president's address — SECTION E. 149 



In Australia itself our knowkdge of the little-known interior 

 and north-west is continually being added to^ and, in this con- 

 nexion, must be partieularly mentioned the South Australian 

 Government party into the Everard and Musgrave Ranges during 

 1915. The Western Australian Government has likewise partici- 

 pated in developing the geography of its territory by equipping 

 and despatching parties into the interior, both in the north-west 

 and in the centre zone as far as the South Australian boundary. 

 A continuation of the survey of the north-west coast of Australia 

 is being proceeded with by the Royal Australian Navy. 



It is with satisfaction that we have reviewed the work of these 

 last few years, but we greatly regret to' record the deaths during 

 the same period of some of the great men in the geographical 

 world. 



Lord Forrest, the veteran Australian explorer, whose pioneer 

 journeys through the arid and desert wastes of Western and 

 Central Australia won for him the gold medal of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society and the admiration of his countrymen, has 

 passed away. Peary, whose great life-work in the Arctic regions 

 culminated in his attainment of the North Geographical Pole, is 

 with us no more. Selous, the great African geographer and 

 hunter, of whom it is said that during his life he had faced and 

 conquered more lions than any other individual on earth, though 

 in ripe years when war broke out, girded his loins once more for 

 the fray, and was eventually killed by a German . bullet whilst 

 leading a storming party against g.n eneiny stronghold in German 

 East Africa. 



General Rawlings, whose good work in Tibet and New Guinea 

 had so earned for him the confidence of the Council of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, that they had marked him down as the 

 probable leader of an expedition proposed to make an assault upon 

 the summit of the world. Mount Everest, was killed by a shell in 

 France. 



Professor Edouard Suess, of Vienna, whose great work Das. 

 Anihfz (lev Erde earned him the lasting admiration of both 

 geologists and geographers, has died at a ripe old age. 



Professor Herbertson, of Oxford, who has done so much during 

 the last twenty years to make geography a truly scientific subject, 

 has passed away, and so also has Sir Clements Markham^, wlaos© 

 enthusiasm for the history of geographical exploration remained 

 with him until his tragic death. 



Though years have now passed, we are still mindful of the loss 

 that Australian oceanography sustained in the catastrophe to the 

 fisheries steamer Endeavour, wherein Mr. Dannevig and all mem- 

 bers of the ship's complement perished in December, 1914. With 

 them was the biologist to the Fisheries Department, C. T. Harris- 

 son, formerly a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. 



