Nov. i, 1885.] The Australasian Scientific Magazine. 
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QUEENSLAND. 
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
The South Australian Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia 
was inaugurated in the town-hall on Thursday the 22nd of October, in the 
presence of the Governor and a crowded attendance. An inaugural 
address was delivered by Sir Samuel Davenport, who gave an exhaustive 
account of maritime discoveries from the earliest period, leading up to the 
discovery of Australia. The second part of his address comprised an 
equally elaborate resume of all the landexpeditions by well-known explorers 
and their results. He enlarged upon the enormous advantages to science 
that had resulted from the exploits of these heroic men, and concluded by 
hoping that Mr. Lindsay, who is about to cross the continent, would meet 
with every success. He read telegrams from the other colonies to that 
effect. The addresses were aided by portraits of those most prominently 
associated with colonial history from the earliest periods ; also by views of 
many scenes in the interior of Australia. A motion was carried that this 
meeting heartily welcomes the advent of the South Australian branch of 
the Geographical Society of Australia, and pledges itself to support and 
advance the development of the society as one of the public institutions 
of the colony. 
