My Dear Dr Haast: Transcriptions of Selected Letters from Robert Langley Holmes to Julius Haast Between 1864-65 and 1868-70

ISBN-10
1877480223
ISBN-13
9781877480225
Category
Geologists
Pages
53
Language
English
Published
2012
Authors
Rowan Burns, Simon Nathan, Robert Langley Holmes

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"The letters in this collection, selected as background material for a forthcoming biography of James Hector, focus on two episodes: the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition held at Dunedin in early 1865, which Hector was involved in ...

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