ABSTRACT The first three curators at the Otago University Museum, Dunedin, NZ had much in common. They were zoologists, all evolutionists, all part-time curators (they held professorial posts in the University), all Englishmen, and all professed an Anglican faith, qualities that brought them unexpected conflict in the largely Presbyterian Scottish settler town. The men struggled to complete their time-constrained research in more-or-less isolation amongst unfamiliar and peculiar New Zealand fauna. Spanning the years 1873 when the first curator was appointed, to 1936 when the third retired, this paper sets their achievements against their individual evolutionary stances that subtly guided the layout in the museum.

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他们在想什么？在奥塔哥博物馆追溯进化，1868-1936 年

摘要 新西兰但尼丁奥塔哥大学博物馆的前三位策展人有很多共同之处。他们是动物学家，都是进化论者，都是兼职策展人（他们在大学担任教授职位），都是英国人，并且都自称是英国国教的信仰，这些品质给他们带来了意想不到的冲突，在这个以长老会为主的苏格兰定居者城镇中。这些人或多或少地与陌生而奇特的新西兰动物群隔绝，努力完成时间有限的研究。从 1873 年第一任馆长被任命，到 1936 年第三任馆长退休，本文将他们的成就与他们个人的进化立场相比较，这些立场巧妙地指导了博物馆的布局。