THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM AND 
ART GALLERY, 
RISE AND PROGRESS. 
1889.— The Geological Museum, Perth, established to display 
the specimens collected by Mr. H. Page Woodward, F.G.S., and 
by his predecessors in the office of Government Geologist, and to 
receive the contents of the Fremantle Geological Museum, which 
had been founded in i88i, by the Rev. C. G. Nicolay. 
1892. The scope of the Institution was widened to include 
general Natural History and Ethnology. The contents of the 
Museum of the Swan River Mechanics’ Institute purchased. That 
Institution was founded by Capt. John Septimus Roe, R.N., in 
i 860 . The title abbreviated to the Perth Museum and the 
connection with the Geological Department terminated. 
1895. The Mineral Gallery built ; the collections placed 
under the control of a Committee ; the Art Collections commenced. 
1897. The James Street frontage erected. The present title 
given to denote that the Institution was National, not merely local. 
1899. The Bird Gallery opened. 
1906. The Mammalian Gallery installed. 
1908. The Beaufort Street wing opened as an Art Gallery on 
the 25th June by H.E. the Governor, Sir F. G. D. Bedford, G.C.B. 
FREE POPULAR LECTURES ON SCIENCE 
AND ART. 
These Lectures, commenced in 1905, are delivered on alternate 
Friday evenings during the winter months and have proved most 
successful. The sixth series opens on April 8th next with a 
Lecture on “ Some forward impulses in the History of Agricultural 
Progress,” by Prof. W. Lowrie, to be followed by Lectures on Art 
and Science by the leading authorities in the State on such 
subjects. A programme will shortly be published. 
