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SUMMARY:Exploration\, Empire\, and a Revolution in the Natural History of 
 the Pacific\, 1769-1840 - Dr Edwin Rose\, AHRC Early Career Research Fello
 w\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fel
 low\, Darwin College. 
DTSTART:20241015T121000Z
DTEND:20241015T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Amelia Hassoun
DESCRIPTION:The emergence of so called “natural systems” of classifica
 tion in the early nineteenth century was a product of the huge volume of s
 pecimens and information entering European institutions from around the wo
 rld. Concentrating on successive botanical explorations of Aotearoa New Ze
 aland from the activities of Joseph Banks\, Daniel Solander and their team
  of field assistants in the 1760s through to Allan Cunningham\, the King
 ’s Botanist of New South Wales\, who visited New Zealand in 1826 and 183
 8\, this talk analyses their use of Māori knowledge when cataloguing and 
 classifying species. The original Polynesian inhabitants of Aotearoa New Z
 ealand\, Māori terms for species\, physical characters of plants and broa
 der groupings of species are systematically integrated into the manuscript
 s these naturalists compiled in addition to details on the uses of plants 
 by the Māori. As such\, this talk analyses the practices through which In
 digenous knowledge on the plants of Aotearoa New Zealand was integrated in
 to the advanced assemblages of paper technologies developed to keep these 
 records in the field. It also shows how other information relating to the 
 geographical distribution of species\, the use of particular plants by the
  Māori and their approaches to classifying species became integrated with
  European classification systems\, contributing to the breakdown of the Li
 nnaean system and the emergence of so-called ‘natural systems’ of clas
 sification by the early nineteenth century.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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