Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia by Paul Turnbull

Author:Paul Turnbull
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Even so, the better part of what was collected for the museum prior to the 1870s were mineral and botanical specimens.

Prior to the 1870s, Australian museums had an additional problem: often settlers with scientific interests were inclined to send desirable specimens to British collectors. As South Australian Museum trustee William Wyatt lamented,it was singular—but it probably arises from the fact that people are not generally speaking domiciled in the country—that so little trouble should be taken to procure specimens of natural objects for the purpose of preserving them in a museum. Whenever collections are made they are sent home, or to friends out of the colony, so that we lose many things which are highly important that these should be procured as rapidly as possible, as many species are becoming very rare or dying out, and will be utterly lost to science. (Wyatt 1863, p. 5)

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