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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Event created 2022-01-20 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-11-21 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006855b.htm event New Guinea Exploring Expedition AACR2 Bonito Expedition June 1885 December 1885 Start Place New Guinea New Guinea exploration The New Guinea Exploring Expedition, often referred to as the Bonito Expedition, was organised by the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia with financial support from the New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian Governments. It departed from Sydney in June 1885 in the steam launch Bonito, returning in December of the same year. The purpose was to collect biological, geological, ethnographic and geographical information. Key personnel were: H. C. Everill (Leader); Wilhelm Baeuerlen (botanical collector); Sydney A. Bernays (surgeon and botanist); William Froggatt (zoological collector and entomologist); and Wilhelm Haacke (Chief Scientist). Four months were spent exploring the Fly River and its tributary the Strickland River, the Expedition travelling approximately 200 km upstream. Few reports of the expedition and its collections were issued. Some of the insect collections were published by Edward Ramsay and William Macleay: most of the botanical specimens were sent to Ferdinand von Mueller for identification. Haacke, Johann Wilhelm (1855 - 1912)

Chief Scientist 1885

 Bernays, Sydney

Surgeon and Geologist

 Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858 - 1937)

Zoological Collector and Entomologist

 Everill, Henry Charles (? - 1900)

Leader of the Expedition

 Baeuerlen, William (1840 - 1917)

Botanical Collector

 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (1883 - 1920s)

Sponsored the Expedition

 'New Guinea Exploring Expedition', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology New Guinea Exploring Expedition Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Report on the geological specimens from New Guinea, collected by the exploring expedition of the Geographical Society of Australasia Wilkinson, C. S. Report on the geological specimens from New Guinea, collected by the exploring expedition of the Geographical Society of Australasia 1886 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch 3/4 203-6 Book: The Bonito Expedition: the New Guinea Exploring Expedition of 1885 Mackay, Roy D. The Bonito Expedition: the New Guinea Exploring Expedition of 1885 Belair, S.A. Crawford House Publishing, 2012 Book: Special record of the proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia in fitting out and starting the exploratory expedition to New Guinea, July 1885 Pulsford, Edward Special record of the proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia in fitting out and starting the exploratory expedition to New Guinea, July 1885 Sydney F. Cunninghame 1885 Journal Article: Exploration of New Guinea: report on the collections Ramsay, E. P. Exploration of New Guinea: report on the collections 1888 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch 3/4 207-8 Journal Article: The insects to the Fly River, New Guinea: Coleoptera Macleay, William [J.] The insects to the Fly River, New Guinea: Coleoptera 1886 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales ser. 2 1 136-204 Journal Article: Exploration of New Guinea - Capt. Everill's report Everill, H. C. Exploration of New Guinea - Capt. Everill's report 1888 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch 3/4 170-86 Book: The voyage of the Bonito : an account of the Fly river expedition to New Guinea Bäuerlen, William The voyage of the Bonito : an account of the Fly river expedition to New Guinea Sydney Gibbs, Shallard &​ Co 1886 Journal Article: The forgotten expedition - 1885: the Strickland River, New Guinea Dwyer, Peter D.; Minnegal, Monica and Warrillow, Chris The forgotten expedition - 1885: the Strickland River, New Guinea 2015 Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 101 1 7-24 Journal Article: Journeys up the Fly River and in other parts of New Guinea D'Albertis, L. M. Journeys up the Fly River and in other parts of New Guinea 1879 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography 1 1 4-16 Journal Article: Captain Everill's error: mapping the Upper Strickland River in Papua and New Guinea, 1885 - 1979 Dwyer, Peter D.; and Minnegal, Monica Captain Everill's error: mapping the Upper Strickland River in Papua and New Guinea, 1885 - 1979 2018 Journal of Pacific history 53 3 310-29 Conference Paper: William Bauerlen - a 'Circumspect and Zealous' Collector Wilson, K.L. William Bauerlen - a 'Circumspect and Zealous' Collector Melbourne Australian Systematic Botany Society 1990 History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 Short, P.S. 97-104