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Dr Frank Hamilton Talbot, Director 1966-1975
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/dr-frank-hamilton-talbot-director-1966-1975/Dr. Frank Talbot increased the quality of the Museum's research and participated in a NASA program.
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Rock engraving of an echidna
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/australian-archaeology/indigenous-rock-engraving-of-an-echidna/What we know about this Aboriginal rock engraving in Sydney.
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Pandanus toy propellers from Arnhem Land, 1948
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cultural-objects/indigenous-pandanus-toy-propellers-from-arnhem-land-1948/Pandanus propellers such as these were used as toys by Aboriginal children from Yirrkala in Arnhem Land.
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The managed water cycle
https://australian.museum/get-involved/citizen-science/streamwatch/water-catchment/streamwatch-the-managed-water-cycle/The natural water cycle has been modified by people to ensure a constant water supply and the safe disposal of wastewater.
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The Catadon Polka
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/the-catadon-polka/The polka was the great dance craze of the 1840s. So how did the Australian Museum get its own Catadon (Whale) Polka?
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Where have all the Christmas Beetles gone?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/christmas-beetles/The evidence suggesting a decline is anecdotal yet compelling.
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Out on a limb: tree-kangaroos
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/out-on-a-limb/Evolution can take some surprising twists and turns, and none more so than with kangaroos that live in trees, says evolutionary biologist Mark Eldridge.
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Miss Snell and the Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/tongan/miss-snell-and-the-collection/In April 2011 the museum received a phone call that informed Cultural Collections staff that a Miss Muriel Snell wished to donate a small number of objects to the Australian Museum...
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Robert (Bob) McDowall 1939 – 2011
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/robert-bob-mcdowall-1939-2011/Well-known New Zealand fisheries scientist, Bob McDowall died after a short illness. Bob was regarded as the father of freshwater fish and fisheries in New Zealand, but also had a huge influence on unravelling the taxonomy and distribution of Australia's temperate freshwater fish.
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Alexander Walker Scott's entomology work
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/scott-sisters/alexander-walker-scotts-entomology-work/Alexander Walker Scott acquired a love of natural history from his father. Although trained as a lawyer, and with a number of business and political interests, he increasingly spent his time collecting and researching butterflies and moths.
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