London Missionary Society
(Organisation)
Non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists.
Mentioned in
- An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
- Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands
- Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia
- From Tasman To Marsden.
- Introduction to Polynesian Researches
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- Mangaian Society
- Polynesia; A popular description of the physical features, inhabitants, natural history, and productions of the islands of the Pacific. With an account of their discovery, and the progress of civilisation and christianity amongst them.
- Chapter XII. — The Navigator's or Samoa Islands
- Chapter XIII. — The Society Islands; and the Paumotu, or Low Archipelago
- Chapter XV. — The Marquesas, or Mendāna Group
- Chapter XVII. — The New Hebrides, and the Queen Charlotte Islands
- Chapter XXIII. — History and Progress of Missionary Labours in Polynesia, in connection with the Church of England; and the Present State of the Church in the New Zealand Colonies
- Samoan Material Culture
- The New Zealand Evangelist
- The Old Frontier : Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley : the missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement
- The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa: 1845–1884
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
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- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
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- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
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