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Leichhardt as scientist and diarist
Dr Tom Darragh, Museum Victoria
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Tom Darragh uses Ludwig Leichhardt’s diaries to show the skill and accuracy with which the explorer and naturalist recorded scientific observations and information about plants and geological specimens, in terminology which is still used today.
Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian culture
Professor Henry Nix, Australian National University
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Scientist Henry Nix argues that had explorer Ludwig Leichhardt lived, he could have published the results of his scientific observations and joined the company of peers including Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin.
Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate
David Hallam, National Museum of Australia
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Conservator David Hallam outlines the metal and corrosion analysis which helped to authenticate the Leichhardt nameplate. The plate is the only known artefact from Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost 1848 Australian expedition with a corroborated provenance.
Leichhardt panel discussion
Dr Tom Darragh, David Hallam, Matthew Higgins, Professor Rod Home, Dr Philip Jones, Dick Kimber, Dr Darrell Lewis, Dr Susan Martin, Professor Henry Nix and Dr Martin Woods
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Alice Springs historian Dick Kimber proposes an alternative theory for the fate of Ludwig Leichhardt’s expedition, arguing that it was lost in the Simpson Desert, in a closing discussion with earlier symposium speakers.
Overview of the National Museum of Australia’s purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate
Matthew Higgins, National Museum of Australia
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Curator Matthew Higgins outlines the work undertaken to establish the authenticity of a small brass nameplate, the first object with a corroborated provenance from explorer Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost 1848 expedition.
Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writing
Dr Lenore Coltheart, political historian, and author Frank Moorhouse
Historical Imagination series, 20 May 2007
The convergence of history and fiction and the power of archives and objects to inform their work on Australian women and the League of Nations is explored by political historian Lenore Coltheart and author Frank Moorhouse.
To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract
Professor Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, United States
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler outlines the research that has gone into reconstructing the ethnographic collections from Captain James Cook’s three Pacific voyages.
Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence
Doreen Mellor, National Library of Australia
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook’s first Pacific journey, and subsequent European settlement, as the background to the story of the Stolen Generations.
Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771
Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions.
Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
Professor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
The historical significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen in Germany is examined by historian Paul Turnbull.
