Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:56:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 56 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 103060–104900

material acquired included:

   By 1930: the Burrell Collection, showing all stages in the life cycle of the platypus.

   By 1930: a collection of Aboriginal skeletal material from southern Victoria and the Murray River, presented by Murray Black of Gippsland. In the ensuing years, the indefatigable Mr Black sent further collections of Aboriginal skeletons he had pillaged from traditional burial grounds in Victoria and New South Wales.

   By 1930: a collection of Aboriginal skeletal material from the Murray River, presented by Dr Nankivell of Kerang, Victoria.

  November 1930: the Edmund Milne Collection of ethnographic material, which had hitherto been housed in premises in Ryde, Sydney.

  1931: two skeletons, a male and a female, of North American Indians, presented by Harvard University.

  1933: a collection of almost 250 specimens presented by Professor Scott of Harvard University's Museum of Ethnology and comprising a representative sample of the archaeology of the United States.

  1933: a collection of 410 items sent by the Ribault Ethnological Museum.

  1933: a collection of gall stones donated by Dr Cleaver Woods of Albury.

  1934: a vast collection of Papuan ethnological and osteological material donated by Sir Hubert Murray, former Lieutenant- Governor of Papua.

  1934: the late Herbert Basedow's collection of Aboriginal material was acquired by purchase, through the Prime Minister's Department.

  1934: The Department of Defence donated a collection of pathological specimens from World War I.

  August 1934: Sir Raphael Cilento presented a collection of deformed New Guinea skulls and simultaneously established
  the Cilento Medal to be awarded by the Institute each year to a person deemed to have made the most important contribution to Aboriginal welfare and tropical hygiene in Australia.