Research Notes

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 October 1979, Page 120

Research Notes

Associate Professor David Branagan of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Sydney has been granted financial assistance by the Board of the Australia-New Zealand Foundation to revisit New Zealand to continue work in the Library on the Journal of Samuel Stutchbury which he is editing for publication.

Dr Paul de Deckker, lecturer in sociology at the University of Auckland, is editing the manuscript ‘The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific’ written in the 1840 s by the Rev. George Pritchard (1796-1883). The book will be published by the University of Auckland Press in 1980.

The Hakluyt Society has announced the publication during 1980 of the “Resolution” Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. The Journal has been edited by Dr Michael E. Hoare, currently head of the Manuscripts Section. Thejournal will be issued as four volumes in the Society’s Ordinary Series and will be approximately 950 pages in length, with a general and a natural history index. Forster, the principal naturalist of James Cook’s second voyage, has included many original and previously unknown observations on birds, plants, fishes as well as notes on Maori, Melanesian, Marquesan, Society Island, Tongan and other Pacific Island societies and languages. The Journal was refound by Dr Hoare during his period in Germany as a Humboldt Foundation Fellow in 1970-1971. The editing has involved close cooperation with many well-known Cook scholars including Sir Charles Fleming FRS, Mr David Medway fls, Dr Peter Whitehead of the British Museum (Natural History) and Dr Lucy Moore of Lincoln, Canterbury.