Proceedings of the Seventh and Eighth Symposia on Collection Building and Natural History Studies in Asia and the Pacific Rim
By: edited by Yukimitsu Tomida ... [et al.].
Contributors: Tomida, Yukimitsu.; Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan (Japan); Symposium on Collection Building and Natural History Studies in Asia and the Pacific Rim (8th : 2005 : Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan (Japan))
Series: National Science Museum monographs -- no. 34; National Science Museum monographs -- no. 34
Publisher: National Science Museum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9784878030192
Subjects: Natural history museums -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Natural history museums -- Pacific Area -- Congresses; Natural history -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Natural history -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Pacific Area -- Congresses; Natural history -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Natural history -- Pacific Area -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "March 2006."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mineral collections in Australian museums / Dermot A. Henry and William D. Birch; title: Special exhibition, "jadeite", and collection of jadeite-bearing rocks in NSM / Satoshi Matsubara ... [et al.]; title: The Tasmanian Herbarium and its role in biodiversity research, land management, conservation and economic development / Gintaras Kantvilas and Hiroyuki Kashiwadani; title: New Zealand's nonlichenised fungi - where they came from, who collected them, where they are now / Peter R. Johnston; title: History and the current status of fungal inventory and databasing in Japan / Tsuyoshi Hosoya; title: Bryological herbarium facilities and current research projects in New Zealand / Allan J. Fife; title: The roles of the Queensland Herbarium and its collections / Rod J.F. Henderson, Gordon P. Guymer and Paul I. Forster; title: Marine collections at the Museum of New Zealand : contents, care and continuing improvement / Richard Webber; title: Ichthyology at the Australian Museum : collections, databases and the web / Mark A. McGrouther; title: Marine mammal collections in Australia / Tadasu K. Yamada ... [et al.]; title: The Pleistocene human remains collection from the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia, and its role in understanding modern human origins / Michael C. Westaway; title: Correlations between; title: the moss floras of Japan and New Zealand / Masanobu Higuchi and Allan J. Fife; title: Tasmania's threatened lichens : species and habitats / Gintaras Kantvilas; title: Molecular-cytotaxonomy of Cycas (Cycadales) using 5S ribosomal DNA markers / Goro Kokubugata and Paul I. Forster; title: Taxonomy and biogeography of an Australian subtropical octopus with Japanese affinities / Mark D. Norman and Tsunemi Kubodera; title: Crabs from the Kermadec Islands in the South Pacific / Masatsune Takeda and Richard Webber; title: Faunistic review on the pselaphine species known from New Zealand (Insecta, Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) / Shûhei Nomura and Richard A.B. Leschen; title: Redescription of the rare boxfish, Aracana spilonota, with comments on its taxonomic position and a record of another rare boxfish, Kentrocapros flavofasciatus, from southeastern Australia / Keiichi Matsuura; title: An overview of recent marine mammal research in Australia / Catherine Kemper; title: Indonesian Homo erectus and modern human origins in Australasia : new evidence from the Sambungmacan region, Central Java / Yousuke Kaifu, Hisao Baba and Fachroel Aziz.