Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of Victoria

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List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27).

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Genre : Science
Author : Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.)
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Release : 1897
File : 358 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3092648


Papers And Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of Tasmania

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Genre : Botany
Author : Royal Society of Tasmania
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Release : 1887
File : 358 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044106281751


Papers And Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of Tasmania

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Release : 1892
File : 150 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11546607


Burke And Wills

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'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke, a brave man totally lacking in the bush skills necessary for his task; surveyor and meteorologist William Wills; and 17 others, the expedition took 20 tons of equipment carried on six wagons, 23 horses and 26 camels. Almost immediately plagued by disputes and sackings, the expeditioners battled the extremes of the Australian landscape and weather: its deserts, the boggy mangrove swamps of the Gulf, the searing heat and flooding rains. Food ran short and, unable to live off the land, the men nevertheless mostly spurned the offers of help from the local Indigenous people. In desperation, leaving the rest of the party at the expedition's depot on Coopers Creek, Burke, Wills and John King made a dash for the Gulf in December 1860. Bad luck and bad management would see them miss by just hours a rendezvous back at Coopers Creek, leaving them stranded in the wilderness with practically no supplies. Only King survived to tell the tale. Yet, despite their tragic fates, the names of Burke and Wills have become synonymous with perseverance and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. They live on in Australia's history - and their story remains immediate and compelling.

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Genre : History
Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release : 2018-04-05
File : 555 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781472128980


Index Of Nlm Serial Titles

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A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

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Genre : Medicine
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Release : 1981
File : 1306 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015074114961


Alphabetical List Of Abbreviations Of Titles Of Medical Periodicals Employed In The Index Catalogue Of The Library Of The Surgeon General S Office United States Army

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Genre : Medicina
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Release : 1895
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015077424284


Art In The Time Of Colony

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It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized locals did more than merely collect material for interested colonizers. In developing the concept of anachronism for the analysis of colonial material this book writes the complex biographies for five key objects that exemplify, embody, and refract the tensions of nineteenth-century history. Through an analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that exemplify the tensions of nineteenth-century history. The author also draws on fieldwork done in communities today, such as the group of Koorie women whose re-enactments of tradition illustrate the first chapter’s potted history of indigenous mediums and debates. The second case study explores British colonial history through the biography of the proclamation boards produced under George Arthur (1784-1854), Governor of British Honduras, Tasmania, British Columbia, and India. The third case study looks at the maps of the German explorer of indigenous taxonomy Wilhelm von Blandowski (1822-1878), and the fourth looks at a multi-authored encyclopaedia in which Blandowski had taken into account indigenous knowledge such as that in the work of Kwat-Kwat artist Yakaduna, whose hundreds of drawings (1862-1901) are the material basis for the fifth and final case study. Through these three characters’ histories Art in the Time of Colony demonstrates the political importance of material culture by using objects to revisit the much-contested nineteenth-century colonial period, in which the colonial nations as a cultural and legal-political system were brought into being.

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Genre : History
Author : Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-12-05
File : 426 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351957076


New Serial Titles

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

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Genre : Periodicals
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Release : 1989
File : 1944 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435031111057


Monthly Notices Of Papers And Proceedings And Report

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Vols.for 1878,1879,1881,1884 contain "List of fellows and members."

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Genre : Science
Author : Royal Society of Tasmania
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Release : 1889
File : 686 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015035505927


Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of London

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Genre : Electronic journals
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Release : 1894
File : 550 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X002000813