BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//talks.cam.ac.uk//v3//EN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:19700329T010000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:19701025T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY: Empire\, indigenous knowledge and the practice of
  recording and classifying the plants of New Zeala
 nd\, 1769–1838 - Edwin Rose (Department of History
  and Philosophy of Science)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240226T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240226T140000
UID:TALK210706AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/210706
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the natural history of the islands o
 f the Pacific became a central feature of European
  voyages of exploration from the 1760s. Concentrat
 ing on successive botanical explorations of Aotear
 oa New Zealand from the activities of Joseph Banks
 \, Daniel Solander and their team of field assista
 nts in 1769 through to Allan Cunningham\, the King
 's Botanist of New South Wales\, who visited Aotea
 roa New Zealand in 1826 and 1838\, this talk explo
 res the practices of integrating Māori knowledge w
 hen cataloguing and classifying species. This incl
 udes details of the physical characters of plants\
 , their use in contemporary society and informatio
 n on broader groupings of species that are systema
 tically integrated into a diverse collection of ma
 nuscripts ranging from field notebooks to paper sl
 ips\, interleaved books\, polished manuscripts and
  publications. As such\, this talk analyses the pr
 actices through which Māori knowledge on the plant
 s of Aotearoa New Zealand was integrated into the 
 advanced assemblages of paper technologies develop
 ed to keep these records in the field. It also sho
 ws how other information relating to the geographi
 cal distribution of species\, the use of particula
 r plants by the Māori and their approaches to clas
 sifying species became integrated with European cl
 assification systems\, contributing to the breakdo
 wn of the Linnaean system and the emergence of so-
 called 'natural systems' of classification by the 
 early nineteenth century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Tom Banbury
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR