Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:45
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45   The National Archives of Australia states the address of this and following photographs as McCoy Circle, which we believe to be McCoy Circuit and have changed it in every instance to reflect the current address.

Figure 10: Australian Institute of Anatomy – under construction. McCoy Circuit, Acton, 1930 (National Archives of Australia 2018)

Figure 11: Australian Institute of Anatomy – under construction, external facing being fitted. McCoy Circuit, Acton, 1930 (National Archives of Australia 2018)

Figure 12: Australian Institute of Anatomy – main Exhibition Hall under construction. McCoy Circuit, Acton, 1930 (National Archives of Australia 2018)

Figure 13: Australian Institute of Anatomy – opening. 1929 (NFSA 2018)

  At the same time that the go-ahead had been given, in August 1929, for construction of the Director's residence, Cabinet decided that the cottages for the curator and the groundsman at MacKenzie's zoological reserve at Westridge would not be built. Like any other government employees, these staff members of the Institute would have to seek accommodation in whatever government housing was

  available in Canberra. As for the zoo itself, Cabinet decided that it should proceed. Already, the government foresters had carried out some plantings in the area and some additional preliminary work was now undertaken. With the onset of the Depression, however, the hefty expenditure on the project could no longer be justified. The project was deferred in April 1930, never to be resumed. For some years later

  in the 1930s, the Institute housed a number of animals in various cages and enclosures in the grounds of the Canberra Hospital. By 1939, a small reserve for the live animals had been acquired about 65 kilometres from Canberra and stocked with six koalas brought from Victoria.46

  It is recorded that a tooth of Diprotodon was uncovered during excavation for the building.47

Figure 14: Australian Institute of Anatomy – completed. McCoy Circuit, Acton, 1930 (National Archives of Australia 2018)