Future" was the title of the tenth disciplines in the social sciences and Conference of Museum Anthropologists, humanities, and will cover the entire Pacific held at the Australian Museum, Sydney, Islands region, including , 30 Nov - 2 Dec 1988. , and . In addition to articles and book reviews, the journal will * * * publish political reviews, essays on source materials, and a dialogue section. It is to The Brazilian Colloquium on appear semi-annually. Inquiries: History and Theory of Geological Editor, Contemporary Pacific, Center for Knowledge took place at the University of Pacific Islands Studies, Campinas, State of Sao Paolo, 5-7 July University of Hawaii 1988. Sponsors were the Instituto Honolulu, HI 96822. Geologico de Sao Paula/ Secretaria do 7

* * * Institute, by Ro b e r t f . c h a n d l e r , j r . ( L o s Banos, Laguna, Philippines: International The Pacific Review, a new quarterly, Rice Research Institute, 1982) was launced by Oxford University Press in March 1988. It seeks to reduce "the barriers Algunos Aportes para el Estudio de la between areas of study and between the Historia de la Ciencia en el Peru, edited by worlds of academia, journalism, government e r n e s t o y e p e s (Lima: Consejo Nacional de and business." Ciencia y Tecnologia, n.d.). Inquiries: Oxford Journals Oxford University Press Australian Science in the Making, edited by Walton Street R.W. HOME Oxford, 0X2 6DP, England (Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1988), $A75. * * * Bones, Bodies, Behavior. Essays in The Outrigger is the newsletter of Biological Anthropology, by g e o r g e w. the Pacific Islands Society of the United s t o c k in g , jr (Madison: University of Kingdom and Ireland. Inquiries: m r . jo h n Wisconsin Press, 1988), $US25. s m it h , c b e , Assistant Secretary, Pacific Islands Society of the United Kingdom and The Contented Botanist. Letters ofW.H. Ireland, Flat B, 47 Prince’s Gardens, Harvey (1811-1866) about Australia and the London SW7 2PE. Pacific, edited by s o p h ie c . d u c k e r (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, * * * 1988), $A65.95.

Teachers of history of science Crónica de una Expedición Romántica al throughout the world will be encouraged by Nuevo Mundo. La Comisión Científica del the appearance of TeaComNews, the Pacífico (1862-1866) by m ig u e l á n g e l p u ig - Circular of the Commission on Teaching the s a m p e r . (Madrid: C.S.I.C., Centro de History of Science of the International Estudios Históricos, Departamento de Union of the History and Philosophy of Historia de a Ciencia, 1988). Science - Division of the History of Science. Commission president p r o f . m ic h io y a n o Cross Cultural Diffusion of Science: Latin (Kyoto Sangyo University) wants to know America, edited by ju a n jó s e s a l d a n a . Vol. "how history of science is taught all over the V, Acts of the XVII International Congress world." Toward this end, TeaComNews of History of Science (Sociedad editor d r . a u s t a ir d u n c a n (Loughborourgh Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias University of Technology, U.K) has y la Tecnologia, 1987). included articles on teaching history of science in the U.K., Korea, and Egypt. In Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives addition, a symposium on teaching is being in Western Medicine and the Experience of planned for the XVIIIth International European Expansion , edited by r o y Congress of History of Science this summer m a c l e o d and m il t o n l e w is (London; in Hamburg/Munich. Inquiries: Routledge, 1988), £40. d r . a .m . d u n c a n , University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, Early as the Explorers Saw it, 1616- UK 1810, by Ed w in n . f e r d o n (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1987), $US29.95. RECENT BOOKS Estudios de Historia de la Ciencia en el An Adventure in Applied Peru, edited by e r n e s t o y e p e s (Lima: Science: A History of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, International Rice Research 1986). 8

Vol. I: Ciencias Básicas y Tecnológicas. (Madrid: Ministerio de Educación y Cienci, Vol. II: Ciencias Sociales. 1988).

La Expedición Científica de Malaspina en History’s Anthropology: The Death of Nueva España 1789-1794 by Vir g in ia William Gooch, by g r e g d e Nin g (Lanham, g o n z a l e s c l a v e r á n (Departamento de MD: University Press of America, Inc., Publicaciones de El Colegio de México, 1988). A.C). Inventing Canada. Early Victorian Science Exploration and Mapping of the American and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation, West: Selected Essays, edited by d .p . k o e p p by s u z a n n e z e l l e r (Toronto: University of (Chicago: Speculum Oribis Press, 1986). Toronto Press, 1987), $C35/paper $C15.95

Films for Pacific Studies: A Select List, by Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others: n . d o u g l a s (Pacific History Association, Essays on Culture and Personality, edited 1981), $A2.00. b y GEORGE W. STOCKING, j r . (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in 1986), $US25. Australia 1801-1803, by f . h o r n e r (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, Medicine, Magic and Evil Spirits, by je a n 1988), $A47.95. m u l h o l l a n d . Australian National University, Faculty of Asian Studies Monographs, New George William Francis, First Director of Series No. 8, $A15.00 the Adelaide Botanic Garden, b y b a r b a r a j. b e s t (Adelaide: 1986), £16.50. Memoirs of a Geologist. From Poverty Peak to Piggery Gulch, by h a r o l d t . s t e a r n s (Honolulu: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, 1983),$US10. Reviewed: Earth Sciences History 7 (1988), 60-61.

( / The Pacific: A Brief History and Introduction to Contemporary Events, by J. d a l t o n and m. quanchi (East Melbourne: AIIA, 1988).

Pacific Annual 1987, edited by v.i. il y ic h e v . (Vladivostok: Far-Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR)- report of the Committee on Marine Sciences, Pacific Science Association (Russian and English).

Pacific Islands Research in the Research School of Pacific Studies, by b .j . a l l e n , e . b . k in g d o n and r .g . w a r d (Canberra: Australian National University, 1987), 32 pp.

Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment 1850-1915, by m ic h a e l l . s m it h (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Historia Natural Catálogo Ilustrado Siglos Press, 1988), SUS26.50. XVIII y XIX, by a l b e r t o g o m is , ja u m e jo s a , JOAQUIN FERNANDEZ a n d FRANCISCO PELA YO Proceedings of the First Conference on the History of New Zealand 9

and Australian Medicine, edited by r .e . issues as published by the Hawaiian w r ig h t - s t c l a ir .(Hamilton: Waikato Volcano Observatory, 1925-1955, reprinted Postgraduate Medical Society, Inc., 1988). in one volume, indexed. $US30. 28 papers from a conference held at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand, 29-30 April 1987. RECENT ARTICLES

Quest for the Real Samoa: the Mead/ "Charles Darwin’s Theory of Coral Reefs Freeman Controversy and Beyond, by and the Problem of the Chalk," by William l o w e l l d . h o l m e s (South Hadley, Mass.: Montgomery. Earth Sciences History 7 Bergin and Garvey, 1987). (1988), 111-120.

Quests for Spices and New Worlds, by "Daniel Solander and the Pacific," by pe r b e r t h a s , d o d g e (Hamden, Conn.: Archon t in g b r a n d . Journal of the New Zealand Books, 1988), $US25. Federation of Historical Societies 2(5)(1987), 6-14. Return to Tahiti. Bligh’s Second Breadfruit Voyage, by d o u g l a s o u v e r (Melbourne: "La Difusión de la Ciencia en la Nueva Melbourne University Press, 1988) $A85.95 España en el siglo XVIII: la Polémica en Tomo a la Nomenclatura de Linneo y The Russian Discovery of Hawaii. The Lavoisier," by p a t r ic ia e l e n a a c e v e s Ethnographic and Historic Record, by p a s t r a n a . Quipu 7 (1987), 357-385. g l y n n b a r r a t t (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1988), $US27.50. "The Duke, the Professors, and the Great Coral Reef Controversy of 1887-1888," by Russian Exploration in Southwest Alaska. d .r . s t o d d a r t . Earth Sciences History 7 The Travel Journals of Petr Korsakovskiy (1988), 90-98. (1818) and Ivan Ya. Vasilev (1829), edited by ja m e s w. v a n s t o n e , translataed by d a v id h . "Early Computing in New Zealand," by k r a u s (University of Alaska Press, 1988), g a r r y j . t e e . Offprint of a lecture delivered $US15. at the Conference on the History of Statistics in New Zealand, Victoria University of Science, Settlers and Scholars, by c .a . Wellington, 1 July 1987. Fl e m in g . Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 25 (1987). "The First Haole on Maui: La Perouse, the Humanitarian Explorer," by m ir k a k n a s t e r . The Southern Ark-A History of New Honolulu, May 1986, 52ff. Zealand Zoological Discovery, 1769-1900, by j .r .h . An d r e w s (Auckland/ London: "From the Banks of the Eme to Botany Bay: Century Hutchinson, 1986). John White (cl756-1832), Surgeon- General of New South Wales," by e . c . n e l s o n . The Tentacles of Progress. Technology Familia (Ulster Genealogical Review) 2 Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850- (1987), 73-82. 1940, by d a n ie l r h e a d r ic k (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), paper $US 11.95. "The Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Selwyn, 1852-1868," by t .a . University and Community in Nineteenth d a r r a g h . Historical Records of Australian Century Sydney: Professor John Smith, Science 7 (1987), 1-25. 1821-1885, edited by r o y m a c l e o d (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1988), "Globos aerostáticos en la Oaxaca del Siglo $A16. XVIII," b y VIRGINIA GONZALEZ CLAVERAN, Quipu 7 (1987), 387-400. The Volcano Letter. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1988). All 530 10

"Hawaiian Natural History and Conservation Efforts. What’s Left is Worth "Prometheus Bound: Technology and Saving," by f .g . h o w a r t h , s .h . s o h m e r , and Industrialization in Japan, China and India w .d . d u c k w o r t h . BioScience 38 (1988), 232- Prior to 1914--A Political Economy 237. Approach," by ia n in k s t e r . Annals of Science 45 (1988) 399-426. "A History of Geology and Geological Education in China (to 1949)," by d a z h e n g "‘Riches for the Geography of America and s h a n g and c a r o l f a u l . Earth Sciences Spain’: Felipe Bauz£ and his Topographical History 7(1988), 27-32. Collections, 1789-1848," by p e t e r b a r b e r . British Library Journal 12 (1986), 28-57. "Joseph Beete Jukes, the ‘Cambridge Connectión,’ and the Theory of Reef "Science History in Profiles: Mikhail Development in Australia in the Nineteenth Lomonosov," Science in the USSR 4 (1987), Century," by d .r . s t o d d a r t . Earth Sciences 62-78. History 7 (1988), 99-110. "Sir Charles Fleming, F.R.S. (1916-1987)," "Las Investigaciones Meteorológicas de by a .d . Th o m s o n . DSIR Botany Division Caldas," by v ic t o r s , a l b is and r e g in o Newsletter 116 (1987), 5-6. Ma r t ín e z c h a v a n z . Quipu 7 (1987), 413-432. Thanks to Mr. Thomson for correcting two errors in our previous "The Limits of Scientific Condominium: number: Sir Charles was Chief Geophysics in Western Samoa," pp. 251-295 Palaeontologist, not Director, of the New in n . r e in g o l d and m . r o t h e n b e r g , eds., Zealand Geological Survey; and he died at Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-cultural his home in Wellington, not Auckland. Comparison (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987). "Some Nineteenth Century Trans-Tasman Influences in Geology," by c . a . Fl e m in g . "Mathematical Science in New Zealand," by Australian Journal of Earth Science 34 g a r r y j . t e e . Ganita-Bharati 9 (7-4)(1987), (1987), 261-277. 1-9. "Strezelecki’s Geological Map of "Misinterpretations of Some Early Southeastern Australia: An Eclectic California Geologists (1865 to 1951)" by Synthesis," by d .f . b r a n a g a n . Historical m a s o n l . h il l . Earth Sciences History 7 Records of Australian Science 6 (1986), (1988), 23-36. 375-392.

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