In Chapter 14, I have made extensive use of the article written by Bernard K. Hyams, published in Biography, an interdisciplinary quarterly, 13,1, (Winter 1990) 57–75. I am grateful to Dr Hyams and to Stanley Schab, managing editor of Biography, Centre for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i, for permission to reproduce this material. In the same chapter, I have also made use of the entry of his name in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, written by Lynne Trethewey; I thank both the publishers, ANU E Press and The Australian National University, and the author. I thank the World Health Organisation for permission to reproduce Figure 26.4 on page 1205 of Smallpox and its Eradication and the Smallpox Recognition Card.

Brian Swan helped with information on the Wongana Circle (Chapter 16), and my sister Winn, my brother Bill, and nephew Max Fenner have also kindly read over the drafts of sections relating to our family and producing the brief biographies in Chapter 1. Erica Jolly provided useful information about my father in A Broader Vision, her monumental book on vocational education in South Australia.

I owe special thanks to Dr Ann Moyal for writing the Preface to the book.

A number of institutions in South Australia provided useful information and/or photos relating to my father's career: the State Library of South Australia, the University of Adelaide, and the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia and the Field Naturalists’ Society of South Australia. The source of most data in Part I was in MS143 of the Basser Library Archives of the Australian Academy of Science, located in Canberra. Much of the material used in Part II was in MS178, in the Basser Library Archives. Barbara Holloway provided invaluable help as editor and in final organising of the chapters on the ANU E Press template. Compilation of all this data and, indeed, my long post-retirement career would have been impossible were it not for the generosity of the John Curtin School of Medical Research for providing me with a large study, a succession of computers, and access to such facilities as the Eccles Library, the School Photography Service and the IT Help Desk.