Science
(Golder Project subject term)
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- As garden’s rich / By dint of science, still progressing;
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An Ode on Manawatu in The New Zealand Survey
- Britannia may boast of the Thames or the Clyde, / What were they once, but like this wild looking stream, / Till science, progressing, had made them her pride / For commerce, and worthy a nation’s esteem; / The time is approaching when enterprise may, / With many improvements thine aspects renew, / When cities around may spring up, and display / Bright glories enchanting to Manawatu!
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Stanzas — To the Memory of Wm. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S. &c., — Departed hence, December 7, 1855 in The New Zealand Survey
- Though many would attempt his steps to trace, / They seem’d as children wand’ring on the beach / Of science’ depths—he far beyond their reach / Would beckon them to follow in the chase / Of great researches, fondly them to teach / Such lessons of creative skill they might not soon efface.
- Though through all parts of nature, as a whole, / He could each labyrinth and nook survey, / As to him, darkness lighten’d were to day;
- On earth the works of God he has explored, / To aid his fellows of mankind to love / The author of their beings, and approve / Hiswond’rous ways; and in His will accord / Though seeming strange to ignorance, that strove / To give the lie to truths, which Nature teaches of her Lord.
- So Nature’s secrets in her close retreats / He brought to light, drawn by his studious powers, / Expounding and comparing what were feats / Which else might have remained unknown till history’s latest hours.
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- But otherwise, by a kind Providence, / Has been ordained their welfare to secure; (4) / For as the land, in peace, could not have rest / By those to whom at first it was bestowed, / Another race of gen’rous temp’rament, / And skill sagacious, coming from afar / Must gain possession, not by violence, / But by true purchase: both remun’rative / In price, and in advantages to flow / From civ’lization’s intercourse, the best! / And whose experience, in field culture’s art, / Will shew them how they to account might turn / Those principles of comfort, long inert, / Found richly to exist in such a clime; / And who would shew, “How good to cultivate / The social arts of peace;”—
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- with no small interest too can we regard the approach of Enterprize and Industry, each, as with bridegroom integrity, come to divest Nature of those solitary weeds in which she has long been arrayed, in order to deck her with the garb of art, thereby adding fresh beauties to her native comeliness!
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- So now, as we yon woodland scenes survey, / The question will arise—Whence this display?— / Could from another land the seeds have come / Borne in the crops of birds, which hither came, / And planted been by droppings? Or have they / Been borne by some far inland stream along / Into the ocean, and by tossing waves / Have hither driven been, while to and fro / They have been buffeted, yet floating light / Upon the surface—happ’ning next to catch / Upon the hills, as from the deep they rose, / And there have germinated?—But the like / According as some travellers assert / Are nowhere to be found! We must conclude / That these, as when earth first was gaily clad / By the creating word, as “Let there be!” / And so the thing commanded was produced;— / Although that “word” ’s unaudible to ears / Of human curiosity, yet still / Its power can well be felt in all due time / Where it must be applied.
- For such a confirmation must we search / The ancient archives of the river’s bank / For records that might sceptics well confute! / There, the remains of trees, and other wreck, / Borne hither by the floods are buried deep / In gravel beds which once have formed a beach / Cast up by Neptune’s forces, upon which
- Yon gravel pits / Dug deep by roadmen, out of which to bring / Material to construct the solid way; / These give concurrent testimony true, / To that, erewhile declared, by boulders there / Deposited, and made compact, ’mid stuff / Grown hard through ages!
- for several miles / The margin form’d a good material map, / As if explaining geographic terms; / As promontories, capes, sounds, gulfs and bays, / As once they were along this little sea, / When welt’ring waters curl’d to the breeze, / Ere they were driven hence when earth upheaved;
- All such bring evidence within themselves, / That the New Zealand forest nothing owes / To other climes for seeds to sow her soil / In ancient days!—Nay more, they well deny / That a connexion ever did exist / Between this land, and large Australia; / Or, that betwixt, large tracts of country sunk / Are lost in ocean; see another proof, / Of quadrupeds this country ne’er could boast, / That native are, like those of other climes!
- Thus ages upon ages as they’ve rolled / Unchronicled—save by the mystic marks
- As science, now, strange secrets would reveal / In other ancient countries, which bespeak / Creative wisdom, and omniscient care, / With forethought unmistaken in its aim; / In other instances than only one, / Are manifest as shewn in changes wrought / Upon creations structure, in the lapse / Of untold ages, not to be o’erlooked, / Recorded all in Nature’s archives, which / Depositories prove of what has been; / For plants now found extinct are buried deep / In earth’s dark bosom, petrified, and changed / To other solid substances, the work / Of wond’rous revolutions long ere man / Was known to have existence; while their place, / And high above the stratum, they enjoyed, / Another race of vegetation fills!—
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- A mean to gather strangers from afar, / A happy mean indeed! to aid the bonds / Of mutual friendship;—Brethren long apart, / Who to each other strangers had become, / Are thus together brought with happy art / Again to interchange kind looks, and words
- Soon must fly off / Such shackles, which impede advancement in / The progress of the intellectual march / To civ’lization’s height. Fresh ideas / Impregnate now their souls with nobler thoughts, / All which may prove like seed cast in the soil, / Though some time dormant, yet at length to spring / The source of future good!
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- Hard was the labours of the prestine rocks / At such a juncture; as when painful toils, / Or other inward maladies severe / Affect the human frame, when steaming sweat / From ev’ry pore exudes—and may of blood, / When agonizing under dreadful woes; / So in like manner, ’mid the direful throes, / And rendings of the bowels of the globe, / In pressing upward, ’bove the surface high, / O’er ocean’s waves, what long had been depressed! / Such labour, and such heat intense combined, / Internal, must have made the precious ores / Exude, as sweated drops, whence such have lain / Incorporate with granite grains, and quartz, / From first, when the creation was begun; / Till melted, by electric heat, forced out, / And running into chinks, and other rents,— / As in a furnace, molten ores are run, / Into the moulds for their reception made, / Till cooling formed into a solid state;—
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Canto II — , Page 13. in The New Zealand Survey
- Although I have not been more than about 60 miles of a radius away from Wellington, still in that compass much may be observed to shew that New Zealand as a country has nothing to boast in regard to its antiquity. For instance—its sandstone rocks are but in what may be termed a puerile state. In a sandstone formation, at the depth of about two feet I have come upon a species of granite boulders, three in number, which had no appearance of being connected with the locality; they were incrusted with a substance similar to oxide of iron, and seemed to have been dropped there together, and so got thus embedded when such formation was in a soft and plastic state; which sandstone formation is on the top of a hill from five to six hundred feet high. Such sandstone formations do not shew the same shattered state as those of a harder nature, which seem as if they had not yet got over the damage they have sustained from the rendings and throes and upheavings of the earthquakes, which forced the mountain framework of the country from beneath the waves. Nothing as yet have I seen as a consolidized rock, from which a grindstone or a gravestone, or a piece of pavement can be made; or from which building material can be had like what is obtained in other countries, whose geological records tell of earlier dates.
- looking at the “Flora” of New Zealand. There is no appearance of its birth being beyond a thousand years, and probably not yet exceeding two-thirds of that period. For instance when we range the forests of the country, even upon the hills, how few old fallen trees comparatively, are to be found; and those that are standing do not shew much appearance of any great age. True it is that the remains of some ordinary sized trees are to be found in the Hutt Valley buried, some of them about twelve feet below the surface, and over which other sizable trees have grown: but such a climate as this country enjoys gives vegatation generally a rapid growth, so that trees shoot up and grow in bulk more rapidly than in a colder climate, where it would take a hundred years to effect what forty or fifty years would produce here. Taking into consideration the nature of the periodical floods taking place several times a year, and leaving behind, over the valley, goodly layers of mud; in a very few years, after the sea had retired, a
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- May Britain ever glory at the call / Of Heav’n upon her, as an instrument / For spreading truth and science through the world! / Of sacred truths a blest repository / She proves—and whence proceed to ev’ry land / Such treasures rich; and an example meet / She sets surrounding nations; while t’ engage / In such like undertakings with good will / She shews that nought she loses! Well she may / Be styled a “Nation of Philanthrophists,” / As shewn through all gradations of her sons; / As prompt to raise the fallen, help the weak,
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- There Carey’s chickens have in numbers flocked, / Gregarious in their habits, their approach, / As heralds of the storm to other tribes / Have proved—a sign to haste to fairer climes, / Where peace and sunshine reigned; while they themselves / As seamen good, to dangers well innured,
- Now looking round contemplating the scene / As it before me lies—combined with what / Is farther known, more than is here discerned:— / All speak of revolutions in the past!
- Have they stood / As they appear, since first the great command / Was given, “Let there be!” and earth uprose?—
- The winds, uninstrumental to the use / Of navigation’s science, gave their force / In idle frolic, waging ruthles war / On the great briny desert of the South: / And in return, the waves, to anger chafed, / Would heave and foam with much of vengeful ire, / And kindling fury, as the clouds of heaven, / In their alliance, lent the thunder’s voice / T’ outdo the roarings of the tempest’s trump! / While flashed the foam, as by th’ electric flame / Surcharged in aid, from light’ning’s magazine, / To give resistance with its fluid fire, / Which raging billows send up in the spray, / As fain to scorch the winds, or warding off / Th’ interminablebuffettings endured! / Thus, the commotions of the elements / In wanton, profitless, contentions joined, / Without the intervention of an isle / With length of shore, or mountain’s lofty range / That might at least break something of their rage,
- meanwhile a shark / Preparing with expanded jaws to snap / The graceful bird at rest; but haply warned
- Have these been always as they now exist? / Or say, has all this scenery’s whole extent, / Nay all the country wide from shore to shore / From genial North to the less genial South / Been, as some would declare? surmising thus— / “These are the heights of some great continent, / Which filled the Southern ocean once, now sunk / By Nature’s fiat; these the remnants left / Above the waves, when earthquakes shook below / The ocean’s level, ev’ry spreading plain! / While now existing plains were once the heights / Of table mountains, and the many hills / Were loftier ridges, rising, clad with snows,— / The Continents great Alps!—Those valleys but / The ancient river courses, where once rolled / Their torrents, issuing from their founts on high, / Where many a glacier sparkled in the sun, / All stored in regions cold!” But look around / And room we find for theories diverse / From that advanced, which now may be declared!
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A Lay on Wanganui in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- What now is seen, is prelude mere / Of what in future may occur / As shipping large may hither steer / With merchandise without demur; / Like that upon the Thames, or Clyde, / Which would make northern Britain great;— / When science makes this stream “the pride” / Of other days, in prosprous state!
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Canto Sixth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- But, being thus aroused, life has been seen; / As such has waked the music of the heart, / In holy numbers, of seraphic strains, / Or other energies, which dormant lay / In idleness, have call’d been to good deeds, / In searching Nature’s treasures, to advance / The cause of science, and of Truth! Such things, / Which much affect love’s pride, have been the source, / In ancient times, whence revolutions sprung / To set in order wry affairs of state! / Love-crossings have made heroes on the field, / And on the main, ’mid battle’s direst work: / And such have work’d a change on simple man, / By rousing him to independent mind.
- ’Tis well, when grieved by unrequited love, / The mind in other things diversion finds, / To give relief; such acts the safety-valve, / By which all surplus feelings are dispell’d, / Which gen’rated have been by the rebuff; / Such takes up the attention, keeps the mind / From brooding o’er all injuries sustain’d; / And turns its energies to other calls, / As, solving problems of another kind, / Full quite as beneficial to the weal / Of self, as in the end ’tis to the world: / For many good inventions have arisen / From slighted love, which else had scarcely been! / Thus, science a retreat has sometimes proved / For love-vex’d minds, who would its umbrage seek;
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Canto Third in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- even at the worst, / Interprating sad symptoms to the best
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Other Collections
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- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- 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.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.