Adelaide - Museums
"On the Formation of a Museum" is in The Examiner,
14 May 1853, page 9c.
"The Institute Museum" is in the Register,
3 January 1862, page 2g.
"The [Early] Museum" is in the Register,
8 June 1907, page 7h; also see
13 June 1907, page 8f,
"The Museum Building" on
31 October 1923, page 10a,
5 November 1923, page 10g.
"Our Museum" is in the Register,
25 November 1865, page 2g.
Articles on the Adelaide Museum are in the Register,
15 October 1866, page 3a,
18 October 1867, page 2c,
12 March 1869, page 2g,
Observer,
27 March 1869, page 12c,
Chronicle,
4 July 1868, page 8c,
24 July 1869, page 8e,
14 April 1870, page 5e,
7 January 1871, page 11f,
3 August 1872, page 11f,
Express,
29 July 1872, page 2b,
Register,
19 August 1872, page 5e,
15 May 1874, page 5c,
18 July 1877, page 5c,
30 October 1878, page 5g,
22 April 1882, page 4e,
2 December 1890, page 7f,
23 July 1894, page 6c,
12 January 1895, page 6g (history of, etc); also see
Advertiser,
24 July 1869, page 2d,
12 February 1884, page 6d.
"A Museum for South Australia" is in the Register,
12 March 1869, page 2g:
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Cricket and croquet, rowing and athletic sports, bad elocution and worse acting,
Mutual Improvement and Literary Societies are now in fashion; but the conceit
engendered by little knowledge and the narrowness of sectarian associations
need the correction which an enlarged study of nature and of the world could
probably impart.
"New Institute and Museum" is in The Irish Harp,
30 January 1874, page 3b,
6 February 1874, page 5a,
12 June 1874, page 4c,
Observer,
2 and 23 May 1874, pages 3a-5a and 13b-f,
"Our Museum" on
2 November 1878, page 20d; also see
Chronicle,
23 December 1876, page 5d,
Express,
8 September 1877, page 3f.
"Opening Museum on Sundays" is in the Chronicle,
26 July 1879, page 5b,
9 and 16 August 1879, pages 9e and 1a (supp.).
Register,
2, 5, 7 and 8 August 1879, pages 1g (supp.), 5a-6f, 6f and 4g-6d,
Observer,
9, 16, 23 and 30 August 1879, pages 8b-19f, 1a, 11f and 11b.
"The Museums of Australia and New Zealand" is in the Register,
16 August 1879, page 2a (supp.).
"The Museum of Economic Botany" is in the Register,
19 and 24 May 1881, pages 6g and 1a (supp.),
3 June 1881, page 1a (supp.).
"The Minerals in the Adelaide Museum" is in the Register,
25 August 1881, page 6f.
"The New Museum" is in the Express,
13 February 1884, page 3g,
Observer,
17 May 1884, page 43c.
"A Day at the Museum" is in the Register,
26 August 1884, page 6e. Its opening is reported in the Register,
18 and 19 December 1884, pages 6f and 4f-5g,
"The Museum - A Progressive Institution" on
9 July 1910, page 6c,
"South Australia First" on
8 and 10 February 1911, pages 4d and 6c; also see
Advertiser,
4 January 1913, page 7a.
An obituary of F.W. Andrews is in the Register,
22 October 1884, page 5a.
A proposed technological museum is discussed in the Observer,
27 December 1884, page 34e.
"Our Museum" is in the Register,
2 December 1890, page 7f.
"Wild Animals Stuffed" is in the Register,
24 March 1892, page 5a,
27 April 1892, page 5d.
An agricultural bureau museum housed in the Legislative Council building
is discussed in the Register,
13 February 1893, page 6f. "The New Museum" is in the Register,
23 July 1894, page 6c,
Chronicle,
28 July 1894, page 22g,
Observer,
19 January 1895, page 9a,
Express,
3, 11 and 14 January 1895, pages 4a, 3d and 3b; also see
Express,
6 January 1903, page 4e.
An obituary of Mr Edgar Waite, director of the museum, is in the Observer,
28 January 1928, page 49c.
"The Robbery From the Adelaide Museum" is in the Register,
27 November 1895, page 6i,
Observer,
30 November 1895, page 16a.
"Closing the Museum" is in the Register,
19 and 24 February 1898, pages 5a and 7b,
5 March 1898.
"A Relic of Ancient Egypt" is in the Register,
8 July 1899, pages 5e-6h.
Biographical details of F.R. Zietz are in the Observer,
1 April 1905, page 25b;
an obituary is in the Register,
11 April 1922, page 4h.
Photographs are in The Critic,
4 November 1908, page 7.
"The Adelaide Museum - A Progressive Institution" is in the Register,
9 July 1910, page 6c (includes photographs).
Biographical details of J.G.O. Tepper are in the Register,
24 August 1910, page 6g,
22 April 1911, page 11g,
1 July 1911, page 15d,
Observer,
27 August 1910, page 40c,
24 April 1915, page 32c.
An obituary of J.G.O. Tepper, entomologist, is in the Observer,
24 February 1923, page 33d.
Biographical details of Edgar Waite, director of the Museum, are in the Register,
20 December 1913, page 15c,
Observer,
27 December 1913, page 52e,
of Edgar R. Waite, director, on
8 May 1915, page 32b,
of Alan Rowe, curator of archaeology, on
4 July 1925, page 37c.
Photographs and information on "The Museum Expedition - On the Strezlecki
Track" are in the Chronicle,
4 November 1916, page 17c,
30 December 1916, page 28.
Biographical details of Alfred Chitty, numismatist, is in the Register,
2 March 1917, page 6h.
A field naturalists visit to the museum is reported in the Register,
12 July 1921, page 7d.
An obituary of A.H.C. Zietz (Zeitz?) is in the Observer,
6 August 1921, page 34b,
of F.R. Zeitz, ornithologist, on
15 April 1922, page 19e,
of Mr Edgar Waite, director of the museum, on
28 January 1928, page 49c.
"A Woman Numismatist [Miss S. Tower]" is in the Register,
2 and 9 February 1926, pages 4e and 2e.
Biographical details of Herbert M. Hale are in the Register,
21 April 1928, page 13d,
of J. Marks on
15 July 1929, page 5b.
"Musings at Museum" is in The Mail,
27 May 1933, page 6d.
