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1911 James Ritchie James Ritchie. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Hydrozoa (Hydroid Zoophytes and Stylasterina). Australian Museum Memoir 4: 807-869.
to establish for them eight new species, and varieties, distributed amongst the genera Lictorella (1 ... sp.), Cryptolaria, (1 sp. and 2 vars.), a genus not hitherto known from the Australian area, Sertularella ... (1 sp. and 1 var.), Halicornaria (1 sp.), and Cladocarpus (?) ... (1 sp.), also recorded for the first time from Australia. ...
1897 T. Cooksey T. Cooksey. The Nocoleche Meteorite, with catalogue and bibliography of Australian meteorites. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 51-62.
Its external form is of a pronouncedly rugged character, and the iron is raised into points and ridges ... At B (Fig. 1) is a projecting rugged nob, connected to the main mass by a neck which is almost penetrated ... at one point by a deep hole, very probably at one time containing a nodule of troilite. ...
2023 Alex D. Greenwood; David E. Alquezar-Planas; Philippa A. McKay; Baptiste Mulot; Geoffrey W. Pye; Amy Robbins; Cora L. Singleton; Rachael E. Tarlinton; Damien P. Higgins Alex D. Greenwood; David E. Alquezar-Planas; Philippa A. McKay; Baptiste Mulot; Geoffrey W. Pye; Amy Robbins; Cora L. Singleton; Rachael E. Tarlinton; Damien P. Higgins. Synthesis of discussions of the Second Koala Retrovirus Workshop, 2021. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 38: 53-82.
days of discussions were based on workshop presentations and comprise: KoRV foundational science (Day 1) ... Each of these discussions gathers current knowledge, explores points of consensus and disagreement, and ...
1931 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 201-235.
No. 1 Author T. ... Later some of the more interesting points may be detailed, but as the continuous search is still productive ... One point may be emphasized, however, and that is that the tropical forms appear to show more relationship ...
1941 Elsie Bramwell Elsie Bramwell. Some Australian incised stones. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 17-18.
Four (PI. iii, figs. 1 to 4) are pieces of sandstone of varied colouring, and scored across with parallel ... or converging incisions, such as might be made in sharpening pointed implements. ... A yellow sandstone artifact (PI. iii, fig. 1), scored on three surfaces by 10, 5 and 15 lines respectively ...
1948 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The Lapstone Creek excavation: two culture periods revealed in eastern New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 1-34.
Abstract This paper is an account of the results of the excavation of a rock-shelter situated (Figure 1) ... From various vantage points above the rock-shelter the aborigines had a wide view of the lowlands towards ...
1902 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. Notes on Lendenfeld’s types described in the catalogue of sponges in the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 274-288.
Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract A few instances will serve to illustrate this point ... are two specimens labelled Placochalina pedunculata, var. mollis these upon examination proved to be (1) ...
1931 H. Leighton Kesteven H. Leighton Kesteven. The evolution of the Anamniota. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 167-200.
Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The Elasmobranch Age. 1. ... Contents: 1. The Elasmobranchs and the Chondrostei. 2. ... earlier days of morphology, we should remember that increase in our knowledge may greatly alter our point ...
1964 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The archaeology of the Capertree Valley, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 197-246.
Norcross dug a test hole in the floor of two sites, 1 and 3 in this paper, which produced Bondi points ...
1916 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Occasional notes. No. I. Antiquity of man in Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 31-32.
Two other points, however, were unknown to me at the time I wrote. ... these were photographic reproductions (thirteen plates), the remainder lithographs, numbered Plates 1 ...
2011 Peter Hiscock Peter Hiscock. Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part VI. Point production at Jimede 2, Western Arnhem Land. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23: 73-82.
Point production at Jimede 2, Western Arnhem Land Author Peter Hiscock Year 2011 Journal Technical Reports ... The Australian Museum Abstract Inferred production patterns and morphological variation in bifacial points ... assemblage excavated by Carmel Schrire in Kakadu provides the basis for re-describing the nature of point ...
1943 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. An analysis of the knapped implements from eight Elouera industry stations on the South Coast of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 127-153.
collection from the eight most important kitchen-middens along the south coast of New South Wales (Fig. 1) ... example, .cores and blocks are well represented from Port Kembla, elouera from Bellambi, and bondi points ...
1947 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. An analysis of the large stone implements from five workshops on the north coast of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 411-430.
Australian Museum Abstract The 445 implements dealt with in this study are from aboriginal workshops at Point ... Plomer, Tacking Point beach, Dark Point, Anna Bay and Morna Point, on the lower north coast of New South ... Some of the specimens from Dark Point, Anna Bay and Morna Point were collected by the late W. W. ... Barrett, Miss Lesley Hall and the author, while those from Point Plomer were collected during a week ...
2023 Amber K. Gillett Amber K. Gillett. Defining putative koala retrovirus-associated disease in koalas. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 38: 23-29.
Multiple conditions are usually present at once and koalas invariably die despite treatment. ...
1954 E. F. Riek E. F. Riek. A re-examination of the Upper Tertiary mayflies described by Etheridge and Olliff from the Vegetable Creek Tin-field. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 159-160.
If the water was only of a semi-permanent nature the nymphs would die as the mud dried up, the Leptophlebiidae ... crawling around and dying outstretched, the Baetidae, with their shrimp-like springing, tending to be ...
2023 Tetsuya Imanishi Tetsuya Imanishi. Putative koala retrovirus-associated diseases in the Japanese captive koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) population. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 38: 45-47.
When combined with stunted joey growth, one-third of the koalas died within a year of birth. ...
1926 Gilbert P. Whitley Gilbert P. Whitley. Bibliography of James Douglas Ogilby. Records of the Australian Museum 15: 149-156.
Australian Museum Abstract James Douglas Ogilby was born at Belfast, Ireland, on 16th February, 1853, and died ... Ogilby’s wife, an Irish lady, died in Sydney in 1894. There was no issue. ...
2014 Maribeth V. Eiden Maribeth V. Eiden. A novel exogenous retrovirus isolated from koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) with malignant neoplasias in a United States zoo. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 3-4.
All koalas that died from lymphoma were KoRV-B positive as were the dead joeys ejected from the pouch ...
1920 Allan R. McCulloch Allan R. McCulloch. Studies in Australian fishes. No. 6. With a description of a new Girellops from Kermadec Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 13: 41-72.
its length; the snout and lateral margins are broadly rounded, but the posterior pectoral angles are pointed ... Jaws undulous; teeth small and tessellate, with flattened points directed backwards; a series of larger ... pointed ones on each side of the upper jaw. ...
1929 Frank A. McNeill Frank A. McNeill. Orbituary Thomas Whitelegge, 1850–1927. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 265-277.
One year later his father died and his son's miserable pittance of two shillings and sixpence per week ...
1911 Austin Hobart Clark Austin Hobart Clark. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, the Recent Crinoids of Australia. Australian Museum Memoir 4: 705-804.
mostly from Sydney, together with the collection made by the German ship "Gazelle" at various points ... collections of the Australian Museum, a study which has assisted in elucidating it number of hitherto obscure points ...
1917 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Obituary—Edward Pierson Ramsay, LL.D. Curator, 22nd September, 1874 to 31st December, 1894. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 205-217.
Ramsay was the third son of David Ramsay, M.D., the owner of the Dobroyd Estate, Dobroyd Point, Long ... Mark's Collegiate School, first at Darling Point and later at Macquarie Fields, presided over by the ...
2021 Erna Lilje; Jude Philp Erna Lilje; Jude Philp. The dancing trees: objects, facts and ideas in museums. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 34: 183-194.
these three objects to understand the ways that an object changes physically and symbolically from the point ...
2002 Geoff Williams Geoff Williams. A taxonomic and biogeographic review of the invertebrates of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Area, and adjacent regions. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 16: 1-208.
Examples occur extensively within the taxa listed in Appendix 1 and are discussed in the Overview. ... Limestone outcrops are important focal points of terrestrial snail endemism and diversity. ...
1945 E. C. Pope E. C. Pope. A simplified key to the sessile barnacles found on the rocks, boats, wharf piles and other installations in Port Jackson and adjacent waters. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 351-372.
bottoms of ships, barnacle shells do not necessarily drop off or decay away once the organism in them dies ...
1937 K. W. Verhoeff K. W. Verhoeff. Ueber einige neue Diplopoden aus Australien [On some new Diplopoden from Australia]. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 133-149.
Verhoeff Year 1937 Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract Die ...
1891 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. On the organism discolouring the waters of Port Jackson. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 144-147.
any dead ones, nor could I gain any information of any having been seen floating about in a dead or dying ...
2010 B. J. Gill B. J. Gill. Regional comparisons of the thickness of moa eggshell fragments (Aves: Dinornithiformes). In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, ed. W.E. Boles and T.H. Worthy. Records of the Australian Museum 62: 115-122.
At both Puketitiri and Castle Point there were broadly unimodal distributions of thin to medium-thickness ... didiformis, and the slightly smaller P. geranoides, and averages thicker with a broader range than at Castle Point ...
2020 Sally Brockwell; Ken Aplin Sally Brockwell; Ken Aplin. Fauna on the floodplains: late Holocene culture and landscape on the sub-coastal plains of northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 72: 225-236.
Although the two wetland systems appear similar, and extractive technology in the form of bone points ...
1928 Lesley D. Hall Lesley D. Hall. Some Aboriginal flakes from Morna Point, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 16: 254-280.
Some Aboriginal flakes from Morna Point, New South Wales Author Lesley D. ...
1993 P. J. F. Davie P. J. F. Davie. A new genus of Macrophthalmine Crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 45: 5-9.
Enigmaplax is separable from Macrophthalmus by its exceptionally wide front and the pointed not spooned ...
1941 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. An axe quarry at Moor Creek, Tamworth District, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 19-20.
At several points along this ridge are outcrops of basalt, consisting of weathered columnar slabs. ... The stream-like outcrop is broken at several points where there are depressions in the mass of stones ...
1961 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The rock-engravings of Depuch Island, north-west Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 121-148.
(Peron and Freycinet, 1824) in 1801 in honour of Louis Depuch, mineralogist of the expedition, who died ...
2021 Pip Rath; Nina Kononenko Pip Rath; Nina Kononenko. Negotiating social identity through material practices with stone. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 34: 107-118.
characterisation studies of the region’s obsidian sources indicate that the source of Kutau-Bao dominated to the point ...
2014 Jeffrey D. Lifson Jeffrey D. Lifson. Prevention and treatment of koala retrovirus (KoRV) infection: lessons from studies of AIDS viruses in nonhuman primate models. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 65-69.
medications in non-human primate (NHP) models of HIV infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) points ...
2023 Russell Cox; Natalie A. Tees Russell Cox; Natalie A. Tees. A remarkable new species of scuttle fly and first record of Microselia Schmitz (Diptera: Phoridae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 45-50.
With the previously described species occurring in the Afrotropical (6), Neotropical (1), Palaearctic ... (7), Nearctic (1) regions (Systema Dipterorum, 2022). ...
2023 James A. Blake James A. Blake. New species of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from slope and abyssal depths off eastern Australia. In RV Investigator—Abyssal Annelida, ed. E. K. Kupriyanova and L. M. Gunton. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 271-298.
The new species of Scalibregmatidae are in the genera Asclerocheilus (1), Axiokebuita (1), Oligobregma ... (4), and Pseudoscalibregma (1). ...
1992 Anthony G. Gill; D. J. Woodland Anthony G. Gill; D. J. Woodland. Description of a new dottyback of the genus Pseudochromis (Pisces: Pseudochromidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 247-251.
series 34 to 36, anterior lateral line scales 28 to 30, circumpeduncular scales 16, and caudal fin pointed ...
1940 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The bone point, known as muduk, in eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 313-319.
The bone point, known as muduk, in eastern Australia Author Frederick D. ...
1931 J. Roy Kinghorn J. Roy Kinghorn. Herpetological notes. No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 267-269.
Snout prominent, shovel-shaped, obtusely pointed from above, lateral edges very sharp. ...
1905 Charles Hedley Charles Hedley. Mollusca from one hundred and eleven fathoms, east of Cape Byron, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 41-54.
the dredge in 111 fathoms, at twelve and a half miles due east of Cape Byron, itself the easternmost point ...
1959 J. W. Evans J. W. Evans. The Peloridiidae of Lord Howe Island (Homoptera, Coleorrhyncha). Records of the Australian Museum 25: 57-62.
Because of their particular interest and because of their significance from the point of view of zoogeography ...
1982 Allen E. Greer Allen E. Greer. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 34: 549-573.
Abstract Leiolopisma baudini n. sp. is described on the basis of a single specimen from the vicinity of Point ...
1930 Anthony Musgrave Anthony Musgrave. Contribution to the knowledge of Australian Hemiptera. No. II. A revision of the subfamily Graphosomatinae (family Pentatomidae). Records of the Australian Museum 17: 317-342.
subfamily status, and placed it as a tenth tribe of the subfamily Pentatominae, the Graphosomini, and pointed ...
1906 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Studies in Australian sharks. No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 226-229.
Ramsay and Ogilby, however, draw attention to these features as providing recognisable points whereby ...
1905 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. The breeding habits of the Paradise Fish, (Polyacanthus opercularis, Linaeus). Records of the Australian Museum 6: 1-4.
breeding very freely with me, but as its life history is well known I do not propose to do more than point ...
2023 Abdul Rahim Azman Abdul Rahim Azman. Description of Stenothoe lowryi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Stenothoidae), from the Straits of Malacca, Malaysia. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 371-379.
However, S. gallensis and S. lowryi sp. nov. have shown slight differences by the latter in having: 1) ... with only one robust seta on medial margin, and; 3) uropod 3 article 2 distinctly longer than article 1, ...
1937 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Rediscovery of Voluta brazieri Cox. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 128-129.
years later the unique type passed into the collection of the British Museum, and Smith wrote a note pointing ... additions to our local faunula, travelled to Forster, near Cape Hawke, and there secured many species from Point ...
1907 R. Etheridge; T. Whitelegge R. Etheridge; T. Whitelegge. Aboriginal workshops on the coast of New South Wales, and their contents. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 233-250.
for generations the blacks of the Port Jackson District must have manufactured chips, splinters and points ...
1911 Hedley L. Coleman Hedley L. Coleman. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, supplement to Echinodermata. Australian Museum Memoir 4: 699-701.
He therefore wrote to the Curator of this Museum pointing out that the specimens in question really constituted ...