The de Beer collection contains three editions of John Evelyn's (1620-1705) Silva (or Sylva), the first publication officially sponsored by the Royal Society. This book promoted the planting of trees to avert the timber crisis facing the British…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Karaka Ghur; verso: 91; on original mount: Mr Urquhart’s House at Karaka Ghur, on the road to Drury 18 miles from Auckland N.Z.
In 1929, Kathleen Chang became the first person of Chinese descent to graduate from the Otago Medical School.See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1941-1960), Volume 5, Wellington, 2000, and Eva Ng's biography of Kathleen Chang in D. Maxwell,…