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Field Book No. 3.
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Original item held at the State Library of Victoria, SLV MS13071, Box 2083/1a. Victorian Exploring Expedition Records, Journals and diaries of members of the VEE. William John Wills, Transcription of Journey from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria and return to Cooper's Creek. Transcribed and signed by Ferdinand von Mueller, dated 5 November 1861. |
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Lat. S. 25 ½° to 23 ¾° Camps 78 to 85. Sunday, 30 December 1860. [Note from Chapter 9 of Successful Exploration of Australia, 1863: This Field Book was mostly occupied by notes of astronomical observations, and surveyor's notes for mapping.] Memo; Verbally transcribed from the Field Books of the late Mr Wills. Very few words, casually omitted in the author's manuscripts, have been added in brackets. A few botanical explanations have been appended. A few separate general remarks referring to this portion of the diary will be published, together with the meteorological notes to which they are contiguous. No other notes in reference to this portion of the journey are extant. |
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Provenance: A note from Burke & Wills Web.
Wills buried this field-book in the wooden camel-box cache at the Dig Tree on 30 May 1861. It was dug up and recovered by Alfred Howitt of the Victorian Contingent Party on 28 September 1861 and returned to Melbourne on 3 November 1861 by William Brahe and Weston Phillips. A transcript was made by Ferdinand von Mueller of the Royal Society of Victoria's Exploration Committee on the evening of 5 November 1861. The original field book was subsequently lost and its whereabouts are unknown. The only remaining record of the field book is Mueller's transript which is reproduced above.
