. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. 167 The distribution of shell trumpets throughout the world has been mapped by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson in the Man- chester Memoirs^ vol. LX., 1916, No. 8. Australia is almost the only country in â which shell trumpets do not occur, thoug'li material for their nuinufacture is plentiful. If the Australian abori- ginals had blown siiell trumpets, they might not have taught the whites to "; Brief History of the Australian Museum. Bv W. A. Rainbow IT has been generally accepted that the Australian Muse
. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. 167 The distribution of shell trumpets throughout the world has been mapped by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson in the Man- chester Memoirs^ vol. LX., 1916, No. 8. Australia is almost the only country in â which shell trumpets do not occur, thoug'li material for their nuinufacture is plentiful. If the Australian abori- ginals had blown siiell trumpets, they might not have taught the whites to "; Brief History of the Australian Museum. Bv W. A. Rainbow IT has been generally accepted that the Australian Museum was not founded till 1830. Such, however, is not the case. Earl Bathunst in a despatch to Governor Darling dated March 30th, 1827, stated that the advantages of es- tablishing a ^'Publick Museum" had been represented to him, and though he felt some hesitation in sanctioning money for a building until estimates had been submitted he approved the ex- penditure of nf)t more tluni £200 an- nually to assist the project. As a first step he consented to the appointment of Mr. W. Holmes as Zoologist "who has been well recommended to me as pecu- liarly fitted for it; and who will, there- fore, be immediately sent out to the ; In January, 1828, there ap- peared in the "Australian Journal of Theology, Literature and Science,'' sug- gestions for ''the establislnnent of an. The residence of the Chief Justice, in which the Colonial Museum was housed from 1836 to 1840. (After Bladenâ"Public Library of Wales, Historial Notes," 1906.) * For a fuller account of the museum's history, to the year 1868, see R. Etheric in "Records of the Austrahan Museum," vol xii., 1919, p. L-39. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Australian Museum; Australian Museum. Sydne
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