54 Brrri/ diid Roheiisov : 



recently dealt with this question, and laid down the measure- 

 ments which should be taken, we have adopted their suggestions 

 and taken our measurements accordingly. 



The tracings which we have recorded will suffice for almost 

 all such measurements to be recorded upon them, and for all 

 angular work upon the median sagittal sections, and therefore 

 for almost all of the exquisite methods recently introduced by 

 the distinguished Schwalbe. They will not, however, serve 

 for the horizontal and coronal curves introduced by the Sarasins 

 in their investigation on the Veddah.^^') and more recently 

 adoj^ted with so much success by Klaatsch in his investigation 

 of the Australian aboriginal skull. '2) Such tracings require to 

 be taken by a special instrument termed the diagraph. This 

 instrument in its improved form was not on the market when 

 the first order for anthropological instruments was despatched 

 to Europe from the Anatomy Department of this University, 

 and although it was subsequently ordered it was not to lumd 

 at the time of the investigation. We were, therefore, unable to 

 take these curvilinear outlines. 



One of the earliest purjDoses to which it is proposed to utilise 

 the present material is the determination of the relationship of 

 the Tasmanian to the anthropoids and primitive man on the 

 one hand, and to the Australian aboriginal on the other hand. 

 Sehwaibe's fine study of the Pithecanthropus erectus<7) may 

 serve as a basis for the former purpose, and Klaatsch's recent 

 work'^' for the latter, though it, must be remembered that 

 innumerable authors have contril)uted to both subjects. 



As regards the relationship of the Tasmanian to the Aus- 

 tralian aboriginal, one of us has already made a connnunication 

 to this Society.' 9) Since the date of that paper, Klaatsch'^) has 

 enunciated the view that both the Australian and Tasmanian 

 aboriginal peoples have sprung from a common root, of which 

 the Tasmanian is the type, and which has become very distinct 

 through local isolation. He utterly scouts the idea of the 

 Australian ])eing a mixed race, though he admits an occasional 

 intermixture with Papuan blood on the north-east coast of 

 Australia, and also admits the possibility of the occurrence of 

 two Australian types, as originally put forward by Topinard. 

 Klaatsch exi)lains the occurrence of two such types, not by a 



