10 ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF QUEENSLAND. 



race to develop such " clannishness " <'is will counteraot' 

 this effect and prodwce in the rising generations year after 

 year a \nsion of greatness and a dream of a great unifying 

 force at work producing, as in the case of Germany, " a 

 single Evolutionary unit." We have seen how war has 

 been used to weld the Germans from all surrounding 

 peoples, and in this sense ha,« been employed to effect a 

 " trib.il " isolation. Viewed in this light therefore there 

 is every possibility of even Queensland being converted 

 by ■' tribal " isolation into a new race, bred of the sun and 

 the soil. This subject has received from the world but 

 scanty attention, possibly because it is on the borderland 

 ■of l^iology and Ethnology, without belonging strictly 

 to cither. 



The accUmatisatioti of the white race, especially in 

 tropical Queensland, concerns the Institute of Tropical 

 Medicine, Townsville, and I am sure the Director would 

 be able to make many valuable suggestions, if he were 

 jasked to do so. 



It has been my fervent hope for some tinae that 

 sufficient interest might have lieen forthcoming to enable 

 a scientific expedition to be equipped and sent to some 

 of the remoter parts of Queensland with a view to studying 

 the remaining native tribes, and that an opportunity 

 might have been given to retrieve in some Little measure 

 the injustice done to this doomed race and to save while 

 there is yet time something from the wreck. 



If you take up at any time the recent Annual Reports 

 of the Queensland Aboriginal Department there is very 

 little said about the natiAC from the anthropological 

 standpoint. .\nd although 1 say this, T do not do so from 

 a.ny desire to cast aspersions upon anyone in particular ; 

 on the contrary, I have received much assistance from our 

 present Chief Protector. ]\fr. I^leakley has on more than 

 one occasion l)een of material service to Queensland 

 Ethnographical Science, and this survey would be in- 

 <^omplete unless it were a})preciatively acknowledged. But 

 the native is passing, and Avho cares '{ Those who are' 

 capable, help least of all ; occasionally there is heard, 

 like a voice crying in the wilderness, an appeal for a better 



