4 XXXII. Dr. J. V. Daneš: 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Geographica! Society of 

 Australasia, Queensland. Vol. XXV. 



Having now all the three récent studies in my hand, I take 

 the opportunity to discuss quietly some of the problems, in which the 

 opinions of the authors differ and to explain my own views upon the 

 subject. I may completely abstain from the questions concerning only 

 Southeastern Australia, because I had no opportunity to do any 

 special work in that part of the continent and shall deal only with the 

 problems and questions, which touch especially the northeastern part 

 of the continent — the Queensland territory. 



I had during my 8 months' stay in Queensland the opportunity 

 — with the generous assistance of the State, its officers and the po- 

 pulation as a whole — to see more or less thoroughly some great 

 sections of that immense country and had ample occasion to gather 

 informations by personal interviews from many of the men prominent 

 in scientific work in the statě about many régions, which I was not 

 able to see myself. I don't think it superfluous to give a gênerai re- 

 view of my tours. 



About six weeks I spent in the Barron River, Mulgrave River 

 and Rüssel River basins near Cairns and investigated also the lime- 

 stone ridges near Chillagoe, than I crossed the country from Towns- 

 ville to Cloncurry by rail and returned by the Central and North 

 Coast Railway to Brisbane. Some special investigations hâve been 

 undertaken on the continental Divide between Pentland and Hughen- 

 den and between Barcaldine and Alpha. An excursion to the basaltic 

 Tambourine Plateau and the Stradbroke Island with some others in 

 the neighbourhood of Brisbane followed. Returning later in the good 

 winter season of 1910 to the interior I crossed along the Dividing 

 Plateau from Barcaldine to Pentland, undertook an excursion to the 

 Upper Flinders River and started from Cloncurry to the Barkly 

 Tableland in the farthest Northwest of the State. After investigating 

 for some time that limestone plateau I crossed to Cairns by the 

 route Burketown — Normanton — Charleston. 



1 am well aware of the difficulties and possible errors of gene- 

 rál physiographic work in a country, in which generál maps suitable 

 for scientific use do not exist at all, and where also the topographical 

 and geological investigations left until now many „white spots", many 

 extensive régions kuown only by one or two insufficient itineraries. 

 But there is hardly any other country in the world where the pro- 

 blems of physiography are so clearly written on the surface of the 



