College and Research Libraries Australian Bibliography: An Assay By D. H. B O R C H A R D T AB I B L I O G R A P H I C S L R V E Y of any subject must limit itself to the more impor- tant sources of information if it is not to be only a recital of an endless number of bibliographic lists, many of which are ei- ther uncritical compilations based on other lists, or are merely enumerations of works consulted for a particular pur- pose. T h e term bibliography has been given different meanings by different users, but a careful examination of these varied interpretations will show that only very few bibliographies can be considered independent and self-contained works of scholarship. T o o often bibliography is taken as the "natural" handmaiden of other disciplines, in particular of history in its broadest aspects; the creative effort behind the compilation of a thorough and exhaustive bibliography is not ap- preciated. T o present a discursive account of the bibliographies concerned with Australia, comprehensiveness of treatment must be the prime basis of selection. Excluded are all bibliographies or lists on very special- ized aspects and those, also, which ap- peared as appendices to other works. Furthermore, unpublished material ex- cept where no suitable bibliography ex- isted in print has been excluded. T h i s survey should therefore be useful as a guide to those who want to establish a basic list of references on Australia. As every practicing reference librarian knows, there is no single true and correct method of finding bibliographic infor- mation; not only do reference librarians in different libraries answer the same question by using different sources, but even within the same library one can observe individual bias—not necessarily Mr. Borchardt is Librarian, University of Tasmania. in a pejorative sense—towards one or an- other method of approach. T h e review that follows is divided into three major sections: 1) bibliographies which have grown out of an historical approach to Australia; 2) bibliographies of special subjects and, 3) some regional bibliographies, i.e. specialized area bibli- ographies. T h i s paper has been greatly facilitated by a recent publication of the Australian Bibliographic Centre at the National Li- brary of Australia, Australian Bibliogra- phy and Bibliographical Services, I960,4 a list of 1,289 entries relating to bibliog- raphies compiled in Australia or dealing with Australia. T h e Centre is in effect the secretariat of the Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographic Services, estab- lished in 1956 to plan and recommend its development and coordination. T h e book is a mere list, arranged by subject, of all known bibliographies of Aus- tralian interest. Principal holding li- braries are shown, but not always in an exhaustive or reliable manner. While the inclusion of the term "bibliographical services" in the title is unsupported by the contents—there is no description of any services available to anyone or of- fered by anybody—the list has an inter- esting appendix showing work in prog- ress at the time of going to press. However, it is not for me to cavil at this very useful compilation without the exist- ence of which it would have taken a great deal longer to write the following pages. T h e earliest references to Australia oc- M A Y 1 9 6 2 207 cur naturally in the reports of voyages to and through the Pacific. Though the T e r r a Australis Incognita was not the prime goal for all who went either east- ward from the Cape of Good Hope or westward from Cape Horn, it became quite early in the age of discoveries an attraction for imaginative sailors of many nations and for a long time the inspira- tion for many Utopian theories. This, however, did not deter some more honest travelers from making attempts at get- ting precise information on the geogra- phy and poptdation of this T e r r a Aus- tralis, or New Holland as some began to call it in the seventeenth century. These voyages were undertaken by many nations and described in several lan- guages. T h e earliest collective account of voyages to Australia was published in 1756 by De Brosses as Histoire des navi- gations aux terres australes.14 It was t r a n s l a t e d — a n d much c h a n g e d ! — b y John Callander under the title Terra Australis cognita, issued between 1766 and 1768.15 T h i s collection was followed by Dalrymple's Historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific ocean, 17 70-1771. 2 0 These three collections formed the background of popular knowledge against which the voyages of Captain James Cook stand out in the final act of discovery and descrip- tion of the eastern coast of the fifth con- tinent. Cook's voyages and works relating to them have received ample biblio- graphic treatment (Holmes;30 Spence45) and J o h n Beaglehole's edition of the voyages will represent the last word on this subject for many decades to come. As for other voyages, several admirable collections were issued during the early nineteenth century, among which those by Pinkerton4 0 and by Kerr3 1 are prob- ably the most noteworthy. W i t h the foundation of the Hakluyt Society in 1846 serious interest in scholarly editions of voyages and explorations received the required financial backing, and among the many accounts and reports printed by the Society are numerous works bearing on Australia.32 A brief annotated list of Australian voyages is contained in Cox's Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935- 1949, (11:293-319) ;17 though the notes are often useful it is far from exhaustive. In practice—and rightly so—bibliog- raphies tend to grow and develop only when they are based on collections of books. These in turn can only be built when a body of literature on a subject— concrete or abstract—has been created. No wonder, therefore, that we do not find substantial collections of books on Aus- tralia until the second half of the nine- teenth century, those of Mitchell and of Petherick being undoubtedly the best known. In the context of this essay the Petherick collection is more interesting because Petherick was himself a bibliog- rapher of no mean stature. One of his early major works was the compilation of the Catalogue of the York Gate Li- brary,43 (a collection of books on geog- raphy, with particular reference to the British colonies, gathered by S. W . Sil- ver), representing the first printed cata- logue of a collection with a substantial Australian interest. It was first issued in 1882 but the second edition is more use- ful because of its greater coverage. T h e York Gate Library is now housed in Adelaide, in the rooms of the Royal Geo- graphical Society of Australia (South Australian branch). Petherick was a col- lector in his own right, and after a varied and at times distressing career as a bib- liographer, bookseller, and agent, sold his collection of Australiana (over fifteen thousand items) to the National Library of Australia in 1911, and at his death in 1917, bequeathed his general library of four thousand volumes to the same insti- tution. Within Australia the Public Library of New South Wales has for historical reasons been the leader in the coverage of the field of Australiana. Its printed catalogue, Australasian Bibliography 208 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S . .. Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library, Sydney (1893),37 records all hold- ings of Australasian interest acquired up to 1888, the centenary of the foundation of the Australian settlement at Sydney Cove, and marks the beginnings of Aus- tralia's own contribution to Australian bibliography. It is, within its limits, an excellent work, based on sound princi- ples and quite a remarkable achievement for so young a country. One other library collection is worth mentioning in this context. T h e Royal Commonwealth Society, formerly the Royal Colonial Institute, then the Royal Empire Society—history reflected in ter- minology!—collected practically all sig- nificant publications on the overseas branches of the British Commonwealth. T h e Subject Catalogue of the Royal Em- pire Society . . . by E. Lewin (4v.; 1930)41 contains a mine of information on Aus- tralia and can safely be regarded as one of the most useful starting points for gen- eral bibliographic information up to about 1930. T h e early period of settlement brought in its train a spate of reports from im- migrants—free and convict—who de- scribed with varying degrees of objec- tivity the social, political, and economic events of their new home. T h e most re- liable guide to the book production re- lating to the period 1784-1850 is J. A. Ferguson's monumental Bibliography of Australia (1941- ; 4v.).23 A further volume to cover the period 1850-1900 is still in preparation. W i t h remarkably few inaccuracies, Ferguson offers not only careful descriptions of all items, arranged by year of publication, but indicates also the principal libraries holding copies. A somewhat selective and more super- ficial list was compiled by S. A. Spence under the title A Bibliography of Early Books and Pamphlets Relating to Aus- tralia, 1610-1880, 1952,44 with a Supple- ment issued in 1955 extending the cov- erage to 1900. Until the achievement of political in- dependence in the 1850's, much govern- mental business in the Australian colo- nies was subject to debate in the British Parliament. With the increasing eco- nomic and political significance of the Australian colonies, this was but natural and the Indexes to the Journals of the House of Commons2''' for the first half of the nineteenth century must be consulted by those wishing to study the early ad- ministrative history of Australia. A list of these references is available in the Dixson Library, Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney. T h e later periods of Australian his- tory are not so amenable to exhaustive bibliographic description: the mere quantity of books, pamphlets and docu- ments makes a complete bibliography unmanageable, to say the least. A general Bibliography of Australia, 1901-1935 has been in process in the National Library of Australia, but is still at the prepara- tory stage, on cards. However, mention must be made of the National Library's Annual Catalogue of Australian Publica- tions, 1937-19602 which includes books on Australia published abroad. Though this list is not exhaustive and is limited to monographs and new serials, it is prac- tically complete for publications printed in Australia, as the National Library re- ceives copies of all Australian publica- tions under the Copyright Act of 1912. As from 1961 it will be replaced by the Australian National Bibliography. An attempt at covering the current output of writings on Australian history is being made in the journal Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand.28 T h e formation—albeit unconscious— of a national ethos was accompanied by a continuous process of stock-taking. T h e slow process of weaning from the bosom of Athena Britannica caused Aus- tralia to be caught up in the malaise of the Edwardian era without possessing as yet cultural resources which could be considered truly original. For the develop- ment of independent scientific work Aus- M A Y 1 9 6 2 209 tralia has only of late gathered the neces- sary resources, and such achievements as she can boast of in the humanities are insufficiently differentiated from the Brit- ish background. T h i s is an excuse for, rather than an accusation of, the fact that in many respects Australia has only recently begun to produce a quantity of artistic and humanistic material which one could consider characteristic. For the large field of Australian let- ters, we possess the most thorough bibli- ography so far produced in Australia: E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 . . . with Subsidiary Entries to 1938 (1940; 2v.).34 Including as it does, biographical notes and critical evaluations of the more im- portant writers as well as some surveys of periods and of forms, this is a unique work; a summing up by a man who is recognized as Australia's leading bibliog- rapher of his day and who was the first professional librarian to be made an Honorary Life Member by the Library Association of Australia. An attempt has been made by F. T . Macartney to extend Morris Miller's Australian literature to include the literary work of Australian writers up to 1950. His Australian Litera- ture: a Bibliography of 1938 Extended to 1950 (1956)35 reprints parts of Morris Miller's original work (a sad emascula- tion) and adds information on the sub- sequent decade, largely adipose without muscle. Morris Miller's great work was pre- ceded by some minor efforts among which P. Serle's A Bibliography of Aus- tralasian Poetiy and Verse (1925)42 is noteworthy. An effort is being made by Walter Stone to establish a series of bibliographic monographs, mainly in the literary field. Stone is editor—and printer and publisher!—of the series Studies in Australian Bibliography (1954- )4 8 of which eleven numbers have appeared so far, and also produces and edits the journal Biblionews,12 organ of the Aus- tralian Bookcollectors' Society, which contains numerous bibliographic surveys. It is saddening to reflect that both these worthy enterprises are done with cheap stencils on cheap paper. While the bibliography of Australian literature is meager in quantity, the field of sociology has received scarcely more extensive treatment. Australia has the reputation of being well advanced in so- cial work and social legislation, and its federal system of government has given much stimulus to legal thought and to political experiments. T h e r e is, alas, no very comprehensive bibliography avail- able and as the years roll on it becomes less and less likely that a full-dress bib- liography, both historical and critical, of Australian political and sociological thought will be compiled. T h e great welding operation which culminated in the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia as a federal unit in 1901 was preceded by much pam- phleteering and publishing of books for and against federation. Allan Gross's At- tainment: Being a Critical Study of the Literature of Federation, with Bibliog- raphy, (1948)27 tries to review the politi- cal temper of the time. J . D. Holmes's Bibliography on Federation29 exists still only in manuscript form in the National Library of Australia. In 1953 that library issued a roneoed pamphlet, Select Bibliography on Eco- nomic and Social Conditions in Aus- tralia, 1918-1953,3 which is indeed rather "select," and too brief. T h e process of government is the subject of Jean Craig's Bibliography of Public Administration in Australia (1850-1947) (1955)18 but users should be aware that the work is almost exclusively limited to administra- tive thought in New South Wales. A sur- vey of The Literature of Australian Gov- ernment and Politics, by S. R . Davis and C. A. Hughes22 was published in the Aus- tralian Journal of Politics and History, (1958). In Australia (which has been blessed with seven parliaments) there is more 210 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S opportunity than in many countries for political leaders to apply social ideals to the practical national way of life. Conse- quently the Papers and Proceedings of all Australian Parliaments abound with statements concerning the economic and political conditions of the country. T h e indices to the Parliamentary Papers of the Commonwealth Houses and to the Houses of the six states represent the only general key to this type of publica- tion. Unfortunately, not all of these in- dices have been adequately or recently consolidated, and the manner of compila- tion leaves much to be desired—or too much to the ingenuity of the user. T h e importance of public inquiries into the administrative behavior of gov- ernments and their agents and agencies has long been recognized by all who pro- fess democratic persuasions. A. H. Cole's Finding-list of Royal Commission Re- ports in the British Dominion (1939)16 in- cludes a selected list of such public in- quiries held in Australia. An attempt to provide an exhaustive list of them is be- ing made by D. H. Borchardt in his Check List of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry, of which two parts have ap- peared so far, one dealing with the Com- monwealth of Australia, 1900-1950, (1958), the other with Tasmania, 1856- 1959 (I960); 1 3 both provide the names of all commissioners and a synopsis of the recommendations. T h e laws of Australia are covered bib- liographically as part of the Sweet 8c Maxwell Legal Bibliography49 of which they form volume six, which appeared in a second edition in 1958. Most of the bibliographies discussed so far are retrospective. T h e r e are, in addi- tion, several current bibliographies of great importance to the student of Aus- tralia since they index periodical litera- ture. T h e first attempt to cover the social sciences in Australia was made by a Com- mittee on Research in the Social Sciences, itself a section of the Australian Na- tional Research Council. T h e Commit- tee attained independent status in 1952 as T h e Social Science Research Council of Australia. Australian Social Science Abstracts11 was begun by the original Committee on Research in 1946 and then taken over by the SSRCA. In 1954 the publication of the Abstracts ceased. While there is greater merit in abstracts than in mere indices, the National Li- brary of Australia has over the years greatly improved its index to Australian periodicals and magazines dealing with the social sciences in a broad sense. Known briefly as APAIS, the Australian Public Affairs Information Service8 started in 1945; it appears monthly and since 1955 annual cumulations have been issued. It is today the principal source of information for periodical literature on Australian sociology and letters in the widest sense. Its great weakness is the absence of an author index. Similar ground is covered by the Aus- tralian Periodical Index, 1957- ,7 is- sued monthly by the Mitchell Library and preceded by the same library's In- dex to Periodicals 1944 [ -1955], (1950-1957; 3v.).39 T h e current issues ap- pear as part of the New South Wales Li- brary Bulletin, published by the Public Library of New South Wales. T h e over- lapping of the two periodical indices is regrettable but discussions are in progress to avoid the duplication of work. A separate indexing service exists for the field of education. T h e Australian Education Index, (1958- )5 is issued by the Australian Council for Educa- tional Research whose librarian is as- sisted by colleagues from all parts of Aus- tralia. It is a cooperative venture and as such is very praiseworthy. Australia's own creative effort in sci- entific research has only recently got into full stride. While there is a vast litera- ture on scientific aspects of Australia, and on its botany, geology and zoology in particular, until after the second world war there has not been enough man- M A Y 1 9 6 2 211 power or finance to permit substantial re- search on a competitive basis with other countries. Of the descriptive sciences, geology is covered by a well-known bib- liography appended to Sir T . W. E. David's Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia (1950; 3v.).21 T h e r e also ex- ist some bibliographic surveys of states and smaller regions, usually published by the Geological Surveys of each state. Australian bird life has attracted scien- tist and amateur alike, and the greater mass of material on this subject has been listed by H. M. Whittell in his The Lit- erature of Australian Birds . . . 1618- 1950 (1954).50 A. Musgrave's Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930™ is the standard work on the literature of Australian insects. A number of useful lists of the litera- ture of highly specialized subjects ap- peared from time to time in such scien- tific journals as the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales and elsewhere, but to draw attention to them here would be contrary to the aims of this paper. Retrospective bibliography is of course not as vital as current coverage. Aus- tralian Science Abstracts9 was produced between 1922 and 1957 by the Australian and New Zeland Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, from v. 17 (1933) on, as part of the Australian Journal of Science.6 Since 1957, the head office of the Commonwealth Scientific and Indus- trial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, has issued an Australian Sci- ence Index™ which supersedes the Ab- stracts, and covers all scientific work of Australian interest. Though various Christian denomina- tions took an early interest in Australia, either with a view to establishing mis- sions to convert the Australian native population or to catering to the felons and convicts who were certainly in need of faith, hope, and charity, it must also be remembered that the early Spanish and Portuguese voyages were made under mandates which included inter alia the obligation to bring Christianity to the Pacific Ocean. As far as can be ascer- tained there exists a bibliography of mis- sion literature for the Roman Catholic Church only, R . Streit's Bibliotheca mis- sionum: Missions-literatur von Australien und Ozeanien, 1525-1950 (1955).47 Ar- ranged chronologically, it is a fine ex- ample of biliographic scholarship. Of the special subject bibliographies which provide a general insight into things Australian, there remains only one which despite its intrinsic significance has not been mentioned earlier simply because it is based on a formal criterion of selection: university research. In a country as thinly populated as Australia, yet supporting no less than ten univer- sities (only two of which are more than a hundred years old) it is perhaps surpris- ing that original academic research should be possible at all, certainly that it should attain international recogni- tion. Yet Australia has made numerous outstanding contributions to the world of learning and her universities have produced many scholars of international renown. In recent years, all Australian universities have begun to issue research reports which give an account of work in progress and frequently list publications by staff members. It is more difficult, however, to find details of earlier re- search, largely because the university cal- endars are not as informative as one might wish. T o remedy this situation, and to keep in step with bibliographic development in other countries, Mrs. M. J . Marshall compiled a Union list of Higher Degree Theses in Australian University Libraries (1959),33 the first Supplement to which was issued in 1961. T h e base volume lists 3,333 theses sub- mitted since Australian universities be- gan granting higher degrees; unfortu- nately the list is not complete, as many earlier theses have been lost. Future sup- plements will keep the list up to date (Continued on page 251) 212 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Australian Bibliography . . . (Continued from page 212) and include such earlier theses as may come to light. Size of area, uneven spread of popula- tion: these are the dominant undertones which accompany all statements concern- ing literature, science, description, gen- eral cultural achievement in Australia. None can gainsay their significance. T h e effect of these two strains is doubly felt when we look for published writings on the separate regions of the Common- wealth. Not even the Department of Post- War Reconstruction, which flourished between 1943 and 1949 (when it became the Department for National Develop- ment) succeeded in producing a bibliog- raphy for each state when it caused the compilation of the Regional Planning Bibliography (1948-1950)1 undertaken by its Regional Planning Division at the request of a conference of Commonwealth and State officers. T h e regional planning bibliography covers only New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West- ern Australia and Northern Australia, and a supplementary volume, Australia's Vegetation, Forestry and Timber Re- sources (1948). These bibliographies were intended principally to serve the need for economic planning essential to Aus- tralia's development after the second world war, and they are consequently but quite naturally limited to publica- tions dealing with the industrial and agricultural potential of the regions. It is interesting to note that Western Aus- tralia is the region best served with bib- liographies. F. G. Steere compiled a Bibli- ography of Books, Articles and Pamphlets Dealing icith Western Australia Issued since its Discovery in 1616 (1923).46 A sup- plement with the title Additions to Steere's Bibliography of Western Aus- tralia was made in 1924, but it does not appear to have been printed. In 1953 F. K. Crowley published his Records of Western Australia, Vol. I,1 9 a huge roneoed volume of almost eleven hun- dred pages. Clearly, sparsity of popula- tion does not necessarily prevent biblio- graphic work. A region only recently served by bib- liographic treatment is Tasmania. E. D. Flinn's The History, Politics and Econ- omy of Tasmania in the Literature, 1856- 1959 (1961 )24 is a reliable and very useful guide to Australia's second oldest state. For South Australia, T . Gill's Bibliog- raphy of South Australia (1886)25 is still the only published list of sources, while the only bibliography of New South Wales, issued by its own Public Library under the title Works on New South Wales, comp. . . . under the direction of R. C. Walker,38 is of about the same vin- tage: 1878. However, each state library keeps card indexes of current references to its own state. In addition there exist a few bibliog- raphies of small areas, e.g., towns, river valleys, etc. which are too specialized to be mentioned here. In general, however, regional bibliography is still largely terra incognita. It will have been noted that I have not dealt with some major bibliographic en- terprises which have not only commanded a great deal of enthusiastic work but some of which have attracted substantial monetary support from government agencies. However, my aim has been to limit myself to the subject: "Australia—Bib- liography." T h i s does not include the practice (and theory) of bibliography in Australia, a practice which has had the benefit of numerous librarians of great ability and perseverance, and which has produced some really first-rate tools. Without these, Australian scholarship would be very seriously hampered. Since they fall outside the scope of this paper I hope to be able to discuss elsewhere and with leisure the full range of "Bib- liography, Australian." M A Y 1 9 6 2 2 5 1 Bibliography 1. Australia. D e p a r t m e n t o f N a t i o n a l De- v e l o p m e n t . Division o f R e g i o n a l Devel- o p m e n t . A Classified and Selective Bib- liography on Australia for Regional Planning Purposes, c o m p . by KATHLEEN M . HERBERG. C a n b e r r a : T h e Depart- m e n t , 1 9 4 8 - 1 9 5 0 . ( R o n e o e d ) . (Parts 2 - 3 , 5, 7 - 8 a n d S u p p l e m e n t only published to date). 2. Australia. N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y . Annual Cat- alogue of Australian Publications. Nos. 1 - 2 5 . C a n b e r r a : G o v e r n m e n t p r i n t e r , 1 9 3 7 - 1 9 6 0 . (Superseded, 1961, by Aus- tralian National Bibliography). 3. Australia. N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y . Select Bib- liography on Economic and Social Con- ditions in Australia, 1918-1953. [Can- b e r r a ] : T h e L i b r a r y , 1953. 4. Australian B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l C e n t r e . Aus- tralian Bibliography and Bibliographical Services. C a n b e r r a : Australian Advisory C o u n c i l on B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l Services, 1960. 5. Australian Education Index. [Mel- b o u r n e ] : A C E R , 1 9 5 7 - . No. [ 1 ] - . Q u a r t e r l y . 6. Australian Journal of Science. Sydney: Australian and New Zealand Association for the A d v a n c e m e n t of Science, 1 9 3 8 - . v . l - . 7. Australian Periodical Index. Sydney: T h e L i b r a r y , 1 9 5 6 - . M o n t h l y . (Issued as a s u p p l e m e n t to the Monthly Catalogue o f the P u b l i c L i b r a r y o f N e w South W a l e s . C o n t i n u e s the M i t c h e l l L i b r a r y ' s Index to Periodicals, item 39.) 8. Australian Public Affairs Information Service: a Subject Index to Current Lit- erature. C a n b e r r a : N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y , J u l y 1 9 4 5 - . v . l - . M o n t h l y . 9. Australian Science Abstracts: Supple- ment to the Australian Journal of Sci- ence. 1 9 2 2 - J u n e 1957. v. 1 - 2 2 . 10. Australian Science Index. M e l b o u r n e : C o m m o n w e a l t h Scientific a n d I n d u s t r i a l R e s e a r c h O r g a n i z a t i o n , 1 9 5 7 - . v . [ l ] M o n t h l y , with a n n u a l c u m u l a t i o n s . 11. Australian Social Science Abstracts. [Mel- b o u r n e ] : A u s t r a l i a n N a t i o n a l R e s e a r c h C o u n c i l , C o m m i t t e e on R e s e a r c h in the Social Sciences, M a r . 194b-J\lov. 1954. Nos. 1 - 1 8 . 12. liiblionews: Monthly Letter to Members. [Sydney]: B o o k Collectors Society of Aus- tralia, A p r . 1 9 4 7 - . n o . l - . 13. B o r c h a r d t , D i e t r i c h H a n s . Checklist of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry. C r e m o r n e : T h e S t o n e C o p y i n g Co. v . l , " C o m m o n w e a l t h o f Australia, 1 9 0 0 - 1 9 5 0 , " 1958; v.2: " T a s m a n i a , " 1 8 5 6 - 1 9 4 9 , 1960. (Studies in Australian B i b l i o g r a p h y , no. 7, 10). 14. Brosses, Charles de. Histoire des Naviga- tions aux Terres Australes. 2v. Paris: D u r a n d , 1756. 15. C a l l a n d e r , J o h n . 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