Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Overview
- Part One NAVIGATORS AND NATURALISTS IN THE AGE OF SAIL
- Part Two A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
- Chapter 11 ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF CORAL REEFS: FROM FORSTER TO DARWIN
- Chapter 12 DARWIN'S LEGACY: CORAL REEF CONTROVERSY 1863–1923
- Chapter 13 EXPLOITATION CHALLENGED: RISE OF ECOLOGY
- Chapter 14 REEF RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSY: 1920–1930
- Chapter 15 THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION, 1928–1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
- Chapter 16 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION
- Chapter 17 FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR: TOURISM, CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE, 1929–1939
- Chapter 18 THE PACIFIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
- Chapter 19 A NEW PROBLEM: THE CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY, 1958–1972
- Chapter 20 CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
- Chapter 21 A NEW ERA: RESEARCH BASED MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 22 THE REEF UNDER PRESSURE: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 23 THE REEF AS HERITAGE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
- References
- Index
Chapter 15 - THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION, 1928–1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
from Part Two - A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Overview
- Part One NAVIGATORS AND NATURALISTS IN THE AGE OF SAIL
- Part Two A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
- Chapter 11 ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF CORAL REEFS: FROM FORSTER TO DARWIN
- Chapter 12 DARWIN'S LEGACY: CORAL REEF CONTROVERSY 1863–1923
- Chapter 13 EXPLOITATION CHALLENGED: RISE OF ECOLOGY
- Chapter 14 REEF RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSY: 1920–1930
- Chapter 15 THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION, 1928–1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
- Chapter 16 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION
- Chapter 17 FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR: TOURISM, CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE, 1929–1939
- Chapter 18 THE PACIFIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
- Chapter 19 A NEW PROBLEM: THE CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY, 1958–1972
- Chapter 20 CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
- Chapter 21 A NEW ERA: RESEARCH BASED MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 22 THE REEF UNDER PRESSURE: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 23 THE REEF AS HERITAGE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
- References
- Index
Summary
ISSUE OF REEF BIOLOGICAL STUDIES, 1923–1927
Virtually no biological work appeared throughout 1923 and 1924. The years 1925 and 1926, in effect, were a low point in the development of Reef studies when a sequence of difficulties came together. On 25 September 1925 Nathan completed his term as Governor and retired to England as ‘Patron’ of the Committee where he worked on its behalf until his death in 1939. The Committee had now lost its most eloquent and influential advocate in Queensland. The ongoing fracas with the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland (RGSAQ) was a major irritant that continued to destabilise the Committee, along with growing discontent that no significant biological work was in progress, especially in zoology which, apart from the work of Saville-Kent and Hedley, had still not developed any vigour. Then, on 14 September 1926 came the distressing news that Charles Hedley had died soon after he had returned to Sydney to farewell his wife Harriett and pack for the imminent Third Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress to be held in Tokyo. A lifelong asthmatic who had successfully found relief from the rigours of his native Yorkshire in tropic regions, he had contracted a chest complaint that exacerbated a heart condition to which he succumbed quickly.
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- The Great Barrier ReefHistory, Science, Heritage, pp. 249 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002