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The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand, celebrated its jubilee on August 30 by holding a conversazione in the Art Gallery, in Christchurch. The institute was established on August 30, 1862, twelve years after the foundation of the Canterbury Settlement. Sir Julius Von Haast, who had only recently arrived in the colony, was the principal leader of the movement to form the institute, and he devoted to it the remarkable energy and enthusiasm with which he founded Canterbury Museum and made it the best institution of the kind in New Zealand, He was elected the first president of the institute, and was one of its most prominent officers until his death, many years afterwards.
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Jubilee of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand. . Nature 90, 282–283 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090282a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090282a0