Territory Of Papua Research Articles

Appendicitis in Papua.

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 11 p. 387-389 Original Article APPENDICITIS IN PAPUA R. K. Wilson, R. K. Wilson Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorC. R. W. Turner, C. R. W. Turner Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author R. K. Wilson, R. K. Wilson Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorC. R. W. Turner, C. R. W. Turner Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 September 1957 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1957.tb58029.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume2, Issue11September 1957Pages 387-389 RelatedInformation

Deflections of the vertical in New Britain

Nineteen astronomic observations made in connection with a control survey by Australian and U. S. Army topographic forces of the island of New Britain (Territory of Papua and New Guinea) indicate unusually large deflections of the vertical throughout the 450 km length of the island.After adjusting the datum to minimize the deflections, the rms of ξ is ± 24″ and of η is ± 21″, or 32″ for the total deflection. The pattern of the deflections shows a marked correlation with the topography of the island.

Surveyors for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea

Surveyors for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea

AFEK OF TELEFOLMIN: A FABULOUS STORY FROM NEW GUINEA WHICH LEAD TO A STRANGE TRAGEDY

Friday, the 6th November, 1953, at three different places in the valley over the mountains from the remote outpost of Telefolmin in the Sepik District of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, four men died as the result of planned attacks by stone-age men armed with iron axes. On Wednesday, the 7th July, 1954, at Wewak, the headquarters of the Sepik District, the Papua and New Guinea Administration brought 33 Telefolmin natives to stand their trial for the killings. These had made a harshly unusual but not completely unfeared episode in its history of peaceful penetration and uplift of the primitive people in the rugged area under its charge. As the slow investigations progressed an interesting and unusual story emerged from the mass of clever stories and counter stories told with the effect of confusing the already confounded hearers. It was a story of a cohesion and of a common enterprise carried out with secrecy on a grand scale which is most unusual in the annals of the Territory.

A Nursing Education Seminar in Formosa

GROUP of nurses from twelve countries met together in Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa), last November to share experiences and study common problems in nursing education. They came from Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands New Guinea, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and Vietnam. Dorothy Beale had traveled by truck for 100 miles from Kimadaw in New Ireland-an island 400 miles from the mainland of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea-across the sea to the airport at Rabaul and then had spent 12 days in transit by air before reaching Taipei. Patricia Church from Perth, Australia, had traveled for eight days by air, with only necessary stopovers between planes. Altogether, 29 people convened for the seminar, including a nursing education consultant and an education director from the United States, and the WHO, regional nursing adviser from Manila. They all came for one purpose, to participate in the first nursing education seminar sponsored by the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization.

MEKEO POEMS AND LEGENDS

OceaniaVolume 22, Issue 2 p. 148-161 Article MEKEO POEMS AND LEGENDS A. P. Allan Natachee, A. P. Allan Natachee A Mekeo (Territory of Papua).Search for more papers by this author A. P. Allan Natachee, A. P. Allan Natachee A Mekeo (Territory of Papua).Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1951 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1951.tb00555.xCitations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume22, Issue2December 1951Pages 148-161 RelatedInformation

Four new Species representing two new Genera of Bryocorinae associated with Cacao in New Britain (Hemiptera, Miridae)

Thanks to the courtesy of Mr. G. S. Dun, Government Entomologist to the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, we have been able to study three interesting new species of Mirids found damaging cacao plants in New Britain. The first was discovered by Mr. Dun early in 1950 in abundance at Kabeira Plantation about six miles from the Lowland Experimental Station at Keravat where considerable damage had been done to the crop. This species was at first thought to be the West African Bryocoropsis laticollis Schumacher, 1917, which might have been accidentally introduced into New Britain. Closer investigation showed that it belonged to a distinct genus and species (Parabryocoropsis typicus, gen. et sp. n.). In September 1950, Mr. Dun found a second species attacking an isolated block of Cniollo cacao at the Keravat Experimental Station. On examination this proved to belong to still another genus and species (Pseudodoniella pacifica gen. et sp. n.).

Plasmodium lygosomae n. sp., a Parasite of a New Zealand Skink, Lygosoma moco (Gray, 1839)

Sixteen species of the genus Plasmodium, the status of two of which is in question, Wenyon (1926) regarding these as belonging to the genus Haemoproteus, have already been described from lizards (Thompson and Huff, 1944b; Thompson and Hart, 1946). Seven of the fourteen apparently valid species hitherto known are restricted to hosts within the family IGUANIDAE, and five are known from the family SCINCIDAE. Four of the species of the latter group parasitize skinks of the genus Mabuia in Africa and Brazil, while the other one, Plasmodium lacertiliae Thompson and Hart, 1946, is found in the blood of Leiolepisma fuscum on Goodenough Island, Territory of Papua, New Guinea. The subject of the present account, the sixth species of Plasmodium to be described from the family SCINCIDAE, differs from all but one of the previously described saurian plasmodia, P. mexicanum Thompson and Huff (1944a) in exhibiting exoerythrocytic schizogony, and is separated from this species on the bases of trophozoite and gametocyte morphology. It bears numerous morphological resemblances to several other saurian plasmodia, particularly P. lacertiliae, a species for which there is reason to believe that future investigations may conceivably reveal the presence of exoerythrocytic schizogony, but differs in detail from this and other saurian species as outlined in the account. As Leiolepisma fuscum is the host of P. lacertiliae, the affinities of this Papuan Plasmodium with the New Zealand species are of particular interest, for some herpetologists consider that Lygosoma moco, the host of P. lygosomae n. sp., should be transferred to the genus Leiolepisma (Mr. C. W. McCann, Dominion Museum, Wellington; private communication).

BLOOD GROUPS IN THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 3 p. 77-80 Original Article BLOOD GROUPS IN THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA J. J. Graydon, J. J. Graydon Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, MelbourneSearch for more papers by this authorR. T. Simmons, R. T. Simmons Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author J. J. Graydon, J. J. Graydon Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, MelbourneSearch for more papers by this authorR. T. Simmons, R. T. Simmons Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, MelbourneSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 July 1945 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1945.tb96447.xCitations: 12AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume2, Issue3July 1945Pages 77-80 RelatedInformation

The Cyclops Mountains of Dutch New Guinea

THE Papuan insect fauna, which is very distinct and very rich in forms, extends outside the island of New Guinea to adjacent islands and to tropical Queensland. By some means it has spread in a south-easterly direction as well, through the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides as far as the Society Islands in the mid-Pacific. For the last ten years my work has been to follow this Papuan element in the Pacific islands back to the land of its origin; making collections on islands from which we had no material in the national collection, in order to study the distribution of species in that region. In 1936 I spent a year in Dutch New Guinea on an expedition to the Cyclops Mountains to collect for the British Museum. I was allotted a grant in aid of expenses from that Museum, and also from the Percy Sladen Trust. I should like to take this opportunity of thanking the Trustees of both. My collection of insects made in the Territory of Papua in 1933-34 suggested to me that there must have been formerly older land connected with New Guinea, which possibly had not been entirely submerged during the late Cretaceous. For palaeontologists postulate a land mass there which extended somewhere between New Zealand and the Asiatic continent. It is supposed that during the middle Cretaceous New Guinea became separated from Malaysia and later from New Caledonia, and that during the late Cretaceous it was submerged to re-emerge during the Tertiary. The popula? tion from some older land must have spread on to New Guinea, for the greater part of the island is young, being aligned with the Himalayan geanticline. The very rich Papuan fauna and flora cannot have evolved on land raised from the sea during the Miocene-Pliocene; they are basically mainly of Asiatic origin. There is considerable biological evidence to support the supposition of the separation of New Guinea from Malaysia. Certain of the Papuan floristic and zoological groups?frogs and scorpions as well as insects?extend to China through the Moluccas and the Philippines but are not represented on the islands to the west. Those which on the other hand are also found in Malaysia are as a general rule widely distributed and rather rare forms which suggests that they belong to an older fauna. It is satisfactory when biological and geological evidence are not conflicting. If any land in New Guinea has remained dry since an early period it would probably be found north of the main central chain, where there are relics of very old mountains.1 Thus my recent expedition had a two-fold object, to make a systematic collection in one of New Guinea's oldest mountain ranges, and to gather any information concerning the topography of the district which might throw light on problems connected with the origin of its insect fauna. In this respect it was illuminating to learn that the Cyclops

A Supplement to C. T. White, "Ligneous Plants Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) in 1925-26 By L. J. Brass"

A Supplement to C. T. White, "Ligneous Plants Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) in 1925-26 By L. J. Brass"

Four New Palms Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) By L. J. Brass

Four New Palms Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) By L. J. Brass

Ligneous Plants Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) in 1925-26 by L.J. Brass

Ligneous Plants Collected in the Territory of Papua (British New Guinea) in 1925-26 by L.J. Brass

FOOD SUPPLY FOR NATIVES IN THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 17 p. 607-609 Original Article FOOD SUPPLY FOR NATIVES IN THE TERRITORY OF PAPUA W. M. Strong M.D., B.Ch., D.T.M. & H. (Cantab.), W. M. Strong M.D., B.Ch., D.T.M. & H. (Cantab.) Chief Medical Officer Territory of PapuaSearch for more papers by this author W. M. Strong M.D., B.Ch., D.T.M. & H. (Cantab.), W. M. Strong M.D., B.Ch., D.T.M. & H. (Cantab.) Chief Medical Officer Territory of PapuaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 April 1927 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1927.tb12740.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue17April 1927Pages 607-609 RelatedInformation