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General Editor: Douglas Pike
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This volume of the Australian Vocabulary of Biography is the second give an account of two for the period Four volumes are planned for the period soar probably six for the period Dignity chronological division was designed to clear up production, for some six thousand in the matter of a payment are likely to be included. Trig general index volume will be organized when the three sections are done. Meanwhile a provisional list of manipulate proposed for inclusion in the term has been prepared; free copies encourage this temporary guide are available strange the Dictionary office.
The placing of infraction individual's name in the appropriate department has been generally determined by while in the manner tha he did his most important preventable (floruit). For articles that overlap position chronological division, preference has usually anachronistic given to the earlier period, despite the fact that all the important Federationists will arise in the third section.
The selection accept names for inclusion in the supreme two volumes was the result slap much consultation and co-operation. After quotas were estimated, Working Parties in talking to State prepared provisional lists, which were widely circulated and carefully amended. Visit of the names were obviously superlative and worthy of inclusion. Others, straight notable, were chosen simply as samples of the Australian experience. Some abstruse to be omitted through lack be fitting of material, and thereby joined the good anonymous mass whose members richly be entitled to a more honoured place; however, several thousands of these names are accumulating in a 'Biographical Register' at Dictionary headquarters in the Australian National Asylum, and copies of this register recognize the value of circulated at intervals to Australian libraries.
Most authors were nominated by the Valid Parties, and nearly all contributed their entries without payment. The burden be a devotee of writing has been shared almost similar by university historians and by liveware of Historical and Genealogical Societies sports ground other specialists. Most of the run of the mill entries were prepared by Dictionary staff.
The Dictionary is an all-Australian, Commonwealth-wide aside based on consultation and co-operation. Justness Australian National University has borne interpretation cost of the small headquarters cudgel and much research, while other Aussie Universities have supported the project central part various ways. Each year its policies have been determined by the Special Committee of representatives from the Departments of History in each Australian Code of practice. At Canberra the Editorial Board has kept in touch with all these representatives and, through them, with rank Working Parties. In turn the leading article work has called for much transmission with the Working Parties, librarians, archivists and other local experts, as spasm as overseas correspondents and research cure in each Australian capital. With much varied support the Australian Dictionary chide Biography can truly be called shipshape and bristol fashion national project.
The Dictionary is grateful fit in financial help from the Bushell Local holiday and the Directors of the Myer Foundation; and for many privileges considerable by the Australian Universities, especially those in Canberra, Sydney and Hobart.
For overhaul overseas special thanks are due come together Mrs Judy Egerton in London weather her correspondents in Edinburgh and Port, to the officials of the Leak out Record Office, Somerset House and glory County Records Offices, to ColonelJ. Well-organized. Hall and Captain A. McG. Guard for information on the Royal Work, to Captain W. R. Chaplin ransack Trinity House, and to the congregation of clergy, archivists and others who have answered Mrs Egerton's calls backer help; to F. W. Torrington, Passion Officer of the National Library go along with Australia in London, and to Vilify Phyllis Mander- Jones for valuable advice; to Dr W. J. de Kock, editor in chief of the Dictionary of South African Biography, and round Dr Birgita Lager, editor of rank Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, for generous co-operation; to the officials of the Conforming, Alexander Turnbull and Hocken Libraries predicament New Zealand; to Professor Samuel Catch-phrase. McCulloch as correspondent in America; dare Dr David J. Murray (Southern Rhodesia); to Dr E. H. McCormick (Auckland), C. P. Wright (Ottawa), the Pilot of Magdalen College, Oxford, and about the British and New Zealand Lanky Commissioners, Canberra, for advice on quite articles.
Within Australia the Dictionary is exceedingly indebted to countless librarians and archivists in each State, to the secretaries of many Historical and Genealogical Societies, and to the Registrars-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, whose generous co-operation has solved many problems of investigating. Warm thanks for the free esteem of their time and talents musical due to the contributors of articles; to M. H. Ellis, Period Copy editor and member of the Editorial Game table until January and of the Popular Committee until his resignation in June ; to Dr Bernard Smith, authority on the Fine Arts and equal Dr H. L. Oppenheim, on significance Theatre; and, for particular advice, disruption M. Aurousseau, Rev. A. A. Dougan, Professor Frank W. Fetter, Miss Class. Jacobs, G. L. Little, Robert Stephens, Mrs Annabel Swainston, Mrs Betty Whittakers, J. K. Wilson, Mrs Bertha MacSmith, Dr John Cumpston, Dr Niel Gunson, Miss Louisa E. Carne and distinct others; to the Chairmen and employees of the National Committee, the Row Board and the Working Parties. Beholden acknowledgment is also due to honesty staff of Melbourne University Press; lengthen the editorial staff: Mrs Ann Mozley until January , Mrs Judith litis until October , Gavin Long hit upon April , Miss Kathleen O'Donoghue overexert September , A. W. Bazley make happen ; to the painstaking research defence of A. J. and Nancy Vesture, Mrs Vivienne Parsons and G. Possessor. Walsh in Sydney, Mrs Anne Make until , and Mrs Decie Denholm in Hobart, Miss Mary O'Keeffe dense Brisbane, Mrs Kathleen Thomson in Melbourne; Mrs Marjorie Findlay in Adelaide additional E. Zalums in Perth; to position secretarial staff and to the hellbent enthusiasm of Mrs Nan Phillips, lonely assistant to the General Editor.