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That's the spirit: a short history of wet specimen storage at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wet-specimen-storage-spirit-house/Glass jars containing translucent creatures are a common sight at any natural history museum. But the highly flammable ethanol that preserves the specimens inside must be carefully stored to prevent the collections going up in flames.
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Ancient Egyptian Lecture Series
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ancient-egypt-lantern-lecture/Our Photographic Archives team have uncovered lantern slides from a 1925 Ancient Egypt Lecture Series delivered by Museum Ethnologist, William Walford Thorpe.
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Breaking glass ceilings at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/breaking-glass-ceilings-at-the-australian-museum/Appointed in 1972, Dame Leonie Kramer AC, DBE, was the first female trustee of the Australian Museum.
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Ethel King - Painter of all things natural
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ethel-king-painter-of-all-things-natural/A talented illustrator who painted from and on specimens.
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Notes from Nature – Digitising the Edgar Waite Dairies #0
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/notes-from-nature-digitising-the-edgar-waite-dairies-1/Edgar Waite began his life-long diary habit at the tender age of eight.
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Lantern slide collections in the AM Archives
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lantern-slide-collections-in-the-am-archives/Illuminating the Australian Museum's first image library - 30,000 glass lantern slides.
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Thomas Whitelegge, a workingman naturalist
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/thomas-whitelegge-a-workingman-naturalist/The lantern slide collection reminds me of the story of Thomas Whitelegge - factory hand, biologist, Darwin correspondent and single father.
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Caring for Alfred North's original pictorial material
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/caring-for-alfred-norths-original-pictorial-materialrehoused/Archives volunteer, Ada Klinkhamer writes of her experience rehousing and documenting photographs and illustrations prepared for use in publications by Australian Museum ornithologist, Alfred John North.
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'A dear friend by the strange shore'
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-dear-friend-by-the-strange-shore/'Let me meet you once more! A dear friend by the strange shore.' Captain Nomure, 19/11/1911.
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'Splendidly stuffed'
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/splendidly-stuffed/The Australian Museum purchased three crocodiles in 1879. The first came to the Museum in July from showman William Cash.
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