Grasshoppers

Date: 1970-1999

Reference: Eph-C-SCIENCE-1900s

Description: Includes: 1974: NZBC Broadcasts to schools. Science standards 1 and 2.Term 3 1974. [2 sheets, showing Grasshoppers, Mammals] 1975: Radio New Zealand Broadcasts to schools. Science standards 1 and 2. Third term 1975. [Frongs development (Metamorphosis) 1976: The Royal Society of New Zealand centenary awards for secondary school science. 1976 (2 copies) 1979: 20th Science Exhibition August 16-26. $1500 to be won [1979] 1980: 21st Auckland School Science Exhibition, August 21-30 [1980] Philips New Zealand Science Fair; the annual exhibition for young scientists from intermediate and secondary schools. NZ Railway's Social Hall, Weelington, 11-14 October [1980] 1981: Coming soon: the 22nd Auckland School Science Exhibition, August 1981 1983: History of science and technology; an exhibition arranged by The British Council [1983] 1992: See the power of the future at the ECNZ New Zealand Science Fair at capital Discovery Place ... 26 September to 4 October [1992] 1993: Telecom Technology-Science Roadshow. '93 highlights. 1993. Poster and A4 flyer 1995: The Telecom Technology-Science Roadshow will blow you away! With sticker for Wellington public days, Shed 11, 8-9 April 1995 1998: Wellington School of Medicine invites you to Doctor Tomorrow Open Day 1998. Wellington School of Medicine Mein Street, 6 September [1998] Quantity: 10 Poster(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on posters, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 15 May 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-136

Description: Adults; advertising, sitting on grass stalks enclosed in cardboard square; distance 25-400 mm; Oparau, farm track; background occasional road noise, kereru flies overhead, some near end overmodulated; weather fine mild, occasional E wind; recorded 1430 hrs. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1711 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other see catalogue card Insects. Search dates: 1986

Date: 1907

Reference: E-774

Description: Contents are mainly poems and autographs from friends in New South Wales, but pages also include sketches and autographs, including some loose artworks. Dates of autographs are 1904-1905, 1907-1912, 1916, 1918, 1922, 1952-1953. Autographs are from members of the Smith family (Sydney), Gow family (ca 1912), passengers aboard RMS "Corinthic" 1907, passengers aboard SS "Gneisenau" on 24 March 1912, Jim Mahoney in Torquay England 1952. Auckland signatures from Irene Plummer (Ponsonby), Lyn E Phillips (Epsom), Lily Alexander (St Stephens Avenue), Harry R Urquhart (1916). Watercolours and sketches include: a writing hand, a sailing ship inset in a bunch of violets, tree ferns (loose watercolour), Catacol Arran Scotland (loose watercolour ca 1910-1911), stream and hills (loose watercolour), a young blonde woman, a mother and daughter, "Der Thrann" (ink caricature), [Man in coat-tails smoking a cigarette] (loose ink sketch), Girl with book (ink and wash), Castle Chillon - Lake of Geneva (watercolour), Girl in 19th century costume in front of an English cottage (watercolour), Winter evening from esplanade Greenock 1908 (watercolour), "In this wheat by and bye" (watercolour cartoon of two grasshoppers). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of gold-edged leaves, each 205 x 165 mm.

Date: 1915 - 1925

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-009

Description: A new year greeting, showing a fairy queen riding a large lizard, preceded by Maori goblin-figures, one riding a grasshopper, one pushing a snail in a barrel, two blowing trumpets formed from lilies. Further flowers are tied to the lizard's tail. Dating: the suggested date of ca 1920 is based on the fact that Lloyd was providing illustrations for children's books in the 1920s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, sepia wash & Chinese white, 263 x 418 mm

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0027563

Description: Cartoon depicts a locust insect readying itself to plague Christchurch as the 'pestilence continues'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-003

Description: Seven insects at various stages on or near a flowering vine. According to the artist's notes, Fig. 1, 'Feeds on the Pompion vine, changed 26th Jul, b. 1st Aug and is a common species. Fig. 3. Pompion Cimex. Feeds on the Pompion, when young is like fig 3, when full grown is like fig. 4, Aug 18th it shed its skin for the last time and became the Cimex in fig. 5 - is not a very common species'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-006

Description: Three green grasshoppers on a pink and white convolvulus in flower and leaf. One grasshopper shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Feeds on the blossoms of the convolvulus panduratus ..." The text for the 1983 reproduction of this work reads: "The insect is one of the group of Long Horned Grasshoppers or Katydids. Widespread and common, they are well camouflaged on the plants on which they live. The cricket is shown here on Man-root (Ipomoea pandurata) ... a common perennial prostrate vine of dry woodlands and roadsides, fencerows and old fields of the United States. The large starch-filled root of the Man-root my weight five kilograms or more." Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1983. Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999. Other Titles - Amblycorypha sp. Bush cricket. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 6 [in pencil]; Verso - Convulvulus panduratus [in pencil] See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-004

Description: Three brown grasshoppers - two shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Frequents flowers and plants feeding on Coleoptera and other insects, shed its skin for the last time and became the cimex in fig 5 - is not very common'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-005

Description: Three green grasshoppers on a Asclepias climex in flower and leaf. One grasshopper shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Feeds on the Asclepias figured and the Asclepias amphixicaulismx, shed its skin for the last time July 8th. Is not very common. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-007

Description: Three green and brown grasshoppers, two shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Feeds on the grass figured and other grasses and water plants. Is common in the ricefields near Savannah'. See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm