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Simon Rood Pittard, Curator and Secretary, 1860-1861
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/director-simon-pittard/Simon Rood Pittard, Curator and Secretary, 1860-1861
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Dr George Bennett, Secretary and Curator, 1835-1841
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/george-bennett-curator-1835-1841/Dr George Bennett, Secretary and Curator, 1835-1841
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History of the Palaeontology Department
https://australian.museum/about/history/collections/history-of-the-palaeontology-department/The palaeontology collection is one of the oldest in the Museum and contains some of its greatest treasures.
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A Garden Palace Survivor: Our first Ethnology Catalogue
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/a-garden-palace-survivor-our-first-ethnology-catalogue/Our first Ethnology listing is a rare surviving witness to the Garden Palace Ethnology Court.
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Ethel King's Snake Watercolours
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/ethel-kings-snake-watercolours/A collection of watercolours by Ethel King for the 'Snakes of Australia' book by J.R. Kinghorn.
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A Favourite - George Masters Collection Certificate
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/a-favourite-george-masters-collection-certificate/George Masters Collection Certificate - one piece of paper that evokes a lot of history.
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A Tale of Climbing Galaxias
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/a-tale-of-climbing-galaxias/Over a three-day period in late January 1993, Ranger Ian McArtney observed thousands of Galaxias (probably Mountain Galaxias) climbing the wall of Winburndale Dam, near Bathurst, New South Wales.
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The Chusan Ball
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/the-chusan-ball/In a time before the Internet and text messages, the arrival of the first British mail steam ship was cause for celebration in the colony.
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Blaschka glass sea anemones
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/blaschka-glass-sea-anemones/A scientific marvel in the field of art? Or an artistic marvel in the field of science? Either way, this isn't the only mystery crystallised in the collection of glass marine creatures made by the famous German father and son team, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka.
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Garden Palace Survivors
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/collection-stories-garden-palace-survivors/In 1879 the Australian Museum exhibited its Anthropology collections in a Sydney International Exhibition building called the Garden Palace.
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