St Matthias Group: Results of the Expedition to the South Seas 1908-1910 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781460976388)

There was noticeable excitement among the people when Dennison's translation of Parkinson's "Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee" was presented to the Kavieng Library, in 2002. This 230-page translation of the 1933 publication of Hans Nevermann's detailed study of the Emirau/St Matthias people and their islands is also the work of John Dennison, a Research Fellow in Anatomy of the Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, and author of published papers on skeletal anatomy, soft-tissue anatomical anomalies, and on three Egyptian mummies in New Zealand public museums, who had undergone CT scans. In addition to teaching gross anatomy John Dennison is a physical anthropologist, who has worked extensively in French Polynesia, and coauthored, with Eric Conte, "Te Tahata: Etude d'un marae de Tepoto, Archipel des Tuamotu". He has recently completed translation of de Quervain and Wegelin's 1936 classic volume, "Der endemische Kretinismus". John Dennison is also a forensic anthropologist on-call to the coronial service; and a Government-certified translator of French, German, and Russian languages.