The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... growing up in this country is living under conditions which are largely different from those which prevailed when the first settlers colonised the islands . The surroundings at present are partly determined by the primitive condi- tions ...
... growing up in this country is living under conditions which are largely different from those which prevailed when the first settlers colonised the islands . The surroundings at present are partly determined by the primitive condi- tions ...
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... grown up a dense covering of brushwood and fern , which completely obliterated all sign of the old clearing , and only the fact that its position was recorded and described enabled the spot to be identified . In view of the struggle ...
... grown up a dense covering of brushwood and fern , which completely obliterated all sign of the old clearing , and only the fact that its position was recorded and described enabled the spot to be identified . In view of the struggle ...
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... grown . " These southern natives had not seen pigs up to the time of Edwardson's visit ; so he gave them some . In 1826 the schooner ' Sally , ' with a large number of immigrants , T. N. Z. 2 together with many cattle , sheep and other ...
... grown . " These southern natives had not seen pigs up to the time of Edwardson's visit ; so he gave them some . In 1826 the schooner ' Sally , ' with a large number of immigrants , T. N. Z. 2 together with many cattle , sheep and other ...
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... grown , but the place was abandoned soon after on account of rats , difficulties of shipment , and fires . In 1842 Captain Wm Mein Smith , chief surveyor of the Wellington Land Company , visited the south - east of Otago , and writes of ...
... grown , but the place was abandoned soon after on account of rats , difficulties of shipment , and fires . In 1842 Captain Wm Mein Smith , chief surveyor of the Wellington Land Company , visited the south - east of Otago , and writes of ...
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... grow . No biological considerations ever disturbed their dreams , nor indeed did they ever enter into their calculations . I have been on the council of an acclimatisation society , and I know the enthusiasm , unalloyed by scientific ...
... grow . No biological considerations ever disturbed their dreams , nor indeed did they ever enter into their calculations . I have been on the council of an acclimatisation society , and I know the enthusiasm , unalloyed by scientific ...
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abundant Acclimatisation Society Agricultural Department animals appear Ashburton attacked Auckland district Auckland Society introduced Australia Bay of Islands beetle birds breeding brown trout bush Canterbury Society received Chatham Islands Christchurch common cultivated deer destroyed distributed dogs Dunedin early eggs Family fish flowers fruit further record garden escape hatched Hatchery Hawke's Bay Hokitika Hooker's list imported increase insect Invercargill Lake land large number larvæ Linn Manual Maori Maskell moth native naturalised Nelson Society North Island occurring opossums Otago Society pest pheasants Philpott pigs plants ponds probably Queen Charlotte Sound rabbits rats recorded by Kirk recorded in Hooker's reported River salmon says season seeds seen sheep shipment shipped Society liberated South Southland Southland Society sparrows spawning species specimens spread starlings Stewart Island stoats streams taken Taranaki Tasmania trees W. W. Smith Waikato Waitaki Wanganui waste places weasels weed Wellington Society Whangarei wild young Zealand