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THIS is a pleasant and accurate compilation for popular reading, based largely on the authoritative documents now being published by the Government of New South Wales. It is, in fact, a short history of the connection of the British navy with Australia. The standpoint is that of political rather than natural history; but many references are made to the large interest taken by Sir Joseph Banks in the beginnings of Australian colonisation. The problems of the first discovery of Australia are scarcely touched on, and the book is in no sense concerned with controversial questions.
The Naval Pioneers of Australia.
By Louis Becke Walter Jeffery. With illustrations. Pp. xii + 314. (London: John Murray, 1899.)
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The Naval Pioneers of Australia . Nature 61, 53 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061053d0
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