TO
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON,
G.C.St.S, D.C.L., F.R.S.,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
Dear Sir Roderick,
You have kindly permitted me to dedicate to you this result of my investigations respecting the early explorations of Australia. To none can a book on such a subject be more appropriately offered than to yourself. To you geographers are pre-eminently indebted for the promotion of Australian exploration in recent times, while your ever-memorable scientific anticipation of the discovery of the Australian gold fields must connect your name inseparably with the history of a country, whose future greatness can be foreseen, but cannot be estimated.
I remain,
Dear Sir Roderick,
With much respect,
Yours very faithfully,
R H. MAJOR.
British Museum,
- August, 1859.
