THE Horn SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING 
EXPEDITION. 
In giving to the public the journal and maps kept and 
compiled by me as leader of the Horn Scientific Exploring 
Expedition of 1894 some explanation is due both to the 
public and myself respecting the form in which they are 
presented. In the natural order of things these should have 
been published in connection with the scientific and other 
records of the Horn Expedition, as both supplementary and 
complementary to them; but Mr. W. A. Horn, the organizer 
of the venture, for reasons not given, having first requested 
and arranged for their being forwarded to London for perusal, 
has declined to incur the expense necessary to such publica- 
tion, and has also deciined to refund the outlay incurred by 
me in their preparation. For general information I have 
included in Appendix B the valuable and interesting report 
of Professor Tate and J. A. Watt, B.Sc., on the physical 
geography of the country traversed by this Expedition, 
which forms a portion of the “‘ Report on the Work of the 
Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Part III., 
Geology, &c.” Delay in publication has been incurred 
through the journal and maps having been forwarded to 
London, whence, after nine months of waiting, they have 
been at length received in Adelaide. It having thus become 
necessary to look in some other direction for publication, I 
have pleasure in stating that the South Australian Branch 
of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia has extended 
its patronage, and, in conjunction with the Department of 
the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Survey 
Department, the journal and maps appear under the Society’s 
auspices. 
The information contained is pronounced by competent 
critics in Adelaide to be accurate, valuable, and interesting. 
