WHITE, Captain Samuel Albert

Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 39, 1915

Octavo, [135] pages plus 40 plates, 5 pages of scientific drawings and 2 maps.

Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy.

The expedition was under the leadership of R. Lockhart Jack; his concerns were primarily geological. White accompanied him in an unofficial capacity and the 'present notes deal mainly with the zoological and botanical objects noticed during the trip'. The party travelled by camel from Oodnadatta to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges from mid-June to the end of August 1914, during a period of prolonged drought. Approximately 29 pages and all of the plates are devoted to the narrative and the local Aborigines (who appear in 16 of the plates). This is followed by scientific reports mainly on mammals, birds, spiders, insects and botany. This issue also contains a major contribution by Bronislaw MALINOWSKI: The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea (213 pages plus 17 plates). McLaren 16784. A popular account was published in book form in 1916 as 'In the Far North-West. An Expedition to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges'.

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