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  • Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1910 [Important papers – the whole of “The Minerals of Tasmania (Updated) W.F. Pettard and various papers by Noetling of Aboriginal interest]

    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1910 [Important papers – the whole of “The Minerals of Tasmania (Updated) W.F. Pettard and various papers by Noetling of Aboriginal interest]

    Printed at the “Examiner” Launceston, one of the more substantial volumes.

    W.F. Pettard of Launceston had published the “Minerals of Tasmania” in the 1890. Here we have 223 pages devoted to his update published one year before his death. His collection of minerals was handed over to the Society.

    Further papers of special interest by Fritz Noetling – The Antiquity of Man in Tasmania – interesting extrapolative maps of Tasmania with the Ocean receded various depths and the resultant connection to the mainland. More on Tronatta by Noetling [see 1909 edition]; the food of the Aborigines and their language of food.

    Ritz presenting on the Rev Norman vocabulary studies is another good contribution to the history of Aboriginal language.

    Original soft wrappers, 409 pages, well illustrated from scientific sketches, images from photographs, tables, charts etc – some fold out.

    Noetling was a German born mining engineer and at this stage was an Officer of the Society. He has previously worked in India and produced a similar body of work there. His large collection of Tasmanian Tronattas is held by the Liepzig museum. Unfortunately, after the outbreak of WWI he was interned and after the war sent back to Germany.

    Special papers of Aboriginal interest and the republication of Pettard’s Minerals.

    $120.00

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  • Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1909 [Important papers on Aboriginal Language and Aboriginal Tools – Tronattas]

    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1909 [Important papers on Aboriginal Language and Aboriginal Tools – Tronattas]

    Printed at the “Examiner” Launceston this is a set of papers of special interest as they include papers by Fritz Noetling “A Peculiar Group of Tronattas”, “Rocks used in the Manufacture of of Tronattas” and “Notes on the Names given to Minerals and Rocks by the Aborigines of Tasmania” – and, by Hermann Ritz “The Speech of the Tasmanian Aborigines”.

    There are other paper by the then prolific Noetling regarding the use of Red Ochre, glacial bed at Wynyard. Others present on botany and botanist, fossil trees, geology, the anatomy of Megapodes.

    Original soft wrappers, 199 pages, nicely illustrated from scientific sketches, early photographs, tables etc – some fold out. Very good condition.

    Noetling was a German born mining engineer and at this stage was an Officer of the Society. He has previously worked in India and produced a similar body of work there. His large collection of Tasmanian Tronattas is held by the Liepzig museum. Unfortunately, after the outbreak of WWI he was interned and after the war sent back to Germany.

    Ritz was Swiss and taught foreign languages in Hobart. His paper could well be of very special interest as it focuses on the sounding of the Tasmanian Aboriginal language not just the word list … pretty interesting we believe.

    Special papers of Aboriginal interest – well wroth preserving.

    $90.00

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  • Fossil Fern – Lune River Tasmania – Early Jurassic Forest circa 182 million years old.

    Fossil Fern – Lune River Tasmania – Early Jurassic Forest circa 182 million years old.

    A nice slice of petrified tree fern from the Lune River area deep in the southern reached of Tasmania.

    The dating of the examples in this location to the middle of the early Jurassic Period (182 Ma) was by isotopic measurements on zircons found in the volcanic sandstone hosting the fossils (Bromfield et al 2007). Also refer the excellent guide by P. Manchester.

    Weighing 70gm and 16cm by 5cm.

    This region is the area of the world where these plants developed. Twelve tree paratypes (arborescent) ferns and one bracken-like (rhizomatous) fern have been studied in the region. All of the tree ferns belong to the genus Osmundacaulis. This example shows clear and tight trachioles

    These plants evolved in this region, the Australian portion of Pangea, all that time ago. Gradually they have spread elsewhere and appear in North-west USA … examples were only discovered in Eurasia in the year 2000.

    Nice part section of a fossil tree fern from Jurassic Tasmania .

    $60.00

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  • Chrysocolla [Copper Silcate] – Kumarina – Western Australia

    Chrysocolla [Copper Silcate] – Kumarina – Western Australia

    Chrysocolla, such a beautiful colouring. A hydrated copper silicate from the oxidation zone around copper deposits. Likely from the Peak Hill’s region Kumarina copper mine which closed down in the 1970’s.

    A beautifully example 8.0cm by 6.5cm, 2.0cm deep, weighing 130.0gm

    Chrysolcolla a nice Western Australian example

    $30.00

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  • Queensland Mineral – Rain Forest Jasper [Spherulitic Rhyolite] from the Mount Hay Volcano

    Queensland Mineral – Rain Forest Jasper [Spherulitic Rhyolite] from the Mount Hay Volcano

    Mount Hay is to the west of Rockhampton in Queensland. It is an extinct volcano and it was the volcanic environment that gave rise to this unique form of rhyolite. It is called rainforest jasper because of the rainforest like colour palette.

    The underlying rock form is high in silicon and the long cooling process from the volcanic activity allowed for numerous inclusions of quartz, chalcedony etc.

    A sizeable example 14.0cm by 9.0cm, 1.0cm deep, weighing 390gm

    Striking Mount Hay Jasper – a nice piece

    $50.00

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  • Environmental Change in the Sub-Antarctic -Proceedings of the Second International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic – Hobart April 2009

    Environmental Change in the Sub-Antarctic -Proceedings of the Second International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic – Hobart April 2009

    Perfect bound, softcover, 118 pages, illustrated throughout, some colour, a very good copy.

    Published in the December after the conference this is the Proceeding of the Royal Society of Tasmania, representing Volume 143 Parts I and II.

    Part I features … Climate trends at Macquarie Island; Exploitation of the marine ecosystem; Biological systems at Prince Edward Island; Terrestrial vegetation changes at Macquarie and Heard islands; Invasive species etc

    Part II features … Orchids of Macquarie island; Freshwater diatoms; Antarctic vignettes Shackleton; Foraminifera ad paleoenvironment of Late Pleistocene sands, White Rock Point, Southeastern Tasmania; HMS Beagle in Tasmanian waters.

    We particularly like the foram papers by Quilty et al … the site being round South Arm … and the tracking of the Beagle is up right up our street … or Ocean.

    Antarctic forum – wish we had been there.

    $35.00

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