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McAlpine began moves to leave Edinburgh in 1880. The economy was weak and his income from lectures and the sales of books, etc was inadequate. Between 1880 and 1882, he had applied for posts in Ottawa, Nottingham and New Zealand without success. Three of his best friends had emigrated to Australia and were urging him to follow their example. John Darrock, who later became a Presbyterian Minister based in Melbourne was one. William Gillies was another, who was a writer interested in science, and lived in Sydney. Dr. John Walker-Smith, a medical practitioner, also lived in Sydney. In 1884, following the death of their infant son John, however, the McAlpines decided to migrate to Tasmania (Wedge 1984).

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Parbery, D.G. (2015). Australia Felix. In: Daniel McAlpine and The Bitter Pit. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09552-3_4

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