New Zealand Geological Survey (Corporate Name)

On July 1, 1990 New Zealand Geological Survey merged with the Geophysics Division to form DSIR Geology and Geophysics

Palaeon. bull. (Wellington, N.Z.). Palaeontological bulletin, No. 1 (1913): t.p. (New Zealand, Department of Mines, New Zealand Geological Survey); No. 7 (1918): t.p. (New Zealand, Department of Mines, Geological Survey Branch); 18 (1952): t.p. (New Zealand, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand Geological Survey)

McGregor, E. Bibliographic index of New Zealand ... 1987: t.p. (N.Z. Geological Survey)

New Zealand. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department. Meteorological report, 1873: title page (Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department)

Dictionary of New Zealand biography WWW site, viewed on December 9, 2013: Hector, James (In 1865 Hector was appointed director of the Geological Survey and Colonial Museum in Wellington; Hector saw [them] as a single unit)

Archway WWW site, viewed on December 10, 2013: New Zealand Geological Survey (also known as Geological Survey) history & notes (The New Zealand Geological Survey (NZGS) was the first government scientific organisation in New Zealand and has been involved in research and survey work in all major areas of geology; In 1865 Sir James Hector was appointed as the New Zealand Geological Survey's first director, although the agency was only officially constituted with the passing of the New Zealand Institute Act in 1867; In an administrative change in 1886, control of the New Zealand Geological Survey was transferred to the Mines Department; In 1926, the Scientific and Industrial Research Act was passed which provided for the incorporation of the New Zealand Geological Survey into the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research)

NZ files, July 9, 2003 (hdg.: DSIR Geology and Geophysics (N.Z.))