This final volume of a revised edition of the journals, completes the life story of significant pioneer and clergyman, John Ramsden Wollaston, an Anglican clergyman who migrated to Australia with his family in 1841. It also provides a fascinating insight into early colonial life.

Diary of John Ramsden Wollaston, Anglican clergyman, south -west Western Australia; brief descriptions of Aboriginal population and ways of life; treatment of the elderly; thoughts on educating and Christianising Aboriginal children; murder of Aborigines.

William Hyde Wollaston was born into a large, religious, and scientifically informed family in 1766 and died sixty-two years later as one of the Western world s most highly regarded scientists. With encouragement from his well-connected father, he studied medicine at Cambridge, and began practicing as a physician in the provinces before moving his practice to London in 1797, arriving in the capital about the same time as his illustrious colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas Young. After a few years in London, Wollaston abandoned the vocation he had come to dislike and bravely set out to make his living as a chemical entrepreneur, while pursuing his intellectual interests in a wide range of contemporary scientific subjects. He, Davy, and Young were to become Britain s leading scientific practitioners in the first third of the nineteenth century, and their deaths within a six month time span were seen by many as the end of a glorious period of British supremacy in science. In contrast to his two more famous colleagues, Wollaston s life was not recorded for posterity in a contemporary biography, and his many remarkable scientific, commercial, instrumental, and institutional achievements have fallen into obscurity as a result. This biography is the first book-length study of Wollaston, his science, and the environment in which he thrived."

Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)