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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Event created 2020-01-21 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-07-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006779b.htm event Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition AACR2 May 1891 January 1892 Start Place South Australia, Australia End Place Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia Australian inland exploration The Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, the purpose of which was to map the last unexplored areas of southwestern Australia, was an initiative of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Sir Thomas Elder, pastoralist and philanthropist, funded the whole Expedition which was under the leadership of David Lindsay. Starting from Warrina, South Australia, in May 1891, the Expedition crossed into Western Australia in July and ultimately dispersed in the Murchison Region when several members left the team. Lindsay reached Geraldton, Western Australia, in January 1892. Results of the Expedition were disappointing, largely because of the exceptionally dry season. However, approximately 6,400 km were traversed and mapped. Most of the Expedition's botanical specimens are in the South Australian Herbarium. The scientific results of the Expedition were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia volume 16 (1892-6). Lower, Oswald Bertram (1864 - 1925)

Published an account of the Lepidoptera collected in the Expedition

 Lindsay, David (1856 - 1922)

Leader of the Expedition

 Helms, Richard (1842 - 1914)

Naturalist and botanical collector on the Expedition

 State Herbarium of South Australia (1954 - )

The Herbarium holds most of the botanical specimens collected on the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition

 Streich, Victor Franz Paul (? - 1905)

Geologist and meteorologist on the Expedition

 Wells, Lawrence Allen (1860 - 1938)

Surveyor on the Expedition

 Elder, Thomas (1818 - 1897)

Elder funded the Expedition

 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (1885 - )

Sponsored the Expedition

 'Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Scientific results of Elder Exploring Expedition: Lepidoptera Lower, O. B. Scientific results of Elder Exploring Expedition: Lepidoptera 16 1892 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10-5 Journal Article: The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891: a study of incompatibles Peake-Jones, K. The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891: a study of incompatibles 1985 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 85 54-66 Journal Article: Misleading labels: Richard Helms and the Elder Exploring Expedition Lucas, A. M.; and Home, R. W. Misleading labels: Richard Helms and the Elder Exploring Expedition 2018 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 174 14-8 Journal Article: Vertebrata [of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition] Stirling, E. C.; and Zeitz, A. Vertebrata [of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition] 1893 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16 154-76 Journal Article: Anthropology of the Elder Expedition, 1891 - 1892 Helms, Richard Anthropology of the Elder Expedition, 1891 - 1892 1896 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16 237-332 Book: Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2 Lindsay, David Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2 Adelaide Government Printer 1893 Journal Article: Some early Australian plant collections : Robert Helms and the Elder Expedition collection Anon Some early Australian plant collections : Robert Helms and the Elder Expedition collection 1951 Australasian herbarium news 7 10-14 Book: The discovery and exploration of Australia Feeken, Erwin H. J.; Feeken, Gerda E. E.; and Spate, O. H. K. The discovery and exploration of Australia Melbourne Thomas Nelson (Australia) 1970