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59   Anon., 'The orations at the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra', Health, vol. 11, August 1933, pp. 68-72; 'Report of the Director. Australian Institute of Anatomy. 1st July, 1931-30th June, 1932', p. 1, CRS A1928, item 695/17.

   1935-6: the Ramsay Smith Collection of 60 skulls was purchased; and

   1936: a collection of Australian, Papua-New Guinean and Fijian ethnographic material was purchased from Mr J.W. Lindo from South Australia.60

  Perhaps the Institute's most famous acquisition of all was the heart of the champion Australian racehorse, Phar Lap.

  Along with the endowed lectures and the steady acquisition of new material, MacKenzie was successful in securing some additional specialist staff for the Institute during his period as Director. In August 1934, Dr Philip Cutner started work as MacKenzie's medical assistant, but he unfortunately departed after only seven months. The following year, federal Cabinet approved the creation of two new professional positions at the

  Institute, those of experimental biologist and biochemist. In June 1935, Dr Geoffrey Bourne took up the former position and Mr Russell Allan the latter on a temporary basis. Within a year, Miss Doris Anderson had taken over from Allan as the Institute's biochemist. The vacant position of medical assistant was filled in 1936 by Dr Charles Mackay, who had just returned to Australia after two decades in England.61

Figure 20: Institute of Anatomy, 1933 (National Archives of Australia 2018)