Abstract
From the times of early European visitors it was recognised that, in Australia generally and southwest Australia in particular, there were remarkable assemblages of plants and animals in a remarkable landscape. Throughout the early years of settlement, from 1827 to the 1890s, many geologists, botanists, and naturalists reported on different aspects of the country and a body of scientific knowledge accumulated. The geology of southwestern Australia was fairly well known by the 1870s and a geological sketch map was published (Brown 1873). With the discovery of gold in the 1880s, the geological mapping received extra impetus and Woodward (1908) published the first map of Western Australia; this was followed by a more detailed version (Maitland 1924).
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