Contents

Contents : preface; introduction; Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks; Ernst Dieffenbach; John Buchanan; Walter Mantell; Julius Haast and Ferndinand Hochstetter; Thomas Kirk and Thomas Cheeseman; James Hector; Frederick Hutton; Walter Buller; Alexander McKay; Andreas Reischek; GM Thomson; Leonard Cockayne; Charles Chilton; Herbert Guthrie-Smith; James Maclaurin; George Hudson; Ernest Rutherford; Peter Buck; Charles Cotton; Leslie Adkin; Theodore Rigg and Kathleen Curtis; Ernest Marsden; Francis Dry and Geoffrey Peren; Perrine Moncrieff; William Riddet; Muriel Bell; Bill Hayes; Lucy Moore and Lucy Cranwell; Harold Wellman; Frank Bateson and Albert Jones; Bill Pickering; Athol Rafter; Charles Fleming; Maurice Wilkins; Betty Batham; Joan Wiffen; Mont Liggins; Alan MacDiarmid; Joan Metge; Allan Wilson; Roy Kerr; David Crockett; Don Merton; Peter Barrett; Beatrice Tinsley; Dan Walls and Andrew Wilson; Dave Lowe; Paul Callaghan; Jeff Tallon; Peter Gluckman; Garth Cooper; John Buckleton; Cornel de Ronde; Richie Poulton; Lisa Matisoo-Smith; Ingrid Visser; Meto Leach; Nancy Bertler; Stephan Tauwhare; acknowledgements; abbreviations; glossary; further information; quote sources; image credits; index;