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matching guns, themes: 'built environment','land and ecology','service and sacrifice'
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Museums VictoriaTime Flies in Museum Collections: Ornithology in Victoria
... in museums. The long term value of egg collections continues to reveal itself with spectrophotometry and CT scanning employed in ecological studies. Similarly, these early images record the collecting and preparation of bird skins in the period before gun ...Natural science collections are vast treasure troves of biological data which inform current research and conservation.
Alongside bird skins, nests, eggs and DNA samples sits a magnificent collection of rare books, illustrations and images which charts the history of amateur and professional ornithology in Victoria.
Whilst the big names such as John Gould (1804–1881), are represented, the very local, independent bird observers such as John Cotton (1801-1849) and Archibald James Campbell (1853–1929) made some of the most enduring contributions.
The collections also document the bird observers themselves; their work in the field, building collections, their efforts to publish and the growth of their ornithological networks. Captured within records are changes in ornithological methods, particularly the way data is captured and published.
However the data itself remains as relevant today as it did when first recorded, 160 years of collecting gives us a long-term picture of birdlife in Victoria through space and time.
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Lucinda HorrocksThe Missing
... and Cape Helles where he was taken through the trenches, on foot and under fire, to within 25 yards of the Turkish guns. Days later, at the No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital at West Mudros, men suffering terribly from exposure told him of their friends ...When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death, a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” - their bodies never found.
This film and series of photo essays explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.
