[Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2]

The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2. Confidential Report. [Private and Confidential. Special (Verbatim) Report. February 1893. The Elder Exploring Expedition. Meeting of the Council of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia]

North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 2003.

Octavo, [vi], 133 pages.

Cloth; a fine copy.

Number 15 of 400 copies. The Society 'had intended to publish this report enquiring what went wrong with the expedition. It is thought that the very embarassing nature of its content, particularly the criticism levelled at [leader David] Lindsay by the scientific members of the expedition, prevented it' (publisher's introduction). Lindsay's decisions as leader were exonerated by the report. The last seven pages reprint an article from the Adelaide Register of 6 November 1894 ('The Elder Expedition. Why it was abandoned. Revelations by the leader'); it is an account of an address given by Lindsay to the Australian Natives' Association.

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