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- ↑ Melbourne Writers' Festival "Gary Presland | Melbourne Writers Festival CDS test install". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
- ↑ Museum Victoria
- ↑ Sarah Longair, John McAleer (eds), Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience, p. xii, Manchester University Press, 2017 ISBN 1526118289.
- ↑ Danielle Clode, Continent of Curiosities: A Journey Through Australian Natural History, p. viii, Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 0521866200.
- ↑ Antarctic, vols. 14–15, p. 38, 1996.
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- ↑ The Australian Zoologist, vol. 30, p. 124, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1995.