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of the camping sites to the glacial beds will have to bo 

 studied. In particular, it will have to be examined 

 whether there really arc no Archseolithes in beds of glacial 

 age in Tasmania, and whether, as it now appears, the 

 Ai-cha-olithcs are strictly limited to the surface of the soil. 



The cave deposits which most certainly exist in Tas- 

 mania will have to be examined, and the question whether 

 there is any relationship between the extinct fauna occur- 

 ing on King's Island, and the former inhabitants will have 

 carefully to be gone into. 



After all these questions have been studied and decid- 

 ed one way or other, we will be in a much better position 

 to settle the antiquity of the Eolithic-Archaeolithic civili- 

 sation in Tasmania. In the mean time our most urgent 

 duty is to collect as much information about the occiu^rence 

 of the relics of a race that became extinct within the 

 memory of the present generation, or else a time will come 

 when it is again "tooi late, ' and a future generation will 

 blame us for our omissions. 



