Foreword / Sir Zelman Cowan -- William Dampier and his botanical collections / erena marner -- The peculiar natural history of New Holland /Steve Simpson -- The emerging shape / Elizabeth Edwards -- Sturt and his journeys /Catherine Hart -- Representation and reality: science and the visual image / Elizabeth Edwards -- The original Australians and the evolution of anthropology / Howard Morphy -- 'The foundations of all good and noble principles': Oxonians and the Australian universities in the nineteenth century / Richard Symonds -- Australians at Oxford / John Legge
Summary
Papers explore early understandings of Australia as represented in the collections of the archives at Oxford; includes a chapter on the original Australians and the collections of Aboriginal art and artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum
