The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 20
Appendix A
Appendix A.
"Report of the Curator of the South Australian Institute Museum on the progress of the Museum during the year ending 30th September, 1872.
"To the Board of Governors of the South Australian Institute.
"Gentlemen—In laying this annual report before you I regret to state that the progress made this year has not been so favourable as might have been wished on account of the funds available for Museum purposes being insufficient for the purchase of such specimens of natural history peculiar to this province as are valuable desiderata to other Museums with which I am in correspondence, and from which considerable additions might have been made by mutual exchanges.
"The principal additions made to the collection by exchanges consist of a choice selection of beautiful birds typical of genera peculiar to South America, and an interesting collection of reptilia from the same country, received from the Royal Museum at Berlin; a small collection of humming birds from Mr, Gould; various specimens of rare reptilia and a fine specimen of the newly-described amphibian Ceratodus Fosterii from the Australian Museum, Sydney; page 6 various specimens from the Public Museum, Melbourne, and elsewhere; also a valuable addition is daily expected to arrive from the Royal Museum, Hobart Town, comprising among several other rarities from Tasmania a skeleton and two skins of the native tiger.
"The subject of the absolute necessity of more suitable Museum accommodation having been already so frequently brought before the public renders it unnecessary for me to comment on this matter further than by stating it is much to be lamented that the progress of so useful and popular an institution should be so long retarded, especially as the utility of Museums is now so generally acknowledged as an important agent in national education.
"Special thanks are due to Mr. R. Jagoe, who has on various occasions kindly given the use of one of his boats for trawling, and to Mr. A. Molineux for the use of his trawl net, by which means many valuable additions have been made to our collection of fishes from St. Vincent's Gulf, duplicate specimens of which have been forwarded to the Count F. de Castelnau, Melbourne, who is now engaged on a work on Australian fishes, and has described from among those received by him several quite new to science.
"The Museum continues to be well frequented by the public.
Mrs. Kreusler, Gawler River | Messrs. A. Fisher G. Francis | |
Mrs. Spall, Oulnina | —French, Auckland, | |
Miss A. Laurie, Port | L. Giles | |
Elliot | W. Gower | |
Miss Warland, Green | W. Guilds, York | |
hill | Hotel | |
Dr. Gibbs, Taupo, N.Z. | C. F. Gunther | |
Dr. Mayo, J.P. | A. Hall, jun., Port | |
Dr. Muecke, Tanunda | E. Hallack | |
Dr. Peel | J. Hart, Port Elliot | |
Dr. Schomburgk, J.P. | H. Heuzenroeder | |
Captain P. Dixon | T. Hodges | |
Captain Heslop | T. W. J. Horsey | |
Inspector Searcy | W. Hunter | |
Sub-Inspector Foelsche, | J. Jacob, Cherry | |
Northern Territory | Gardens | |
Sergeant-Major Saunders | T. D. Jackson, Norwood | |
Corporal John Shaw | R Jagoe, sen, | |
Messrs. A. Abrahams | R. Jagoe, Semaphore | |
J. Acraman | J. Jewry | |
H. L. Aldersey | A. G. Johnston, Balhannah | |
J. M. Anderson, N.Adelaide | R. Keene, Liverpool | |
W. Bednall | W. Kempster | |
D. Bilney, Kangarilla | C. Kruger, Freeling | |
R. Black | G. Laughton | |
H. Bonnard | W. Lawrence | |
T. Bowern | W. Legrand, Hobart | |
T. W. Brazier, Sydney | Town | |
M. Symonds Clark | F. W. Lindrum | |
J. M, Daniel | W. F. Loutit | |
—Dawbiney, Somaphore | G. McEwin, Glen Ewin | |
C. L. Dubois | W. McIntyre, Port | |
J. Ewens, Blanchetown | Lincoln | |
T. W. McKecknie | ||
H. Evans | T. Maldon | |
J. C. Ferguson, Port | D. Malohney | |
Messrs. J. Masters | Messrs. W. Renou, | |
T. Masters | Burnside | |
A. Molineux | Edwin Rowe, Bowden | |
E. Montgomery, | Julian Schomburgk | |
Moonta | J. A. Schrader | |
J. H. Morphett | T. D. Smeaton | |
G. | Moseley | G. Smith, Beaumont |
J. Newman. Port | J. L. Stapleton, N. | |
H. | Nootnagel | Territory |
Johannes Odewahn, | W. Gordon Stewart | |
Gawler River | J. Stuckey | |
W. Odewahn | Tassie & Co., Port | |
J. Page, Mitcham | Augusta | |
S. Pearce | Otto Tepper, Moonato | |
W. J. Peterswald | W. Tumor, Port | |
E. Phillips, Port | J. Vivian | |
P. D. Prankerd, sen. | E. Wentzel | |
—Prankerd, jun. | C. A. Wilson | |
—Pym | S. White, Reedbeds | |
—Raymond, Yardea | J.D.Woods |
Your most obedient servant
,F. G. Waterhouse, C.M.Z.S., Curator.