b'46313 TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine, MD FRS (1806-1880),An 8 page a.I.s from a practitioner in Geelong to Dr A.Taylor who appears to have been experimenting with paraffin or kerosene in solution. Also enclosed are 3 small papers that he has experimented on with penciled notes.Also an a.I.s from REESE, John, the American editor of the 7th edition of Dr Taylors book A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence to Dr Alfred Swaine Taylor, dated 20th of August, 1874.Dr Taylor, toxicolgist and medical writer was considered the father of forensic medicine and an early experimenter in photography (he developed the use of Hyposulphate of lime as a fixing agent). Noted as an expert witness in several murder cases and often wrote articles for various medical journals including The Medical Gazette of which he was the editor. (4)$200300 314GASON, Samuel The Dieyerie tribe of Australian AboriginesEdited by George Isaacs.[W.C. Cox, Adelaide, 1874] 1st edition, 51pp, 8vo, handcover, with gilt title to spine.Complete, but with defects including an obtrusive ex libris label.Gason joined the South Australian Police in 1865 at the age of 23 and was stationed at Lake Hope. He was promoted to Mounted Constable 2nd class the following year. One of his 312 most difficult tasks while at Lake Hope was negotiating with local Aborigines who were taking sheep from graziers, a conflict he seems to have managed with good sense. His tenure included the heavy flooding of 1870, during which he reported 311 the deaths of 17 Aborigines. In 1871 Gason was transferred FAWKNER, John Pascoe. to Barrow Creek, where he witnessed the attack on the Telegraph Station.Gasons work was considered a most useful The Melbourne Advertiser Port Phillip Australia amateur contribution, and was used in the later compendium No.8, Written for, and Published by, Jn P Fawkner The Native Tribes of South Australia published in 1879.and dated February 19th 1838Lithographed by E. Whitehead & Co. $200300 The eighth number of the first Melbourne newspaper,here reproduced in a scarce nineteenth-century facsimile edition.[Melbourne: 1869.]A typical advertisement reads The undersigned begs to inform the Public that he keeps a Boat and two men in readiness for the Purpose of Crossing and recrossing Passengers between Williamstown and the opposite Beach. Parties from Melbourne are requested to raise a Smoke [signal] and the Boat will be at their Service as soon as practicable.$350500 312H.M.S. MEGAERA, AUSTRALIA & NEWZEALAND NAVAL INTERESTWILSON, George, Sub-LieutenantJune 1870 to October 1873 hand-written journal kept by Wilson. It comprises of geographic details and observations as well as extensive diary entries. Wilson was one of a contingent of junior ratings sent from England to bolster the staff stationed at Sydney. All were on the same ship, the Megaera, which was beached and abandoned on St.Pauls Island in the Indian Ocean. He saw further service out of Sydney on H.M.S. Rosario and in New Zealand and spent some time involved in the blackbirding trade in the South Pacific.Well written, very legible and in good overall condition, this unique journal is now housed in a purpose-made solander box.$1,0001,500315'