JOULRINUAIL. 
In order to facilitate the start of the expedition from Oodna- 
datta, I left Adelaide for that place on Monday, the 30th of April, 
accompanied by two camel-men (H. Edgar and R. Taylor) and the 
cook (C. Laycock). I reached my immediate destination late on 
Wednesday night, the 2nd of May. At the journey’s end I was 
met by the Afghan Moosha, who had arrived from Farina the 
same evening with the camels. We all proceeded to his camp, 
about one mile west of the township. On the two following days 
I was engaged in transporting the stores from the railway station, 
purchasing additional rations, arranging the camel loads, making 
boxes, and attending to a variety of other matters. apparently 
‘minor, yet little less important. These affairs included the testing 
of the astronomical instruments kindly lent to the expedition by 
Sir Charles Todd and Sir Thomas Elder, and observing for mag- 
netic variation and dip. On the evening of the 4th of May Mr. 
W. A. Horn, with Professors Tate and Spencer, Dr. Stirling, and 
Messrs. Watt, Keartland, and Belt, reached Oodnadatta by special 
train. 
Saturday, May 5th.—Bar. 29°90in., ther. 57°, wind 8. ; lat. 27° 
32 10" 8., long. 135° 28’ 0” E. Began at an early hour prepara- 
tions for our departure northward, but, this being the first time 
the camels were packed, a start was not effected until 11°40 a.m. 
Our equipment comprises four horses, a camel-buggy, and twenty- 
three camels—twelve of which are pack camels heavily loaded with 
stores and a heterogeneous collection of boxes centaining scientific 
instruments and collectors’ instruments, and nine riding camels. 
To-day I employed a second Afghan and a black boy (whom I 
have known for many years) to go with the expedition. 
The party now comprehends the following members: —W. A. 
Horn (organizer and promoter); C. Winnecke, F.R.G.S., leader 
(meteorology, surveying, and exploring); E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., 
Ss MED (anthropology and ethnology); R. Date, FIL:S., 
-F.R.G.S. (paleontology and botany); W. Baldwin Spencer, M.A. 
(biology): J. A. Watt, M.A. (field geology and petrology); F. W. 
Belt and G. A. Keartland, naturalists and: collectors; H. Kdgar 
and R. Taylor, camel-drivers; C. Laycock, cook; C. Pritchard and 
