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Journal

Author
Macleod, Roy
Title
Historical Perspectives of Science
Journal
Pacific Science
Imprint
2000
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
Description

Special Issue - includes a number of papers presented at the 19th Pacific Science Congress, Sydney, 1999. Contents include: Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock, 'Developing a Sense of the Pacific: The 1923 Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia'; John Gascoigne, 'Motives for European Exploration in the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment'; John Andrews, 'Natural History in New Zealand: The Legacy of Europe'; Ruth Barton, 'Haast and the Moa: Reversing the Tyranny of Distance'; Robert C. Kiste and Mac Marshall, 'American Anthropology in Micronesia, 1941-1997'; M.D. Merlin, 'A History of Ethnobotany in Remote Oceania'; Donald Avery, 'Wartime Medical Cooperation across the Pacific: Wilder Penfield and the Anglo-american Medical Missions to the Soviet Union and China, 1943-1944'.

Source
Carlson 2000

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