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DARBY, John Terrance interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box: 19
Identifier: H0324
Overview
In this interview John talks about his involvement in the Stewart Island Kakapo recovery programme. He also worked at the Otago Museum as a Scientific Officer in Zoology starting in 1969, curating biological collections. John goes on to describe his career as a Zoologist based at the Otago Museum. Here he initiated the children’s programme and interactive science areas. He goes on to describe yellow eyed penguins and the differences to other penguin species.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
ROBINSON, Judith Emily interviewed by Lee Wadds
Record Group — Box: 26
Identifier: H0176
Overview
In this interview recalls memories and shares extracts from letters of her parent’s full lives and interests in Natural History, Book Collections, and involvement with the Dominion Museum in Wellington. She talks of their marriage and honeymoon on Stewart Island; the war years and her own interest in painting.
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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