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Taxacom: Searching for an obscure corrigenda page (Australian fossil insects)

Tony Rees tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 00:29:48 CST 2024


I did get so far as the Google play page for the work, from Australia, and
it told me "this item is not available in your country". Go figure...

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, 3:47 pm Tony Rees via Taxacom, <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> On behalf of IRMNG, the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera,
> I/we are searching for a "corrigenda" page (possibly p. 506, possibly not)
> that accompanies the following publication:
>
> Tillyard, R. J.; Dunstan, B. 1923 (?1924) Mesozoic Insects of
> Queensland. *Geological
> Survey of Queensland Publication.* 273
>
> It seems possible that the corrigenda (referencing text in Part 1) is at
> the end of the whole volume (or perhaps 2 volume set?) (multiple parts); at
> least it is not included in Part 1 "Dunstan, B. (1923). Part
> I.—Introduction and Coleoptera" which is otherwise available online at
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeoscience.data.qld.gov.au%2Fdata%2Freport%2Fcr055428&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C75f72044c7324633263708dd09f5ed33%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638677674054984186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PLUNFepUzQQLh1LXLZtthVcN7PyMi00%2B84RGVeJYbIE%3D&reserved=0 (this only goes up
> to the last page of that part, i.e. p. 89).
>
> A snippet of the work (including first few lines of the desired Corrigenda)
> can be found on Google Books at
>
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.co.uk%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dx0MQAAAAIAAJ%26focus%3Dsearchwithinvolume%26q%3Dcorrigenda&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C75f72044c7324633263708dd09f5ed33%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638677674054984186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ljIU1UAIUQlLoi0jrwOw%2FM3vuJkoOkq1jIfANoqmNgg%3D&reserved=0
> , but unfortunately the remainder of the relevant page(s) cannot be viewed.
>
> The Google play store has a reference to "Mesozoic Insects of Queensland:
> Part 1 Robin John Tillyard · Benjamin Dunstan Jan 1924 · A. J. Cumming,
> government printer", stated to be 506 pages (which would in fact be all
> parts, perhaps) at
>
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fbooks%2Fdetails%2FMesozoic_Insects_of_Queensland_Part_1%3Fid%3Dx0MQAAAAIAAJ%26hl%3Den_GB&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C75f72044c7324633263708dd09f5ed33%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638677674054984186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vn0izEkU%2Fwbzi3VzqZ55XVf0jUXCYVq7orIXpa83ByI%3D&reserved=0
> and says this can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet via the Google Play
> Books App, however after installing that app on my phone I cannot find the
> work!!
>
> I have had no luck searching for the full work in either BHL or Internet
> Archive. According to WorldCat, there are a number of physical copies in
> libraries around the place, see
>
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.worldcat.org%2Ftitle%2FMesozoic-insects-of-Queensland%2Foclc%2F5261132&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C75f72044c7324633263708dd09f5ed33%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638677674054984186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1OPE%2F1AHumMhtTqFTFOPjgDWHEmU%2Fw2nM%2F6T221HZ3Y%3D&reserved=0
>
> If anyone can point us to, or share a copy of the mysterious "Corrigenda"
> page/s, that would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2FTonyRees&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C75f72044c7324633263708dd09f5ed33%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638677674054984186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UTbTCISDczY1o3g7ZJv%2FfUlYwyi2x2XaLVPMt%2BIwjQg%3D&reserved=0
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