TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. These lectures each had a set of associated slides, a complete list of which can be found on pages 143-152 at the end of the book. These slide sets were sold separately and are not part of the book. Some of the slides (those highlighted in =bold= in the slide list) were inserted as illustrations in the original book, and the captions of these illustrations are reproduced in this etext. The numbers in the right margin of the etext are the numbers of the associated slides. Several of these margin slide numbers are in parentheses ( ) to indicate that this particular slide is being shown for a second time at this point in the lecture. There are no Footnotes in this book. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. AUSTRALASIA EIGHT LECTURES Prepared for The Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office by A. J. SARGENT, M.A. LONDON GEORGE PHILIP & SON, LTD., 32, FLEET STREET Liverpool: PHILIP, SON & NEPHEW, Ltd., South Castle Street 1913 (_All rights reserved_) THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF MEATH, K.P., Chairman. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, G.C.M.G. SIR JOHN STRUTHERS, K.C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch Education Department. SIR CHARLES HOLROYD, Director of the National Gallery. SIR PHILIP HUTCHINS, K.C.S.I., late Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. SIR EVERARD IM THURN, K.C.M.G., C.B., late Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. SIR CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. DR. H. FRANK HEATH, C.B., of the Board of Education. A. BERRIEDALE KEITH, D.C.L., of the Colonial Office. H. J. MACKINDER, M.P., lately Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. W. H. MERCER, C.M.G., Crown Agent for the Colonies. PROFESSOR MICHAEL E. SADLER, C.B., LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.