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,…
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.
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…