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- Federal handbook prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Australia August 1914
- Imprint
- Government Printer, Melbourne, 1914, 598 pp
- Abstract
This handbook has been compiled under the authority of the Federal Council of the British Association, and is edited by Mr. G. H. Knibbs, C.M.G., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., and is published by the Commonwealth Government. The various chapters, written by different persons of distinction, deal with the history of Australia, the aborigines of Australia, the geography, climate, vegetation, animal life, geology, astronomy and geodesy in Australia, agricultural development, mining fields, manufactures, education, political systems, and miscellaneous notes. There are many maps, diagrams, and photographs of natives, etc., and the book will be very useful for reference, apart from the meeting of the Association.
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- Baracchi, P., 'Astronomy and geodesy in Australia' in Federal handbook prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Australia 1914, Knibbs, G. H., ed. (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1914), pp. 326-90. Details
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- British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the eighty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Australia: 1914 July 28 - August 31 (London: John Murray, 1915), 172 pp, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95821. Details