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The animals Noah forgot, including the platypuses which are fed at three-thirty, are at the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, Healsville, to which you go by train and local bus [picture].
No full textAt foot of poster: "VR Poster no. 270".; Poster is mounted on linen backing. Original print size is 101 x 64 cm.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3821987. A colour poster promoting the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary at Healesville, and Victorian Railways to get there. Features artwork depicting thirteen Australian birds and mammals set on a bright green background, which are arranged around a central oval shape containing the titles. Australian birds and mammals depicted include the sulphur crested cockatoo, kookaburra, dingo, koala, emu with chicks, lyrebird, eagle, wombat, platypus, stork, snake and owls. Encosed by a white border, Victorian Rail logo shown at lower right
Colin Mackenzie: collector extraordinary
No full textONE of the most wide ranging collections ever to reach the Library of the East India Company is formed by the manuscripts, translations, plans, and drawings of Colin Mackenzie, an officer of the Madras Engineers and, at the time of his death in 1821, Surveyor-General of India. Mackenzie spent a lifetime forming his collection which is exceptional, not only for its size, but also for the fact that materials from it are to be found in almost every section of the India Office Collections including Oriental Languages, European Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, and Maps. Including manuscripts in South Indian languages held in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras, the collection originally contained materials in English, Dutch, and, according to Mackenzie's own estimate, no fewer than fifteen Oriental languages written in twenty one different characters. Altogether, according to a statement drawn up in August 1822 by the well known orientalist Horace Hayman Wilson who, after Mackenzie's death,volunteered to undertake the cataloguing of the collection, there were 1,568 literary manuscripts, a further 2,070 Mocal tracts', 8,076 inscriptions, and 2,159 translations, plus seventy-nine plans, 2,630 drawings, 6,218 coins, and 146 images and other antiquities. What manner of man was it that amassed this vast collection
Australian fauna and medical science
No full textProfessor WM. Colin Mackenzie, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.-Director National Museum of Australian Zoology.Up till recent times the appeal for the preservation of the unique fauna of our country has been based largely on sentiment. Today, thanks to poison and the gun, we recognise that many of our animals that were common twenty years ago are becoming increasingly rare, and within a short period of time will have completely disappeared, never to be recalled. In this paper I wish to draw attention to what is now the most urgent plea for the preservation of our fauna, viz., its importance for a correct understanding of the human body in health and disease.The animals of Australia and Tasmania are teeming with points of scientific interest. Through them human complexities are revealed in their simpler form.In Canberra, The Research Reservation, is located on Acton Hill, not far from Civic Place, and facing Parliament House and the Capitol site.It is a peninsula of, about 80 acres, bounded by the River Molonglo, and facing Black Mountain. It lies in what is known as the Continental Arboretum. Here will be kept live specimens of Australian and Tasmanian native animals in their natural state. When the buildings are erected Canberra will become the world's centre for the study of our unique fauna and every facility will be offered to workers not only Australian, but also from abroad, wishing to study comparative anatomy and its application to modern medical and surgical practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Australian Veterinary History Record No. 65
No full textMinutes of the 22nd Annual Meeting, Cairns, Qld on 25 May 2013 || Annual Report for AVHS 2012 || Report of Honorary Secretary & Treasurer || Report of Honorary Editor, Australian Veterinary History Record || Report of Honorary Librarian, Max Henry Memorial Library || Presidential notes from the AVA Policy Council || Historical Articles || Edward A Weston – Veterinary Surgeon and Educator || Author William T Clark || Sir Colin Mackenzie — A clever scientist with unconventional ideas || Author Chris BunnAustralian Veterinary Associatio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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