ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author desires specially to record his thanks to the undernoted persons and institutions. References to many others who assisted him will be found in the text.
Agar, Bernice, Sydney. − For special pains in the production of photo-graphs of R. Logan Jack, Janet Simpson Jack and James Simpson Love.
Angus & Robertson, Ltd., Sydney. − For permission to produce portraits of Tasman, Bligh and Flinders from books published by them.
Bradford, John R., Brisbane. — For permission to publish his report (1883) on the Exploration preliminary to the construction of the Cape York Telegraph Line; for information which proved instrumental in tracing my lost maps; and for much useful information which is embodied in the text.
Brady, A. B., Under Secretary for Works, Queensland. — For copies of documents relating to Mulligan's explorations.
Byers, T. J., Hughenden. — For portrait of Mulligan and much information.
Clark, Mrs., Maryvale, Queensland. — For portrait group of members of the expedition led by her father, William Hann; for Biographical Details re members of the expedition and Daintree and for other information.
Crosbie, Mrs. J. D., Cairns. — For portrait of her late husband, James Crosbie, biographical notes and other information.
Cullen, E. A., Harbours and Rivers Department, Brisbane. — For information re Batavia River and Port Musgrave.
Dick, (the late) James, Cooktown. — For information re prospecting in Cape York Peninsula, communicated in correspondence from 1911 till his death in 1916. His many letters amounted almost to collaboration. Indirectly, as is explained in the introductory chapter, he may be said to have brought about the expansion of a proposed annotated version of my reports on the 1879-80 expeditions, on which I was engaged when the correspondence began, into a history covering three centuries of exploration.
Dunn, E. J., formerly Government Geologist of Victoria. — For permission to reproduce portraits of Norman Taylor and Richard Daintree from his Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria.
Dunstan, B., Government Geologist, Queensland. — For a search in his office for copies of my lost maps; and for the loan of official documents left by me.
Embley, J. T., Melbourne. — For portraits of himself; for a special article on his expedition (1884) with Clark, and for information re the McIlwraith and Macrossan Ranges, the Western Rivers, the discovery and occupation of pastoral country in the north, etc. The assistance rendered by him in some portions of this work amounted to collaboration.
Foot, Mrs. W., Cardington, Queensland. — For portrait of her father,
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