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the dispute was settled in November 1912.18

  Preparations, meanwhile, were being made for the establishment of the new federal capital. In May 1912, Walter Burley Griffin's scheme had been chosen as the winner of the design competition for the proposed city. In Griffin's design, the site on which the Institute of Anatomy would later be built lay on the eastern extremity of the area designated for the city's university. Although the original plan showed a building on the site, the proposed structure was merely an unnamed component of the university complex.

  The subsequent departmental plan for the city, drawn up after criticisms of Griffin's design, moved the site of the university eastward, placing the future location of the Institute of Anatomy near the city's hospital. In the event, this plan was overturned by Griffin's modification of his original design. This 'preliminary' plan restored the university quarter of the city to its original location and displayed McCoy Circuit in much its present shape and location. This plan, which became the working design for the city, showed the centre of McCoy Circuit occupied by an unnamed building which again formed part of the university group.19

  2.6  A National Museum of Australian Zoology

  The driving force behind the establishment of the Australian Institute of Anatomy was Dr (later Professor Sir) William Colin MacKenzie, known as Colin. MacKenzie had been born of Scottish immigrant parents at Kilmore north of Melbourne in 1877. He later studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1898. A year after his graduation, he became the senior resident medical officer at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne, a position he was to hold for two years. It was probably during this time that he first developed the interest in childhood diseases that would later play a significant part in the setting up of the Institute of Anatomy. Leaving the Children's Hospital at the end of 1901, MacKenzie entered private practice as a general practitioner and, at the same time, obtained an appointment as an honorary demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Melbourne.20