ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The author desires specially to record his thanks to the undernoted persons and 

 institutions. References to many others who assisted him will be found in the text. 



AGAR, BERN ICE, Sydney. For special pains in the production of photo- 

 graphs of R. Logan Jack, Janet Simpson Jack and James Simpson Love. 



ANGUS & ROBERTSON, LTD., Sydney. For permission to produce portraits 

 of Tasman, Bligh and Flinders from books published by them. 



BRADFORD, JOHN R., Brisbane. For permission to publish his report 

 (1883) on the Exploration preliminary to the construction of the Cape 

 York Telegraph Line ; for information which proved instrumental in 

 tracing my lost maps ; and for much useful information which is 

 embodied in the text. 



BRADY, A. B., Under Secretary for Works, Queensland. For copies of 

 documents relating to Mulligan's explorations. 



BYERS, T. J., Hughenden. For portrait of Mulligan and much information. 



CLARK, MRS., Maryvale, Queensland. For portrait group of members of the 

 expedition led by her father, William Hann ; for Biographical Details 

 re members of the expedition and Daintree and for other information. 



CROSBIE, MRS. J. D., Cairns. For portrait of her late husband, James 

 Crosbie, biographical notes and other information. 



CULLEN, E. A., Harbours and Rivers Department, Brisbane. For informa- 

 tion re Batavia River and Port Musgrave. 



DICK, (THE LATE) James, Cooktown. For information re prospecting in 

 Cape York Peninsula, communicated in correspondence from 1911 till 

 his death in 1916. His many letters amounted almost to collaboration. 

 Indirectly, as is explained in the introductory chapter, he may be said 

 to have brought about the expansion of a proposed annotated version 

 of my reports on the 1879-80 expeditions, on which I was engaged 

 when the correspondence began, into a history covering three 

 centuries of exploration. 



DUNN, E. J., formerly Government Geologist of Victoria. For permission 

 to reproduce portraits of Norman Taylor and Richard Daintree from his 

 Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria. 



DUNSTAN, B., Government Geologist, Queensland. For a search in his 

 office for copies of my lost maps ; and for the loan of official documents 

 left by me. 



EMBLEY, J. T., Melbourne. For portraits of himself ; for a special article 

 on his expedition (1884) with Clark, and for information re the 

 Mcllwraith and Macrossan Ranges, the Western Rivers, the discovery 

 and occupation of pastoral country in the north, etc. The assistance 

 rendered by him in some portions of this work amounted to collaboration. 



FOOT, MRS. W., Cardington, Queensland. For portrait of her father, 



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