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All photographs in this number of The La Trobe Journal are from the State Library of Victoria unless stated otherwise. Photography by Adrian Flint and Peter Mappin, Photographic Unit, State Library of Victoria.

Cover: Ludwig Becker (1808-1861), First Camp from Duroadoo, 1861. Pen and ink, 14.0 × 22.5 cm. Signed and dated l.r. 18 Feb. L.B. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria. For more detail see the article by Gerard Hayes, pages 39–42. Other Burke and Wills expedition drawings and water-colours are reproduced with annotations in Marjorie Tipping, ed., Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition, Melbourne University Press/ Library Council of Victoria, 1979.

This drawing will be one of the many unique items in the forthcoming exhibition, Burke and Wills: from Melbourne to Myth. Organised by the National Library of Australia and drawn largely from the collections of the State Library of Victoria, this major exhibition will be at the National Library March-May 2002, at the Art Gallery of South Australia June-August, and at the State Library of Victoria September-November.