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Péron, François (1775 - 1810)

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • MacFarlane, C. W. and Triebel, L. A., French Explorers in Tasmania and the South Seas, Australasian Publishing Co., Sydney, 1937. [ Details ]

  • Peron, Francois, Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 2003. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Hughes, Miranda, 'Tall Tales of True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802', in Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock (eds), Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1988, pp. 65-88. [ Details ]

  • Hughes, Miranda J., 'Philosophical Travellers at the Ends of the Earth: Baudin, Peron and the Tasmanians', in R. W. Home (ed.), Australian Science in the Making, Cambridge University Press, Sydney, 1988, pp. 23-44. [ Details ]

  • Marchant, Leslie R.; Reynolds, J. H., 'Péron, Francois (1775-1810), naturalist, explorer and historian', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 323-324. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020288b.htm) [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Andrews, E.C., 'The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. lxxvi, 1942, pp. 96-128. [ Details ]

  • Triebel, L.A., 'Peron in Tasmania', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1947, pp. 63-68. [ Details ]

  • Turtle, Alison M., 'Peron, Porteus, and the Pacific Islands Regiment: the Beginings of Cross-cultural Psychology in Australia', Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, vol. 27, 1991, pp. 7-20. [ Details ]

 

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