The report will analyze the history of the collection of the largest in Russia Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the RAS in St. Petersburg, on the example of the collection of marsupial mammals, formed during the XIX century. In total, the museum's exposition has 72 exhibits related to 57 species of marsupials from Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. On the basis of old labels, receipts from Johann Preess (1811-1883), Gustav Adolph Frank (1809-1880), Niehoff, C.L. Salmin, Julius Gebhardt, Ernest Antonovich Rost, Rear Admiral Ivan Ivanovich Butakov (1822-1882), Václav Frič (1839-1916), Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873), Edward Herrard and Sons, and from the Russian consul Nikolai Pompeyevich Passek (1850-1914) will be traced. The collection was formed so long ago that many species exhibited in the museum in Australia itself became the subject of protection and even became extinct, like the common hare kangaroo or the Tasmanian marsupial wolf.

In the mid-1930s, Boots The Chemists, the largest retail pharmacy in the United Kingdom, arrived in New Zealand to open its first international stores. The company had ambitious plans to establish dozens of stores, set up factories to produce goods for export, and use local resources to develop products for the UK market. Boots framed its expansion as an "imperial duty", emphasising the importance of their role in supporting New Zealand's "loyal citizens of Empire".
Boots faced organised and sustained resistance from local pharmacists, as most of New Zealand's pharmacies were one-man operations. Pharmacists argued that Boots would make "mincemeat" out of these traditional pharmacies if they were allowed to operate without restrictions. Critics also accused Boots of exploiting local materials for commercial gain. Combined with protectionist policies that helped curtail Boots' ability to open further stores, this resistance significantly limited the company’s growth in the country.
This paper explores the history of Boots in New Zealand, focusing on its Dunedin store, which operated from 1938 to 1990. Drawing on archival records and oral histories from former employees of the Dunedin branch, it shows how local challenges mirrored broader national trends. Initially, the company leaned on its British identity as a symbol of quality and service, but over time, this connection to Britain became less relevant to customers. Boots struggled to adapt its service and products to stay in line with changing consumer preferences, making it more difficult for the company to connect with new generations of local New Zealanders.

The development of scientific medicine and medical practice in colonial Australia is inextricably bound to that of the British. For much of the nineteenth century, the majority of medical practitioners practicing in the Australian colonies earned their qualifications at medical schools in Britain, despite the foundation of local medical schools in the middle of the century. It was not until the 1880s that sizable numbers of colonially trained medical practitioners began to practice (and conduct research) across the Australian continent.

This paper seeks to examine the colonial contribution to the wider field of medical knowledge through a comparison of medical journals from both Britain and from several Australian colonies. By using the distant reading techniques of the digital humanities, in conjunction with the traditional close reading of historical research, this paper examines the comparative histories of these journals over the second half of the nineteenth century. Through doing so it will explore the interconnections and differences between the texts within the journals themselves, and the communities that read them.

By comparing the British Medical Journal with the Victorian Australian Medical Journal, the South Australian Transactions of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association, and the New South Wales Medical Gazette this paper sets out to examine the way that new medical knowledge is produced and disseminated in the colonial setting, and to examine if and how the writings of colonial practitioners differed from each other and from their peers in Britain.

In the study of the history of science in Aotearoa, the voices and stories of settler scientists have been privileged and centred. With historians, at times, asserting that the practice of science in Aotearoa began with the arrival of early European scientists in the late eighteenth century. These claims completely erase Māori practises of science, which predecessed the arrival of the first waves of settler scientists from Europe. I will draw on pūrākau from a te ao Māori perspective to illustrate how Māori were the first scientists in Aotearoa and explore ideas of what Indigenous science is in the context of Aotearoa. Māori expertly navigated across Te Moana nui a Kiwa using the stars and then gained extensive scientific knowledge, allowing us to thrive here. I will dispel colonial myths regarding the history oif science in Aotearoa through drawing on contemporary and past examples. Globally, there is building acknowledgement of the value of Indigenous knowledge but this should start with understanding how in the history of science the voices and knowledge systems of Indigenous people have often been invisibilised.