NEWLAND, Simpson

The Annual Address of the President, on October 27th, 1921. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch for the Session, 1920-21, Volume XXII

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1923.

Octavo, pages 1-64 plus 3 plates and a folding appendix.

Wrappers lightly discoloured; an uncirculated copy.

Newland devotes the first 14 pages of his address to the Aborigines of Encounter Bay, and a further 26 pages to whaling in South Australia. The address also includes a lengthy and important contribution by fellow-member (and Government Geologist of SA) Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, on Central Australia, based primarily on his own expeditions (22 pages).

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