The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... large number of valued correspondents whose names are recorded in the following pages . This work has given me a great amount of pleasure in the prepara- tion , and I trust it will prove both interesting and useful to its readers ...
... large number of valued correspondents whose names are recorded in the following pages . This work has given me a great amount of pleasure in the prepara- tion , and I trust it will prove both interesting and useful to its readers ...
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... large island areas has never , to my knowledge , been fully studied anywhere . Isolated introductions have ... vast number of species , both of animals and plants , have found their way into the country , as it were , by chance . We do ...
... large island areas has never , to my knowledge , been fully studied anywhere . Isolated introductions have ... vast number of species , both of animals and plants , have found their way into the country , as it were , by chance . We do ...
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... vast amount of material has been gone through , and in consequence innumerable differences have been recognised , and a large number of species defined . Such , for example , are Ranunculus with 37 New Zealand species , Epilobium 28 ...
... vast amount of material has been gone through , and in consequence innumerable differences have been recognised , and a large number of species defined . Such , for example , are Ranunculus with 37 New Zealand species , Epilobium 28 ...
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... amount of stuff must have been carried ashore . Owing to the small size of the two ... large quantities of stores , which must have frequently contained seeds of ... number of immigrants , T. N. Z. 2 together with many cattle , sheep and ...
... amount of stuff must have been carried ashore . Owing to the small size of the two ... large quantities of stores , which must have frequently contained seeds of ... number of immigrants , T. N. Z. 2 together with many cattle , sheep and ...
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... number liberated . For a week or two they hung about the homestead , after which they were not seen for about two ... large , some of the old bucks weighing over 60 lbs . About 1870 , Sir George Grey introduced a number of species of ...
... number liberated . For a week or two they hung about the homestead , after which they were not seen for about two ... large , some of the old bucks weighing over 60 lbs . About 1870 , Sir George Grey introduced a number of species of ...
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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