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5 unusual facts about South Australian Museum


Jane Lomax-Smith

She was Interim Director of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), and is currently chair of the Board of the South Australian Museum.

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On 18 August 2011 Premier Mike Rann announced that Dr Lomax-Smith had been appointed as the new chair of the South Australian Museum board.

Joseph Birdsell

He had a very mutually fertile 50-year collaboration with Norman Tindale of the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide.

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Norman B. Tindale and Joseph B. Birdsell, "Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland", Records of the South Australian Museum, 7 (1), 1941-3, pp 1–9

North Road Cemetery

Edward Charles Stirling, founder of the University of Adelaide's medical school, Director of South Australian Museum, anthropologist, explorer and the first person in Australasia to introduce a bill for women's suffrage



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