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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.
informed me that there was an aboriginal axe quarry on his property, and in May, 1940, I was able to visit ... Powell, who was absent at the time of my visit. One of his employees, Mr. ... 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 ...
1982 Eldon E. Ball Eldon E. Ball. Long Island, Papua New Guinea: European exploration and recorded contracts to the end of the Pacific War. Records of the Australian Museum 34: 447-461.
but the first reliable description of villages and the first contact with the people date from the visits ... Members of the German Sl1dsee Expedition visited the village of Soraga in 1909 and collected names which ... provide a useful fixed point in the genealogies of the islanders. ... 1930's the ornithologist, William Coultas, spent several months on the island and there were periodic visits ...
1959 J. W. Evans J. W. Evans. The Peloridiidae of Lord Howe Island (Homoptera, Coleorrhyncha). Records of the Australian Museum 25: 57-62.
Although during the intervening years several entomologists have visited the island, so far as is known ... Because of their particular interest and because of their significance from the point of view of zoogeography ... , a visit was paid to the island during March, 1959, specially to search for these insects. ...
1953 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The snake-woman, Jiningbirna. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 105-110.
the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract This site was recorded in 1948, when I visited ... snake-woman, Jiningbirna with her four children, came up out of a waterhole, Jininga-madja, on McComb's Point ...
1899 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis". Australian Museum Memoir 4: 3-128.
The only observations made in our coastal waters for scientific purposes have resulted from the visits ... It is not my purpose to discuss this aspect of the question, but I would pertinently point out that we ...
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 ...
2021 Susan M. Davies; Michael Quinnell Susan M. Davies; Michael Quinnell. Up close and personal: James Edge-Partington in Australia in 1897. 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: 169-182.
Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract British ethnologist, collector and author, James Edge-Partington visited ... This paper outlines Edge-Partington’s 1879–1881 visit before focusing on his 1897 trip which included ... visits to five public museums and one university museum and produced more than 600 sketches of cultural ... The paper documents Edge-Partington’s visit to the Queensland Museum where he spent most of his time ...
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 ...
1993 Jim Specht Jim Specht. Additional evidence for pre-1788 visits by Pacific Islanders to Norfolk Island, south-west Pacific. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 17: 145-157.
Additional evidence for pre-1788 visits by Pacific Islanders to Norfolk Island, south-west Pacific. ... papers was a report of stone tools on Norfolk Island which he interpreted as evidence for pre-British visits ... paper describes further finds and concludes that the evidence is firmly in favour of Pacific Islanders visiting ... These visits originated in the East Polynesian area, possibly the Society or Cook Islands and New Zealand ...
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 ...
1929 T. Hodge-Smith T. Hodge-Smith. The occurrence of Zeolites at Kyogle, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 279-290.
Woolnough visited the district in 1923 that it was known that this quarry was a prolific producer of ... Friend, visited the quarry with a view to collecting and examining the occurrence. ... The visit was made possible by the generosity of Mr. ...
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. ...
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. ...
1893 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Geological and ethnological observations made in the valley of the Wollondilly River, at its junction with the Nattai River, counties Camden and Westmoreland. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 46-54.
Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The following observations were made during a short visit ... Wollondilly and Nattai Rivers, to further examine some interesting phenomena noticed during a previous visit ...
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 ...
1931 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 201-235.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Each of these discussions gathers current knowledge, explores points of consensus and disagreement, and ...
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 ...
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 ... is a projecting rugged nob, connected to the main mass by a neck which is almost penetrated at one point ...
1901 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. Description of a new hermit crab (Calcinus imperialis), from Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 48-51.
Numerous examples were obtained during the visit of Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr., Mr. J. A. ... During the visit of the "Thetis" to Lord Howe Island in March, 1898, Messrs. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
2022 Dion Hobcroft Dion Hobcroft. The mammals of Kumul Lodge, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, with notes on Calaby’s Pademelon Thylogale calabyi. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 37: 1-8.
Australian Museum (online) Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract Over a period of 14 years (2006–2019) 15 visits ...
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 ...
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 ...
1897 Alfred J. North Alfred J. North. On a new sub-species of Psophodes crepitans. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 13-.
the specimens collected at Boar Pocket at wide intervals are alike, I take the present opportunity of pointing ...
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.
From various vantage points above the rock-shelter the aborigines had a wide view of the lowlands towards ...
1897 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. A spear with incised ornament from Angeldool, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 6-7.
nine inches long and two and a-half inches in its greatest circumference, tapering at both ends to a point ...
1896 F. A. A. Skuse F. A. A. Skuse. Stephanocircus, Sk.: a rejoinder. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 110-.
genus in his table of the genera of the Pulicidae as he evidently first wished to "verify all the points ...
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 ...
1996 Kate Khan Kate Khan. Catalogue of the Roth Collection of Aboriginal artefacts from north Queensland. Volume 2. Items collected from Cairns, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Cape Melville, Cardwell, Clump Point, Coen, Cooktown, Dunk Island, False Cape, Flinders Island, Hambledon, H. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 12: 1-189.
Items collected from Cairns, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Cape Melville, Cardwell, Clump Point, Coen, ...
1983 Erik Dahl Erik Dahl. Alternatives in malacostracan evolution. Australian Museum Memoir 18: 1-5.
The unsatisfactory status of the diagnosis of the superorder Peracarida is pointed out and a revision ...
1893 J. Douglas Ogilby J. Douglas Ogilby. Description of a new shark from the Tasmanian coast. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 62-63.
of the snout and the spiracle: snout short and obtuse, the distance between its tip and the nearest point ...
1956 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. Rock engravings of the Sydney-Hawkesbury District. Part 1: Flat Rocks Ridge: a Daruk ceremonial ground. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 37-58.
He visited the site (Group 6) during his work as a surveyor and had it reserved as a national monument ... I first visited Flat Rocks in 1947 with Mr. ...
2011 Richard Fullagar Richard Fullagar. Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part VIII. Burins, bones and base camps: a re-analysis of Aire Shelter 2, Glenaire, southern Victoria. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23: 103-131.
base camp, the site is an infrequently used locale associated with hunting and the manufacture of bone points ...
2021 Rhys Richards; Peter J. Matthews Rhys Richards; Peter J. Matthews. Barkcloth from the Solomon Islands in the George Brown Collection. 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: 245-258.
knowledge of their material foundations.Over three decades, from 1879 to 1911, the missionary George Brown visited ...
2004 Barry Hutchins; Sue Morrison Barry Hutchins; Sue Morrison. Five new fish species of the genus Alabes (Gobiesocidae: Cheilobranchinae). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 147-158.
rudimentary pelvic fin, whereas the latter shows some similarities to A. parvula but possesses a more pointed ...
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 ...
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 ...
1946 Harold O. Fletcher Harold O. Fletcher. New Lamellibranchia from the Upper Permian of Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 395-405.
resemblance to Permian shells recently described from Madagascar by Astre (1934) and also have many points ...
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 ...
1964 Gilbert P. Whitley Gilbert P. Whitley. Fishes from the Coral Sea and the Swain Reefs. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 145-195.
and reefs in or near the Coral Sea to the east of Queensland are very remote and few zoologists have visited ... are described or figured in this paper in association with the 577 fishes obtained during the brief visit ...