Abstract
ABSTRACTThe Colonial Museum accommodated geological work and a small Colonial Laboratory adjacent was used for analytical chemistry in Sydney Street West from 1865. A larger Colonial Laboratory was built in 1905, from which activities soon expanded into the neighbouring ‘Vaccine Station’ and ‘Museum House’. The establishment of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in 1926 and the extension of Bowen Street in the 1930s prompted the acquisition of residential properties built by Walter Godfrey Mantell (the son of scientist and politician Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell) and other neighbouring houses for scientific purposes. DSIR divisions decamped in the 1950s and 1960s, and the buildings were demolished, replaced by high-rise offices and a motorway overbridge.
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