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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE OSTEO- 



LOGICAL SPECIMENS RELATING TO THE 



TASMANIAN ABORIGINES CONTAINED 



IN THE TA8MANIAN MUSEUM. 



By 



W. Lodewyk Crowther, D.S.O., M.B. 



and 

 Clive E. Lord (Curator of the Tasmanian Museum). 



(Read 13th September, 11)20.) 



INTRODUCTORY. 



During the course of the preparation of a paper 

 dealing with certain recent valuable additions to the 

 Tasmanian MfU um it became necessary for us to revise. 

 the complete collection of the osteologieal specimens relat- 

 ing to the Tasmanian Aborigines. 



This list forms a record of the largest single collection 

 of osteologieal remains of the extinct Tasmanian aboriginal 

 race. It embraces also specimens concerning which 

 data are being gathered for publication. Again, in the 

 course of the work additional particulars have been added 

 to specimens already described in part. As will he seen, 

 with the exception of the res arches of Harper and Clarke 

 and later of Berry and Robertson on certain of the crania 

 included in this list, none of the specimens have been 

 described. Even the complete skeleton of Trucanini (the 

 last of her race) remains to be meaeiir d and the indices 

 to be tabulated. 



Yet again, four more crania, the property of various 

 gentlemen and hitherto and scribed, have been located. 

 It is the intention of the authors to proceed steadily with 

 the work of describing in detail the more important of 

 the specimens included in this list, together with the 

 additional crania mentioned above. 



HOMO TABMANENSI8. 

 LIST OF OSTEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS IN THE 

 TASMANIAN MUSEUM. 

 Tasmanian Museum No. 1572. Portion of Cranium. 9 



Reference: — Berrv and Robertson, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Vic, No. 22, Vol. V. (1910). 

 T.M. No. 3362. ft Cranium. 9 



(1.) T.M. Xo. 3362 now includes T.M. 3362-3369. The whole of th« 

 bones relating to the skeleton Waubadcba have been given the on* 

 xadex number— 3362. 



