P006255 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2019-02-05 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2026-05-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006255b.htm corporateBody South Australian Museum AACR2 1940 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Museum The South Australian Museum was originally part of the South Australian Institute, a body that served as a public library, museum and art gallery from 1856 until 1940 when each institution was granted autonomy. South Australian Institute (1856 - 1940) Birdsell, Joseph Bernard (Joe) (1908 - 1994)

Birdsell's Australian field notes, journals, correspondence, and photographs were bequeathed to the Museum

 Mawson, Patricia Marietje (1915 - 1999)

Honorary Curator of Helminths 1980 - 1995

 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum (2002 - )

The Museum has presented the Prize since 2002

 May, William Lewis (1861 - 1925)

May's shell collection is n the Museum

 Black, Andrew Barham

Honorary Associate in Ornithology 2003 -

 Southcott, Ronald Vernon (1918 - 1998)

Honorary Associate in Zoology 1953 - ?; Chairman of the Board 1974 - 1982

 Cotton, Bernard Charles (1905 - 1966)

Curator of Molluscs 1940 - 1962

 Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900 - 1993)

Curator of Anthropology 1940 - 1962; Honorary Research Associate 1965 - 1993; the Museum holds Tindale's anthropological archives and entomological specimens

 Fisher, Robert Hilson (Bob) (1922 - 2007)

Honorary Research Associate 1986 - 2007; over 3,600 butterfly specimens donated to the Museum 1986

 Gillen, Francis James (1855 - 1912)

The Museum holds Gillen's ethnographic photographs

 White, Samuel Albert (1870 - 1954)

White's ethnographic and natural history collections are in the Museum

 Smith, Meredith Joan (1943 - 1998)

Laboratory Scientific Officer (later Senior Scientist), Evolutionary Biology Unit 1983 - 1998

 Ashby, Edwin (1861 - 1941)

Ashby donated his collections the Museum 1932

 Blaylock, Brian James (1947 - 2022)

Honorary Associate 2020 - 2022

 Finlayson, Hedley Herbert (1895 - 1991)

Honorary Curator of Mammals 1940 - 1965

 Brugger, Joël

Mineralogist 2002 - 2014

 Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893 - 1967)

Member of the Board 1940 - 1966

 Board of Anthropological Research (1926 - 1974)

Staff of the Museum participated in the Board's activities; records and associated collections of the Board are in the Museum

 Flannery, Timothy Fridjof

Director 1999 - 2006

 Hale, Herbert Mathew (1895 - 1963)

Director 1940 - 1960

 McGilp, John Neil (1881 - 1963)

McGilp presented a substantial collection of bird eggs to the Museum

 Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

Johnston bequeathed the Australian Helminth Collection to the South Australian Museum 1951

 Tyler, Michael James (1937 - 2020)

Chairman of the Board 1982 - 1992; Honorary Associate in Herpetology 1965 -

 Glaessner, Martin Fritz (1906 - 1989)

Research Associate 1953 - 1989

 Womersley, Herbert (1889 - 1962)

Entomologist 1940 - 1959; Acarologist 1954 - 1959

 Pedler, Lynn

Pedler has donated several hundred bird specimens to the Museum

 Sheard, Keith (1903 - 1965)

Assistant in Zoology 1940 - 1942

 Pring, Allan

Curator of Minerals 1984 - 2014; Honorary Research Associate in Mineralogy 2014 -

 Fairhall, Alfred Ernest (1868 - 1943)

In 1943 Douglas Mawson purchased Alfred Fairhall's collection of minerals for the Museum

 Whittington, Ian David (1960 - 2014)

Head of the Parasitology Section 2002 - 2012; Head of Biological Science 2012 - 2014

 Condon, Herbert Thomas (1912 - 1978)

Curator of Birds 1940 - 1976

 'South Australian Museum', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology South Australian Museum Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: "Scenes hidden from other eyes" - Theodore Bevan's collection from the Gulf of Papua in the South Australian Museum Craig, B. "Scenes hidden from other eyes" - Theodore Bevan's collection from the Gulf of Papua in the South Australian Museum 2010 The Artefact 33 30-48 Journal Article: The First Hundred Years of the Museum, 1856-1956 Hale, H. M. The First Hundred Years of the Museum, 1856-1956 1956 Records of the South Australian Museum 12 1-225 Journal Article: 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum, Part 4 King, John K. 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum, Part 4 1987 Friends of the South Australian Museum newsletter 19 2 3-9 Edited Book: Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history Chapman, Valerie C; Read, Peter Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history St Leonards, New South Wales Allen & Unwin 1996 Journal Article: The mineral collections of the South Australian Museum Pring, A. The mineral collections of the South Australian Museum 2000 Australian Journal of Mineralogy 6 59-70 Journal Article: The Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee: 10 March 1921 - 30 October 2001 Ziedler, W. The Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee: 10 March 1921 - 30 October 2001 2002 Records of the South Australian Museum 35 91-6 Journal Article: Changing of the guard in mineralogy at the South Australian Museum Anon Changing of the guard in mineralogy at the South Australian Museum 2015 Australian Journal of Mineralogy 17 2 58-60 Journal Article: Wing-commander Tindale RAAF 284483 Zilio, Francesca Wing-commander Tindale RAAF 284483 2015 Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 39 147-75 Journal Article: 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 2: 1956-1966 King, John K. 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 2: 1956-1966 1986 Friends of the South Australian Museum newsletter 17 2 3-7 Journal Article: 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 3: 1967-1976 King, John K. 1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 3: 1967-1976 1987 Friends of the South Australian Museum newsletter 28 1 3-9 Journal Article: Anthropological history and the South Australian Museum Sutton, Peter Anthropological history and the South Australian Museum 1986 Australian Aboriginal studies 1 45-51 Journal Article: Type shells from the May collection in the South Australian Museum Macphail, M. K.; and Zeidler, W, Type shells from the May collection in the South Australian Museum 1977 The Tasmanian naturalist 50 1-8 Journal Article: Additional type shells from Tasmania in the South Australian Museum Macphail, M. K.; and Zeidler, W. Additional type shells from Tasmania in the South Australian Museum 1978 The Tasmanian naturalist 52 2-6 Journal Article: The legacy of Norman B. Tindale at Princess Charlotte Bay: Lamalama engagement with museum collections Rigsby, Bruce; Allen, Lindy; and Hafner, Diane The legacy of Norman B. Tindale at Princess Charlotte Bay: Lamalama engagement with museum collections 2015 Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 39 26-72 Thesis: "A box of native things": ethnographic collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830s - 1930s Jones, Philip G. "A box of native things": ethnographic collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830s - 1930s University of Adelaide 1996 Journal Article: 1856 and all That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 1: the First Hundred Years King, John K. 1856 and all That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 1: the First Hundred Years 1986 Friends of the South Australian Museum newsletter 17 1 4-9 Book: In the far north-east: a scientific expedition White, S. A. In the far north-east: a scientific expedition Adelaide W. K. Thomas & Co. 1917 Book: Australia's national collections Lloyd, Clem and Sekuless, Peter Australia's national collections North Ryde, N.S.W. Cassell Australia 1980 Journal Article: Norman Tindale's research legacy and the cultural heritage of indigenous Australians McCaul, Kim; and Roberts, Amy [editors] Norman Tindale's research legacy and the cultural heritage of indigenous Australians 2015 Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, special edition 39 1-175 Resource: The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History Nettelbeck, Amanda (and others) The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History South Australia South Australian Government 2023 Edited Book: Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology, volume IV Davis, William E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Recher, Harry F. Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology, volume IV Cambridge, Massachusetts Nuttall Ornithological Club 2018 Book: A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Pybus, Cassandra A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Sydney Allen & Unwin 2024 Book Section: Milerum (1869?-1941), shearer and Aboriginal ethnologist Tindale, Norman B. Milerum (1869?-1941), shearer and Aboriginal ethnologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 498-499 Book Section: Geology Corbett, David W.P.; Cooper, B. J.; Mooney, P. M. Geology Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 29-67 Book Section: Zoology Edmonds, S. J. Zoology Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 161-212 Book Section: Botany Robertson, E. L. Botany Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 101-49 Journal Article: Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks: September and October 1916 (b): botany Black, J. M. Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks: September and October 1916 (b): botany 1917 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 41 631-53