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Preliminary Account of the DiscoTery of forty two hitherto 

 unrecorded Tasmanian Crania. 



By Richard J. A. Berry, M. D. Edin. et Melb., FRS. Edin., FRCS. Edin., 



Professor of Anatomy in the University of Melbourne, 

 and A. W. D. Robertson, M. B., B. S. Melb., Victorian Government Research, 

 Scholar in the Anatomy Department of the University of Melbourne. 



On the lltb March 1909 we had the privilege of laying before 

 the Royal Society of Victoria a preliminary account of our recent 

 discovery of forty two Tasmania crania, heretofore absolutely unknown 

 to the world of science. As such a discovery cannot fail to prove of 

 interest to craniologists in all parts of the world we feel it to be our 

 duty to publish an account of the details in a publication more acces- 

 sible to our brother scientists in Europe than are the records of a 

 local society. 



Krause (1) writing in the recently issued volume of Prof. Dr. 

 Karl v. Bardeleben's "Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen" which 

 is entitled "Skelet der oberen und unteren Extremität" says, on p. 195, 

 when speaking of the Tasmanians, "das osteologische Material von 

 Ling Roth ist nach Garson spärlich; es sind überhaupt nur 6 Skelette 

 und 68 Schädel bekannt." 



Turner (2) in a publication issued by the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh in October 1908 would appear to have authentic details of 

 seventy nine Tasmanian crania which are located as follows : 



1. Royal College of Surgeons, England 20 



2. Ibid. Barnard Davis Collection 15 



3. British Museum of Natural History, South Kensington 1 



4. Museum of Army Medical Department, Millbank, 

 London 2 



5. Various Museums in Paris 9 



6. Breslau. Fragment only 1 



7. university of Oxford, Anatomy Museum .... 6 



8. Tasmanian Museum, Hobart, Tasmania 12 



9. University of Cambridge 2 



10. Philadelphia 1 



11. University of Edinburgh, Anatomy Museum ... 10 



Total 79 



