A DESCRIPTION OF SOME TASMANIAN 

 SKULLS. 



Bj W. Ramsay Smith, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. (Edin.). 



(Plates viii-xiii.) 

 I . — Introductiok . 



Ill July, 1910, tlie Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, were good enough to send me the Tasnianian 

 skulls in their collection for the purposes of measurement and 

 description. The specimens consisted of two complete skulls 

 and the upper portion of a third. 



About the same time I was fortunate in obtaining a cast 

 of a skull from the Tasnianian Museum, and also, from 

 another source the skull and most of the bones of an aged 

 Tasmanian woman that had not previously been described. 

 These specimens form the subject of the present contribution. 



To Mr. R. Etheridge, Curator of the Australian Museum, 

 I am much indebted for assistance in sending the Museum 

 skulls and giving their origin and history. 



Tliese descriptions were written nearly five years ago ; but 

 the leisure tor putting the necessary finishing touches for 

 publication has been long delayed. 



The sagittal contours (PI. xiii., fig. 2), accompanying the des- 

 criptions leave very much to be desired on account of the 

 fragmentary and indefinite characters of some of the speci- 

 mens and the consequent difficulty in some cases of determining, 

 as a fixed point posteriorly, either the inion or the basion. 



