# Talk:Alexander Dalrymple

"While this is regarded as the primary discovery and record of mainland Australia, Dutch explorers and trading vessels made the first European contact along parts of the Northern coastline up to a century earlier." - not sure that this adds anything to our knowledge of Alexander Dalrymple, and is out of place at the end of this article. I'm deleting it, and if someone wants to put it in the body of the article to provide some sort of in-depth context, well and fine. --Iacobus 03:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

From memory this was an addition proposed and inserted at the behest of a previous aggrieved contributor, objecting to formulation of the British 'discovery' of Australia. Agree it is superfluous to the subject at hand and thus to its deletion Dick G 10:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

The following was added on 27 December 2015: 
"He robbed the important Spanish charts when was the last British Governor of Manila. Dalrymple ordered looting most of the documentary resources of the city, which was the most important Pacific documentary and map center. So, plunders especially important library of the great Augustinian convent of San Pablo. There he could get a bibliographic and cartographic treasure all mapística work Andrés de Urdaneta, who was Augustinian, documentation, improved, still in use by the Spanish sailors and provided false discoveries of Cook." 
It is incoherent and possibly added by somebody with an exaggerated trust in Google Translate. I see no reason to keep it in the article, but it may of value for future editing and worth preserving here on the talk page. --Hegvald (talk) 08:18, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

There are three portraits of Dalrymple, and two are extremely similar, so I have removed one of them. If anyone thinks the removed image adds significanlty to the article, please discuss. Kognos (talk) 16:29, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

The paragraph on the wind scale says that Dalrymple knew Smeaton. While it is clear that he knew and developed Smeaton's ideas, I can find nothing to indicate that they knew one another personally. I have amended the text accordingly. If there is a citeable source that they knew one another, then of course add it back in Kognos (talk) 23:27, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I found a quote from Dalrymple referring to "My friend, the ingenious Mr Smeaton", and have addded that with citation. Kognos (talk) 22:09, 1 March 2025 (UTC)