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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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1980s: Repatriation - a significant step towards the future
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1980s-repatriation-a-significant-step-towards-the-future/In 1981 Anthropologists celebrated the ‘return to Vanuatu of an important ceremonial slit drum … one of only five surviving in the world’.
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1970s: Reaching Out
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1970s-reaching-out/What's got four wheels, is stuffed with life and provides an important service to the community?
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1950s: ….colour, good design and simplicity
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1950s-colour-good-design-and-simplicity/Enabling scientific information to be presented in an interesting way
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1940s: The Australian Museum - Breaking Out
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1940s-the-australian-museum-breaking-out/"Museum's are not morgues and should expand along modern lines." So commented J.R Kinghorn in the Women's Weekly
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Who is that stylish woman?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/who-is-that-stylish-woman/The second woman to be employed on the scientific staff of the Australian Museum.
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1920s: Be Careful What You Wish For – Charles Anderson Director
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1920s-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-charles-anderson-director/Who would have thought that superannuation could cause so much angst?
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1910s: Allan McCulloch - A New Breed of Scientist for the 20th Century
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1910sallan-mcculloch-a-new-breed-of-scientist-for-the-20th-century/On his recruitment application for war service in 1918 the only address that 32 year-old Allan McCulloch cited was the 'Australian Museum'.
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1890s: Charles Hedley - upstart colonial?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/charles-hedley-upstart-colonial/It could have all gone horribly wrong....
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1880s: Where it all began - AM's long history with Lord Howe Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-natural-history-classic-robert-etheridge-jnr/In 2017, Museum scientists revisted the site where its first scientific field survey was conducted 130 years ago - Lord Howe Island.
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