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Lower Hutt: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some very minor light shelf wear and an ownership stamp. James Hector was the dominant personality in the small nineteenth-century scientific community in New Zealand. As the first scientist employed by the government, he was the founder of the Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Colonial Museum (now Te Papa), New Zealand Institute (now Royal Society of New Zealand) and the Colonial Botanic Garden (now Wellington Botanic Garden), as well as being a trusted government advisor. Whenever a tricky technical problem arose, the first question was often, 'What does Dr Hector think?' Among his many achievements, Hector was the first to recognise and describe Hector's dolphin, to introduce and spread seeds of radiata pine and macrocarpa around New Zealand, and to standardise New Zealand time. He set up a national earthquake-recording system, the forerunner of…
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James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader Paperback - 2015
by Nathan, Simon
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- Title James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader
- Author Nathan, Simon
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- Edition 1st Edition 1st
- Language ENG
- Publisher Geoscience Society of New Zealand, Lower Hutt, NZ
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9781877480461
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Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. Very Good +. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. First Edition. Signed by Simon Nathan with brief inscription to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 264 pp. Photographs and illustrations throughout, many color. Photo-illustrated card covers with French flaps. Covers lightly rubbed along edges with faint bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription to half title and the business card of a colleague mounted to rear of front cover, mostly obscured by flap, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
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