Held at Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. President was Dr R.A. Falla, President, Royal Society of New Zealand. Secretary-General was Dr. Gilbert Archey, Director, Auckland Institute and Museum.
Pacific Science Congress (7th : 1949 : Auckland, N.Z. and Christchurch, N.Z.)
Salmon album 12
Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-208
Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
Research files - General P-W
Date: 1910-1984
From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers
Reference: 2010-184-11
Description: Box contains nine folders of research and subject files. Includes material relating to the Pacific; Pencarrow; Petone; printing and publication; journalist Tom Scott; Seventh Pacific Science Congress; economist William Sutch; waterfront strike (1951); Wellington region and unsorted cuttings. Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed material
I/16 Correspondence
Date: 1949-1956
From: Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12658-008
Description: Correspondence files relating to the Proceedings of the Pacific Science Congress. Comprises: I-16a Correspondence re Proceedings of Pacific Science Congress I-16b Correspondence re Proceedings of Pacific Science Congress 1950-52 I-16c Correspondence re Proceedings of Pacific Science Congress 1955-56 I-16d Correspondence re Proceedings of Pacific Science Congress 1953-55. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 box(es). Processing information: Papers were rehoused in archival boxes and binding tape replaced by the Library.
I/15 Correspondence
Date: 1948-1951
From: Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12658-007
Description: Notebooks relating to account keeping for the 7th Pacific Science Congress. Comprises: I-15 Cheques Paid Out: 7th Pacific Scienec Congress Account Book, 1949-51 I-15b Pacific Science Congress - Order Book I-15c Pacific Science Congress Notebook I-15d Receipt Book. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 box(es). Processing information: Papers were rehoused in archival boxes and binding tape replaced by the Library.
I/6 Papers and programme of Seventh Pacific Science Congress
Date: 1949
From: Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12658-002
Description: Comprises copies of typescript papers presented at conference and printed programme entitled: 'Pacific Science Association Seventh Pacific Science Congress General Programme, February 2nd to 22nd, 1949 Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand'. Original file numbers I-17a and I-17b. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 box(es). Processing information: Papers were rehoused in archival boxes and binding tape replaced by the Library.
Papers relating to the Seventh Pacific Science Congress
Date: 1949
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-060
Description: Papers, notes, programme for anthropology tour with passenger list, copy of W J Phillipps' Maori shark-tooth cutting implement from `Man' (1948), copy of notes on the history of Takitimu Quantity: 1 folder(s).