H. B. Carter (editor), The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1781-1820 (The Library Council of New South Wales in association with the British Museum [Natural History], 1979), pp. xxx + 641: $65.00

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-184
Author(s):  
John Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
South Wales

II. Description of fossil remains of two species of a Megalanian genus ( Meiolania , Ow.), from Lord Howe’s Island

1886 ◽  
Vol 40 (242-245) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Differential Characters ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Survey

In a scientific survey by the Department of Mines, New South Wales, of Lord Howe’s Island, fossil remains were obtained which were transmitted to the British Museum of Natural History, and were confided to the author for determination and description. These fossils, referable to the extinct family of horned Saurians described in former volumes of the “Philosophical Transactions" under the generic name Megalania , form the subject of the present paper. They represent species smaller in size than Megalania prisca , Ow., and with other differential characters on which an allied genus Meiolania is founded.

Type Specimens of Palaeozoic Corals from New South Wales in W. B. Clarke's First Collection, and in the Strzelecki Collection

1937 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
South Wales

In this paper is given a revision of all but one of the corals in the Rev. W. B. Clarke's first collection of fossils from New South Wales; the collection was placed by him in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge in 1844, and was described by M'Coy (1847). The types are still preserved at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. A description is also given of the holotype of Amplexus arundinaceus Lonsdale, which was collected from New South Wales by Strzelecki in 1842, and is now in the British Museum (Natural History), London. The species are distributed as follows: 1? Permian, 1 Lower Carboniferous, 1 Devonian, and 1 Silurian or Lower Devonian.

scholarly journals XIV. Description of fossil remains of two species of a genus (Meiolania) from "Lord Howe's Island."

1886 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 471-480 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Government

In 1884 I was favoured by Dr. Woodward, F. R. S., F. G. S., with the inspection of a series of fossil remains from “Lord Howe’s Island,” which had been transmitted by the Government of New South Wales (Department of Mines) to the Department of Geology in the British Museum of Natural History. These fossils indicated a Saurian Reptile allied to the genus, characters of which are described and figured in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ for the years 1858, 1880, and 1881.

II.—A Contribution to the Tertiary Flora of Australia

1883 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Baron von Ettingshausen
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Flora Of Australia ◽  
South Wales

The series of fossil plants from the Tertiary strata of New South Wales and Tasmania, to which these remarks relate, were sent to Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., at the British Museum, for examination partly by Prof. Liversidge, of Sydney University, and by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., Government Geologist for New South Wales, whilst the remainder already formed a portion of the National Collection.

scholarly journals IX. Description of teeth of a large extinct (marsupial ?) genus, Sceparnodon, Ramsay

1884 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 245-248 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

The only known Mammals of Australia with rootless, ever-growing scalpriform incisors, in bodily size suitable for wielding those about to be described, are the Diprotodon , the Notherium , and the Phascolonus , all of which have become extinct. But the incisors of the known species of the above genera differ in shape from each other and, in a still more marked degree, from those of Sceparnodon ; nor do any such teeth from other and smaller Mammals match with the present Fossils. My first cognizance of this form of tooth was derived from casts, which were kindly transmitted to me in October, 1881, by Edward P. Ramsay, Esq., Curator of the Museum of Natural History, Sydney, New South Wales.

scholarly journals XIX. Pelvic characters of thylacoleo carnifex

1883 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 639-643 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

Since the communication of the 1st February, 1883, “On the Affinities of Thylacoleo,” I have received, through the favour of the Trustees of the Museum of Natural History, Sydney, and the care of the accomplished keeper, E. P Ramsay, Esq., F. L. S., a second consignment of the palaeontological results of his exploration of the Breccia Caverns of Wellington Valley, New South Wales. Besides additional confirmation of the dental, mandibular, antibrachial, ungual, and other osteal characters of Thylacoleo , these accessory specimens afford further evidence of the carnivorous modifications of parts of the skeleton. Of these a well-marked one is yielded by the pelvis (Plate 46, fig. 1).

John White A.M., M.D., F.LS. (c. 1756–1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales: a new biography of the messenger of the echidna and waratah

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. CHARLES NELSON
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Master Of Arts ◽  
The University

John White, Surgeon-General of New South Wales, is best remembered for his handsome book Journal of a voyage to new South Wales published in London during 1790. He was a native of County Fermanagh in northwestern Ireland. He became a naval surgeon and in this capacity was appointed to serve as surgeon on the First Fleet which left England for New South Wales (Australia) in 1787. While living in New South Wales, White adopted Nanberree, an aboriginal boy, and fathered a son by Rachel Turner, a convict, who later married Thomas Moore. John White returned to England in 1795, became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and was granted the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Arts by the University of St Andrews. White was married twice, and was survived by his second wife and his four children, including his illegitimate, Australian-born son, Captain Andrew Douglas White. Dr John White died in 1832 aged 75 and is buried in Worthing, Sussex, England.While serving as Surgeon-General at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, between 1788 and 1794 John White collected natural history specimens and assembled a series of paintings of plants and animals. After returning to England, White lent these paintings to botanists and zoologists, and permitted copies to be made. Thus, he contributed substantially to European knowledge of the indigenous flora and fauna of Australia.

IV. A Description of the anatomy of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus

1802 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Other ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of

The subjects from which the following description is taken, were sent from New South Wales, to Sir Joseph Banks, who very obligingly submitted them to my examination. These were two specimens preserved in spirit; one male, the other female. The male was rather larger than the female, and in every respect a much stronger animal; they had both arrived at their full growth, or nearly so, as the epiphyses were completely united to the bodies of the bones, which is not the case in growing animals. The natural history of this animal is at present very little known. Governor Hunter, who has lately returned from New South Wales, where he had opportunities of seeing them alive, has favoured me with the following particulars respecting them.

Preliminary Report on a Petrological Study of Ground-Edge Artefacts from North-Eastern New South Wales, Australia

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Binns ◽  
I. McBryde
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
History Department ◽  
University Museum

Petrological and chemical analyses of stone, bronze and iron implements are playing an increasingly important role in the study of prehistoric economies. Their contributions, long familiar to students of European prehistory, were recently discussed in a paper which also reviewed the evidence from Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia (Clark, 1965). Apart from some studies limited to stone artefacts from individual archaeological sites, these techniques have not previously been applied to material from Australian prehistory (Gutsche in McBryde, 1966; Branagan and Megaw, 1969). In this brief communication we present some of the results of a petrological analysis of ground-edge artefacts from north-eastern New South Wales.The widespread dispersal of stone for axe-making based on organized exploitation of definite quarry sites is well documented in the historical and anthropological literature for eastern Australia at the time of European settlement. Unfortunately few of these historical records are sufficiently detailed, so even for the recent past as well as for prehistory, techniques of petrological analysis may make vital contributions to our knowledge both of quarry sites in eastern Australia and of the distribution of their products. Our preliminary discussion here is based on an investigation of some 200 axes mainly taken from the archaeological collections in the History Department of the University of New England and various local museum and private collections, but also including axes from northern New South Wales in the Australian collections of the British Museum, the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Anthropological Museum of Aberdeen University.

II. On the affinities of thylacoleo

1883 ◽  
Vol 35 (224-226) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Lower Jaw ◽  
Natural Size ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Carnivorous Marsupial

Since the communication of the paper “On Thylacoleo,” in the “Philosophical Transactions” for 1871, further explorations of the caves and breccia-fissures in Wellington Valley, New South Wales, have been made, by a grant for that purpose from the Legislature of the Colony, and carried out by E. B. Ramsay, Esq., F. L. S., Curator of the Museum of Natural History, Sydney. The present paper treats of the fossils contributing to the further restoration of the great carnivorous Marsupial ( Thylacoleo carnifex , Ow.). They exemplify the entire dentition in situ of the upper and lower jaws of a nature individual: the bones of the fore-limb, of which those of the antibrachium and the ungual phalanges are described, are compared with those of other Marsupials, and of placental, especially feline, Carnivora . An entire lower jaw with the articular condyles adds to the grounds for determination of the habits and affinities of the extinct Marsupial. Figures of these fossils of the natural size accompany the paper.

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