Queensland Museum Annual Report 1998-99

The Honourable Matt Foley, MLAAttorney-General and Minister for Justiceand Minister for The Arts

Dear Minister

I take pleasure in presenting you with the Annual Report of the Board of the QueenslandMuseum for the year ended 30 June 1999.

Yours sincerely

Nerolie Withnall

ChairmanBoard of the Queensland Museum

Presented to Parliament

Queensland Museum

CONTENTS

Board of the Queensland Museum 1

Chairman’s Report 3

Director’s Report 6

Organisational Structure 7

Museum Services Program 8

Natural Environment Program 15

Cultural Heritage Program 22

Glenlyon Dam Branch 25

Lands, Mapping and Survey Branch 25

Railway Historical Museum 26

Woodworks 26

Marketing and Development Program 28

Cobb & Co. Museum 30

Museum of Tropical Queensland 32

Pandora Foundation 34

Queensland Sciencentre 35

Museum of North Western Queensland 37

Appendices

(I) Publications 38

(II) Grants Won & Consultancies 47

(III) Annual Performance Indicators 50

(IV) Overseas Travel 55

(V) Financial Statements 56

Sponsorships Inside back cover

Pandora Foundation Sponsorships Outside back cover

Queensland Museum

BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM

The Board of the Queensland Museum was established in 1970 under the provisions of theQueensland Museum Act 1970, although the Queensland Museum first began its long historyof service provision to the Government and people of the State in 1861. The only substantialchanges to this Act came with the Arts Legislation Amendment Act 1997.

The Board is appointed by the Governor-in-Council on the recommendation of the Ministerfor the Arts. Under the amended Act, terms are for up to five years. During the year Mr I.F.Venables completed his term; his replacement and the filling of an existing vacancy saw theappointment of Ms J. Lennon and Ms A. Jones on 28 January 1999.

All members bring experience and specific expertise to the Board, including a broadappreciation of the Museum’s major fields of endeavour.

The Board met 11 times during the year; 10 times in the Queensland Museum at SouthBrisbane and in November in the Cabinet Room, Suncorp Building, Sturt Street, Townsville.

BOARD MEMBERSMrs N. Withnall, BA, LLB Chairperson

Mr R. Bryan, BSc (Hons) Vice-Chairperson

Mr I.F. Venables Member (until 31 October 1998)

Mr R. Anderson Member

Mrs W. Dixon, GradDipMan(CommMus) Member

Mr H. Greenway, FCA, ACIS Member

Ms A. Jones, BDesSt Member (from 28 January 1999)

Ms J. Lennon, MA (Hons) Member (from 28 January 1999)

Dr A. Bartholomai, MSc, PhD Member

Dr Peter Jell, BSc, PhD Observer and Acting Director (from 13 July 1998)

Mr K Radbourne Government Representative

Mr G. Innes, BCom, ASA Observer

QUEENSLAND MUSEUM AUDIT COMMITTEE

Mr. H. Greenway, FCA, ACIS Chairperson

Mr I.F. Venables Member (until 31 October 1998)

Ms A. Jones, BDesSt Member (from27 April 1999)

Dr A. Bartholomai, MSc, PhD Observer (until 13 July 1998)

Dr P. Jell, BSc, PhD Observer (from 13 July 1998)

Mr J. Davis Observer

Mr G. Innes, BCom, ASA Observer

Mr M. Wakefield Observer (from 15 September 1998)

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QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

Mr R. Anderson Chairperson (representing Brisbane Elders Committee)

Quandamooka Land Council, Quandamooka Elders)

Mrs P. O’Connor, BA Secretary (representing Yugambeh Museum, Beenleigh)

Mr M. Williams, MPhil (Qual) Member (ATSI Studies Unit, Qld University)

Ms J. Richardson Member (representing TSI)

Ms I. Ryder Member (representing Nalingu Aboriginal Corporation)

Mr L. Johnson Member

Mr C. Williams Member

Ms D. Bronsch Member

Ms C. Wall Observer (Department of the Premier)

Mr G. Lui Jnr Observer (representing ICC)

Mr I. Delaney Observer (ATSIC Commissioner)

Mr T. Robinson Observer (representing DAIA)

Mr J. Anderson Member (Department of Environment)

Mr D. Johnson Member (ATSIC SEQ)

Mrs N. Withnall, BA, LLB ex-officio Member

Dr P. Jell, BSc, PhD ex-officio Member

QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S ISSUES

Dr C. Patterson, PhD, GradDipBus Chairperson

Ms H. Gregory, BA(Hons) representing QMCQH

Dr Natalie Franklin representing QMCQH

Ms Penny Cook representing QMCQH

Dr L. Macintosh, OBE representing National Council of Women of Qld Inc.

Mrs T. Heybroek representing Qld Country Women’s Association

Ms P. O’Connor, BA representing QMATSICC

Ms D. Koopman representing Office of Women’s Policy(until 27 October 1998)

Ms L. McCosker representing Office of Women’s Policy (from 27 October 1998)

Sr L. Yuen Member (from 27 October 1998)

Mrs N. Withnall, BA, LLB ex-officio Member

Dr P. Jell, BSc, PhD ex-officio Member

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CHAIRMAN’ S REPORT

It is my privelege to present this report on behalf of the Board of the Queensland Museum.The Queensland Museum has again demonstrated its leadership among Australasianmuseums and provided a very high level of service delivery to the community of this State.

The Museum’s commitment to developing services for regional Queensland continued todominate its activities for the year. In particular, the major construction at the Museum ofTropical Queensland in central Townsville continued throughout the year. As the buildingnears completion the reality is proving even more exciting than the concept embodied in theinnovative plans. In January the museum relocated all collections and offices to the newbuilding and February saw demolition of the old building to allow completion of the new onthat part of the site. Construction of exhibitions began in Brisbane and these will beprogressively transferred to Townsville as they are completed. Of the 1,500 square metres ofdisplay space 660 square metres are devoted to interpretation of the wreck of HMS Pandora.

Early in the year the Board took the decision to have the Director, Dr Alan Bartholomai,devote his attention exclusively to its several major strategic initiatives, including theconstruction project at Townsville, planning for the QCC 2000 project, seeking a solution tothe Museum’s major storage problem and representing the Museum’s interests inredevelopment planning for the Ipswich Railway Workshop. At the same time the Boardappointed Dr Peter Jell as Acting Director to maintain operation of the many other Museumprograms. This arrangement has been successful and has enabled the Museum to moveahead with the many initiatives in which it is currently involved.

At the suggestion of the Queensland Treasury, the Board agreed to sell a small part of itsland holding at Coomera so that it could finance exhibitions and other essentials for the newbuilding in Townsville. Realising a better than expected return through this sale, the Boardhas been able to contribute $1.2 million to the Department of Justice and Attorney-General’scontribution to achievement of the Government’s property disposal policy.

Discussions continued with the Gold Coast City Council and other interested parties onpossible development of a Branch, and the nature of any such development, to serve thegrowing population and tourist popularity of the area.

The Board continues to be seriously concerned about the effects of various plans to redevelop traffic flows in and about the Melbourne/Grey Streets intersection to incorporate the SouthEast Transit Busway and the Brisbane Light Rail system. The Board is currently takingindependent action to identify the likely outcomes of the latest plans in terms of their effectson the street scape and the functioning of the Museum and its visitor facilities.

The Museum has taken appropriate steps to ensure its computer systems are Y2K compliantin line with Government policy and all tests of equipment carried out to date, particularlythose on the main server have been successful.

At the beginning of the year the Museum hosted the 5th International Sponge Symposium for more than 150 specialists from around the world who study these extremely simple andancient marine animals. Sponges have become the centre of intensive biochemical study since a number of active molecules with significant medical applications have been isolated fromthem. The Museum’s strong support of this research, through identifying the hundreds ofspecies of sponges, is lead by world renowned sponge specialist, Senior Curator Dr JohnHooper, who also organised the Symposium and edited the proceedings volume that waspublished in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum at the end of the year.

The Board’s continued strong support for Cultural Heritage studies saw the publication ofthe first two issues of the new Cultural Heritage Series of the Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum. Taken with three issues of the Natural History series this constitutes one of the most prolific scientific publication programs by any museum in the world.

The Board strongly supported the Government in its review of the QCC 2000 project andlooks forward to learning the outcomes. The Board adopted a flexible response to the

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consultant but is certain of its identification of major storage and exhibition space needs. Theproposal to develop off site storage in an owned building at Dutton Park was stronglysupported by the Board which now looks forward to commencement of that project afterstrong ministerial support has guided it through the major approval processes.

In June the Premier helped launch the Queensland Centre for Biodiversity, an initiative of the Board to focus on the Museum’s considerable scientific skills in taxonomy and to market thatability more effectively to the commercial world.

I was delighted to be invited to open the Small Museums Conference in Nanango inSeptember thus having the opportunity to experience the obvious exuberance of that part ofthe State’s Arts community. The partnership with Arts Queensland and a widening spectrum of local government authorities to spread a network of Museum Development Officers across the State has again expanded and continues to be gratefully received throughout its sphere of activity.

During the year the Board twice received written directions from the Minister as to theexercise of its powers:1. In the matter of reconciliation with indigenous people and with particular reference to theMotion of Reconciliation passed by the Queensland Parliment on 10 May 1997, the Ministerdirected the Board to:• Set up a process of networking and consultation to form partnerships with the Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander community to deliver successful outcomes for the Centenary ofFederation.

• Work with their Cultural Advisory Committees to develop protocols for working with theAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

• Undertake a Cross-cultural awareness campaign, with assistance from the CulturalAdvisory Committees, for all levels of staff and the Board of Directors.

• Create a user friendly atmosphere that will work towards audience development and open participation with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

• Look at the development and/or enhancement of outreach programs to further inform theAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community of the delivery of services.

• Develop across the portfolio an employment and training strategy that will include adedicated officer to implement the strategy.

• Initiate an information strategy, using new technology, to inform the community of theservices provided across the portfolio.

• Affirm and communicate a commitment to Reconciliation through promotional andmarketing material and publications.

2. With respect to the employment status of staff in the Queensland Museum the Ministerdirected the Board in exercising its powers to retain public service status for public servicepositions at the Museum.

I am thankful for this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Museum’s skilled andknowledgeable staff, to my fellow Board members, members of our Branches’ managementcommittees, to our construction partners in Townsville, Leightons Contractors and to themany other committees, organisations and individuals who have contributed in any way,however small or large, to the success of the Museum over the year. I especially thank thevery many honorary staff all over the State for their time and abilities which allow theMuseum to extend its service to the high levels now being reached.

I also take this opportunity to congratulate Board member Bob Anderson who was acclaimed Queensland’s Indigenous Person of the Year and Indigenous Elder of the Year in theSoutheast Queensland Indigenous Awards for 1998. In leading the Board’s ATSI Consultative Committee, Bob Anderson has rendered great service particularly in having organised a fullday workshop with the Board to refine Terms of Reference and to advance the Board’s activeprogram towards reconciliation.

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Support from the Honourable Matt Foley LLB, MLA, Attorney-General and Minister forJustice and Minister for the Arts, from the staff of Arts Queensland and from the staff of theDepartment of Justice and Attorney-General is gratefully acknowledged.

Nerolie WithnallChairman

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DIRECTOR’ S REPORT

Most facets of the Queensland Museum’s services to the State maintained very highstandards during the year. Undoubtedly the most significant project has been construction ofthe new building for the Museum of Tropical Queensland in central Townsville, particularlyto house new exhibitions of relics from the wreck of HMS Pandora. Unfortunately, thisconstruction work meant that the Branch remained closed for most of the year andconsiderable staff time was diverted from core functions into planning and organising therelocation of collections and exhibitions.

Stage 2 of the Museum of Tropical Queensland was commenced in 1997-98 with approvedCapital Funding of $17.5M to be spent over three years and an increase in Base Funding of$0.74M to cover recurrent funding needs. A further $5M is required to complete exhibitions,to acquire additional land for the building and to meet the cost of escalation on the maincontract. At the direction of Treasury, $3M was derived from the sale of part of theQueensland Museum’s land at Coomera and the remaining $2M was allocated from theMuseum’s operating budget.

Emphasis for exhibitions has been placed on design and construction for the 1,500 squaremetres of gallery space in the new Townsville building but an outstanding parallel programwas provided in Brisbane. This included two major overseas exhibitions, Startrek and Life anddeath under the Pharaohs, which attracted 80,000 visitors in two months, several interstateexhibitions such as Australians in France: 1914-1918 and When Australia was a woman,numerous community-access exhibitions from special interest groups in the community andsix Queensland Museum exhibitions that toured various regions.

Launch of the Queensland Centre for Biodiversity by the Premier, the Honourable PeterBeattie MLA, formalises the Museum’s availability as the State’s major authoritative provider of faunal information for planning and conservation needs. The strength of the Centre’s staffwas again demonstrated by its ability to attract research grants and consultancies in excess of$900,000.

Close cooperation with Arts Queensland, in developing a pilot Marketing Initiative to theChinese Community, has proved successful with major interest being shown in prospects forexhibitions and acquisition of relevant collections.

The self-motivated and strongly committed staff are the Museum’s leading assets in theprofessional, technical and public interface areas, whether as employees or as honorary staff.The several major projects currently underway or in the planning stages are challenging butat the same time liberating of the considerable potential embodied in those staff. I wish torecord my thanks to the efforts of all staff because they lead directly to more and improvedcultural experiences for Queenslanders and our visitors.

Peter JellActing Director

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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

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MUSEUM SERVICES

GOALTo satisfy public expectations for authoritative, educational and enjoyable communicationbased on high quality displays, popular publications, provision of information and otherinterpretations within the Museum’s field of interest; to encourage school use, and to provide outreach educational services especially to distant and disadvantaged areas.

KEY ISSUES• Production of 1,700 sq.m. of new exhibitions for the Museum of Tropical Queensland. • Maintainence of standards and continue development of short- and long-term exhibition

programs in the Queensland Museum, South Bank.• Provide training and development of staff, and exposure to international developments in

museum communications and exhibition design.• Changes in the operating environment of schools.• Availability of venues in regional Queensland to accommodate touring exhibitions.• Increasing demand for museum lending of educational resources.

KEY RESULTS• Exhibitions for Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville on schedule and up to high

standard.• 14 short term exhibitions were mounted in conjunction with community groups and other

institutions.• Life and Death under the Pharaohs exhibition attracted 87,000 paying visitors in two months.• Star Trek exhibition attracted 48,000 visitors in three months.• Wild Guide to Moreton Bay was successfully launched.• Production of four issues of the Wildlife Australia magazine.• Record usage of lent items from the Educational Resource Service.• Inquiry Centre’s services being expanded through increased presence on the Museum’s

internet site.

OUTLOOK FOR 1999-2000• Completion of exhibitions for the new Museum of Tropical Queensland in 2000.• Publication of Wildlife of Tropical Queensland.• Exhibition projects at the Cobb and Co. Museum, Toowoomba.• Production of loan kits for Federation and Brisbane Urban Forest projects.• Commencement of ‘Federation’ and Chinese community exhibitions.• Development of the Inquiry Service via the internet.• Development of an exhibition focussing on indigenous cultures.

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EXHIBITIONS

NOTES:1. This exhibition, from the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, celebrates bush skills and outbackcrafts that have become traditional through Australia’s battling pioneers.2. Consisting of town planning models and equipment, this exhibition was held in conjunction with theRoyal Australian Planning Congress.3. Originally developed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek in North America, this exhibitioncontained the world’s largest collection of Star Trek material and covered the four Star Trek televisionseries and eight feature films.4. Outstanding examples of the artists’ works were once again on display.5. A display of works by the finalists in the Wearable Art category of the RAQ Awards.6. Fifty of the best Australian wildlife photographs were represented.7. This important exhibition of Egyptian artefacts from the collection of the National Museum ofAntiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands, cast light on numerous aspects of the pharaonic culture throughthe presentation of selected antiquities and scale models.8. The exhibition contained many examples of drawings, banners and cartoons that define the historyand continuing image of Australia as a Woman. 9. This display addressed the issue that many non-British vessels, crews and cargoes played animportant part in Australia’s history. 10. Fine examples of Mediterranean glass and other antiquities which were recently donated to theQueensland Museum..11. A travelling exhibition from the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, of artefacts collected by theArmed Forces in WW1. Some of these became the Australian War Memorial’s foundation collection. 12. An exhibition celebrating the birth of the first Fiat motorcar on the occasion of the company’scentenary. 13. A photographic record of the development of one of Queensland’s outstanding universities.

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Title Note Open/Close Area (m2) Visitors Cost Staff DaysDame Mary Durack OutbackCraft Awards (10th)

1 17 Jul - 23 Aug 400 26,530 $450 43

Embracing Change 2 4 Jul - 2 Aug 126 28,455 $150 6Star Trek - The Exhibit 3 19 Sep - 31 Jan 525 $1,500 86Queensland Wildlife ArtistsSociety Inc

4 30 Oct - 25 Nov 100 13,254 $150 24

Wearable Art 5 20 Oct - 20 Nov 15 22,823 $190 121999 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition

6 20 Feb - 5 Apr 80 69,593 $150 19

Life and Death Under thePharaohs

7 27 Feb - 3 May 525 86,814 $1,440 94

When Australia Was aWoman

8 20 Feb - 21 Mar 100 41,125 $150 19

Fides Historic ShipwreckExhibition

9 23 Mar - 3 May 80 60,563 $100 9

Ancient Glass 10 31 Mar - 16 May 20 85,459 $100 61918 – Australians in France 11 23 Apr - 18 Jul 200 101,927 $170 22Fiat Car Club – 100 YearsCelebration

12 20 May - 7 Jun 324 15,494 $250 27

A Class of Its Own: A Historyof QUT

13 29 May - 11 Jul 200 33,657 $200 9

Dame Mary Durack OutbackCraft Awards (11th)

1 26 Jun - 1 Aug 324 17,364 $330 41

TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS

Six travelling exhibitions toured through Queensland and interstate.

• The Curator of Vertebrate Fossils and the Manager of Exhibition Construction installed the skeleton of Muttaburrasaurus at the National Science Museum of Japan, Tokyo. Thisinstallation was for a three month exhibition of Gondwanan dinosaurs loaned by manyinternational Museums.

SERVICES TO SCHOOL VISITORSThe Education Service continued to present programs on a range of topics for pre-school,primary and secondary school students. 51,197 students visiting the Queensland Museum,South Bank, an increase of 7.9%, were accompanied by 7,965 supervising adults and wereoffered a range of services including display introductions, general guided tours, specialisttalks, workshops and activity sessions.

SERVICES TO TEACHERS• Trainee teachers from various tertiary institutions were given a comprehensive

introduction to the Museum through a series of in-house presentations, which detailed the Museum’s educational resources ranging from its outreach services to publications.During these presentations, student teachers were encouraged to spend time on thedisplay floors with sample worksheets and to observe schools visiting the Museum.

• Orientation evenings provided educators with the opportunity to learn about the wideand varied services that Museum Education offers.

• Three teacher preview evenings were held for the special exhibition, Life and Death Underthe Pharaohs, attracting a record attendance of more than 300. Education Officers, assisted

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Venue/Title Open/Close Visitors Staff DaysAUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Landsborough Shire’s Historical Museum 1 Jul – 31 Jul 588 Cobb & Co. Museum 19 Aug – 29 Sep 2,669 Hervey Bay Regional Gallery 5 Oct – 31 Oct 1,966 Queensland Museum, South Bank 20 Feb – 5 Apr 43,854 Landsborough Shire’s Historical Museum 18 Jun – 30 Jun 350 *

49,427 40PORTRAITS OF OUR ELDERS

Bundaberg Art Centre 7 Jul – 2 Aug 1,279 Landsborough Shire’s Historical Museum 19 Sep – 31 Oct 386Redland’s Shire Museum 23 Apr – 7 Jun 1,000

2,665 12RAINBOWS IN STONE – THE NORM PEDLEY AGATE COLLECTION

Cobb & Co. Changing Station (Surat Qld) 15 Jan – 24 Feb 1,230 15The Butterfly Man of Kuranda – DoddCrows Nest Shire Council Gallery 1 Apr – 30 Jan 670 8

WOMEN AT WORK

Tweed River Regional Gallery 21 Oct – 15 Nov 956 3

WOMEN OF THE WEST

Cobb & Co. Changing Station 23 Sep – 14 Feb 2,129The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame 8 Mar – 27 Apr 6,000Wandoan Information & Juandah Heritage Centre 22 May – 22 Jun 400

8,529 50Total 63,477 128

by members of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, presented informative talks about ancient Egypt and the exhibition and guided teachers through the display.

STUDENT WORKSHOPS• The successful student activities program was enhanced by the addition of several

services: an Animal Classification workshop for senior secondary and TAFE students; aSocial History workshop, Life in the Past; and a specialist presentation linked to Life andDeath Under the Pharaohs. 6,638 students attended 217 workshops, including 1,306 studentsin 20 sessions for Life and Death Under the Pharaohs.

• Regular Animal Classification sessions for Years 3 to 10 continued, and Buzz Week — aninteractive insect experience for Pre-school to Year 2 students — was repeated. Thetwo-week period allocated for Buzz Week was booked out well in advance.

• English as a Second Language and Special Education students were also accommodatedregularly.

HOLIDAY ACTIVITY PROGRAMSHoliday programs provide enjoyable, educational activities for families. • Archaeology was the theme offered for the January vacation. Digging Up the Past was used

as an introduction for Life and Death Under the Pharaohs. Children had the chance touncover their own ancient Egyptian artefacts in the Dig Pit, which was particularlypopular, with 2,622 children participating. In addition, children discovered ancient andmodern Egypt through a CD-ROM program, enjoyed craft activities and games, or readquietly. During this holiday program a free film festival, focussing on archaeology andancient Egypt, was attended by 892 people.

• The Staff at Work area generated much discussion amongst the public, providing avaluable opportunity for Museum visitors to meet and talk with scientific staff. Egyptian,Greek and Roman artefacts from the Museum’s own collections were also sources of greatinterest to the public.

• Australia’s Amazing Animals was presented during the June–July 1998 school vacationperiod. This program consisted of a variety of activities, story-telling sessions and craft.

PUBLIC EVENTS• The exhibition Life and Death Under the Pharaohs was supported by a range of innovative

activities including four lectures featuring guest speakers from the Australian Centre forArchaeology; a one-day symposium, Journeys through Ancient Worlds; a lecture series for secondary students; a series of day trips to the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology.

• The Museum maintained its regular public talks including the Widening Your Horizonsseries which is presented on the first Saturday of each month, jointly presented with theSchool of Humanities from Griffith University.

• Education Officers hosted the 1998 Out of the Box play, Turtle Island.• Education Officers collaborated with the Inquiry Centre in the presentation of frog

workshops for the public and school teachers.

EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICE The Service provides loan items and supporting media to schools and other organisationsthroughout the State providing a significant state-wide educational and outreach service. Itcomplements other services such as the Extension Education Program, touring exhibitions,popular publications, personal enquiries and website use. The Service is staffed by twofull-time Museum employees and honorary workers. Thanks to their loyal and enthusiasticwork, this Service is able to operate seven days a week.• During the year 716,967 students benefited directly from this service — a 29% increase

over the previous year. In 1998-99 there were 5,428 transactions with Brisbanemetropolitan users (representing nearly 61,000 individual items) and 910 countrytransactions — a 10% increase from the previous year. 953 schools (701 in Brisbane) and165 other institutions used the service (representing increases of 12% and 22%,respectively).

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• The Education Resource Service was honoured for its Women’s Heritage Outreachprogram with the John Herbert Heritage Award for excellence in conservation, presentedby The Honorable The Premier Peter Beattie and Mrs Herbert.

• Over the past 10 years Museum kits have clocked up over 3.5 million km by road, rail andsea to reach students in far-flung classrooms. Many new kits were produced, includingFrogs, Macquarie Island, Antarctica, Dragons and Diprotodons, Backyard Wildlife andSouth Sea Islanders. A highlight of the year was the launch of Frog kits in memory ofCharlotte Moorhead, a courageous young Bundaberg frog-lover who died of leukemia atage seven. The first 22 of a series of Living Treasures kits for loan to retirees were completed.

• Funds raised directly from metropolitan user subscriptions, one-off loans andmerchandise sales increased over the previous year by 30%.

• The Service also received grants from Brisbane City Council (to develop and produce nineUrban Forest Kits for distribution to schools through its local network), Hyder Consulting(to support distribution of country loan kits), the National Trust (to develop the Museumin a Trunk project and the Place Museum workshop), and the Centenary of FederationCouncil, in collaboration with the National Trust of Queensland (a three-year grant(1999-2001) to produce eight kits on Life in Federation Times).

EDUCATION EXTENSION SERVICE The Extension Officer travelled 22,910 km, visiting 62 schools and providing 10,026 studentsan opportunity to participate in a diversity of Museum educational programs. This serviceprovides a very simple yet effective means for community access in remote regions. 33% ofthe schools visited during 1998-99 had not received a visit for at least three years, reflectingthe Museum’s commitment to provide a State-wide Museum service, targetinggeographically remote communities.

The following programs were delivered:Australia’s Past – Domestic Life, Aboriginal Life, Ecology & Conservation, Australian Animals,Australian Mammals, Australian Reptiles, Australian Birds, Venomous & Poisonous Australians,Skeletons, Dinosaurs & Fossils, Insects, Nocturnal Animals, The Sea.

There was a keen interest from students and teachers in natural history, particularlyAustralian Animals and Dinosaurs & Fossils. All presentations allow students theopportunity to handle artefacts and specimens.

Maintenance and improvement of the Service’s collections were primary considerationsduring the year. The Extension Officer and Technical Assistant, Shelley Smith, acquiredmany new specimens and artefacts during their travels, and repaired damaged items thatwere previously unsuitable for student use.

With the aid of a newly acquired Notebook computer the Service made good use of theMuseum’s website, guiding students through its various facets to help answer theirmultitude of questions. It is hoped that future developments and innovations of the websitewill include interactive facilities, as this tool has a great potential for students to ask specificquestions on many subjects covered by the Museum’s diverse areas of authority.

Emerging issues facing the Education Extension Service include:• Extending the Service throughout Queensland.• Maintaining and improving collection items for each of the programs.• Develop new programs that parallel changes to the Queensland school curriculum.• Enhance and improve existing programs.• Manage stresses associated with solo travel, especially to very isolated areas, without

telecommunication support.

WILD GUIDE TO MORETON BAYThe third volume in the Museum’s outstanding series of environmental reference books, Wild Guide to Moreton Bay, Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed

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(408pp), was published in November. The book includes authoritative information on thehabitats and wildlife of one of Australia’s most beautiful natural areas, presented in apopular format, superbly illustrated by the Museum’s Photography section, NevilleColeman, Museum scientists and many other external collaborators. More than 1,100 speciesof local animals and plants are described. Financial support came from Brisbane CityCouncil, Port of Brisbane Authority and Caltex Refineries (Qld). The Wild Guide was the basis for a TV documentary on the wildlife of Moreton Bay which has featured on nationaltelevision, presented by Frank Warwick. This documentary was financially supported byBrisbane City Council, Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane River ManagementGroup and Channel 7.In the seven months since its release, Wild Guide to Moreton Bay has sold more than 8,000copies. Earlier titles continue to sell well with Wildlife of Greater Brisbane now in its sixthreprint and Wild Places of Greater Brisbane in its third.

WILDLIFE AUSTRALIA MAGAZINEFour more issues of this magazine were co-published with the Wildlife Preservation Societyof Queensland. The two-year trial period for this arrangement has now ended and theMuseum and the Society are currently considering future directions for the magazine.

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEARIn its second successful year, this national competition attracted more than 350 entries fromaround the country.

The overall winner was Cameron Attree of Chermside, Brisbane, for his outstandingphotograph of a Green Tree Snake taken near water at Mt Barney in southern Queensland.Other category winners were: Wildlife — Raoul Slater, Kenmore; Nature — TimothyWestacott, Ovens; Landscape — Jay Watson, Melbourne; Portfolio — Martin Cohen, Oxley;Young Photographer — Tania Muche, Buderim.

Winning and highly commended photographs were published in Wildlife Australia and aspecial exhibition of entries was held at the Queensland Museum, South Bank .

INQUIRY CENTRE The Inquiry Centre is the interface between the public and the Natural Environment andCultural Heritage Programs. The Centre provides an identification and information service in the public galleries, and a general library accessible to the public.

• Public use of the Inquiry Centre’s services increased to 8,391 personal enquiries, more than doubling on the previous year. A record 1,336 inquiries were recorded in January 1999.Reptiles, insects and spiders continued to dominate inquires. This increase reflects another season of good conditions for wildlife, and increasing recognition of this Museum service.97% of respondents to a written survey rated the information given by staff as ‘excellent’or ‘very good’.

• The Curator, Sybil Monteith, is now a regular on Peter Dick’s 4BC radio segment whereshe promotes the Museum and answers talk-back questions on wildlife. Inquiry Centrestaff were involved in four segments of Channel 10’s natural history program Totally Wild.

• In February Inquiry Centre and Education staff organised a Frog Week, with activities that included a display of live, local frogs and tadpoles, workshops and presentations. Themost ambitious and successful project for the year was a two-day symposium, Frogs in the Community, jointly organised by the Museum and the Queensland Frog Society. Thesymposium achieved its aim of bringing together a wide cross-section of the communityconcerned with the welfare of frogs, facilitating efficient allocation of resources and energy towards projects of greatest benefit. About 170 people heard a range of speakers fromresearch scientists, representatives of community groups and interested froggers.

• Two New to the Museum display cases were added to the Inquiry Centre, to inform thecommunity on constantly changing exhibitions that reflect current events such as newacquisitions, results of field trips and significant discoveries. Another display case, What’sHappening, was dedicated to a series of small exhibitions reflecting current wildlifeactivities. Ceramic artist, Venus Ganis presented an exhibition A Fragile Nature: Rainforest

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Iconography. New and upgraded displays added to the Inquiry Centre included souvenirspoons, military and Orders of Australia medals, European Palaeolithic artefacts andQueensland ceramics.

• There was a steady increase in telephone inquiries, with over 7,500 more calls taken thisyear than for 1997-98. In March, during the highly successful exhibition Life and Deathunder the Pharaohs, over 5,500 calls were received — the first time that calls exceed 5,000 inany single month.

• The Inquiry Centre continued to manage the Museum’s successful Wednesday LunchtimeLecture series, in cooperation with Griffith University’s University of the Third Ageprogram. Audience attendance continued to expand during the year, with two series being particularly successful. One, on Endangered Species, coincided with the opening of thepermanent exhibition of the same name at the Queensland Museum, South Bank site,attracting a total audience of 960. The other, Women & Heritage, supported the travellingexhibition When Australia was a Woman, attracting a total audience of 1,400. Part of thelatter series included a presentation by author and philosopher, Margaret Wertheim,celebrating International Women’s Day.

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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

GOALTo develop, maintain and research collections of Queensland’s Natural Environment, todistribute widely the results of such research, and to maintain an effective supportinfrastructure to promote research and dissemination of information on the state’s naturalheritage.

KEY ISSUES• Quality of the State Natural History Collections.• Develop collections to represent all faunas of the State.• Provision of accurate and authoritative data for environmental impact and other planning

assessments.• Provision of secure and environmentally controlled storage to maintain the State

Collections in perpetuity.• Continuing publication of the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum as a leading

peer-reviewed journal on taxonomic and biodiversity issues.• Promote the authority, relevance and research on the State Collections.• Encourage taxonomic studies on the fossil and living fauna of Queensland.• Increased accuracy in, and access to, the collections databases.• Provision of quality Library Services to fulfil research needs.• Provide management support for the Museum of North West Queensland, Mount Isa.• Develop and resource the Earth Sciences Museum, Univ. of Queensland, as a successful

and exciting Branch of the Queensland Museum.

KEY RESULTS• Acknowledgment by users of well curated, comprehensive State Natural History

Collections and quality research Library collections and services.• Extent of dissemination of research results.• Provision of the authoritative base in the natural sciences for the Museum’s public and

professional programs.• Audit and stabilise collections of the Earth Sciences Museum, and compile plans for its

further development.

EXISTING COLLECTIONSMaintaining, auditing and databasing the State collections is fundamental and a priority ofthe Program. Major activities included:• Replacement of air conditioning plants, ducting and pipe work in ‘dry’ collections

required substantial re-organisation and the relocation of some collections. • Collection databases were restructured and updated to a standard platform, with a

universal set of interrogatory tools currently being developed for use across all databases.• Specimens of Protozoa from the International Centre for Avian Haematozoa were

accessioned, 10,500 physically audited, and 60% of types verified.• The Porifera collection was fully databased, audited and re-organised numerically, saving

about 30% of ‘spirit’ collection storage space without compromising accessibility; 5% of the collection is frozen DNA voucher samples for molecular studies.

• Land snail collections are close to being databased, with 160,000 Qld. specimens identifiedand 46,504 NSW specimens audited (the latter funded by the Australian Museum,Sydney). The database was used extensively for environmental consultancies (e.g. NSWNational Parks and Wildlife Service).

• Over 3,000 specimens of arachnids were registered and sorted to family level, and another1,024 identified to species; the database was used to produce a checklist of the Australianspider fauna.

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• Collections of parasitic worms of various phyla were acquired from James CookUniversity following the closure of the School of Tropical Medicine.

• The collection of Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants) attracted international recognition,especially the minute parasitic chalcidoid wasps used as biological control agents of insectpests, now exceeding 40,000 specimens, 50% sorted to at least genus level, and inconjunction with the A.A. Girault type collection these form an invaluable internationalreference tool. Collaborators from Canada and USA assisted the Higher Entomologysection to sort the collection (Dr John Huber, Dr Sergei Triapitsyn, Dr Eric Grissell, Dr John Heraty). The taxonomic reprint collection and photographic slide collection were fullydatabased.

• Within the Reptiles & Amphibians collection 7,000 records were audited; the dried turtlecollection was cleaned, repacked and fumigated following an insect infestation.

• One third of the 600 mammal specimens donated by Dr John Nelson (Monash Univ.), were accessioned; audit of the bird egg collection was completed; mammal spirit collection wasre-organised and re-labelled.

• The Library Preservation Plan was implemented, with work commencing onenvironmental control, cleaning, condition survey and treatment, including control ofmould in part of the serial holdings. The Queensland Museum Archives series wascatalogued and is now readily accessible.

ENRICHING THE COLLECTIONS• Protozoan parasites from avian, reptilian and mammalian hosts were donated by

researchers from South Africa, Finland, Sweden, USA and UK; haematozoan parasiteswere collected from southeast Queensland bird and fish hosts in collaboration with theCurrumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

• 1,300 sponges, ascidians, soft corals and gorgonians were collected from northernAustralia; other collections from the tropics and Antarctica were donated by a WAcommercial pearl farm, ANARE Hobart, Chulalongkorn Univ. Bangkok and TechnicalUniv. of Braunsweig, Germany, together containing over 300 new species; recollections ofseveral species were made from the GBR in response to the discovery of significantbiological activity following pharmaceutical testing.

• Large collections of worms, mostly parasitic helminths of fishes, were donated by theUniv. of Queensland; a summer studentship resulted in the production of severalCD-ROMs illustrating and describing the various helminth worm families.

• The Senior Curator of Malacology, Dr John Stanisic, participated in anEarthwatch-sponsored project to study camaenid land snails in the Whitsunday region, incollaboration with Dr Bryce Barker (Univ. of Southern Queensland) and the Giru Dalacouncil of elders; donations received from honoraries represent about 17,000 acquisitions.

• Collections of crustaceans from the intertidal mangrove and shallow water habitats werecollected from Phuket, Thailand, during an International workshop on the Biodiversity ofCrustacea.

• Large collections of spiders were made from the Wet Tropics and South Australia, incollaboration with the CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology & Management (TREM) andCSIRO, respectively.

• 12,000 insects were collected from 50 rainforest sites within the Wet Tropics, Gayndahdistrict and Brisbane Valley, funded partially by a CRC TREM grant; large collections ofdung beetles (a flagship group for global biodiversity and environmental monitoring)were also made in collaboration with CSIRO, Canberra, and the Natural History Museum,London; recollections of insects from the Gayndah district were made in an attempt torediscover species described from this region in 1870 by George Masters, whose typeswere lost or damaged during the decline of the Macleay Museum, Univ. of Sydney, with asummer studentship providing valuable sorting assistance of about 4,000 specimens.

• 7,400 insects were collected from 60 localities including the Wet Tropics, as part of anABRS funded research project on eulophid wasps; 2,000 microhymenoptera were collected from Sri Lanka, funded largely by Ludwig Maximilians Univ., Germany to study the dietof Schneider’s Leafnosed Bat.

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• 3,479 reptiles and frogs were acquired in collaboration with Dr Keith McDonald (EPA), Mr Angus Emmott (Noonbah Station), and Dr Alistair Melzer (Univ. of Central Queensland),including new frog types from New Guinea and N Qld, declining species of frogs, and thepoorly-known reptiles‘Brigalow Scaly-foot and Dunmall’s snake.

• A variety of small rodents were collected and a number of rodent-constructed pebblemounds were documented from spinifex habitat around Mt Isa; the QM and EPAcollaborated in a coastal survey of the rare False Water-rat, with captures made at Mackay(the first confirmed record since the mid-1940’s) and Maryborough. 594 mammals and 90birds were registered and databased, including donations from EPA of rare bandicootsand beachcast birds.

• Inventory and reorganisation of the Earth Sciences Museum (UQ) was undertaken withregistering and databasing of specimens continuing.

• Two skulls of the large marsupial, Diprotodon, were collected from the Darling Downs; thefirst evidence of the gut contents of an armoured dinosaur, the Minmi, from centralQueensland, consisted of some of the oldest known flowering plants, seeds and possiblyferns.

• 1,941 accessions to the Library, included 683 monographs and issues for 10 serial titlesfrom the F.S. Colliver Bequest, many of which are both rare and valuable.

TO ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS BYPROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLICThe natural history collections were widely used by the community. Maximising research onthe collections and dissemination of the results adds substantial value to our biological andgeological heritage.

• Sponge collections were used by 16 international researchers for worldwide taxonomicrevisions and molecular biology studies (Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand,Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA); through collaboration with CSIRO Marine Researcha once common, but recently presumed extinct species of Neptune’s cup sponge, Poterionpatera, was rediscovered in northern Australia; assessment of abundance, extent ofdistribution and conservation status are in progress.

• Arachnology collections and databases were used by international researchers fromGermany, Mexico, UK and USA; the Senior Curator, Dr Robert Raven, encouraged andsupervised a budding young (year 11) spider taxonomist in his first publication; thesection collaborated in projects on spider venom and molecular research with the 3-DCentre (UQ), Univ. Hawaii and Landcare NZ.

• A record 10,931 insects were loaned to external researchers, consisting mostly of materialfrom the Wet Tropics and many new species; 5,000 specimens from northern NSWrainforests were identified and databased funded by the Australian Museum.

• Steady increases in public inquiries and fish identifications were experienced, including astrong demand for commercial database inquiries; collaborative taxonomic studies onfishes were undertaken with other researchers in Australia, Japan and USA.

• Mammal and bird collections were used by: post-graduate students from the Dept. ofAnthropology, UQ; children’s author, Jill Morris, and artist Sharon Dye in preparing abook on the rediscovery of the Mahogany glider; Brisbane artist and Honorary Consultant, Gordon Hanley, completing a two-volume watercolour edition on the world’s parrots; Drs Ian Owens and Kate Arnold, UQ, researching fluorescence and ultra-violet reflectivity inparrot plumage. Many database and specimen identification consultancies wereundertaken, including the EPA and DNR, Australian Customs Service, AustralianQuarantine Inspection Service and Queensland Police.

• Reptile and frog collections were used for DNA Wildlife Typing (Dr Julie Macarranas,UQ); immunochemistry of new paramyoviruses in wildlife (Mr Hume Field, DPI); elapidsnake taxonomy (Drs Michael Lee and John Scanlon, UQ); chytrid fungus ‘epidemic’ infrogs (Prof. Rick Speare, JCU); genetic phylogeny and identifications (Ms Devi Stuart-Fox,UQ, Mr Garrick Hitchcock, UQ); envenomation (Mr Leonard Poon, UQ, Dr KonradMakrokanis, Mt Isa Hospital); Brigalow reptiles (Mr Adnan Moussali, UQ, Mr DudleyKnott, EPA); and rare and threatened frogs and reptiles (Mr Michael Ryan, Main Roads,

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Mr Chris Marshall, DNR). The Senior Curator, Reptiles & Frogs, Ms Jeanette Covacevich,collaborated with Prof. Struan Sutherland on elapid snake envenomation and toxicity forthe new edition of ‘Australian Animal Toxins’; and Mr John De Bavay, Prof. HalHeathwole & Dr Williams on publication of the reptiles of the New England region.

• Dr Li Gao, Univ. Edmonton, Canada, was Visiting Fellow at the QM Vertebrate Fossilsection, funded by UQ travel grant and Adelphi Australia Science Foundation, studyingCretaceous fishes from central Queensland.

• The Museum’s Library assisted internal and 35 external researchers; participated in theAustralian Bibliographic Network; provided over 1,000 interlibrary loans to other libraries; distributed CD-ROMs of the Library catalogue to the Museum’s various branches; andprepared guides to assist clients in use of the Library collections.

EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCHTaxonomic research on the collections underpins all other branches of biological science,resource use and management, and remains a major priority within the Program.• The Curator, Protozoa, Dr Rob Adlard, received two small ARC Grants in collaboration

with Honorary Research Associates, Dr Peter O’Donoghue, Dr Lesley Chisholm and DrIan Whittington (UQ) to study the taxonomy of endosymbiotic ciliates of fishes, andmolecular phylogeny of monogenean parasites of fishes; co-supervised four PhD studentsin a range of protozoan topics; and was elected to the Council of the Australian Society forParasitology.

• The Acting Director, Natural Environment, Dr John Hooper, participated in a survey ofthe sponge fauna of northeast Fiji, funded by the Technical Univ. Braunschweig, Germany, providing further knowledge to place the Queensland fauna in a wider regional context;continued research on the Systema Porifera as major author and co-editor with 28 otherinternational authors to publish and revise the taxonomy of the Porifera; won furthergrants from Astra-Zenica R & D (Brisbane) and the Fisheries Research and DevelopmentCorporation (FIRDC), to collect and study the taxonomy of pharmaceutically active sessilemarine invertebrates, and taxonomy and dynamics of large sessile seabed fauna important for structural fisheries habitat, respectively. Dr Gert Wörheide won a second year’sPost-doctoral Fellowship, funded by the German DAAD and the Queensland Museum,studying sponges with calcium carbonate spicules. The SMI section was funded by, andcollaborated with, Prof. Joachim Reitner, Univ. of Göttingen, Germany, to study thegeobiology of the Coral Sea seamounts off the Queensland coast. The section collaboratedwith Dr Rocky de Nuys, Univ. NSW Biotechnology group, to investigate recent outbreaksof sponge ‘pests’ growing on pearl oysters in Western Australia.

• Honorary Research Associates, Dr Patricia Mather (Kott) and Prof. Cyril Burdon-Jones,completed the Zoological Catalogue of Australia (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne) onHemichordata, Tunicata and Cephalochordata.

• The Senior Curator, Worms & Echinoderms, Dr Lester Cannon, collaborated withcolleagues from Australia, Russia, South America and France on the taxonomy andrelationships within Temnocephalida, and the interstitial fauna living between thesand-grains on beaches and river beds (funded by ABRS); and was awarded a ColliverScholarship to study collections in the Americas. The Technical Officer, Mr Mal Bryant,was accepted for a PhD degree at Univ. of Queensland, based on his work on parasiticdiseases of barramundi fish.

• The Senior Curator, Malacology, Dr John Stanisic, carried out collaborative research on the morphology and genetics of large camaenid land snails of eastern Australia; andconducted several environmental consultancies with Hyder Consulting examining impacts for proposed weir and pipeline developments.

• The Senior Curator, Crustacea, Mr Peter Davie, collaborated with Dr Michael Türkay(Senckenburg Museum, Frankfurt), on the taxonomy of intertidal crabs; Dr TakeharuKosuge (Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Okinawa), on the taxonomy and lifehistory of intertidal mangrove crabs; and Assoc. Prof. Peter Ng (National Univ. ofSingapore) on Indo-West Pacific crabs.

• The Senior Curator, Arachnids, Dr Robert Raven, rediscovered a rare species of orbweaving spider, unrecorded for many decades, close to its original (type) locality;

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co-supervised PhD student, Ms Martha Yanez, from the National Univ. of Mexico,researching Mexican and Australian tarantulas; and was elected President of theInternational Arachnological Society.

• The Senior Curator of Entomology, Dr Geoff Monteith, researching parental care inbeetles, found that females of the rhinoceros beetle constructed elaborate undergroundnests which they stocked with surface leaf litter as food for larvae; and found a genus ofdung beetle, endemic to Australia and previously thought to be rare, was common insome inland dry vine forests, and that females practice progressive provisioning of theirlarvae, an advanced, subsocial behaviour.

• The Curator, Higher Entomology, Dr Chris Burwell, collaborated with: Dr Chris Pavey(Ludwig Maximilians Univ., Munich), studying the insect diet and foraging ecology ofSchneider’s Leafnosed bat in Sri Lanka, a common, cave-roosting insectivorous bat; DrJohn Goolsby (US Department of Agriculture), investigating a parasitoid wasp that attacks the Melaleuca gall fly; Dr Michael Schauff (US Department of Agriculture) and Dr JohnLaSalle (CABI Bioscience UK Centre), studying the taxonomy of eulophid wasps forminggalls on eucalypts and parasitic of whiteflies; and is currently investigating the biologyand taxonomy of a wasp parasitic in the eggs of leaf-beetles.

• Staff of the Reptiles & Amphibians section surveyed the reptile fauna of the MacPhersonRange and the Endeavour-Annan Rivers catchment.

• The Senior Curator, Mammals & Birds, Dr Steve Van Dyck, collaborated with: Dr MathewCrowther (Univ. of NSW), studying the taxonomy of the marsupial mouse, Antechinus,discovering a new species and re-evaluating an established species complex; Dr IanGynther (EPA) on the biology and conservation status of the False Water-rat (which haschanged from Rare to Threatened, with recommendations to reclassify it as Endangered,over the six-year project), and documenting over 100 mud nests between Noosa andCoomera; studied the long-term effects of a housing development on False Water-rats atCoomera, and undertook environmental impact assessments related to the survival of thisspecies; was appointed to the State government Scientific Advisory Committee of theMahogany Glider Recovery Team.Technical Officer, Mr Andrew Baker was accepted forthe degree of PhD at the Univ. of Queensland, with his thesis concerning genetics anddispersal of magpies in Australia. Honorary Research Associate, Dr Robert Patersonundertook preliminary planning for an international Humpback Whale symposium to behosted by the Queensland Museum in September 2000.

• The Curator, Geology & Invertebrate Fossils, Dr Alex Cook, was awarded a visitingfellowship to the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution),Washington, to study fossil molluscs; completed projects on fossil stromatoporoid(Porifera) reef communities in north Queensland; fossil fresh water arthropod tracks from290 million year old glacial lake deposits in central Queensland; and 370 million year oldfossil gastropods from northern Australia.

• Research on the evolution of social systems in the unusual, extinct fanged kangaroo(fangaroo) showed it probably used its tusks as weapons. A fossil of the oldest knowncrocodile from Australia was discovered at Lightning Ridge, NSW.

• Honorary Research Fellow, Dr Sue Turner, was appointed Visiting Professor at the Univ.of Hannover, Germany for six months, where she collaborated with Prof. Dr Detlev Thies(Univ. of Hannover) on Lower Carboniferous fish faunas including the DucabrookFormation in Queensland; was nominated as Australian representative to the UNESCO-IUGS IGCP Scientific Board; co-supervised three PhD and MSc students and co-edited thefinal volume of the IGCP 328: Palaeozoic Microvertebrates with Dr Alain Blieck (Univ. of Lille).

COMMUNICATING RESEARCH RESULTSInformation on the State’s biodiversity remains the fundamental product of the NaturalEnvironment Program. Researched and objective collections are the base for understandingbiodiversity.• The Curator, Protozoa, Dr Rob Adlard, contributed to the World Aquaculture Society

International Symposium, Sydney, on QX disease, a protozoan pathogen of oysters, at theinvitation of fisheries managers and industry; lectured on taxonomy and avianhaematozoa at the Univ. of Queensland; and appeared on Totally Wild concerning oysterQX disease.

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• The Acting Director, Natural Environment, Dr John Hooper, convened, edited andpublished proceedings of the 5th International Sponge Symposium; presented researchpapers to the Low Isles Preservation Society, P&O Resort Heron Island, University ofQueensland Department of Zoology, and Astra-Zenica, Sydney and Brisbane; populararticles and presentations to state, national and international media including BBC Wildlifeon One and the National Geographic Channel; and served on the scientific advisorycommittees of CSIRO Australia Publishing for Invertebrate Taxonomy, Coral Reef ResearchFoundation, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Inter-reef Advisory Committee, UQ Earth Sciences Museum and QM-QUT Liason Committee.

• The Senior Curator, Worms & Echinoderms, Dr Lester Cannon, published eight scientificpapers on temnocephalans and marine flatworms, regularly contributed to WildlifeAustralia through his column Did you know, and had his book Turbellaria of the Worldrepublished as a CD-ROM version.

• The Senior Curator, Crustacea, Mr Peter Davie, edited and substantially authored therecently published Wild guide to Moreton Bay, and was Scientific Advisor to Channel 7 intheir associated video production Sea Creatures of Moreton Bay, as part of FrankWarwick’s ‘World Around Us’ series. Mr Davie attended the 4th International CrustaceaCongress in Amsterdam as the invited chairman of Crab Taxonomy and Evolution sessionand was invited to attend an International workshop on the Biodiversity of Crustacea inthe Andaman Sea at Phuket, Thailand, funded entirely by a cooperative Danish and ThaiScientific Program.

• The Senior Curator, Malacology, Dr John Stanisic, served on the committees of MolluscanResearch and the IUCN Mollusc Specialist Group.

• The Section Manager, Mr Jeffrey Johnson, used the extensive collection and database topublish an authoritative annotated checklist of the Moreton Bay fish fauna, with a similarproject in progress for the offshore marine fishes of southeast Queensland; and with DrMartin Gomon (Museum of Victoria), discovered and published a new species of‘stargazer’ hiding in the Museum’s collections, having escaped the attention of previousresearchers since the early 1900s.

• The Senior Curator, Reptiles & Amphibians, Ms Jeanette Covacevich, coordinated a reportfor Environment Australia (Forest Taskforce) on the most significant areas forphylogenetically distinct, relict and/or disjunctly-distributed fauna within SoutheastQueensland. Ms Covacevich served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the EPA,Cooktown Environmental Centre Committee, and together with Curator, Mr PatrickCouper, served as Honorary Consultant to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, PoisonsInformation Centre, and advisors to other hospitals throughout Queensland onenvenomation and toxicity.

• The Senior Curator, Vertebrate Fossils, Dr Ralph Molnar, presented an invited paper onthe oldest known fossil birds in the southern hemisphere to the 2nd Symposium onGondwanan Dinosaurs, National Science Museum, Tokyo; and collaborated in organisingthe Crocodilian Biology and Evolution Symposium, Univ. of Queensland.

The Memoirs of the Queensland Museum is the leading biodiversity journal in Australasia, withover 14,000 pages of peer-reviewed research articles published by staff and externalcollaborators since 1986, averaging more than 1,000 pages per year. Memoirs exchanges andsubscriptions are managed by staff of the Museum’s research Library and individual copiesare sold through the Museum’s Explorer Shop.• The Memoirs international circulation of 654 was slightly lower than the previous year due

to timing of publication/subscriptions for 1998-99. • Three issues were published during the year, together containing over 100 scientific and

technical articles in 1,620 pages. Volume 43(1) (452 pp.) on fossil echinoderms, edited byDr Peter Jell; Volume 43(2) (451 pp.) containing general scientific papers, edited by Dr RobAdlard; and Volume 44 (complete in one part, 707 pp.) on the Proceedings of the 5th

International Sponge Symposium, edited by Dr John Hooper.

QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY• The Queensland Centre for Biodiversity (QCB) was launched by the Premier in June, to

promote the Museum’s role as an authority in the investigation, documentation and

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conservation of Queensland’s faunal biodiversity; to inform the community of thisresearch through the dissemination of information in various forms; and to promotecommunity involvement and ownership in the processes and outcomes of biologicalconservation.

• An information brochure and prospectus for the QCB was published and circulated toclients, and partnerships are currently being sought to promote the discovery anddocumentation of biodiversity, in particular the biota of key sites of regional and nationalbiological significance.

EARTH SCIENCES MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDManagement Committee:Chairman — Prof. Alan Rix (Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, UQ); Vice-Chairman — Dr John Hooper (Acting Director, Natural Environment, QM); Secretary — Dr Alex Cook (Curator,Geology & Invertebrate Fossils, QM); Members — Assoc. Prof. John Jell (Deputy Head,Department of Earth Sciences, UQ), Dr Sue Golding (Department of Earth Sciences, UQ),Prof. Tony Ewart (former staff member of the Earth Sciences Department, communityrepresentative); Mr Ron Young (Mineralogical Society member, community representative).

• The Earth Sciences Museum was established as a Branch of the Queensland Museum withGovernor-in-Council and University Senate approvals, following recommendations of thereview of the Earth Sciences Department at the Univ. of Queensland, and negotiationsbetween the QM and UQ. The Board of the Queensland Museum and Executive Dean ofEngineering, Physical Sciences & Architecture, UQ, approved the appointment of theManagement Committee with representatives from the UQ, QM and the interestedcommunity.

• The Management Committee met on two occasions: reaffirming its commitment to seeingthe collections restored; identified priorities and strategies to achieve this process,including: assessment of the collection status, stabilising and securing all collections,accessioning and databasing the enormous collection backlog, and relocating existingcollections to secure locations; and developed strategies for displays and the website.

• The Curator, Geology & Invertebrate Fossils, Dr Alex Cook commenced sorting andauditing the collection, including large numbers of unique fossil and mineral typespecimens, but also identifying a number of areas where there has been significant neglect.

OUTLOOK FOR 1999-2000• Maintain curatorial standards to promote the safe storage and accessibility of the State

collections.• Develop more effective database strategies and interrogatory tools to make information

more valuable, relevant and accessible for research purposes, to the researchers,conservation managers, the wider community and commercial users.

• Increase the value and scope of collections through the selective acquisition of collectionitems in areas of strategic priority throughout the state and adjacent territories.

• Promote and increase partnerships and collaborations with key institutions in researchand information on the Queensland fauna, including expanding the collaboration withAstra-Zenica, Research & Development (Brisbane) (Griffith Univ.) to include both themarine and terrestrial faunas, and closer partnerships with the Univ. of Queensland.

• Promote and develop the concept of the Queensland Centre for Biodiversity, includingpartnerships with key external agencies in the exploration and documentation of theState’s natural resources, and effectively disseminate this information to the widercommunity.

• Publish research information in at least two issues of the Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum.

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CULTURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM

GOALTo provide the authoritative basis for collection development, documentation, research andpublic programs reflecting the cultural heritage and materials conservation needs of theQueensland Museum’s State Collections and the community.

KEY ISSUES• Identification of important historical themes that require interpretation leading to

research, publications, displays and other educational outcomes.• Analysis of existing collections to determine where effort should be directed to ensure

comprehensive coverage of important issues.• Need to ensure existing and developing collections in Government departments are

considered for incorporation in the State Collections.• Provision of sufficient, environmentally controlled storage and research facilities to ensure

maximum access to the collections by specialists and the general public.• Resolution of issues relating to human remains and other sensitive items of concern to the

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.• Development of Information technology systems to optimise public access to data and

images of collections.• Appropriate conservation treatment to ensure collections are stabilised.• Completion of major maritime archaeological work on the wreck of H.M.S. Pandora.• Major efforts to actively involve Queensland’s Chinese community with the Queensland

Museum.

KEY RESULTS• Acknowledgment by users of well curated, comprehensive State Cultural Heritage

Collections.• Extent of dissemination of research results.• Provision of the authoritative base in cultural heritage topics for the Museum’s public and

professional programs.• Continual strong involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

COLLECTIONSCollections continued to develop, in keeping with approved policies. Collection storageconditions were improved through replacement of existing, aging air conditioning plants and associated ducting and piping, necessitating substantial re-organisation and protection ofcollections and some relocation to off-site storage facilities.

Some noteworthy items or collections added to the State Collections were:• A collection of lace made by Susannah Parker of Brisbane, a prize-winner in the First

Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, Melbourne, 1907. • A ball gown made by Brisbane’s leading couturier of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

Janet Walker, given by Dr Elizabeth Marks.• The donation of a valuable and unique collection of 65 pieces of antique Greek Pottery and

Roman glass by Don and Pam Scheikowski.• The Kwong Sang and Company, Toowoomba (est. 1883) shop stock and fittings.• A march-past costume from the first surf life saving club in Queensland.• Another significant collection from the H.M.S. Pandora historic shipwreck, including

ceramics (glass and tableware), storage vessels, navigation equipment and Polynesian‘curiosities’.

• 108 items in the Torres Strait Islander collection including a fine series of photographs andexamples of bobbin lace from St Paul’s, Moa Island collected by the Rev. J.W. Schombergin the 1920’s.

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• A further 119 electric lamps (bulbs and tubes) donated by Mr Fin Stewart.• 1908 Spencer motorcycle, Brisbane made, donated by Mr David Dettmar.• A complete uniform owned by the Hon. McCowan Hunter, Queensland Agent General,

donated by Mr Tony Morris, for Mrs Roma Morris (grand daughter of Mr Hunter).

OTHER COLLECTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND OUTCOMES• Data entry commenced for information from the Archaeological Sites Register, using a

database developed within the Museum.• Community consultation with various sections of the Mackay, Sarina, Townsville,

Magnetic Island, Cardwell, Palm Island, Tully, Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet indigenouscommunities to develop the Museum of Tropical Queensland Aboriginal display.

• The Curator, Cross-Cultural Studies, Judith Wassell, continued to supervise an Internshiptaken up by Lesley Jenkins. A Queensland women’s sport history collection and anexhibition brief were developed through this internship.

• Maritime Archaeology provided significant input into planning, development, design andcontent for the Pandora and Other Shipwrecks displays scheduled for stage 2 of the Museumof Tropical Queensland, Townsville.

• Among the 204 visitors to the Torres Strait Islander collection area were two studentgroups from the University of Queensland and four from TAFE, in addition to smallgroups or Islanders from the Torres Strait and other provincial centres.

• Data entry was completed for the backlog of Social History collection record sheets.• The Splinter Award was made posthumously to Ron Jones, Brisbane inventor of the IMAX

rolling loop projection mechanism. The award is now in the Museum, with the rollingloop prototype already part of our collections.

• Restoration of an Indian Motorcycle from the collections was completed in the metalsworkshop.

FIELD WORK• The Curator, Aboriginal Studies, Michael Aird, represented the Museum and made

presentations to the World Archaeological Congress in Cape Town and, by personalinvitation, at the National Sami Museum Conference in Norway.

• Staff from Aboriginal Studies, Cross Cultural Studies and Oceanic Anthropologyundertook consultative and collecting field trips to develop the Museum of TropicalQueensland displays.

• Cross Cultural Studies staff conducted a collecting trip to document the ItalianCommunity in Stanthorpe.

• Investigation of archaeological localities in the Simpson desert, the Longreach area and on‘Springfield Station’ near Windorah was undertaken.

• The 1999 Port of Townsville Pandora Expedition was completed safely and effectivelyinvolving 280 days of staff time and producing 734 registered artefacts. The Expeditionwas funded by the Pandora Foundation and the Commonwealth’s Historic ShipwreckProgram, supported by a $1 for $2 subsidy from the State Government. A wreck sitemonitoring Expedition to the Tambaroora, Foam, Gothenberg and Yongala historicshipwrecks was undertaken in collaboration with a marine biology survey, fundedthrough the Commonwealth’s Historic Shipwreck Program and Astra-Zenica Research &Development (Brisbane). The Expedition produced a collection of field data contributingto the compilation of effective management plans for the Tambaroora and Gothenberghistoric shipwrecks.

RESEARCH• In addition to papers presented at two overseas conferences, the Curator, Aboriginal

Studies, Michael Aird, completed a paper Growing Up with Aborigines, based on thephotographic collections of Betty McKenzie and Doris Yuke.

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• A contract for Native Title Claims on the Wellesley Islands was developed fromarchaeological research undertaken by the Senior Curator, Archaeology, Dr RichardRobbins.

• Summer Studentship holder, Carole Tan, produced a report to be used as a basis forcollection and exhibition development, related to Early Chinese Businesses in CoastalQueensland.

COMMUNICATING INFORMATION• The Curator, Aboriginal Studies, Michael Aird, provided 15 press interviews, numerous

public and institutional presentations, and fostered wider community knowledge as amember of the State Reconciliation Committee.

• For this year’s celebrations of International Women’s Day the Museum launched a book Agood plain cook: an edible history of Queensland, by Dr Judith McKay and Susan Addison, andhosted the display When Australian Was a Woman: Images of a Nation, on tour from theWestern Australian Museum.

• The Curator, Applied Arts, Dr Judith McKay, convened a series of 13 lectures on Womenand Heritage. Dr McKay received a Queensland Government award for excellence on the70th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, and she was elected to the NationalCouncil of Museums Australia Inc.

• Digital transcripts of a series of anthropology correspondence, 1875-1920, were placed onthe Museum Library Archive database. A successful symposium Journeys throughAncient Worlds, involved speakers from the University of Queensland and GriffithUniversity, and coincided with the Life and Death under the Pharaohs exhibition.

• The Curator, Cross-Cultural Studies, Judith Wassell, presented her paper Saris, Salamis,and Safari Suits ? Documenting Cultural Diversity at the Queensland Museum, at the 1998 ICOM Triennial conference in Melbourne. Ms Wassell addressed the congregation at BeitKnesset Shalom on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the dedication of theirSynagogue and handover to the Queensland Museum of Xavier Herbert’s Tallit, andcollaborated with the Brisbane City Council to produce the Women’s Sport in Brisbanewebsite, part of Brisbane Stories.

• The Pandora Project Leader’s Chronicle added 81 pages of text and 202 images to theMuseum’s website, detailing on a day-to-day basis the results of the 1999 Port ofTownsville Pandora Expedition. Activities in Maritime Archaeology generated 14significant print media reports, including articles in regional and national newspapers, onthe Pandora Project; and 18 significant interviews on Statewide or Nationwide radiobroadcasts. A BBC film crew spent 12 days with the 1999 Pandora Expedition in the field,and 11 days with staff in the Museum, filming for a major feature on the Pandora Projectfor a new series called Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea, scheduled for internationalbroadcast release in March 2000.

• The Senior Curator, Social History, Dr Brian Crozier, presented a one-semester fourth year course on Museology for the History Department, University of Queensland. TheQueensland House page on the Museum’s website was awarded Site of the Week by themajor search engine Yahoo. The Senior Technician, Social History, Peter Volk, presented aunit for the TAFE Museum and Art Gallery Administration course, and contributed asection to Museums Australia (NSW)’s Museum methods publication, on InformationTechnology. The Assistant Curator, Technology, Chris Lloyd, continued to provide adviceon military items proposed for export under the Commonwealth Heritage Act, with hiswork led to the discovery of the forgery of medals awarded to Flight Lieut. Ian Purssey,who died in 1952.

MATERIALS CONSERVATIONThe Materials Conservation section is responsible for ensuring , through research andpractical work, the conservation of all collection items, condition reporting of displaycollections, and basic conservation training for community museum workers. The followingrelates to major activities in the area.

• Since the end of 1998 most effort has been directed towards the relocation of MaritimeArchaeological collections from Brisbane to Townsville, and preparing material for the

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MTQ exhibitions. The conservation laboratory at MTQ has been set up and conservationsupport provided to the Pandora expedition.

• The Kwong Sang & Co collection acquired by the Cross Cultural Studies section has beendocumented, cleaned, condition assessed and packed.

• Data from 18 surveys conducted throughout the Cultural Heritage collection areas,representing approximately 5% of the total collections provide a view of the currentcollection condition and an estimation of conservation work required. Other Conservationsurveys focussed on materials proposed for exhibition at the MTQ and QueenslandUniversity of Technology displays at the Museum.

• Treatment of the Cobb & Co. Harkaway Horse by a 3rd year conservation student whoundertook the month-long treatment project was supervised by the section. 405 objectsacquired during the Pandora Expedition were stabilised.

• A long running preventive project to treat and re-house the plant fibre mats in the Oceanic Anthropology collection was completed. These mats are now accessible for researchpurposes.

• Christine Ianna coordinated the Southbank Branches preventive conservation andoutreach programs and presented the Preventive Conservation module to the TAFEMuseum and Art Gallery Administration course.

DATA DEVELOPMENTThe Data Development section provides database support and Information Technologysupport for the Museum.

• The Y2K protection project continued and will be complete in October 1999.• A Windows NT network server and switching equipment were installed and configured

for the Museum of Tropical Queensland expansion. Nine Windows NT workstations wereinstalled on the network. The setup allows for remote administration of many networkfunctions, and support is available from local companies.

• The Maritime Archaeology and Conservation Pandora Expedition database was furtherupgraded and extended.

• A small network was set up on the Pacific Conquest, the Pandora Expedition vessel, tofacilitate digital capture of artefact data and images, and updating of the Expeditionwebsite.

• Macintosh networks in the Design and Visual Communications sections were connected to the main Queensland Museum network to achieve file sharing and backup.

PARTNERSHIP BRANCHESThe Cultural Heritage Program has responsibility for maintaining and developing existingpartnership branches, and identifying appropriate proposals for new branches and initiatingtheir development.

COOMERA• At the instigation of Government, a section at the northern end of the Coomera Branch site

was surveyed off and sold, with part of the proceeds used to offset the cost of producingexhibitions and other extra liabilities for the Museum of Tropical Queensland.

GLENLYON DAM BRANCH• Thanks are extended to Department of Natural Resources staff who continue to maintain

the unmanned display centre. Because of the extended wet weather, the dam has remained full and the region stayed green, resulting in a record number of visitors over the year.

LANDS, MAPPING AND SURVEYING BRANCHAdvisory Committee: Acting Chairperson — Dr D.J. Robinson, BSc(Hons), PhD ; CuratorMember and Secretary — Mr W.S. Kitson, BSurv, Grad Dip (Com Mus Man), LS; Member —Dr B. Crozier, BA(Hons), MA, PhD.

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• Due to the stable low level of Museum activity, the Advisory Committee did not meetduring the year.

• A replacement nomination of chair was not received, but given the agreement from theExecutive Director, Land Services Program, Natural Resources, that the Branch collectionsand the Curator will transfer to the Queensland Museum when the planned QueenslandCultural Heritage Centre is ready for occupation, this matter has not been pursued.

RAILWAY HISTORICAL MUSEUMAdvisory Committee: Chairperson — Mr G.C. Carter, BA, Cert Eng; Vice-chairperson — DrD.J. Robinson, Bsc (Hons), PhD; Member — Dr B. Crozier, BA (Hons), MA, PhD; Member —Mr G. Wilson.

• In view of developments towards the incorporation of a museum in the proposed RailTechnology Centre on the site of the former Ipswich Railway Workshops, no meetings ofthe Advisory Committee were held during the year, pending resolution of issues relatingto the future direction of the Branch.

• During the year, the Branch continued with its outreach programs. The Museum-on-the-Move travelling exhibition was displayed at Cunnamulla, Quilpie, Drillham, Warwickand Gayndah. In June, the Branch conducted a three-day series of workshops entitledMuseum Messages, for staff communicating and interpreting in museums and galleries.Fifty-one delegates from southeast Queensland museums participated.

• A retail CD-ROM marketing images from the Branch’s extensive audio/visual collectionwas developed during the year with launch due in September 1999.

• Accessioning of objects into the Queensland Museum collections continued with 407objects registered during the year. Contract conservation of significant objects alsocontinued during the year.

WOODWORKSManagement Committee: Chairperson — Mr T. Willett, Dip For, Bsc (For); Vice-Chairperson— Dr D.J. Robinson, Bsc (Hons), PhD; Secretary — Miss H. Chalmers, Acting ManagerWoodWorks (to January 1999); Secretary — Mr G Smith, Manager, WoodWorks (fromJanuary 1999); Members — Cr M. Venardos, Mayor, Cooloola Shire; Mrs D. Horne PresidentGympie & District Historical Society.

• WoodWorks celebrated 15 years of operation on 23rd March 1999. Performance indicatorsdemonstrate that the venue remains a principal attraction. Visitor numbers show a 5%increase over 1997-98, although still 2% down on 1996-97 attendances. Entrance feesdemonstrate a 14% increase compared with 1997-98 and a 31% increase over 1996-97 dueto entry fee increase in 1997-98. Steam sawmill operating days remain as a strong feature,demonstrating an ever-increasing average attendance for operation days. Shop incomedemonstrates a total upward trend in spending with a 53% increase over 1997-98 and a13% increase over 1996-97. Spending per visitor increased 46% this financial year and alsois up 17% per visitor over 1996-97.

• The Management Committee met four times throughout the year. Discussions on resitingthe building from King Street dominated most meetings. Establishment of the King Streetbuilding within the museum grounds will be completed by the end of July 1999. Thebuilding is intended as a working woodworking/turning display, staffed voluntarily bymembers of the Gympie & District Woodworkers Club.

OTHER BRANCH DEVELOPMENTS• The Queensland Museum continued to provided extensive input into planning of the

Queensland Cultural Heritage Centre, and assisted the consultants appointed byGovernment to review the QCC-2000 Project, particularly through Dr Alan Bartholomai, in his role as Strategic Adviser to the Board.

• Pending the outcome of the review, planning, involving the Museum, State Library ofQueensland and Project Services staff, concentrated on detailing needs for off sitecollection storage space.

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• Dr Bartholomai was involved in ongoing negotiations with Queensland Rail, regarding the Queensland Museum’s involvement in the museum component proposed for the RailTechnology Centre on the site of the former Ipswich Railway Workshops.

COMMUNITY MUSEUM SUPPORTThe Museum Development Officer project continued to develop, serving CommunityMuseums, Galleries and Keeping Places in regional Queensland.

• Lisa Priddle continues her work in Townsville - Thuringowa and associated Shires, andFiona Mohr continues serving the central west from Longreach. Gregor McCaskie wasappointed to the Toowoomba & the Golden West region following Zoe McKenzie-Smith’sresignation. Lindsay Bedogni was appointed to the Sunshine Coast region, working out ofspace in the Noosa Regional Art Gallery. A recommendation on appointment to the Cairns region has been made, and the last of the six available positions, to serve centalQueensland from Rockhampton, has been advertised.

• The Director, Cultural Heritage, Dr Dan Robinson, continued to serve on MA(Q) -Regional Galleries Association of Queensland (RGAQ) Training and ProfessionalDevelopment (TPDP) Reference group and the Arts Training Queensland Museums &Heritage Industry Standing Committee.

• The Senior Curator, Social History, Dr Brian Crozier, continued as secretary of theExecutive of Museums Australia (Queensland) (MA(Q)), and as a member of theElectricity Industry Historical Trust and the Royal Brisbane Hospital Nursing Museum.

• The Social History section’s Accessioning Kit for Small Museums continued to bemarketed, in upgraded form, to small museums.

OUTLOOK FOR 1999-2000

• The outcome of the Government review of QCC-2000, including the Queensland CulturalHeritage Centre will have a major influence on future activities of the Program.

• Approval of Queensland Museum involvement in the museum components proposed forthe Rail Technology Centre on the site of the former Ipswich Railway Workshops will lead to a major expansion in research and display activity.

• Active operation of all six Museum Development Officers will greatly expand services tocommunity Museums throughout regional Queensland, though ways of filling gaps in theareas served need to be addressed in consultation with Arts Queensland.

• The Heritage Trails proposals, once finalised, may provide further opportunities for theMuseum to extend its services to regional Queensland, as an adviser or a partner inrelevant projects.

• Transfer of Maritime Archaeology collections and supporting Curatorial, Technical andConservation staff to the expanded Museum of Tropical Queensland will furtherdecentralise the Museum’s services to the State.

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MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

GOALTo better position the Museum to achieve its Corporate objectives by enhancing theMuseum’s image, increasing client use and commercial activities, expanding promotionalactivities and visitor experiences, encouraging corporate and public support and ensuring the Museum is customer-focused.

KEY ISSUES• Identifying and responding to customer needs.• Co-ordinating marketing through all Museum Branches.• Monitoring efforts to increase public awareness of available services.• Providing more interactive and better informed public space and reception staff.• Ensuring high quality and good value, user-friendly commercial shop and cafeteria outlets.• Increasing competition for leisure time.• Increasing revenue generated from non-Government sources.• Making most of recognised expertise of professional and technical staff to enhance

institutional image.• Developing an environment to encourage greater multicultural involvement.

KEY RESULTS• Significant increases in the use of Museum services, the generation of increased revenue

and in support for the institution from the corporate section and the general community.• A three year forward-planning Marketing and Development Strategy provides direction

for all Museum marketing and development activities.• The Queensland Museum is committed to ensuring that it remains a customer-oriented

facility, providing its visitors with what they want to see and to learn about.• Ongoing targeted Advertising Campaign in family oriented and business publications

continued to raise our public profile amongst our target markets.• High satisfaction levels and word of mouth referrals indicated a successful mix between

products and public relations strategy.

HIGHLIGHTS 1998-99Major achievements of the Marketing Program against the Strategy and highlights to dateincluded:

• A focus on developing new markets through high profile launches to major blockbusters.• Success in attracting additional resources through sponsorship to many Museum

activities.• Continuing relationship with Network 10, providing generous sponsorship which not

only included an ongoing television presence for the Museum through their production ofgeneric community service announcements, but also production of corporate marketingvideos, a promotional video of our travelling exhibition program and a joint promotion toschool visitors with the Totally Wild team.

• Strong partnerships with Channel 7, local daily press and radio stations.• Marketing assistance and support provided to the Pandora Foundation.• Launch of a Venue Hire Program and accompanying marketing collateral, with a view to

encouraging the business community to hold corporate functions in various venuesthroughout the Queensland Museum, South Bank branch.

Successful promotional activity was conducted to raise the Museum’s profile and maximisevisitation to the Museum. This included:

• A greater involvement with other Cultural Centre and South Bank venues through joint-and cross-promotional activities.

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• Regular familiarisation tours of the Museum for volunteers and other marketingrepresentatives from Brisbane Tourism, tour operators, tour bus drivers, concierges frommajor Brisbane Hotels and conference organisers.

• Over 10,000 unique visits per month and approximately 420,000 hits recorded on theMuseum’s award-winning website ‘Museum Explorer’.

• The Museum’s Public Relation strategies continued promoting goodwill among the public, striving towards presenting a favourable image of the Museum.

• The award-winning Visual Communications Section continued to provide an extremelyhigh degree of graphic development and design for all Queensland Museum exhibitionsthrough support for the Museum’s branches.

• A concerted effort to redevelop the Museum Explorer Shop to specialise in products aboutQueensland, from Queensland, and by Queenslanders — that are relevant and accurate tothe Museum’s fields of interest — through the provision of a unique mix of products toencourage development of a reputation for discriminating customers. Shop turnoverincreased significantly over the financial year.

• Visitor Services Officers continued to provide our major customer-service role for visitorsto the Museum. Approximately 45 VSO staff were employed as meet and greet front linestaff, and to provide basic interpretation. Some of these Officers provide languageassistance as Australian, foreign language speaking interpreters.

With a view to cultivating an ongoing relationship with children, the Museum provided:• the Queensland Museum Kids Club — now with 250 members• birthday parties• Museum sleepovers


• Continue with the development of new packages to encourage other overseas, interstate,intrastate and local markets.

• Continue to further develop the innovative Marketing and product development pilotproject in conjunction with the Australia Council, Department of Tourism, Small Businessand Industry and Arts Queensland in establishing open communication and greaterinvolvement with the Chinese Community.

• Increase development of co-operative and cross-promotional marketing opportunitiesthrough the South Bank Marketing Precinct Committee and proposed South BankBusiness Association.

• Continue to promote the Queensland Museum as a venue for corporate functions andencourage participation of the corporate sector in Queensland Museum activities.

• Continue to achieve high profile launches for major exhibitions.• Through the areas of cultural tourism, and as part of a steering committee commissioned

by the Brisbane City Council to develop a Cultural Tourism Framework, strengthenexisting relationships with their Office of Economic Development, Brisbane Tourism,Tourism Queensland, Office of State Development and other stakeholders.

• Establish a Queensland Museum Foundation.• Continue to maintain the targeted advertising and promotional strategy to reach identified

target markets.• Maintain and further develop the comprehensive promotional planning, target marketing

and fundraising database to gain more efficiency and effectiveness.• Continue to support all the Queensland Museum’s branches from a marketing and

development perspective.• Develop and undertake further market research into existing and potential target markets

through development of visitor profiles.• Develop forward planning for sponsorship of future exhibitions and display space.

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COBB & CO. MUSEUM

GOALSTo collect, research and conserve Queensland’s heritage especially in the fields ofhorse-drawn transportation and associated heritage trades, and to interpret it for theenjoyment, education and cultural enrichment of the community and visitors.

KEY ISSUES• Recognition of the Cobb & Co. Museum as the authoritative source of information in its

field of expertise.• Expansion of the Museum to incorporate the Carriage Factory and Heritage Trade

Training Facilities in conjunction with the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE.• Provide access for schools to different cultural heritage experiences by developing and

delivering innovative curriculum based education programs.• Enhance capacity to support the community museum sector throughout Southern Inland

Queensland.• Maintain government and community support for the Museum while expanding the

commercialisation of the Museum’s services.• Develop and market the Museum as the leading cultural tourism attraction in the region.

KEY RESULTS• Incorporation of Stage 1 of the Cobb & Co. Museum expansion into the Queensland

Heritage Trails Project.• Receipt of Commonwealth Government Centenary of Federation History and Education

Grant to develop a major exhibition and education program on Federation in Queensland.• Revision of all display labelling in the Museum with an emphasis on learning outcomes

for adults and children.• Development of special programs for people with disabilities, which initiated the

Toowoomba & Golden West Regional Tourist Association’s internationally recognisedAccess The Best project.

• Widespread community interest and support for the Museum’s efforts in savingHarkaway – Toowoomba’s historic wooden horse.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEEChairman— Mr W.W. O’Brien; Vice Chairman — Dr A. Bartholomai, MSc, PhD to 2 Sept.1998; Vice Chairman — Dr. P. Jell BSc, PhD from 2 Sept. 1998; Secretary — Mrs D.M. Tranter,BA, MLitSt, CT (Sec), Grad Dip Ced; Members — Mrs M. Andersen; Mr A.J. Cardell, LLB; Mr G. Healy MLA, Shadow Minister Tourism, Sport and Racing; Mr G.L. Holmes, BEd, MEd(Admin), CElectEng; Dr D. Robinson, Bsc (Hons), PhD; Mr I. Waples, MIE (Aust), CPEng,LGE; Mr Z. (Bill) Jelacic, BEd, BA, MEdS, Dip School Counselling.

• Negotiations suggest that funding will be available under the Queensland Heritage TrailsProject to expand the Cobb & Co. Museum but not sufficient to complete the CarriageFactory and Heritage Trade Training Facilities. This has necessitated redesigning theexpansion project into two stages, and renegotiating land issues with the SouthernQueensland Institute of TAFE. It has also required a revision of the detailed Project Briefcompleted by Project Services in March 1998.

• Work continued on improving the interpretation of the vehicle collection with newthematic displays, a sound umbrella system and conversion of an old wicker basket into adisplay case.

• Family visitors were very impressed with the hands-on activity room that operates everyweekend and during holiday periods. The school holiday programs conducted during theyear were particularly well attended (Frogs in July, Puzzling Science (in conjunction withthe Sciencentre Road Show) in December-January, and Creepy Crawlies in June). Special

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hands-on programs were developed for children with special learning needs, and trialedduring Disability Access Week in July 1998.

• Within the framework of the new Queensland Museum Education Policy, the Cobb & Co.Museum revisited all its education programs and developed new hands-on programsespecially for younger visitors, children and adults with disabilities and secondary historystudents.

• During the year Museum staff completed Education Resource Kits for the National Trust’s Royal Bull’s Head Inn in Toowoomba, and the Landsborough Museum. Staff were alsoinvolved in preparing and delivering training programs in education, tourism andmarketing, social history and collection management. The first module in the TAFECertificate course was delivered via video link to 26 volunteers in small museumsthroughout Southern Queensland.

• There were four temporary displays mounted — Australian Wildlife Photographers (19 August -25 Sept); Puzzling Science Interactives (14 Dec - 31 Jan); the Irish inQueensland (8 March - 5 April); Our Frozen Frontier: 50 Years of ANARE Expeditions toAntarctica (28 April - 6 June). Special education programs developed for the ANAREexhibition which very well attended by local schools.

• Saving of Harkaway, Toowoomba’s historic wooden horse, provided the Museum withsustained publicity throughout the year. More than 350 local businesses, residents andvisitors contributed $16,500 in sponsorship to enable the Museum to purchase andconserve Harkaway. The local media readily and enthusiastically embraced this projectand continue to report on Harkaway’s conservation progress.

• The Museum Resource Centre for southern inland Queensland, based at the Cobb & Co.Museum continued to provide widespread support for the 58 museums, galleries andhistorical societies within the region.

• Within the regional tourism industry, the Museum continues to play a leadership role with Director, Deborah Tranter, re-elected as President of the Toowoomba & Golden WestRegional Tourist Association. Museum initiatives in regional tourism included two grantsto develop and market cultural tourism products and merchandise; a major feature onschool visits to the region in the School Excursion and Education Resource Register for1999 and the Access The Best project for active people with disabilities. This projectreceived both national and international recognition.

OUTLOOK FOR 1999-2000• Commence the expansion program.• Develop the Centenary of Federation exhibition and education program Federation —

Queensland’s Story. Besides the major exhibition with its case study on W.H. Groom, thisproject will involve a 12-month teaching program based on the Discovering Democracynational curriculum and loan kits for schools.

• Continue to promote family learning activities at the Museum with the production of afamily activity kit.

• Maintain the effectiveness of the Museum Resource Centre, and provide a field visit by the Museum Development Officer into the far south west of the State, which is not currentlycovered by the Museum Resource Centre network.

• Provide a leadership role within the regional tourist industry, and continue to promoteheritage and equine tourism within the South East Queensland marketing campaign inconjunction with Tourism Queensland and the Toowoomba & Golden West Regionaltourist Association.

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MUSEUM OF TROPICAL QUEENSLAND

GOALThe Museum specialises in the marine and maritime heritage of tropical Queensland byconducting original research, maintaining collections resulting from published research andpresenting displays and educational programs to the public.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEEChairperson — John Lyons, BEc, FCPA, FTIA, FIDA, AFAIM, ACA; Vice Chairperson —Alan Bartholomai, BSc, MSc, PhD; Secretary — Carden Wallace, BSc (Hons), PhD; Members— Keith Brazier, LS, FIS; Prof Howard Choat, BSc (Hons), PhD; Noel Gertz; Prof BernardMoulden BA (Hons) PhD; Mark Stoneman; Observer — Peter Arnold, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 1998-99• Open Day was held in October to mark closure of old the building on 27 September, with

an accompanying celebration and on-site inspection of the new building site by partners in the project.

• Major effort centred on decanting collections and operations from existing to new facilities.• Presentation held by the James Cook University Pitcairn Project on behalf of the people of

Pitcairn Island in June to mark collaboration in the ‘Bounty’ project.• The Director had published a book and CD-ROM on the Staghorn Corals of the World.

STAGE 2 OF MUSEUM OF TROPICAL QUEENSLAND• Construction of Stage 2 of the MTQ continued, and included demolishing Stage 1 in

January-February; construction was near completion at the end of the year. • MTQ staff participated fully in design and construction of displays, largely undertaken in

Brisbane. Activities occurring in Townsville included: Townsville Slipways reconstructingthe bow of the Pandora for the Museum’s main feature gallery; exploring Townsvillehouses and environs for the Life around the house display; selecting and organising 22 localartists for the large mural to feature on the outside walls of the galleries.

• Displays in the new galleries will represent aspects of Queensland’s tropical heritage andspecial characteristics of the north Queensland natural and cultural history.

PUBLIC PROGRAMThe Museum serves tourists and all areas of the north Queensland community with displays, educational programs, training, research and collections that encourage understanding ofQueensland’s tropical heritage.

Although closed to the public for most of the year, two travelling displays were hosted by MTQ.• The Midnight Grocer, a travelling exhibition from Maryborough, depicting a

turn-of-the-century grocer’s store, which is now a museum in Maryborough (1 Jul-27 Sept) including an interactive area where children could play shop.

• Pandora — piecing together the puzzle, as part of the 1998 Sydney Olympics Arts Festival, ASea Change (until 12th July).

Children’s program and educational activities• The Display Officer kept children in touch with the Museum by writing articles for

Newspapers in Education (Townsville Bulletin). • MTQ Display Officers demonstrated casting, moulding, and taxidermy at Townsville

Grammar Primary School during Science Week (1-9 May). • 28 local and regional schools visited the Museum during the year.

Interaction with the communityMTQ plays an increasing role in the Townsville and broader Australian and Asia/Pacificcommunity.

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• The Director, Dr Carden Wallace, continued to serve on the advisory committee to theMinister for the Environment for the Australian Biological Resources Study.

• The Marketing Manager, Lorna Hempstead, represented MTQ at meetings of theProfessional Arts Working Group; a board member of Tourism Queensland; President ofMagnetic Island Community and Commerce Association.

Volunteer Program• Archaeology students from JCU became involved in a voluntary capacity with

conservation activities associated with the artefacts from the Pandora and Bounty,including maintaining the artefact database, monitoring and changing chemicaltreatments, and removing coralline concretions from artefacts, largely supervised by theTechnical Officer, Maritime Archaeology, Peter Illidge.

Museum Resource Centre of North QueenslandAs part of a state and local government network the Centre provides services to museumsthroughout Queensland, including Local Government areas of Townsville City, ThuringowaCity, Burdekin Shire, Cardwell Shire, Hinchinbrook Shire and Ravenswood.

• Museum Development Officer, Lisa Priddle, worked with museum and cultural workersconducting workshops on caring for collections, grants, textiles, metals and registration.

SCIENTIFIC AND CONSULTANCY PROGRAMMuseum of Tropical Queensland seeks a high standard of excellence in research. Byexchanging information with other institutions and specialists in the Asia/Pacific region andsupporting and expanding its knowledge base, it maintains the goal of documentingQueensland’s tropical heritage.

Fauna CollectionsMTQ continued with its collection strategy that gives priority to scientific collectionsresulting from published systematic studies of animals of tropical Queensland, includingbiogeographical studies, and studies that examine the exotic fauna and/or human activitieson native fauna. Additions during the year were:• A number of type specimens, especially of marine invertebrates, deposited by researchers

working on the Queensland biota. • 15 researchers spent 21 days examining collections for projects in ecology, management

and geological history of coral reefs. Research into the nature and origins of the coralgenus Acropora resulted in the addition of 99 specimens from the reefs of Saudi Arabia,Niue, Kuwait, Gulf of Aqaba and Sri Lanka.

Research and Consultancy• Cataloguing of the staghorn coral collection was completed, including production of

species distribution maps and an interactive key to species. An illustrative catalogue of alltype specimens in all museums throughout the world was also prepared, both projects aculmination of a research program under way for more than 10 years, and involvingalmost 80 contributing international researchers. The publication and CD-ROM of Staghorn Corals of the World was in press at years end and a first revision of the staghorn corals(Acropora) of Indonesia was published.

• Fieldwork on dwarf minke whales in a collaboration with James Cook University andfunded by Environment Australia, gathered biological data and tested guidelines forcontrolling interactions of whales and snorkellers or divers. An information package wasprepared for use by the dive charter industry, and industry workshops held in Cairns andPort Douglas. Research on deep water bryozoa (lace corals), and comparative studies onshallow water, soft sediment bryozoans continued.

• Corals were identified on a fee for services basis (Department of Marine Biology, JamesCook University; and School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney), and aworkshop held on Identification of Scleractinian Corals.

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Tropical Conservation• The Conservation Laboratory, established in February, initiated treatment of all artefacts

acquired from the Pandora and Bounty/Pitcairn expeditions, collaborating with theAdvanced Analytical Centre and Archaeology Departments at JCU. The Bountycollections are not part of MTQ’s permanent collection, but are being conserved at MTQunder an agreement with JCU and the Office of the Governor of Pitcairn Islands. Onceconserved the Pitcairn artefacts will be displayed for 12 months at MTQ before beingreturned to Pitcairn Island.

Administration and SupportMuseum of Tropical Queensland seeks to provide a high standard of service to its clients. • A part time Financial Adviser was appointed in 1999 to facilitate the expansion of

infrastructure and activities of the MTQ• The MTQ shop, specialising in products that highlight the heritage of North Queensland,

held a pre-closing sale to reduce some older merchandise. • During the Museum’s closure the Attendants greatly assisted packing and moving of

materials to the new building, and have been responsible for most processes, inductionsand training associated with fire, safety, security and plant in the new museum.

Publicity and MarketingThe Marketing Manager, working with Townsville Enterprise and all the sectors of thetourism industry, has prepared a Marketing plan to position the Museum for its reopening to visitors in 2000. Strong media interest was experienced in the closing of the old museum,decanting of exhibits and collections, construction of the new building, and the arrival ofartefacts from Pandora and Pitcairn/Bounty expeditions.

PANDORA FOUNDATIONBoard of DirectorsChairperson — Mrs Jennie Roberts; Secretary — Mrs Marion Nancarrow; Members — MrRichard Power, Dr Alan Bartholomai, Cr Tony Mooney of the City of Townsville, Cr LesTyrell of the City of Thuringowa, Mrs Linsey Plante, Mrs Fay Barker, Mr Clive Scott, Mr LenZell, Mr Chris Boyle; Observers — Mr John Lyons, Dr Carden Wallace.

Campaign Management CommitteeChairperson — Mr Keith Brazier; Members — Mr David Carmichael, Mr Richard Ferry, MrRay Linday, Mr John Lyons, Mr Stephen Paul, Mr Richard Power.

• The 1999 Port of Townsville Expedition to the wreck of HMS Pandora was again amilestone. Among the most significant artefacts recovered this year were a sextant, anintaglio seal and an ali-baba jar packed with concretions.

• The excitement of the Pandora Expedition was almost eclipsed by another arrival in thesame week — of the cannon from the very Bounty that Pandora’s crew failed to find in1791. The Bounty cannon was recovered on the recent James Cook University expeditionto Pitcairn Island, led by Nigel Erskine. Artefacts from this expedition are also currentlybeing conserved at MTQ. The Pandora’s cannon, recovered on the 1998 NORQEB Pandora Expedition, underwent conservation at the NORQEB (now Ergon Energy) Garbuttwarehouse, and will soon be moved back into the new MTQ building. In an interestingtwist of fate, the cannons of both the hunter (HMS Pandora) and the hunted (HMAVBounty) will soon be sitting side by side in MTQ.

• The Foundation continues to acknowledge the Queensland Government’s $1 for $2subsidy (with a ceiling of $1million), and commitments by the Townsville andThuringowa City Councils, businesses and its individual members. Although one of theBenefactor sponsors regrettably withdrew from its pledge to the Foundation, due toeconomic circumstances, contributions continue to arrive at regular intervals. TheFoundation also greatly regrets the passing of Mr Philip Leong, and pays tribute to his lifelong philanthropic work and his contributions as a valued Member sponsor of thePandora Foundation.

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QUEENSLAND SCIENCENTRE

GOAL

To provide quality interactive science and technology education programs which help people understand the relationship between science and everyday life by promoting the fun,excitement and curiosity of science; by being a centre for learning about science throughactive participation; and by promoting the links between people, science, industry and thearts.

KEY ISSUES

• Ensure state-wide recognition as the authoritative source for provision of non-formalscience and technology education.

• Exceed public expectations in displays, interpretation and programs.• Broaden the perspective of science and technology presented by exhibitions and programs.• Undertake, encourage and support research and disseminate research results that increase

the knowledge and understanding of non-formal learning.• Encourage greater support and financial commitment from the community, private

enterprise and governments.• Promote an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and

everyday life through displays, publications and other programs.

KEY RESULTS• Commencement of a year-long Artist in Residence program with funding from the

Australia Council for the Arts.• Collaborated with arts groups to present a program of four science-art exhibitions.• Expanded outreach programs including the Sciencentre Roadshow to reach 45,760 visitors

in 43 towns and cities.• $21,500 received in grants from Queensland and Commonwealth Governments and

$125,000 received in sponsorship.• Finalised the design of exhibits for the Sciencentre Gallery in the new Museum of Tropical

Queensland and the 1999 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival, and designed andconstructed 38 exhibits for the Sciencentre Roadshow.

• Visitor numbers down 5.9% on 1997-98 figures to 138,565.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEEChairperson — Professor D.J. Nicklin, BScApp, BEcon, PhD, AO; Vice-Chairperson — Dr A.Bartholomai, MSc, PhD; Secretary — Dr G.J. Potter, Msc (Hons), PhD, GradDipEd; Members— Mr R. Bryan, Bsc (Hons); Dr J.P. Collie, MB, BS, MHP, FRACMA, FAFPHM; Mr I. Hiley,BCom, AAUQ, FCA, FCIM, Aff AIMM; Professor I. Lowe, BSc, DPhil; Dr B. Piscitelli, MEd,PhD; Dr D. Robinson, Bsc (Hons), PhD; Mr T.M. Sherman, BE; Sir Bruce Watson, BE (Elec),BCom, HonDEng; Professor R.L. Whitmore, BSc(Hons), PhD, DSc, AM; Observer — Mrs D.J.Henderson, BSc, GradDipEd.

REVIEW 1998-99• 1998-99 was a year of consolidation for the Queensland Sciencentre, further developing the

new initiatives implemented the previous year. In addition, major exhibit constructionprograms were commenced.

• The Sciencentre Roadshow toured for 38 weeks, presenting its unique school andcommunity science programs to 39,488 people in 42 rural and regional towns. Two teamsof four staff (one each in 1998 and 1999) presented science shows and more than 60hands-on exhibits, which were set up as science centres in community or school halls. InJanuary Energex joined the University of Queensland as a major sponsor of the Roadshow.

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• Visitor numbers decreased from the previous year by 5.9% to a total of 138,565. Generalpublic numbers remained unchanged at 98,000 whereas student numbers decreased 15%to 37,966, the lowest in eight years. In an effort to capture part of this declining market alocal outreach program involving school based science demonstrations and workshopswas developed. 6,272 students attended these activities.

• Earned revenue for the year was up 16% to from 1997-98. Sciencentre Membershipcontinued to receive strong support, now exceeding 5,900 family and individual membersplus 1,681 teacher members.

• The Sciencentre received grants from the Science and Technology Awareness Program ofthe Department of Industry, Science and Resources (to promote and develop a SuperballMural during National Science Week), and Arts Queensland (to provide scholarships andassist running multimedia training workshops for artists in regional Queensland).

• Collaboration continued with early childhood education providers in association with theSciencentre’s ScienceSpot exhibition. The Sciencentre and The Creche and KindergartenAssociation of Queensland jointly published an early childhood science resource bookentitled Science Play Every Day, and a complementary professional development programwas prepared.

• During the year the Sciencentre hosted the national judging and presentation of theEarthworm Environmental Science Awards, the Queensland Health and Medical Research Expo, and the Queensland Primary Science Seminar for teachers of primary school science, and took the lead in coordinating and hosting National Science Week activities inQueensland.

• The presentation of a breadth of issues in science and technology continued as a priorityby providing a program of temporary exhibitions as well as the Sciencentre’s own 170exhibits. Eight exhibitions were presented: PowerPlay (25 Mar - 30 Aug), Li’ l Elvis Jonesand the Truckstoppers (17 Aug - 8 Nov), BHP WildScience (12 Sep - 21 Mar), QueenslandElectricity Historical Display (1 Dec - 31 Jan), Cyberzone (1 Apr - 8 Aug), Night Skies: theArt of Deep Space (21 Apr - 23 Jun), Alignment: Acoustic Lenses (5 - 18 Jun) and fuzzylogic Toystore (25 Jun - 11 Jul).

• Do and Discover school holiday programs were run on seven themes throughout the yearwith 1,608 participants, and daily science shows were available for all visitors. Aninnovative program of education support was further developed including pre- and postvisit activities and resource materials, and a professional development program forteachers was presented.

• One recruitment and training program was conducted for volunteers, providing 102volunteers who contributed 2,263 days of voluntary work in the Sciencentre, mainly in theexhibition spaces as Explainers. This extensive community support is very muchappreciated by staff who, without the contribution of volunteers, would be unable todeliver the breadth and quality of service expected by visitors.


• At the end of 1999 the Queensland Sciencentre will celebrating its tenth anniversary.• The 12 month Artist in Residence program will conclude, culminating in the presentation

of an exhibition featuring novel art-related science and science-related art works to feature in association with the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at theQueensland Art Gallery.

• Exhibits will be completed for the Sciencentre Gallery in the new Museum of TropicalQueensland and the Sciencentre Roadshow.

• The Sciencentre will further expand and diversify topics presented, and the manner ofpresentation, by developing displays on Sustainable Development and QueenslandInnovation and Technology, expanding the range of earth science exhibits andcommencing the development of an exhibition on Public Health.

• Development of education support for exhibitions will continue, as will the expandingrelationship with Education Queensland to develop programs of mutual benefit.

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MUSEUM OF NORTH WESTERN QUEENSLAND

GOAL

The Museum of North Western Queensland documents and preserves the mining heritage ofthe Mount Isa-Carpentaria mineral province. The Frank Aston Underground Museumportrays the early lifestyle of the gouger miners and settlers of the region, and displays themineral and gemstone Earth’s Treasures. The John Middlin Mining Display and VisitorsCentre’s focus is on Mount Isa Mines region.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEEJoint Chairpersons — Mr R. Moore, Mr S. Wollaston; Vice Chairperson — Dr. P. Jell, BSc,PhD; Secretary — Mr R. McKay, Bsc; Members — Mrs S. McGrady; Ms K. Campbell (MountIsa Mines) ; Mr G. Handy (Mount Isa Rotary Club); Mrs F. Donovan (Mount Isa City Council);Museum Consultants — Mr F. Aston, Mrs A. Miller.

HIGHLIGHTS 1998-99• The complete restoration of a large Ball Mill donated by Mount Isa Mines was

accomplished. • An ore truck weighing 11.5 tonnes and a Marrs dewatering pump of 12.5 tonnes continue

to be renovated for display at the Frank Aston Underground Museum.• Numerous items in the collection were de-rusted and painted in order to protect them

until full restoration can be achieved, these include wagons, printing presses, drills,pumps, generators, tools, stoves, lamps, medical equipment and pastoral machinery. Some of these items have limited relevance to the mining industry and consequently may beloaned to other branches for display and conservation.

• The mineral collection continues to expand with the assistance of Consultant Mineralogist, Mr John Riley, who accompanied the Director to the Fairfield Mine, and also worked onthe backlog of mineral specimens. Mr Riley identified many specimens that currentlyawait accessioning.

• The valuable assistance provided by Corrective Services, Community Service workerscontinued, with on-going restoration of artefacts, painting of buildings, landscaping of thegrounds and general maintenance. The assistance of J. Schmider, Schmider Engineering;Mr T. Fitzgerald, QRX the Transport People, and Mr K. McIntosh, Beaurepaires, inproviding transport of large items of machinery through the Rotary Clubs of Mount Isa,was gratefully appreciated.

• The Management Committee met bi-monthly throughout the year, supported thesubmission for funding through the Heritage Trials Network and assisted the Directorwith the planning and development of the Branch.

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APPENDIX I

PUBLICATIONSQueensland Museum staff produced 203 scientific, technical and popular publications, bookchapters, industry reports and conference presentations during the year, an increase of 22%from 1997-98.

ADAMS, C.L., McINERNEY, J.O. & KELLY, M. 1999. Indications of relationships between poriferanclasses using full-length 18s rRNA gene sequences. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 33-44.ADLARD, R.D. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. Echinoderms. Pp. 102-107, 152-154, 220-227, 236, 254-255. InDavie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosato the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).ADLARD, R.D. & CRIBB, T.H. 1998. Parasites and the site-attachment of tropical fishes. Conference ofthe Australian Society for Parasitology, Melbourne, Australia, September 1998. (Abstract)ADLARD, R.D., KLEEMAN, S.N., WESCHE, S.C. & LESTER, R.J.G. 1999. Characterisation of anepizootic of QX disease (Marteilia sydneyi) in eastern Australia. World Aquaculture Society Conference,Sydney, April/May 1999 (Abstract).ALVAREZ, B., CRISP, M.D., DRIVER, F., HOOPER, J.N.A & SOEST, R.W.M. VAN 1999. Approach tothe phylogeny of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) using morphological and molecular data.Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 43.ANON. 1999. Science Play Every Day. (Queensland Sciencentre & The Creche and KindergartenAssociation of Queensland: Brisbane, ISBN 0-908499-51-5).ARNOLD, P. 1998. Bryozoans (lace corals and sea-mosses). Pp. 188-189. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide toMoreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed (QueenslandMuseum: Brisbane).ARNOLD, P.W. & BIRTLES, R.A. 1999.Towards sustainable management of the developing dwarfminke whale tourism industry in northern Queensland. Pp. 1-30. CRC Technical Report 27 (James Cook University: Townville).BANKS, S., RUSHTON, A. & VAN DYCK, S. 1989. Eastern range extension of Forrest’s Mouse(Leggadina forresti). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 386.BÖHM, F., DULLO, W.-C., EISENHAUER, A., LEHNERT, H., WÖRHEIDE, G., REITNER, J. &JOACHIMSKI, M.M. 1999. Carbon isotope time series of coralline sponges from the Coral Sea,Philippines and Caribbean. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 84.BRUCE, A.J. 1998. A new species of the genus Brachycarpus (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) fromNew Caledonia. Zoosystema 20(2): 157-165.BRUCE, A.J. 1998. Pontoniine shrimps from Moreton Bay (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 387-398.BRUCE, A.J. 1998. New keys for the identification of Indo-West Pacific coral associated pontoniineshrimps, with observations on their ecology (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Ophelia 49(1): 29-46.BURDON-JONES, C. 1998. Hemichordata. Pp. 1-50, 259-261 (App. I-III), 263-264 (Index). In Wells, A. &Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata,Cephalochordata. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).BURDON-JONES, C. 1998. Hemichordates (acorn worms). Pp. 108. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide toMoreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (QueenslandMuseum: Brisbane).BURROW, C.J. & TURNER, S. 1998. Devonian placoderm scales from Australia. Journal of VertebratePaleontology 18: 677-695.BURROW, C.J. & TURNER, S. 1999. A review of placoderm scales, and their significance in placodermphylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 19: 204-219.BURWELL, C.J. 1998. Species groups of Pediobius (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): an Australian flavour to a cosmopolitan genus. P. 6. Australian Entomological Society, 29th Annual General Meeting andScientific Conference Abstracts (Abstract).BURWELL, C. 1998. A brief overview of the Queensland Museum (Australia) chalcidoid collections.Chalcid Forum 29: 5-6.BURWELL, C. & ROBBINS, R. 1999. Colonial Brisbane and some of its inhabitants. News Bulletin of theEntomological Society of Queensland 27(4): 55-57.

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BURWELL, C. 1999. Two weeks hunting for black beetles in the Wet Tropics: a brief travelogue. NewsBulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 26(9): 162-165.CAMERON, S., ADLARD, R.D. & O’ DONOGHUE, P.J. 1998. Unique endosymbiotic ciliates frommacropodid marsupials in Australia. Conference of the American Society of Parasitologists, KonaBeach, Hawaii, August 1998. (Abstract)CAMERON, S., O’ DONOGHUE, P.J. & ADLARD, R.D. 1998. Morphology and cell division of theMacropodiniidae. Conference of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Melbourne, Australia,September 1998. (Abstract)CANNON, L.R.G. 1999. In Gibbons, M.J. et al. (with over 60 contributing authors) The Taxonomicrichness of South Africa’s marine fauna: a crisis at hand. South African Journal of Science 95: 8-12.CARLESS, T. 1998. Occurrence of Chlamys elegantissima in Queensland waters. Australian Shell News 98: 7.CLARK, R.J., GARSON, M.J., BRERETON, I.M. & KENNEDY, J.A. 1999. Vinylfurans revisited: a newsesquiterpene from Euryspongia deliculata. Journal of Natural Products 62: 915-916.COOK, A.G. 1999. Stromatoporoid palaeoecology and systematics from the Middle Devonian FanningRiver Group, north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 463-551.COOK, A.G. 1999. Westraliadiscus gen.nov. a replacement name for Ningbingia Cook. Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 43(2): 552.COOK, A.G. 1999. An overview of stromatoporoid dominated Middle Devonian reef complexes innorth Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 99.COUPER, P.J. & JANETZKI, H. 1998. Marine Reptiles. Pp. 354-359. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide toMoreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (QueenslandMuseum: Brisbane).COVACEVICH, J. 1998. Messages from the forests – maintaining biodiversity. Wildlife Australia 35(4): 17-20.CRIBB, T.H., ANDERSON, G.A., ADLARD, R.D. & BRAY, R.A. 1998. A DNA-based demonstration of athree-host life-cycle for the Bivesiculidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea). International Journal forParasitology 28:1791-1795.CROSBY, K., WILLIS, P. M. A., GODTHELP, H. & MOLNAR, R. E. 1999. A longirostrine crocodile fromFloraville Station, north west Queensland. P.6. In Augee, M. (ed.) CAVEPS 99 and Rodent Symposium(University of New South Wales: Sydney) (Abstract)CZECHURA, G.V. 1998. Wildlife Questions. Wildlife Australia 35(3): 38.CZECHURA, G.V. 1998. Scratchings and Rustlings. Wildlife Australia 35(3): 10.CZECHURA, G.V. 1998. Scratchings and Rustings. Wildlife Australia 35(4): 9.CZECHURA, G.V. 1999. Scratchings and Rustlings. Wildlife Australia 36(1): 11.CZECHURA, G.V. 1999. Scratchings and Rustlings. Wildlife Australia 36(2): 11.CZECHURA, G.V. 1999. Wildlife Questions. Wildlife Australia 36(2) 38.DALL, W. 1999. Australian species of Solenoceridae (Penaeoidea: Decapoda). Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 43(2): 553-587.DAVIE, P.J.F. 1998. A new species of Intesius (Crustacea, Decapoda, Goneplacidae) from the deep waterof French Polynesia. Zoosystema 20(2): 221-227.DAVIE, P.J.F. 1998. New records of crabs in Hawaii (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Records of theHawaii Biological Survey for 1997 Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 56: 63-64.DAVIE, P.J.F. (ed.) 1998. Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australiancoast — Noosa to the Tweed. (Queensland Museum: Brisbane) (editor and major author).DAVIE, P.J.F. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1998. Patterns of biodiversity in the marine invertebrate and fishcommunities of Moreton Bay. Pp. 331-346. In Tibbetts, I.R., Hall, N.J. & Dennison, W.D. (eds) MoretonBay and Catchment. (School of Marine Science, University of Queensland Press: Brisbane).DAVIES, V. TODD 1998. A revision of the Australian metaltellines (Araneae: Amaurobioidea:Amphinectidae: Metaltellinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 211-243.DAVIES, V. TODD 1998. A redescription and renaming of the Tasmanian spider Amphinecta milvina(Simon, 1903), with descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Amaurobiidae). Pp.67-82. In Selden, P.A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology. (BritishArachnological Society: Burnham Beeches).

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FALLON, S.J, McCULLOCH, M.T. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1999. Trace element and stable isotope profilesfrom the coralline sponge (Astrosclera willeyana). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 174.FRITH, C.B. & FRITH, D.W. 1998. Nesting biology of the Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtonianaendemic to Australian upland tropical rainforest. Emu 98: 245-268.FRITH, C.B. & FRITH, D.W. 1999. Folivory and bill morphology in the Tooth-billed Bowerbird,Scenopoeetes dentirostris, (Passeriformes: Ptilonorhynchidae): food for thought. Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 43(2): 589-596.FRITH, C.B. & FRITH D.W. 1999. Subspeciation in the Australian-endemic Great Bowerbird Chlamyderanuchalis (Ptilonorhynchidae): a review and revision. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 199.FRITH, C.B. & NEVILL, S. 1998. Sunning by an aggregation of Regent Bowerbirds Sericuluschrysocephalus (Ptilonorhynchidae). Australian Bird Watcher 17: 398–401.FRY, L., FROST, R.L., TURNER, J. & HALLAM, D. 1999. Analysis of Ceramics from the wreck of thePandora using Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy. Pp. 546-547. In Heyns, A.M. (ed.) Proceedings of theSixteenth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, September 6-11. (John Wiley and Sons:Chichester).GOMON, M.F. & JOHNSON, J.W. 1999. A new fringed stargazer (Uranoscopidae: Ichthyscopus), with de -scriptions of the other Australian species of the genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 597-619.GROSTAL, P. 1999. Five species of kleptobiotic Argyrodes Simon (Araneae: Theridiidae) from easternAustralia: descriptions and ecology with special reference to southeast Queensland. Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 43(2): 621-638.HOCKNULL, S.A. 1999. Bits of Bone from Stone. Queensland Museum Association News15(2): 2. HOOPER, J.N.A. 1998. Savant of the Australian Seas. William Saville-Kent (1845-1908) and AustralianFisheries (A.J. Harrison). Book Review. Australian Marine Science Bulletin (142): 18-19.HOOPER, J.N.A. 1998. Sponges & non-scleractinian cnidarians. Pp. 60-64, 119-122, 165-170, 173-177,236-237. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australiancoast – Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).HOOPER, J.N.A., LEHNERT, H. & ZEA, S. 1999. Revision of Aulospongus Norman and review of Raspailiidaewith rhabdostyles (Porifera: Demospongiae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 649-708.HOOPER, J.N.A., LIST-ARMITAGE, S.E., KENNEDY, J.A., COOK, S.D. & VALENTINE, C.A. 1999.Sponges of the Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef: an important scientific site, or a case of mistaken identity ? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 249-262.HOOPER, J.N.A., LIST-ARMITAGE, S.E., KENNEDY, J.A., COOK, S.D. & QUINN, R. 1999.Biodiversity, species composition and distribution of marine sponges in northeastern Australia.Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 263-274.HOOPER, J.N.A., QUINN, R.J. & MURPHY, P.T. 1998. Bioprospecting for marine invertebrates. Pp.109-112. In Proceedings of the Bioprospecting, Biotechnology & Biobusiness Conference, University ofWestern Australia (University of Western Australia: Perth).ILLIDGE, P. 1999. Museum of Tropical Queensland Wharf Survey. Unpubl. technical report (MaritimeArchaeology Section, Museum of Tropical Queensland: Townsville).INGRAM, G.J. & STANISIC, J. 1998. Lower Fitzroy River weirs. Initial environmental evaluation.Fauna. Unpubl. technical report for Hyder Consulting, Brisbane. (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).INGRAM, G.J. & STANISIC, J. 1998. Awoonga-Callide pipeline extension. Impact assessment study.Fauna. Unpubl. technical report for Hyder Consulting, Brisbane. (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).INGRAM, G.J. & STANISIC, J. 1999. Boondooma Dam raising. Initial environmental evaluation. Fauna.Unpubl. technical report for Hyder Consulting, Brisbane. (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).INGRAM, G.J. & STANISIC, J. 1999. Boondooma Dam to Brigalow pipeline. Initial environmentalevaluation. Terrestrial and riparian fauna. Unpubl. technical report for Hyder Consulting, Brisbane.(Queensland Museum: Brisbane).INGRAM, G.J. & STANISIC, J. 1999. Brigalow Bridge weir and pipeline. Initial environmentalevaluation. Terrestrial and riparian fauna. Unpubl. technical report for Hyder Consulting, Brisbane.(Queensland Museum: Brisbane).JELL, P.A. 1999. Silurian and Devonian crinoids from central Victoria. Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum 43(1): 1-114.JELL, P.A. 1999. A monasterid starfish from the Permian of Timor. Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum 43(1): 340.

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JELL, P.A. 1999. Aberrant Pandanocrinus, Early Devonian crinoid from north Queensland. Memoirs ofthe Queensland Museum 43(1): 351.JELL, P.A. 1999. The crinoid Melocrinites tempestus in the Devonian Campwyn Beds on the shore ofRepulse Bay, south of Proserpine. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 352.JELL, P.A. 1999. Dithyrocaris praecox is a carpoid. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 452.JELL, P.A. & JELL, J.S. 1999. Crinoids, a blastoid and a cyclocystoid from the Upper Devonian reefcomplex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 201-236.JELL, P.A. & THERON, J.N. 1999. Early Devonian echinoderms from South Africa. Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 43(1): 115-199.JOFFE, B.I. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. The GAIF-positive population of neurons in the evolution of theTemnocephalida. Acta Zoologica 79( 3): 257-265.JOFFE, B.I. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. Anatomy of the sensory nervous system in Craspedella pedum(Platyhelminthes, Temnocephalida): DiO staining after fixation and in vivo. Zoomorphology 118: 51-60.JOFFE, B.I., SOLOVEI, I.V. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. Sensory cells in the sucker of Craspedella pedum(Plathelminthes: Temnocephalida): in vivo staining with DiO, SEM and TEM observations.Zoomorphology 118: 61-68.JOFFE, B.I. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. The organisation and evolution of the mosaic of the epidermalsyncytia in the Temnocephalida, (Plathelminthes: Neodermata). Zoologischer Anzeiger 237: 1-14.JOFFE, B.I., CANNON, L.R.G. & SCHOCKAERT, E.R. 1998. On the phylogeny of families and generawithin Temnocephalida. Hydrobiologia 383: 263-268.JOHNSON, J.W. 1998. Fish. Pp. 256-317. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife andhabitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).JOHNSON, J.W. 1999. Designation of a lectotype for the platycephalid fish Inegocia harrisii (McCulloch).Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 620.JOHNSON, J.W. 1999. Status of Paraplagusia notata (De Vis, 1883). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum43(2): 708.JOHNSON, J.W. 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 709-762.KLEEMAN, S.N. & ADLARD, R.D. 1998. Molecular detection of Marteilia sydneyi, pathogen of Sydneyrock oysters. Third International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA,August/September 1998. (Abstract)KOHOUT, R.J. 1999. Australian Polyrhachis and their nesting habits (Formicidae: Formicinae). Pp.217-222. In Kipyatkov, V.E. (ed.) Proceedings of the International Colloquia on Social Insects, StPetersburg. Socium 3-4. KOTT, P. 1997. Tunicata. Pp. 1092-1255. In Shepherd, S. (ed.) Handbook of the marine invertebrates ofSouth Australia. (South Australian Government Publisher: Adelaide).KOTT, P. 1998. Tunicata. Pp. 51-252, 259-261 (App. I-III), 265-292 (Index). In Wells, A. & Houston,W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata.(CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).KOTT, P. 1998. Sea squirts (ascidians) & A Cavalcade of Life. Pp. 108-109, 154-155, 228-229, 254-255,383-385. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australiancoast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).LAMPRELL, K. 1998. Bivalves. Pp. 13-14, 37-38, 69-77, 127-128, 189-191, 240-241. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wildguide to Moreton Bay, wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed(Queensland Museum: Brisbane).LAMPRELL, K.L. 1998. Periglypta revisited. Australian Shell News 98: 6.LAMPRELL, K.L. 1998. Brisbane Branch, MSA- 35 years on. Australian Shell News 98: 6.LAMPRELL, K.L. & HEALY, J. M. 1998. Granicorum from Australian waters, with description of a newspecies. (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). Molluscan Research 20: 73-78.LEDERER, R., ADLARD, R.D. & O’ DONOGHUE, P.J. 1999. Host range extension for Haemoproteuscolumbae Kruse of pigeons and doves (Columbidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 462.MATHER, P. 1998. The new coral reef science. Pp. 151-166. In Greenwood, J.G. & Hall, N.J. (eds)Proceedings of the Australian Coral Reef Society Conference, Heron Island, October 1997 (School ofMarine Science, University of Queensland: Brisbane).

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McINERNEY, J.O., ADAMS, C.L. & KELLY, M. 1999. Phylogenetic resolution potential of 18s and 28srRNA genes within the lithistid Astrophorida. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 343-352.McKAY, J.M. 1998. The Queensland International Exhibition of 1897: ‘ Dazzling display’ or ‘ a frost’ ?Queensland Review 5(1): 78-85.McKAY, J.M. 1998. Ellis Rowan: an Australian flower painter in New Zealand. Art New Zealand 88: 80-82.McKAY, J.M. 1999. Frank Williams of Ipswich. Pp. 54-55. In Exploring culture and community for the21st Century: Global Arts Link: A New Model for Public Art Museums. (Global Arts Link: Ipswich).McKAY, J.M. 1999. The ‘ home gallery’. Pp. 105-106. In Exploring culture and community for the 21st

Century: Global Arts Link: A New Model for Public Art Museums. (Global Arts Link: Ipswich).McKAY, J.M. & ADDISON, S. 1999. A good plain cook: an edible history of Queensland. (QueenslandMuseum: Brisbane).MARSHALL-CROSSLAND, J.I. & PRICE, A.R.G. 1999. Indian Ocean echinoderms collected during theSindbad Voyage (1980-81): 4. Crinoidea. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London (Zoology)65(1): 23-29.MILLIS, A.L., SCHMIDT, D.J. & BRADLEY, A.J. 1999. Scent gland hair in the marsupial gliders,Petaurus norfolcensis and Petaurus breviceps. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 776.MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Anhanguera sp. P. 82. In Tomida, Y. (ed.) Dinosaurs of Gondwana. (YomiuriShimbun: Tokyo) (in Japanese).MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Australia. P. 68. In Tomida, Y. (ed.) Dinosaurs of Gondwana. (Yomiuri Shimbun:Tokyo) (in Japanese).MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Minmi sp. P. 69. In Tomida, Y. (ed.) Dinosaurs of Gondwana. (Yomiuri Shimbun:Tokyo) (in Japanese).MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Muttaburrasaurus langdoni. Pp. 70-71. In Tomida, Y. (ed.) Dinosaurs of Gondwana.(Yomiuri Shimbun: Tokyo) (in Japanese).MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Parotosuchus aliciae / Xenobrachyops allos. P. 22. In Tomida, Y. (ed.) Dinosaurs ofGondwana. (Yomiuri Shimbun: Tokyo) (in Japanese).MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Old and new Cretaceous birds from Australia, and their implications. P. 18. InTomida, Y., Rich, T. H. & Rich, P. V. (eds) Second Symposium, Gondwana Dinosaurs, Abstracts withProgram. (National Science Museum: Tokyo) (Abstract)MOLNAR, R.E. 1998. Recognising fossil mammal teeth, Part 2. The Fossil Collector 55: 5-14.MOLNAR, R.E. 1999. Recognising fossil mammal teeth, Part 3. The Fossil Collector 56: 5-14.MOLNAR, R.E. 1999. Recognising fossil mammal teeth, Part 4. The Fossil Collector 57: 5-21.MOLNAR, R.E., WILKINSON, J.E. & SOBBE, I.H. 1999. Pleistocene fauna and taphonomy at Ned’sGully, eastern Darling Downs, Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement57: 412 (Abstract)MONTEITH, G.B. 1998. Brood nesting in a dynastine beetle. News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 26(4): 58-59.MONTEITH, S.R. 1998. Animal oddities. Wildlife Australia 35(4): 39.MONTEITH, S.R 1999. Three cheers for frogs. Wildlife Australia 36(1): 31.MONTEITH, S.R 1999. Rolling your own. Wildlife Australia 36(2): 42.MONZ, D. 1998. The volunteer experience. Two, up in the tropics. Oral History Association ofQueensland Regional Conference, Townsville, September 1998. (Museums Australia (Qld): Townsville).MUÑOZ, E., FERRER, D., MOLINA, R. & ADLARD, R.D. 1999. Prevalence of haematozoa in birds ofprey in Catalonia (northeast Spain). Veterinary Record 144: 632-636.NEWMAN, L. 1998. Flatworms. Pp. 36, 123-124, 185-187. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay,wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).NEWMAN, L. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific with twelve new species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46: 293-323.O’ DONOGHUE, P.J., ADLARD R.D., WATTS, M. & MUNDAY, B.L. 1998. Morphological andmolecular variation between clinical and environmental isolates of Uronema spp. from aquarium andcultured fish. Conference of the American Society of Parasitologists, Kona Beach, Hawaii, August 1998.(Abstract)

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OTIENO-ALEGO, V., HEATH, G.A., HALLAM, D.L. & CREAGH, D.C. 1997. Evaluation of theanti-corrosion performance of petroleum sulfonates as additives in wax coatings. Paper 019. InProceedings, Corrosion & Prevention 97 (Australasian Corrosion Association Inc.: Brisbane). OTIENO-ALEGO, V., HEATH, G., HALLAM, D. & CREAGH, D. 1998. Electrochemical evaluation of theanti-corrosion performance of waxy coatings for outdoor bronze conservation. Pp. 309-314. In Mourey, W. & Robbiola, L. (eds) Metal 98, Proceedings of the International Conference on Metals Conservation,Draguignan-Figanieres, France, May 1998. (James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd: London).OTIENO-ALEGO, V., HEATH, G., HALLAM, D., VIDUKA, A., HEATH, G. & CREAGH, D. 1998.Electrochemical impedance studies of the corrosion resistance of wax coatings on artificially patinatedbronze. Pp. 315-319. In Mourey, W. & Robbiola, L. (eds) Metal 98, Proceedings of the InternationalConference on Metals Conservation, Draguignan-Figanieres, France, May 1998. (James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd: London).OTIENO-ALEGO, V., CREAGH, D.C., HEATH, G.A., WAIN, A. & HALLAM, D.L. 1998. Contrastingeffects of sodium tripolyphosphate on the corrosion of copperand bronze during chemicalconsolidation of excavated archaeological objects. Paper 38-051. In Proceedings, Corrosion & Prevention 98 (Australasian Corrosion Association Inc.: Hobart).PAGLIARINO, A.V. 1999. Museums in plastic panic. Australasian Science 20(1): 28-30.PAGLIARINO, A.V. 1999. Plain plastics: taking a basic approach to understanding plastics. AustralianInstitute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials National Newsletter 71: 1-8.PATERSON, R.A., GYNTHER, I. & VAN DYCK, S. 1998. Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris Gray,1866 from southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 554.PATERSON, R.A., JANETZKI, H. & WILLIAMS, S.C. 1998. Osteology of a Sperm Whale Physetermacrocephalus (Linnaeus) from central Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 545-553.PATERSON, R.A. & ARNOLD, P. 1998. Whales. Pp. 367-368. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay,wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).PETTIT, G.R., CICHACZ, Z.A., TAN, R., HERALD, D.L., MELODY, N., HOARD, M.S., DOUBEK, D.L.& HOOPER, J.N.A. 1998. Antineoplastic agents 385. The isolation and structure of a scalarane-typeSesterterpene from the Indian Ocean Porifera Hyrtios erecta. Collective Czechoslovakian ChemicalCommunications 63: 1671-1677.PHAM, N.B., BUTLER, M.S., HOOPER, J.N.A., MONI, R.W. & QUINN, R.J. 1999. Isolation of xestersterolesters of brominated acetylenic fatty acids from the marine sponges Xestospongia testudinaria. Proceedingsof the 9th International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, Townsville, July 1998 (Abstract).PITCHER, C.R., WASSENBERG, T.J., SMITH, G.P., CAPPO, M., HOOPER, J.N.A. & DOHERTY, P.J.1999. Innovative new methods for measuring the natural dynamics of some structurally dominanttropical sponges and other sessile fauna. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 479-484.POTTER, D., CARLESS, T. & WHITEHEAD, T. 1998. Gastropods, chitons, shelled opisthobranchs. Pp. 16-17, 38-40, 79-92, 126-127, 129-141, 193-201, 242-249. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay, wildlife andhabitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).POWELL, J. 1998. The Abbot Buggy. Australian Driving Society Journal 24 (76): 14.POWELL, J. 1999. Coach development. Australian Driving Society Journal 24 (78): 6-7.POWELL, J. & CARTER, G. 1999. Time for change: the International Association of Transport andCommunications Museums Conference. Artefact 4(1): 8-9.PRIDDLE, L. 1998. The MDO experience Two, up in the tropics. Oral History Association of QueenslandRegional Conference, Townsville, September 1998. (Museums Australia (Qld): Townsville).PRIDDLE, L. & MOHR, F. 1999. Museum outreach work in Queensland. National Museums AustraliaConference, Albury, April 1999.RAVEN, R.J. 1999. Review of the mygalomorph genus Melloina Brignoli (Paratropididae: Araneae).Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 819-826. REITNER, J., WÖRHEIDE, G., LANGE, R., THIEL, V., EISENHAUER, A., REIMER, A., FLIEGE, S. &BERGBAUER, M. 1999. New approaches to the biomineralization processes of calcified skeletons incoralline demosponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 492.REITNER, J., WÖRHEIDE, G. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1999. Mud mound structures and coralline spongesfrom Osprey Reef (Queensland Plateau, Coral Sea, Australia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 462.REITNER, J., WÖRHEIDE, G., ARP, G., REIMER, A. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1999. An unusual suberitiddemosponge from a marine alkaline crater lake (Satonda Island, Indonesia). Memoirs of theQueensland Museum 44: 477.

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REITNER, J., WÖRHEIDE, G. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1999. New colonial Vaceletia-type sphinctozoan fromthe Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 498.RIX, M.G. 1999. A new genus and species of ant-mimicking jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) fromsoutheast Queensland, with notes on its biology. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 827-832.ROBINS, R.P. 1999. Rocks for Clocks: an archaeological perspective on the Currawinya Lakes. Pp.150-178. In Kingsford, R. (ed.) A free flowing river: ecology of the Paroo River. (New South WalesNational Parks & Wildlife Service: Sydney).ROBINS, R. & MUNN, K. 1999. Ancient Wildlife on show. Wildlife Australia 36(1): 29-30.ROZEFELDS, A. & TURNER, S. 1998. Dr Mary Wade - Collector and facilitator - Queensland FieldWork 1971-1992. , P. 384. 14th Australian Geological Convention, Townsville, July 1998. GeologicalSociety of Australia. (Abstract).RUTA, M. & JELL, P.A. 1999. Protocytidium gen.nov., a new anomalocystitid mitrate from the Victorian latest Ordovician and evolution of the Allanicytidiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 353-376.RUTA, M. & JELL, P.A. 1999. Adoketocarpus gen.nov., a mitrate from the Ludlovian Kilmore Siltstone andLochkovian Humevale Formation of central Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 377-398.RUTA, M. & JELL, P.A. 1999. Two new amomalocystitid mitrates from the Lower Devonian HumevaleFormation of central Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 399-422.RUTA, M. & JELL, P.A. 1999. A note on Victoriacystis wilkinsi (Anomalocystitida: Mitrata) from theUpper Silurian of Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 423-430.RUTA, M. & JELL, P.A. 1999. Revision of Silurian and Devonian Allanicytidiidae (Anomalocystitida:Mitrata) from southeastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum 43(1): 431-451.SEWELL, K.B. & CANNON, L.R.G. 1998. New temnocephalans from the branchial chamber of AustralianEuastacus and Cherax crayfish hosts. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales 119: 21-36.SHERIDAN, R. 1998. The Queensland Museum Education Resource Service: managing the tyranny ofdistance. In ICOM CECA Conference Proceedings, 1998. (Museum of Victoria: Melbourne).SHERIDAN, R. 1998. Queensland Museum — your added resource. In Proceedings of the SecondaryScience Assistants Conference, 1998. (Secondary Science Assistance Association: Brisbane).SHERIDAN, R. 1999. Museum in a trunk. Unpubl. workshop report to the National Trust. (TheNastional Trust of Queensland: Brisbane).SHERIDAN, R. 1999. Going wild over high interest loans. Wildlife Australia 36(2): 27-29.SHORT, J.W. & MARQUET, G. 1998. New records of freshwater Palaemonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda)from New Caledonia. Zoosystema 20(2): 401-410.SMITH, A.B. & JELL, P.A. 1999. A new cornute carpoid from the Upper Cambrian (Idamean) ofQueensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 341-350.SODHI, N.S., ADLARD, R.D., NAGATA, H. & KARA, A.U. 1999. Low prevalence of blood parasites insix Emberiza species in Japan. Japanese Journal of Ornithology 47: 65-67.STACEY, P.J. & ARNOLD, P.W. 1999. Orcaella brevirostris. Mammalian Species 616: 1-8. (AmericanSociety of Mammalogists: Kansas).STANISIC, J. 1998. Land snail survey of Port and Bishop Drives, Fisherman Islands, Brisbane. Unpubl.technical report for Moreton Bay Container Park Pty Ltd. (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).STANISIC, J. 1998. Book Review: Bivalves of Australia, Volume 2, by K. L. Lamprell & J. M. Healy.Australian Shell News 99/100: 3.STANISIC, J. 1998. Book Review: Bivalves of Australia, Volume 2, by K. L. Lamprell & J.M. Healy.Molluscan Research 19: 155.STANISIC, J. 1998. Book Review: Fauna of Australia, Volume 5. Mollusca: the southern synthesis,Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Australian Shell News 99/100: 3.STANISIC, J. 1998. Sculpture in Chillagoe land snails. Australian Shell News 98: 7.THIEL, V., JENISCH, A., WÖRHEIDE, G., LÖWENBERG, A., REITNER, J. & MICHAELIS, W. 1999.Mid-chain branched alkanoic acids from “living fossil” demosponges: a link to ancient sedimentarylipids ? Organic Geochemistry 30: 1-14.TURNER, S. 1998. The IGCP Lecture. UNESCO/I.U.G.S. IGCP 328: An unqualified success? P. 445. 14thAustralian Geological Convention, Townsville, July 1998. (Abstract).

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TURNER, S. 1998. The IGCP Lecture. UNESCO/I.U.G.S. IGCP 328: An unqualified success? TheAustralian Geologist (108): 30-31.TURNER, S. 1998. Sheila Mahala Andrews (1933-1997). Ichthyolith Issues (19): 13-14.TURNER, S. 1998. Colin Patterson (1933-1998). Ichthyolith Issues (19): 17.TURNER, S. 1998. The Omalodontida and the appearance of teeth in sharks. Pp. 51-52. In Ginter, M. &Wilson, M.V.H. (eds) Circum-Arctic Palaeozoic faunas and facies. IGCP 406 Early sharks symposium,Warsaw September 3-6, Ichthyolith Issues Spec. Publ. No. 4 (Abstract).TURNER, S. 1998. IGCP PROJCT 406: Circum Arctic Palaeozoic vertebrates (1996-2000). The AustralianGeologist (108): 49.TURNER, S. 1998. St Petersburg Museums. The Geological Curator 6(10): 362.TURNER, S. & COOK, A.G. 1999. Carboniferous fish remains from the far-northern Drummond Basin.Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 786.TURNER, S. & LONG, J.A. 1999. Palaeozoic sharks of Western Australia. Records Western AustralianMuseum, Supplement 57: 419.TWEDDLE, D., ECCLES, D.H., FRITH, C.B., FRYER, G, JACKSON, P.B.N., LEWIS, D.S.C. &LOWE-MCCONNELL, R.H. 1998. Cichlid spawning structures – bowers or nests? EnvironmentalBiology of Fishes 51: 107-109.URBAN, S., LEONE, P. DE A., CARROLL, A.R., FECHNER, G.A., SMITH, J., HOOPER, J.N.A. &QUINN, R.J. 1998. Axinellamines A-D, novel Imidazo-Azolo-Imidazole alkaloids from the Australianmarine sponge Axinella sp. Journal of Organic Chemistry 64(3): 731-735.VAN DYCK, S. 1997. Rapt in cellophane dragons. Nature Australia 26(2): 18-19.VAN DYCK, S. 1997. Things that go crunch in the night. Nature Australia 26(3): 18-19.VAN DYCK, S. 1998. Coots in the quick lane. Nature Australia 26(4): 16-17.VAN DYCK, S. 1998. Worms to make the earth move. Nature Australia 26(5): 18-19.VAN DYCK, S. 1998. Mammals, rats and mice. Pp. 361-365. In Davie, P. (ed.) Wild guide to Moreton Bay,wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast - Noosa to the Tweed (Queensland Museum: Brisbane).WALLACE, C.C. 1998. Keynote address. What can a coral collection teach us about the world’s reefs? P. 51.Australian Coral Reef Society Annual Scientific Conference, Port Douglas, 16-19 October 1998. (Abstract).WALLACE, C.C. & WOLSTENHOLME, J. 1998. Revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia:Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 199-384.WARREN, A. & TURNER, S. 1999. Early tetrapod from Australia: filling the Carboniferous gap.Records Western Australian Museum, Supplement 57: 420.WEBSTER, G.D. & JELL, P.A. 1999. New Carboniferous crinoids from eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1): 237-277.WEBSTER, G.D. & JELL, P.A. 1999. New Permian crinoids from Australia. Memoirs of the QueenslandMuseum 43(1): 279-339.WESCHE, S.J., ADLARD, R.D. & LESTER, R.J.G. 1999. Survival of spores of the oyster pathogenMarteilia sydneyi (Protozoa, Paramyxea) as assessed using fluorogenic dyes. Diseases of AquaticOrganisms 36(3): 221-226.WILSON, S.K. 1998. Wildlife questions. Wildlife Australia 35(4): 38.WÖRHEIDE, G. & HOOPER, J.N.A. 1999. Calcarea from the Great Barrier Reef. 1: Cryptic Calcineafrom Heron Island and Wistari Reef (Capricorn-Bunker Group). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum43(2): 859-892.WÖRHEIDE, G. & REITNER, J. 1999. Biogeography and taxonomy of the reef cave dwelling corallinedemosponge Astrosclera willeyana throughout the Indo-Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44:650.WÖRHEIDE, G. & REITNER, J. 1999. Climatic changes of the last 450 years recorded in the skeleton ofthe coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 658.WÖRHEIDE, G. & REITNER, J. 1999. Biocalcification in the Indo-Pacific coralline demospongeAstrosclera willeyana Lister – the role of basopinacoderm. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 666.WOLSTENHOLME, J. 1998. Identification of scleractinian Corals. Pp. 1-25. Workshop proceedings,Orpheus Island Research Station, 8-13 October 1998.

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WOLSTENHOLME, J., DINESEN, Z. & ALDERSLADE, P. 1998. Hard corals of the Darwin region,Northern Territory. P. 53. Australian Coral Reef Society Annual Scientific Conference, Port Douglas,16-19 October 1998. (Abstract).YAZDI, M. & TURNER, S. 1998. Vertebrates from the Lower Carboniferous of the Shotori Range, Tabas, eastern Iran. Pp. 42-43. UNESCO-IGCP Project 421 North Gondwanan mid-Palaeozoic bioevent/biogeography patterns in relation to crustal dynamics. Isfahan Meeting.YAZDI, M., TURNER, S. & MANAMI, M. 1998. Discovery of new conodont and microvertebrte remains in the Late Devonian of the Shotori Range, Tabas, eastern Iran. P. 43. UNESCO-IGCP Project 421 NorthGondwanan mid-Palaeozoic bioevent/biogeography patterns in relation to crustal dynamics. IsfahanMeeting.

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APPENDIX II

GRANTS WON

The Queensland Museum was awarded 40 competitive or specific purpose external grantswith total value of $585,315 an increase of approximately 54% from 1997-98.

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Queensland Museum Appendix II — Grants Won

Grantee Project From AmountDr P. ARNOLD Developing ecologically

sustainable dwarf minkewhale tourism

Marine Species ProtectionProgram of the Clean SeasProgram, EnvironmentAustralia

$11,700

Dr R.D. ADLARD (with Dr P.J. O’ DONOGHUE)

Ciliate parasites/symbionts of fish

University of QueenslandARC Small Grants Scheme

$15,500

Dr R.D. ADLARD (with Drs L. CHISHOLM & I. WHITTINGTON)

Molecular analyses ofphylogeny in theMonocotylidae (Monogenea).

University of QueenslandARC Small Grants Scheme

$18,500

Dr C. BURWELL Supplementation of overseastravel costs

Ludwig MaximiliansUniversity

$2,000

Dr L.R.G. CANNON Taxonomy of Australianfreshwater microturbellaria

Australian BiologicalResources Study

$23,500

Dr L.R.G. CANNON Plant parasitic nematodesmicroscope assistance

CSIRO $1,040

Mr G.C. CARTER Museum Messages trainingprogram

Training & ProfessionalDevelopment Program ofMA(Q) & RGAQ

$1,900

Dr W. DALL Taxonomy of PenaeoideaCrustacea


$5,000

Dr V.E. DAVIES New spider genera (Araneae:Amaurobioidea) fromAustralian rainforests


$3,700

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER Dynamics of large sessileseabed fauna, important forstructural fisheries habitat and biodiversity of marineecosystems – and use of thesehabitats by key finfish species

Fisheries Research andDevelopment Corporation,Ecosystems Protectionprogram

$14,131

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER Update and edit theZoological Catalogue ofAustralia, Vol. 12, Porifera,and conversion to Platypusformat


$1,000

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER & Dr G. WÖRHEIDE

Taxonomic study of Calcarean sponges from the GreatBarrier Reef

University of Göttingen,Germany

$6,987

Ms C. IANNA Community Museumsworkshop, Cairns

Training & ProfessionalDevelopment Program ofMA(Q) & RGAQ

$500

Dr P. MATHER Taxonomy of the Ascidiacea Australian Research CouncilLarge grant

$41,637

Dr R. MOLNAR Field work on Pleistocenefossils of the Darling Downs

Mrs Jewel Poznefsky $3,075

Dr G.B. MONTEITH Taxonomic studies on insects Prof. Elwood Zimmerman $5,000Dr G.B. MONTEITH Survey and databasing of Wet

Tropics insects CRC for Tropical RainforestEcology & Management

$20,000

Dr G.J. POTTER Have a Ball During NationalScience Week: raise the profile of NSW in Queensland andencourage artistic endeavourcoupled with science

Science and TechnologyAwareness Program of theDepartment of Industry,Science and Resources

$10,000

Dr G.J. POTTER Provide scholarships andassist with running costs ofmultimedia trainingworkshops for artists inregional Queensland

Arts Queensland $3,500

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Grantee Project From AmountDr R.J. RAVEN Generic overviews of

hunting spiders ofneglected families inAustralia

Australian BiologicalResources StudySupplement

$4,800

Ms R. SHERIDAN Loan kits on Life inFederation Times, incollaboration with theNational Trust of Qld

Centenary of FederationCouncil

$53,000

Ms R. SHERIDAN Develop and producenine Urban Forest Kits for distribution to schools

Brisbane City Council $48,000

Ms R. SHERIDAN Support for distributionof country loan kits

Hyder Consulting $2,500

Ms R. SHERIDAN Develop the Museum in aTrunk project and thePlace Museum workshop

National Trust $2,160

Dr J. STANISIC Databasing SE NSW landsnails

Australian MuseumSydney

$12,182

Mrs D. TRANTER Federation Exhibition,Centenary of Federationand Education Project,Cobb & Co. Museum

History & EducationProject

$53,300

Dr S. TURNER Palaeozoic vertebrates Australian ResearchFellowship

$71,163

Dr S. TURNER Visiting Professorhip,Univ. Hannover

DAAD Germany $35,000

Dr S. TURNER Carboniferous tetrapods Australian ResearchCouncil Large Grant viaLa Trobe University

$10,000

Dr S. TURNER Travel grant to attendconferences inScotland/Latvia 1999

Australian IGCPCommittee

$1,500

Dr S. TURNER Production costs forIchthyolith Issues

IGCP Committee (406) US$350

Dr S. VAN DYCK Status of False Water-raton Moreton Bay Islands

Wildlife PreservationSociety of Queensland

$2,000

Dr C. WALLACE Questions of relevance toa composite model of theevolution of theIndo-Pacific centre ofmarine biodiversity

Australian ResearchCouncil large grant

$52,500

Dr G. WÖRHEIDE Taxonomy of GreatBarrier Reef Calcaria(Porifera)

DAAD Germany $48,000

CONSULTANCIES

The Queensland Museum carried out consultancies for a total value of over $382,354, anincrease of approximately 20% from 1997-98.

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Grantee Project FromDr C. BURWELL Identifications of ants from Cape Flattery,

northern Queensland and pollinatinginsects from the central highlands of NSW

Natural Resources Assessments Pty Ltd& School of Environment and AppliedScience (Gold Coast), Griffith University

Ms J. COVACEVICH Environmental assessement of fauna,pipeline survey

Chevron Asiatic

Dr B. CROZIER Upgrade Golden Casket exhibition Golden CasketDr B. CROZIER Develop a second Golden Casket

exhibitionGolden Casket

Dr B. CROZIER Sponsorship towards purchase of Auburntaxi

Motor Traders Association ofQueensland.

Mr G.V. CZECHURA Identification of frog calls Woodward-ClydeMr G.V. CZECHURA Identification of frog calls Resource StrategiesMr G.V. CZECHURA Identification of frog calls Dames and MooreMr G.V. CZECHURA Birds of prey Dames and MooreMr P. DAVIE Sorting and identification of marine and

estuarine benthic samplesSinclair Knight Merz

Dr D. HALLAM Condition Report on the Cook Anchor inCooktown

National Museum of Australia

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER Biodiversity and taxonomy of tropicalmarine sponges and other sessile marineinvertebrates

Queensland Pharmaceutical ResearchInstitute, Griffith University.

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER Taxonomy of sponges from the Gulf ofThailand

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Dr J. McKAY 2 historical studies of Ipswich identities Global Arts Link, IpswichDr J. McKAY Expert witness, Planning & Environment

Court hearingBrisbane City Council, Legal ServicesBranch

Dr G.B. MONTEITH Databasing of northern NSW rainforestinsects

Australian Museum

Dr G.B. MONTEITH Weevil identifications Mrs M HammondDr G.B. MONTEITH Supply of DNA specimens of dung beetles The Natural History MuseumDr R. ROBINS A literature survey of information relating

to the archaeology of the southern Gulf ofCarpentaria and Wellesby Island –Wellesby Islands Sea Claim

Andrew Chalk and Associates

Dr J. STANISIC Land snail survey of Port and BishopDrives, Fisherman Islands, Brisbane

Moreton Bay Container Park Pty Ltd

Dr J. STANISIC Impact assessment and faunal surveys ofLower Fitzroy River, North Toolburra,Awoonga-Callide, Boondooma Dam,Brigalow Bridge

Hyder Consulting, Brisbane

Mrs D. TRANTER Royal Bulls Head Inn Education ResourceKit

National Trust of Queensland

Mrs D. TRANTER Landsborough Museum EducationResource Kit

Landsborough Historical Society

Mrs D. TRANTER Training Workshops for Small Museums National Trust of QueenslandMrs D. TRANTER Training Course for Museums and Art

GalleriesSouthern Qld Institute of TAFE

Dr S. VAN DYCK Monitoring status of False Water-rat atCoomera Waters development

Austcorp International Pty Ltd.

Dr S. VAN DYCK Cetacean Research Kintetsu International Express (Oceania)

APPENDIX III

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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Queensland Museum Appendix III — Annual Performance Indicators

1998/99 1997/98 1996/97

A. ACCESS1. USE OF SERVICES

(a) Main MuseumGallery visitors 421,705 476,105 443,488Group visitors (schools) 58,833 47,434 49,386Venue Total 480,538 523,539 492,874

(b) Queensland SciencentreGallery visitors 97,740 102,433 96,479Group visitors (schools) 37,966 44,821 41,461Venue Total 135,706 147,254 137,940

(c) Museum of Tropical QueenslandGallery visitors 7,166 20,533 29,822Group visitors (schools) 4,324 3,578Venue Total 7,166 24,857 33,400

(d) Cobb & Co.Gallery visitors 15,202 19,768 16,710Group visitors (schools) 3,537 3,328 3,903Venue Total 18,739 23,096 20,613

(e) WoodWorksGallery visitors 5,494 4,808 6,463Group visitors (schools) 2,187 2,513 1,410Venue Total 7,681 7,317 7,873

(f) Lands, Mapping and SurveyingGallery visitors 2,300 (est) 2,400 (est) 3,000 (est)Group visitors (schools) 180 Venue Total 2,480 2,400 3,000

(g) Glenlyon DamGallery visitors 86,900 52,000 17,100Venue Total 86,900 52,000 17,100

(h) Museum of Noert-Western QueenslandGallery visitors 24,468 25,689 26,759Venue Total 24,468 25,689 26,759

Total Gallery Visitors 763,678 806,152 788,945

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1998/99 1997/98 1996/972. USE OF ALL SERVICES

(a) All Venues(Including Travelling Display visitors, public enquiries, professional enquiries, loans audience, web site, mailenquiries, Educational Outreach audience)Total Units of Service 1,899,587 1,869,276 1,599,641

3. EXPENDITURE PER UNIT OF SERVICE

(a) All VenuesPer unit of service costs relating to:Government Grant $6.15 $5.95 $6.66Total Expenditure $9.47 $8.28 $9.51

4. NUMBER OF NEW LOANS MADE

(a) All VenuesScientific Users 14,590 11,710 6,608Educational Users 6,392 5,802 5,094Library Users 2,672 2,763 3,375Total New Loans 23,654 20,275 15,077

5. VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT - ALL VENUES

Number of volunteer person days 6,380 5,179 6,678Honorary staff appointed as:Hon. Associates 12 13 14Hon. Research Fellows 20 22 21Hon. Consultants 22 26 31Hon. Docents 253 298 436Hon. Administrative Assistants 2 3 2Hon. Technical Assistants 291 370 377Hon. Medical Officer 1 1 3Hon. Dive Master 2 1 1Total Honorary Staff 603 734 885

6. PUBLIC GROUP USAGE - ALL VENUES

Learned societies 160 15 301Community education 227 180 52Business 24 29 33Other 9 8 17Total 420 232 403

7. EXTENSION EDUCATION USE - ALL VENUES

Number of schools involved 62 93 110Number of students reached 10,026 15,610 17,282

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B. VISITOR CARE1. VISITOR SATISFACTION - ALL VENUES

% planning revisit 90 88 84Frequency of visits (%):first visit 67 65.5 63one previous 21 20 21two previous 15 14.5 10> two previous 14 n/a 12Visit duration > 2 hours 46 45 45

2. PUBLIC COMPLAINTS

Number/10,000 visitors 0.35 0.60 0.42

C. DISPLAY1. POD OPEN DAYS - ALL VENUES

Days open 6,459 7,476 4,382% total pod days available 98.0 78.2 97.5

2. DISPLAY PROJECTS COMPLETED - ALL VENUES

Permanent displays opened (sq metres) 15 160 350Number of temporary displays 54 38 78Temporary displays (sq metres) 6,549 5,646 5,796

D. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT1. GENERATION OF ADDITIONAL INCOME - ALL VENUES $ (%) $ (%) $ (%)

Entrance fees 848,152 (-7.2) 920,000 (+17.2) 785,159 (+4.7)Interest 213,807 (-15.2) 252,000 (-16.5) 301,794 (-9.6)Shop receipts 1,058,933 (+38.2) 766,000 (+3.5) 739,765 (+9.5)Research grants 378,776 (+2.7) 369,000 (+16.0) 318,064 (-36.3)Cash donations/Sponsorships 528,726 (-18.8) 651,000 (+16.7) 557,696 (+492.7)Consultancy 317,533 (+4.8) 303,000 (+49.9) 202,102 (-20.2)Café lease 28,848 (-43.4) 51,000 (+9.2) 46,692 (+10.7)Temporary exhibitions 1,071,308 (+56.2) 686,000 (+381.8) 142,393 (+633.2)Other 804,546 (+30.19) 618,000 (-0.1) 618,523 (-11.9)Total 5,250,629 4,616,000 3,368,676

2. SHOP INCOME $ $ $Main Venue 795,333 484,500 511,986Queensland Sciencentre 109,445 106,000 69,114Tropical Queensland 18,956 34,000 31,771Cobb and Co. 32,629 39,500 42,008WoodWorks 14,370 9,500 12,836North Western Queensland 88,200 92,500 72,050

3. SHOP INCOME PER VISITOR $ $ $Main Venue 1.66 0.93 0.50Queensland Sciencentre 0.81 0.72 0.50Tropical Queensland 2.65 1.37 0.95Cobb and Co. 1.74 1.71 2.04WoodWorks 1.87 1.30 1.63North Western Queensland 3.72 3.60 2.69

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1998/99 1997/98 1996/974. SELF-GENERATED INCOME

% of non-capital grant 44.92 41.48 34.94

5. RELATIVE EXPENDITURE ON SALARIES

Salary as % of non-capital grant 79.55 68.75 76.98Salary as % of total expenditure 51.68 49.45 54.32

E. COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT1. COLLECTION PROJECTS

Increase in value of collections $4,082,000 $5,264,000 $7,505,235Purchase cost of new collections $45,670 $26,768 $28,123Number of items conserved 1,866 3,044 5,914Number of items audited 97,903 67,871 44,273Number of items accessioned 93,584 81,485 111,603

F. SCOLARSHIP1. RESEARCH PROJECTS

Number of research publications 203 138 137Pages of Memoirs produced 1,738 966 2,032Number of published acknowledgements 148 156 177Number of learned staff presentations 209 209 290Localities investigated 384 689 626Research projects commenced 57 74 68Research projects completed 53 52 78Species or items yielding new information 61,766 56,380 35,251

2. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS MOVEMENT

Memoirs volumes exchanged 654 439 3,129

G. HUMAN RESOURCES1. PERMANENT : TEMPORARY STAFF (ALL VENUES) AND % OF TOTAL PAID STAFF IN:-

Director 3:0 (1%) 3:0 (1%)Natural Environment 40:16 (21%) 39:15 (22%)Cultural Heritageand Branch Development 26:17 (16%) 22:8 (12%)Public 39:24 (23%) 38:12 (20%)Admin and Support 5:0 (2%) 2:1 (1%)Branch Museums 25:29 (20%) 23:28 (21%)Marketing 16:30 (17%) 22:35 (23%)

2. HONORARY STAFF — ALL VENUES

Number of paid staff : honorary staff 270:603 248:734 249:885% paid staff : honorary staff 31:69 25:75 22:78

3. PERMANENT STAFF TURNOVER

Natural Environment 4 2Cultural Heritageand Branch Development 1 0Public 1 3Admin and Support 0 0Branch Museums 2 -Marketing 2 -

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1998/99 1997/98 1996/974. ABSENTEEISM

Sick leave occasions 501 897 820Hours of sick leave 5,593 6,817 7,622Hours of workers compensation 573 36 65Hours of special leave 9,788 6,123 7,540

5. TRAINING

% of gross salary expenditure 0.42 0.81 0.75

H. BUILDING MAINTENANCE1. COSTS — Building maintenance and running costs ($)

Main Venue 1,934,471 1,998,757 2,146,088Queensland Sciencentre 587,855 592,093 623,335Tropical Queensland 147,934 78,719 85,131Cobb and Co. 33,296 25,831 28,372Coomera 17,663 11,300 9,734North Western Queensland 21,537 15,744 n/a75 Grey Street 146,889 112,794West End Store 162,988 173,957

I. DECENTRALISATION — ALL VENUES1. EXTENT

Display space decentralised 50.42% 50.42% 50.42%Total space decentralised 44.39% 44.39% 44.39%Units of service decentralised 55.92% 54.54% 45.46%Number of travelling displays 6 8 6Venues serviced regionally 14 14 22Days of field work 1,317 1,319 1,394

J. BUILDING MANAGEMENT1. WORKPLACE, HEALTH AND SAFETY

Number of accidents (Staff/Public):Main Venue 11/3 5/1 6/6Queensland Sciencentre 1/16 6/27 5/21Tropical Queensland 0/0 1/0 0/0Cobb and Co. 0/0 0/0 0/0North Western Queensland 0/0 1/0 0/0

K. ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS — ALL VENUES1. DELAYS IN RESPONDING

Ministerial/departmental letters unansweredafter 2 weeks 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%Accounts unpaid after 4 weeks 4.0% 4.5% 4.0%

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACTDuring 1998/99, the Museum did not receive any requests for information under the Freedom ofInformation Act.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT ACT 1992The EEO Committee continues to meet as required, the Annual Report for the year 1998/99 year hasbeen lodged in terms of the Act and an EEO Management Plan for the period 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2001 has been implemented.

APPENDIX IV

OVERSEAS TRAVEL

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Queensland Museum Appendix IV — Overseas Travel

Person Place Period PurposeMr M. AIRD Cape Town,

South Africa6 – 20 Jan 1999 Present paper to World

Archaeological CongressMr M. AIRD Norway & England 26 Apr – 5 May 1999 Present paper to National Sami

Museum Conference, contactAboriginal research workers

Dr L.R.G. CANNON The Americas Oct - Nov 1998 Study of the temnocephala andparasite collections in the Americas,and to forge links with researchers

Mr P.J.F. DAVIE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

20 - 24 July 1998 Fourth International CrustaceaCongress

Mr P.J.F. DAVIE Phuket, Thailand 1 - 19 Dec 1998 International workshop on theBiodiversity of Crustacea in theAndaman

Dr V.E. DAVIES Chicago, USA 27 June – 5 July 1998 To present a paper (in press) at theXIVth International ArachnologicalCongress

Dr J.N.A. HOOPER Northeast coast of Fiji 4 - 12 Mar 1999 Joint scientific expedition to studybiodiversity and bioactive marinesponges of Fiji, funded by theInstitute for Pharmaceutical Biology,Technical Univesity ofBraunschweig, Germany

Dr G. POTTER Hong Kong,Shanghai, Beijing,China

28 Aug – 8 Sep 1998 Negotiate sale of exhibition andattend Beijing InternationalConference on Science andTechnology Centres

Dr R.J. RAVEN New Zealand 6 - 20 May 1999 Trapdoor and redback spiders:determination of NZ problems thatmay affect Australia

Dr D.J. ROBINSON Wellington, New Zealand

20 – 25 Oct 1998 Queensland Cultural Heritageplanning visit to Te Papa, and otherLibrary and collecting organisations

Dr S. TURNER University ofHannover, Germany

Sep 1998 - Feb 1999 DAAD funded VisitingProfessorship

APPENDIX V

BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM

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Queensland Museum Annual Report 1998-99