140 HOMO TASMANENSIS. — OSTEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, 



T.M. No. A. 499. Cranium, less mandible. 



Obtained from Maetsuycker Island. ( 4 ). Presented 

 by G. H. Oates, 1916. 

 T.M. No. A. 500. Humerus, R. From Maetsuycker 



Island. 

 T.M. No. A. 501. Radius, R. Carpal and Meta-carpal 



bones, R. 



These bones are ankylosed and show signs of chronic 

 inflammation. 

 T.M. No. A. 506. Portion of Calvarium. 



B. and R. No. 22. 

 T.M. No. A. 507. Frontal and other portions of skull 



(see B. and R, No. 23.) 



To the specimen as figured have been added the right 

 parietal bone, the right temporal bone, and other minor 

 portions, which add considerably to the value of the 

 specimen. 

 T.M. No. A. 550. 



Portion of a skeleton, obtained at Risdon in 1918 

 and purchased for the Museum, consisting of Cranium. 

 Mandible. Sternum (incomplete) in two fragments. 

 Ribs, ten (incomplete). Scapula, L. acronium process. 

 Scapula, R. coracoid process. Scapula. L. coracoid pro- 

 cess. Vertebras, fourteen (incomplete). Humerus, R., 

 head and proximal end of shaft only. Humerus, L., 

 ditto. Radius, L. (complete). Radius, R., distal por- 

 tion. Ulna, R. (incomplete). Sacrum (six sacral verte- 

 bras). Innominate, R. and L. (incomplete). Femur, R. 

 and L. (incomplete). Fibula, R., distal extremity. Oa 

 calcis, R. and L. Astragalus, R. and L. Tarsal and 

 Metatarsal bones. 



T.M. No. A|. 551. Cranium. Purchased 1919. ( 5 ). 

 T.M. No. A. 552. Omnium. Purchased 1919. < 5 ). 

 T.M. No. A. (E.H.) 555. < 6 ). Cranium (incomplete). 



Obtained from Eaglehawk Neck. ( 7 ). 



(4.) Maetsuycker Island is situated on the S.W. Coast. It was 

 discovered by Tasman in ]G42 and named after Joan Maetsuycker, a 

 member of the Council of India. 



That the natives used to visit the islands off the coast ia well 

 known. As regards the aborigines visiting Maetsuycker Island, see 

 Flinders, "Voyage Terra Australia," Intro., p. clxxx 



(5.) INos. A551 and A552 were purchased from Miss Betts. These 

 skulls were for many years in the possession of the late J. R. BettS 

 and were given to him by Mr. Howells, an old settler in the Bothwell 

 district 



(6.) The whole of the Eaglehawk Neck Collection (Nos. A. (E.H.) 

 655-886) is marked (E.H.) 



(7.) Mr. T. I. Brister was responsible for the Museum obtaining 

 this collection. For particulars concerning the discovery of tnese 

 aboriginal remains see Lord, Pap. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1918, p 118. 



