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The Royal Society of New Zealand

Royal Society of New Zealand

On 5 March 1942, the Press reported that, The library of the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand is to be amalgamated with that of Canterbury University College... future members of the society will be able to borrow books from the combined collection, to be housed in the college library. Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23579, 5 March 1942.

The following year the Press also noted that the Society's journals had been placed on the shelves of the college library and that individual books had been catalogued and that all volumes bear the society's bookplate.

This bookplate states, This volume is part of the Library of the Royal Society of New Zealand Canterbury Branch. Founded in 1862 as the Philosophical Institution of Canterbury.

 

Noted below is a sample of Royal Society library held in the University of Canterbury Rare Books Collection.

  • Elements of conchology : including the fossil genera and the animals. Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791-1824. Paris : Printed by J. Smith, and sold by Treuttel and Wūrtz, London, 1822. Bib no: 1138488
  • Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy... /. Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. Bib no: 423141
  • British Confervæ, or, Colored figures and descriptions of the British plants referred by botanists to the genus Conferva. Dillwyn, L. W. (Lewis Weston), 1778-1855. London : Printed and sold by W. Phillips ..., [1802]-1809. Bib no: 1119601
  • Culture and anarchy : an essay in political and social criticism /. Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. London : Smith, Elder, 1869. Bib no: 125372
  • The birds of Tierra del Fuego. Crawshay, Richard. London : B. Quaritch, 1907. Bib no: 721981 A new system of geology : in which the great revolutions of the earth and animated nature are reconciled at once to modern science and sacred history. Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857. London : Longman, 1829. Bib no: 1147528
  • Essay on the theory of the earth /. Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832. Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1817. Bib no: 145113
  • Hortus anglicus, or,The modern English garden : containing a familiar description of all the plants which are cultivated in the climate of Great Britain, either for use or ornament, and of a selection from the established favourites of the stove and green-house ; arranged according to the system of Linnaeus ; with remarks on the properties of the more valuable species. Clarke, Stephen Reynolds. London : Printed for F.C. & J. Rivington, 62 st. Paul's Churh Yard, and 3 Waterloo-Place, Pall Mall, 1822. Bib no: 2114054
  • Catalogue of the library of the Geological Society of London. Geological Society of London. Library. Bib no: 1156117
  • Ancient Egypt : her monuments, hieroglyphics, history and archæology, and other subjects connected with hieroglyphical literature. Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857. Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson ; London : James Madden, [1850] Bib no: 1817282
  • Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, des crustaces et des insectes : ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle redige par C.S. Sonnini . Latreille, P. A. (Pierre Andre), 1762-1833. Paris : F. Dufart, an x-an xiii, [1802-1805] Bib no: 382652
  • Hortus Upsaliensis, exhibens platas exoticas horto Upsaliensis academiae a sese illatas, ab anno 1742, in annum 1748 etc.... v. 1,. Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778. Stockholm : Laurentius Salvius, 1748. Bib no: 484182
  • Scepticism in geology and the reasons for it : an assemblage of facts from nature opposed to the theory of "causes now in action," and refuting it. Murray, John, 1808-1892. London : John Murray, 1878. Bib no: 1125657
  • Die Arachniden /. Hahn, Carl Wilhelm, 1786-1836. Nurnberg : In der C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, 1831-1848. Bib no: 379442 The snakes of Australia : an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species. Krefft, Gerard, 1830-1881. Sydney [N.S.W.] : T. Richards, Government Printer, 1869. Bib no: 1789383
  • The Malay Archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913. London : Macmillan, 1880. Bib no: 1116045
  • The families of plants, with their natural characters, according to the number, figure, situation, and proportion of all the parts of fructification /. Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778. Lichfield : Printed by John Jackson, 1787. Bib no: 436156
  • Odontography, or, A treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth : their physiological relations, mode of development, and microscopic structure, in the vertebrate animals. Owen, Richard, 1804-1892. London : H. Baillière, 1840-1845. Bib no: 604922
  • An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations /. Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. London : Printed by T.R. for J. Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, 1674. Bib no: 416789
  • Musci exotici : containing figures and descriptions of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects /. Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865. London : Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818-1820. Bib no: 381063
  • An introduction to entomology, or, Elements of the natural history of insects : with plates /. Kirby, William, 1759-1850. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818-1826. Bib no: 381834
  • Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. Lawrence, William, Sir, 1783-1867. London : Callow, 1819. Bib no: 1794161
  • The British Desmidie /. Ralfs, John, 1807-1890. London : Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Bib no: 146419
  • Scientific memoirs, selected from the transactions of foreign academies of science and learned societies, and from foreign journals. Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858. London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837-52. Bib no: 1056528
  • Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction /. Rothschild, Walter, 1868-1937. London : Hutchinson, 1907. Bib no: 139577
  • Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery : including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool. Scoresby, William, 1789-1857. Edinburgh : Constable, 1823. Bib no: 423352
  • Zoology of the Antarctic voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 : under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. [London : E.W. Janson, 1844-1875] Bib no: 1325552
  • The naturalist in Australia. Saville-Kent, William, 1845-1908. London : Chapman & Hall, 1897. Bib no: 1138492 Supplementum Florae lapponicae. Wahlenberg, Georgius, 1780-1851. Christianiæe, typis Borgianis et Gröndahliansis, 1826. Bib no: 2114429
  • The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology. Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1835-1859. Bib no: 1326169
  • The history of the pianoforte . Brinsmead, Edgar, 1847 or 8-1907. London : Simpkin, Marshall, 1889. Bib no: 847207
  • Opera universa /. Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689. Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Johannem a Kerchem, 1726. Bib no: 359254
  • The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology, and classification of insects, including the crustacea and arachnida /. Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893. London : Wm.S. Orr, 1838. Bib no: 131626
  • The natural history of ants. Huber, P. (Pierre), 1777-1840. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Bib no: 1133702