Cultural Collections

University of Melbourne Collections

Contents for Issue 10, June 2012

Cover and contents

James Best - Introduction

Jacqueline Healy, Carolyn De Poi, William Samuel Calhoun Hare, John F. Cade, Geoff McColl - Medical History Museum: Telling stories great and small

Christine Elias - Discovering Egypt: Egyptian antiquities at the University of Melbourne

Henry Skerritt - Experimental gentlemen: Making the past present in the Sir Russell and Lady Mab Grimwade Collection

Anna Corkhill - 'A superb explanatory device': The MONIAC, an early hydraulic analog computer

Pam Pryde - 'In the Beginning was the Word': A very special acquisition

Asti Sherring and Sophie Lewincamp - Conservation treatment of a silver gelatin photograph

Trevor McAllister - Rare gases, heavy water and mutton-bird oil: Three tales from the School of Chemistry Collection

Rebecca L. Edwards - Frank Brangwyn's 'tragically impressive' Street near Taormina

Alice Clanachan - Jacques Callot: Dramatic acquisitions for the Baillieu Library Print Collection

News from the collections

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