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Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Australia has also some immense birds which resemble the ostrich, although they are not quite so large. The cassowary is to be found in Queensland, and the emu is common there and in other parts of Australia. The emu is not so tall as the ostrich. Its legs are shorter and its body thicker and clumsier. Its feathers are much like coarse hair. Its color is dark brown, spotted with gray, and its wings are so short that they are almost invisible when held close to the body. Emus can be quite dangerous. They have strong bills and they bite. They kick somewhat like a cow and hit so hard that one blow of the foot is enough to kill dog or man. The best time for hunting emu is in the morning when the bird comes out to feed on the grass. It is chased on horseback with dogs which are trained to catch it by the neck in such a way that they cannot be easily kicked. The squatters are anxious to destroy the emus to save the grass for the sheep, and for this reason they not only shoot them but also hunt their nests and break the eggs. In one country of New South Wales ten thousand emus were killed in nine months and at one sheep station fifteen hundred eggs were found and destroyed. Emu eggs are enormous in comparison with a hen's egg, but are much smaller than the eggs of an ostrich. The shells are sometimes mounted in silver and used as milk jugs or sugar bowls." Photograph was hand colored.

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is a representation of the giant bird, now extinct, which was a native of Australia. Carpenter's description of the Moa in the museum as Christchurch is as follows: 'If I were to stand under the bird its tail feathers would tickle the top of my head. Its ankle is as big around as my calf and its gray body is the size of small haystack. Its tall thin neck is stretched so high above its breast that Barnum's circus managers would have had a hard time getting the animal into a freight car. its legs are as strong as those of a camel and it looks quite as big as the biggest 'ship of the desert'. Its enormous feet have claws like those of a turkey, save that each is a foot long. I doubt not that the Moa could have stamped out the life of a man at one kick."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Cormorants are birds between two and three feet in length, with an elongated, powerful body, short stout legs and a rather long neck. The plumage is very compact and usually dark-colored and glossy with greenish or bluish green reflections. the head is often crested and during the nesting season the head and neck are often ornamented with more or less conspicuous plumes of slender hair-like feathers which disappear after the breeding season is over. Cormorants are sociable birds, often congregating in flocks of immense size. Some of the others make their home in inland swamps and marshes. they feed exclusively on fishes, which they are extremely dexterous in capturing."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "These are flightless birds, of moderate size. The wings are reduced in size and modified by the flattening and consolidation of the bones until the product is a perfect swimming paddle, for which purpose they are exclusively used. These birds are expert swimmers and divers, but unlike most other aquatic birds, they make no use of the feet in swimming beyond employing them as a rudder. They are, perhaps, most abundant in species in the vicinity of the Falkland Islands, but they are common about New Zealand and the west shore of Australia."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "For the purpose of comparison we show these ostriches which are natives of Africa and Arabia and are the largest of existing birds, a fully matured individual standing some eight feet in height and weighing fully three hundred pounds."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Australia, the smallest of the continents, is part of the British Empire. It is the only continent except uninhabited Antarctica, which is entirely with the southern hemisphere. Australia was the last grand division of the earth to be visited by Europeans. It was discovered by Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch navigators, but it was not thought to be of any value until Captain James Cook, the great English explorer, made a tour along the east coast. He brought back glowing reports of the richness of the country, and the English at once sent out and took possession of it. By and by colonies were established in the best parts of the country. they grew rapidly, and now there are white people living in all of the habitable regions. The continent is divided into five great colonies or states and one territory--South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Norther Territory. "

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Most of those who have gone to live in Australia are English-speaking people, and they have discouraged the importation of Negroes from Africa and of laborers from India and China. More help is needed in order to develop the great resources of the country, but the white inhabitants prefer to develop them less rapidly and to keep the country for those who use the same language and have similar ideals of social, industrial, and political life. "

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In central and western Australia there are many tribes of native people who live in most primitive ways. Their relationship to the native peoples of New Zealand, of the islands of the Pacific, of Asia, and of Africa is not known, but they are usually classes with the black race."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Hawkesbury River is one of the most beautiful rivers of Australia. It flows directly eastward to the sea at Broken Bay, from which the river is navigable by streamers for 70 miles, as far as Windsor."

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