Canterbury Museum
(Organisation)
Mentioned in
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life & Work
- Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations
- [title page]
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chapter III. The Canterbury Museum and Geological Explorations from 1868 to 1876
- Building Stones, 1864
- Geological Survey of the Christchurch-Lyttelton Railway Tunnel
- First Excavations for Moa Bones, in Glenmark, 1866
- Exploration of the Head Waters of the Waimakariri, 1867
- A Visit to Glenmark, and Heavy Floods, End of July and Beginning of August, 1867
- Chapter II. Orographical Features
- Crystalline Metamorphic Formation East of the Central Chain
- Texture of Rocks and Position of Strata
- Igneous Rocks
- Mineral Veins
- Sequence and Character of Rocks, Position of Strata, Fossil Contents
- (A) First Appearance of Man in this Island
- (B) The Dinornithidæ or Moa
- (C) Occurrence of Moa-Bones and time of Extinction of the Dinornithidæ
- (D) Glenmark
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Illustrated Guide to Christchurch and Neighbourhood
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- Letters and Art in New Zealand
- New Zealanders and Science
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- The Women of New Zealand
Image Gallery
.jpg "Skeleton of Aptornis otidiformis Owen in the Canterbury Museum")
Searching
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Canterbury Museum":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.