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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 78 



and Melanesia, In addition there are several noteworthy private 

 collections of this nature, two of which ( Dr. Basedow's and Dr. 

 Pulleine's, Adelaide), were seen; and important somatological col- 

 lections are being built up at the Anatomical Departments in the 

 principal cities.' The greatest collection of human skeletal material 

 is that of the Museum of Adelaide. It consists of over 600 skulls 

 of the Australian aborigines, with numerous skeletons, and it is 

 being constantly added to under a beneficial law which obliges all 

 the police officials of the State of which Adelaide is the capital to 



Fig. 76. — Three of the tow-haired full-blood Australians of the Ilgarene 

 Tribe. (Photograph donated to Dr. Hrdlicka.) 



forward to the Museum any aboriginal skeletal remains that may be 

 found. 



These precious somatological collections Dr. Hrdlicka was per- 

 mitted to utilize and nearly five weeks were spent in the work, 

 resulting in securing essential measurements on 1,000 well-identified 

 skulls of Australians, and on such of the Tasmanians as are pre- 

 served in the institutions visited. 



' For aid given in connection with his work in Australia, Dr. Hrdlicka is 

 particularly indebted and thankful to the following : Dr. I. S. Battye, Director 

 of the Perth Museum ; Mr. A. E. Morgan, U. S. Consular Agent at Perth ; 

 Dr. A. E. Waite, Director of the Museum, Adelaide; Dr. J. A. Kershaw, 

 Curator of the National Museum, Melbourne ; Dr. C. Anderson, Director of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney; Professors of Anatoiny, R. J. A. Berry (Mel- 

 bourne), F. Wood Jones and A. N. Burkitt ; Drs. Herbert Basedow and R. H. 

 Pulleine at Adelaide ; and the U. S. Consul General at Melbourne. 



