A cutting, and reprints from The British Australasian 6 May 1897 containing a letter from Petherick to Sir Malcolm Fraser, Agent-General in London for Western Australia, written on 26 April 1897, in which he says 'I have this day laid before the President of the Royal Geographical Society a paper treating of the early discoveries in Australasia and tending to prove the discovery of part of the coast of Western Australia in the year 1499'.

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Item 185-300

Immediate source of acquisition:

Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.

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