Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Society details and meeting notices printed in September 2011.
• Museum and Society news - page 2Reports a visit to the Berrima internment exhibition and Society activities.
• Library report and book reviews - page 3Reviews books recently received in the Society’s library.
• Medicine in Moss Vale - page 4Introduces Narelle Bowern’s talk about doctors, nurses and hospitals from 1850 to 1950.
• Bundanoon’s early tourism - page 5Philip Morton traces guest houses and scenic tourism and describes W. A. Nicholas’s stereoscopic photographs.
• Dr Charles Throsby - page 6Introduces the surgeon’s life and the early history of Throsby Park.
• Throsby Park and early roads - page 7Continues the account of exploration, Aboriginal guides, road building and the Throsby family.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in September 2011; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Philip Morton follows Bundanoon’s early guest houses and scenic tourism and describes photographer W. A. Nicholas’s stereoscopic cards of the village and Gullies (p.5).
• The issue introduces research into Moss Vale’s doctors, nurses and hospitals (p.4).
• A two-page account follows Dr Charles Throsby and the early history of Throsby Park and the southern road (pp.6-7).

Original Society source