Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 55
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[Page 55]
S.A. Museum
North Terrace
July 11, 1917
Dear Mr. Stanley,
How do you do? I am sending you this scrawl just to forward our last Annual Report: I intended doing so ages ago - but somehow I didn't. Lots of changes have happened since you got into that nice more or less serviceable looking uniform & reached you down some stars!! Have you got down any more? Well - to continue - we've got a lot more cases filled up, and I've just been examining a new one which has yet to be filled up with Cockatoos. Right inside the entrance door is a case with the Doormouse Opossum (Dromicia Concinna!) at home. They're the tiniest wee things - like weeny mice & they hang by their tail & creep out of hollow logs or rather out of knot holes in branches of trees. They are so pretty & sharp-eyed that I'd dearly like to have some for pets! Another case is occupied by a few platapusses or platapusi (which is it?) & a section of his nest & tunnel in a river bank. The river is represented by muffled glass with a plat. under & looks quite decent. Another is a water rat of some unpronounceable species & yet another has some