Manila folder (red) labelled 'Pierre Adolphe Lesson'
- Containers:
- Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)
- Component identifier:
- File 23
- Content Summary:
- Pierre Adolphe Lesson (1805–1888) was a surgeon and botanist during Dumont d'Urville's first Astrolabe expedition. The folder contains a copy of a transcribed extract (pp. 550–568) of Lesson's journal in New Zealand waters, undertaken by Isabel Morton Ollivier (1949–2020) and held among her papers in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; a photocopy of Lesson's 'Portrait de l'Etat Major de l'Astrolabe' Appendix I of Anne Bataille's 'Un document inédit: le journal médical de Adolphe Pierre Lesson, chirurgien de Dumont d'Urville sur l'Astrolabe (1826–1829)', Thèse Méd. [no. 2025], Université de Nantes, 1978; a copy of Claude Stefani's paper: 'Pierre-Adolphe Lesson un acteur et témoin méconnu de l'exploration du Pacifique dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle', Actes du colloque Lapérouse et les explorateurs du Pacifique, espace de découvertes et savoirs scientifiques (1760–1840), Musée national de la Marine, Paris, 17–18 octobre 2008; and Edward Duyker's English draft entry for Lesson in the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne (no. 61, avril 2012, pp. 2357–9)
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
- Subjects:
- Exploration
History
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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