48 Berry and Robertson : 



Second : Turner, in the same memoir, has been at much pains 

 to locate all the Tasmanian crania known to be in existence in 

 the world's museums, and he states that '" the crania catalogued 

 in museums as Tasmanian, including those recorded in his own 

 memoir, which have been studied and described by anthropolo- 

 gists, and the measurements of which have been more or less 

 fully recorded, are seventy-nine in number." 



These seventy-nine Tasmanian crania are located as follows: — 



1. Various Museums in London - - - 38 



2, Tasmanian Museum, Hobart - - - 1 2 

 3 University of Edinburgh, Anatimiy Museum - 10 



4. Various Museums in Paris - - - - 9 



5. University of Oxford, Anatomy Museum - 6 



6. University of Cambridge . . . _ 2 



7. Museum at Breslau . - . . _ 1 



8. Museum at Philadelphia _ - _ . 1 



Total - - 79 



From the two extracts from the memoir just quoted it should, 

 we think, be sufficiently clear that a communication which now 

 brings forward a totally new series of forty-two Tasmanian 

 crania, that is, more than one-half of those previously known 

 to be in existence, must be regarded as of paramount im- 

 portance. 



Passing next to the fifty-three Tasmanian crania with which 

 this communication deals, eleven are common to this paper and 

 to the seventy-nine quoted by Turner as known to be in exist- 

 ence, the remaining forty-two have hitherto been absolutely 

 unknown to the world of science, and of these, eleven were 

 obtained for the first time so recently as February last, and our 

 acknowledgments for the privilege of doing so will be made in 

 due course. 



Dealing first with the eleven common to this paper and to 

 Turner's paper, they comprise eleven of the twelve mentioned 

 by him. as being in the Tasmanian Museum, Hobart, and 

 which have been described and measured by Harper and 

 Clarke(2) in the " Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania" for 1897, pages 97 to 110. The explanation of 



