Chemistry

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-558-042/063

Description: Political cartoons. Nato forces are briefed on their bombing target which is surrounded by civilian services like hospitals and schools. The Police encourage IBM to take their INCIS computer and jump off a bridge. IBM spent millions of taxpayer dollars on creating a new Police computer system that never worked. Mt Eden prison guards try to work out how prisoners are getting out and drugs getting in. Admidst the ruins of Belgrade Milosevic stands victorious. The Police consider getting rid of the INCIS computer to a crime consortium believing it will stop them dead in their tracks like it has done to the Police. Milosevic uses peace talks to buy time to destroy war crimes evidence. Police operations are stoped in their tracks by the weight of the INCIS computer disaster. Comment on retailers selling liquor to underagedrinkers The Serbs pull out of Kosovo as Nato forces enter the area. Comment on the New Zealand cricket team making hard work out of limited over cricket. The Soviets welcome the Nato forces to Yugoslavia. Shows a ship load of Chinese boat people on a collision course with New Zealand as the National coalition Government passes emergency legislation allowing mass, indefinite detention of asylum seekers. Inland Revenue Department assures the public that all small and powerless taxpayers are bullied equally. Serbia puts the blame for large scale death and destruction in Kosovo on the Nato bombing campaign. Shows newspaper ad for a crown entity boss, all perks and no responsibility. Minister of Immigration, Tuariki Delamere sets one standard for migrants and another for himself and his family. Jenny Shipley shoots TV news presenter, John Hawkesby in the head with a rubber arrow. He received a substantial pay-out when his contract was terminated. The Mongrel Mob supports Tony Ryall's plans to introduce tougher penalties for home invasion, if it relates to their homes being invaded but not their neighbours. Comment on breach of privilege by the Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and TVNZ over the John Hawkesby pay-out. Rugby supporters froze to their seats during a recent rugby match. Poor school results restrict career options for students. Jenny Shipley has put both her feet in her mouth over the John Hawkesby TVNZ pay-out affair. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-

Reference: H-747-001/075

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Published in 1999 book 'Bromhead's view: ice-cream! popcorn! xenical!' by Peter Bromhead of New Zealand cartoons and caricatures. Includes cover drawing and pages 8-83. Quantity: 75 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Black and white laser prints of pen drawings, A4 size.

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera relating to New Zealand gold prospecting, mining, sluicing, dredging companies. 1900-1999]

By: Geo W Wilton & Company

Reference: Eph-B-GOLD-1913-01

Description: Lists items for sale, including air pumps, bottles, levels, crucibles, furnaces, crushers, scales, water condensers, dialysers, filter pumps, hydrometers, measures, specimen bottles and jars, nitric acid, spirit lamps and primus stoves, vacuum tubes, and a large range of chemicals. Photo inside front shows the firm's exhibit at the Wellington Exhibition 1911. The back cover shows an illustration of the firm's premises at Shortland Street Auckland. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 108 pages, each 245 x 155 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986 and 2006.

Date: 4 April 1997

From: Institutional change in New Zealand science

By: Shorland, Francis Brian (Dr), 1909-1999

Reference: OHInt-0412-1

Description: Francis Brian Shorland, known as Brian, born 1909. Talks about his choice of career and job at the Department of Agriculture while studying chemistry at university. Describes his research on fish oil in the early 1930s, his graduation in 1932 with first class honours and post-doctoral study in Liverpool. Talks about his return to New Zealand in 1937 and involvement in research on facial eczema, the extraction of Vitamin A from fish liver oils, butter fat and other agricultural chemistry research projects. Describes his research techniques, working relationships at the Department of Agriculture, particularly with the Deputy Director, Grimmett, and his work in the Fats Laboratory of the DSIR. Awards/funding - funded by a grant from Lottery Environment and Heritage 1997-1999 Interviewer(s) - Ruth Barton Venue - Victoria University of Wellington Accompanying material - Transcription Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007000, OHC-007001 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1626.

Date: 2001

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Research, Science and Technology

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-2001-01

Description: Poster publicising the Ministry shows a grid of nine panels, two showing photographs of the faces of young Maori and the other showing stylised illustrations of chemical glass flask, sunrise, kete, waka prow, water, atoms or electrons circling a molecule or neutron. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 695 x 410 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1800

From: [Various artists] :[English and European engravings from the Webster collection]. - [1600s to 1890s?]

By: Chapman, John, active 1792-1823; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-012-012

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of the Honourable Robert Boyle; in oval frame beneath which is a small vignette showing a flask and other chemical apparatus Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Tile Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 160 x 110 mm (plate mark) on sheet 260 x 205 mm

Date: 1959-1988

By: Batt, Richard Dean, 1923-1994

Reference: 90-331

Description: Professor Batt's copies of papers relating to the New Zealand Biochemical Society, the New Zealand Atomic Energy Committee, the new Zealand Institute of Chemistry, and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 box(es). 1.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: [1993-2002]

From: Thomson, Andrew David, 1930-2002 : Papers relating to women in science in New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-7617-08

Description: Essays on women in the fields of chemistry, plant pathology, science journalism and science history Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-374

Description: Four vignettes illustrate views of what constitutes 'chemical testing'. The headline reads, The N.Z. Traffic Institute is to urge Mr McAlpine (Minister of Transport) to introduce chemical testing for intoxication in car drivers. An official observes an inebriated man sitting in a bath labelled acid, and comments that it's only water, but anyone jumping in when told must be drunk. A man is suspended over a bunsen burner in order to make him confess to 'driving under the influence'. A pair of shoes and a puff of smoke is all that remains in the next chemical experiment. The last shows the official at a driver testing station with a man who is thoroughly wet, saying he's positive because he was held down in a tub of litmus and turned blue. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 292 x 388 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2012

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025353

Description: Shows three figures seated outside discussing their sons' performance at school. Continues: "We're thrilled! It gives him a chance of winning a scholarship...", while the third person replies "Or failing that... the Tour de France." Refers to the USADA (US Anti Doping Agency) report on Lance Armstrong's lifetime ban from cycling. Armstrong was stripped of all his Tour de France titles in August 2013 after his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, with many labelling him a drug cheat. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023207

Description: A man in a suit holds a piece of paper towards Lance Armstrong, telling him that he has been short-listed for a Noble Prize in chemistry. Refers to revelations that American retired professional cyclist and seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, led the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen, resulting in him being banned for life and disqualified from all results since August 1998. (BBC Sport, 11 Oct 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 24 Apr-8 May 1996 - 24 Apr 1996 - 08 May 1996

By: Shorland, Francis Brian (Dr), 1909-1999

Reference: OHColl-0450/1

Description: Dr Brian Shorland was born in Wellington on 14 July 1909. Describes his father's career as a builder and architect and also a city councillor. Talks about his uncle, the cyclist Frank Shorland, and the family connection with Jerome K Jerome. Describes growing up in Island Bay and attending school there early in the century. Talks about going to Wellington College from 1921-1925 and graduating from Victoria University College with a chemistry degree in 1932. Recalls some of the women science students of the time including Thea Marwick and Eileen Pigget. Discusses Sir Ernest Rutherford, Karl Popper and his protege Eccles, religion and philosophy and proving scientific theories. Focuses on his scientific career and research largely into fats looking at animal and fish oils. Describes working with the Department of Agriculture from 1927 to 1946, study for a doctorate at the University of Liverpool and being director of Fats Research, later the Food Chemistry Division, of the DSIR. Talks about Sir Ernest Marsden, R A Falla, Ian Robertson and Bill Hamilton. Describes awards received including the Hector Medal, the Marsden Medal and the Order of Merit. Talks about being a lecturer in the Biochemistry Department of Victoria University from 1969 to 1987. Comments on solar energy and the windmill he installed at his own home. Describes editing the magazine `New Zealand science review' from 1985 to 1999. Comments on management systems and user pays and its effect on creativity. Talks about New Zealand scientists and how to achieve good science. Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007130 - OHC-007133 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1745.