Contributing Authors
The Introduction by J.M.R. (Jim) Cameron
J.M.R. (Jim) Cameron wrote the Introduction to this volume. Dr Cameron went to school in both Northampton and Geraldton before graduating from the University of Western Australia as an historical geographer with a particular interest in the European occupation of Australia in the 19th century and the evolution of Australia’s rural landscape. He combines those interests with a commitment to teacher education and the strengthening of education in developing countries. In addition to many reports and articles across these fields, he is the author of Ambition’s Fire: the Agricultural Colonisation of Pre-Convict Western Australia (1981); Letters from Port Essington (1999); The Millendon Memoirs (2006); and My Name is Bert. Bert Nixon’s Memories of Katherine, 1931–1990 (2017). Dr Cameron, with Phyllis Barnes, OAM, edited The Australian Journals of Marshall Waller Clifton (2010); The Australian Letters of Marshall Waller Clifton (2017) and Lieutenant Bunbury’s Australian Sojourn (2013). Although retired, Jim Cameron still combines active involvement in the provision of education in developing countries with his interests in the historical geography of Australian settlement.
Appendix on Flora by Dr Alex George
Alex George, AM, is a retired consultant botanist, editor and indexer, and is the Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University. He worked at the WA Herbarium for 22 years and then spent 12 years in Canberra as the Executive Editor of the Flora of Australia project. He has also served twice at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England, as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer. His taxonomic research has focused on the families Proteaceae, Myrtaceae and Gyrostemonaceae, resulting in naming many new species and several new genera. His main research interests are now Australian botanical history and bibliography. Professor George prepared the Appendix on Flora for all Volumes.
Appendix on Fauna by Dr Ian Abbott
Dr Ian Abbott is a retired public service scientist. He has written the Appendix on Fauna for all volumes of Western Australian Exploration. An ecologist with wide field experience in western and eastern Australia and the Galápagos, he has degrees from the University of Sydney, Monash University, and the University of Western Australia. Dr Abbott has expertise in biogeography, island, forest and historical ecology, and ecological history, as well as expert knowledge of trees, invertebrates, birds and mammals. Since his first scientific paper in 1970, he has published over 240 papers.