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Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorer
Professor Rod Home, University of Melbourne
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Historian Rod Home looks at Ludwig Leichhardt’s family background, financial situation and formal scientific training to argue the explorer was also a perceptive naturalist with a well defined research agenda in Australia. NOTE: audio loops from 18:40 on.
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Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection
Dr Libby Robin, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection.
