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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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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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Alfred Russel Wallace letters
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/alfred-russel-wallace-letters/An enquiry from a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London has meant new scans of some fascinating 1892 correspondence between Australian Museum conchologist Charles Hedley and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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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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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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Growing food to building exhibitions – a colorful journey
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/growing-food-to-building-exhibitions-a-colorful-journey/The Museum's magnificent heritage streetscape easily detracts from the triangular shaped brick building behind the Yurong Street wall.
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Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australian-museum-visitors-hobbies-and-interests/What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have?
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A Labour of Love — the Scott Family Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-labour-of-love-the-scott-family-collection/Sisters Helena and Harriet Scott documented the butterflies and botany of NSW in exquisite detail, but their path was not without struggle.
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1830s: The Rascally Bird Stuffer
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-rascally-bird-stuffer/Once 'collector and preserver of specimens', the Museum's early taxidermist decided to branch out.
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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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