\u3ci\u3eMemorials of Affghanistan: being state papers, official documents, dispatches, authentic narratives, etc. illustrative of the British expedition to and occupation of, Affghanistan and Scinde, between the years 1838 and 1842\u3c/i\u3e

Official documents, papers, dispatches and authentic narratives pertaining to the First Anglo-Afghan War

Plant capitalism and company science: the Indian career of Nathaniel Wallich

The career of the Danish-born botanist Nathaniel Wallich, superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1815 to 1846, illustrates the complex nature of botanical science under the East India Company and shows how the plant life of South Asia was used as a capital resource both in the service of the Company's economic interests and for Wallich's own professional advancement and international reputation. Rather than seeing him as a pioneer of modern forest conservation or an innovative botanist, Wallich's attachment to the ideology of ‘improvement’ and the Company's material needs better explain his longevity as superintendent of the Calcutta garden. Although aspects of Wallich's career and botanical works show the importance of circulation between Europe and India, more significant was the hierarchy of knowledge in which indigenous plant lore and illustrative skill were subordinated to Western science and in which colonial science frequently lagged behind that of the metropolis

Aboriginal figures and brolga near Wyuna, Victoria, 1856 [picture]

Title devised by cataloguer from accession record.; Inscriptions: "E. Stocqueler pinx." -- l.l.; "Wyuna 1856" -- l.r.; "Revd Robt Gordon sent home by T.R. Gowan [?] in Melbourne E.N.W. [?] -- in black ink on verso.; Watermark: "WILMOT 1834".; Condition: was poor but has been stabilised by Preservation. No frame or auxilary support.; PIC/1504; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an21201059. Shows the settlement of Wyuna, which is about 80 k. north-east of Bendigo, in 1856. In the foreground are two Aboriginal people, one seated, one standing with a spear; and a brolga. In the middle ground a settlement comprising several slab huts and some aboriginal shelters. Trees in background

Night corroboree of Australian natives [picture] /

Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6777.; Exhibited: Council room, NLA, 23rd September 2004 to 23rd September 2005. AuCNL; Exhibited: People's Treasures, NLA 1993. AuCNL

Fifteen months' pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan and Persia,

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The life of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington.

Added title-pages, with vignette.Mode of access: Internet