This series also includes the following items, housed in Box 1:

Typescript report, correspondence and notes re expedition in August 1938 to the Simpson Desert by Campbell, CP Mountford AA 228), AD Smith and others to investigate human remains thought to be connected to the Leichhardt Expedition. The site where the supposed remains were found was about 100 km east of Abminga Siding on the Alice Springs railway, and about 10 km south of the Northern Territory border. The report includes discussion of the bones and other material found at the site, and brief references to Aboriginal stone arrangements and campsites in the area. Also included are a typescript report by Frank Fenner (AA 91) on the human bones recovered from the site, some newspaper clippings relating to the expedition, and a paper by Campbell on the expedition published in the Public Service Review in 1938.