Contents include: Reported in the Mortlake Dispatch July 9, 1892- Recently we announced that Mr. Thomas Shaw of Wooriwyrite had purchased with a view of presentation to the local Mechanics’ Institute what was to be the nucleus of a museum. We were wrong as the present is a “full grown” museum no nucleus about it at all – comprising shells, birds, insects, reptiles from one inch or two to yards in length, native weapons, native cloths and, as our auctioneers would say, too numerous to particularise. Thanks to the courtesy of Mr Murdoch, in whose care the museum has been temporarily placed, pending the erection of a suitable building by the Mechanic’s Committee, we were on Wednesday afforded the opportunity of visiting the repository at Pyneyup.

May 28, 1910 :The additional exhibits for the Warrnambool museum recently purchased from Mortlake by the Town Council arrived on Monday, says the ”Standard”, and have been temporarily stored in one of the up-stairs rooms at the Town Hall. The collection included a number of interesting aboriginal weapons and tools and a choice lot of native birds, all nicely mounted and enclosed in glass cases. The collection will make a very valuable and interesting addition to the exhibits at the museum, and will doubtless be inspected with considerable interest when space is found for their exhibition.