18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 2ND DECEMBER, 1910. 



Professor R. W. REID, M.D., FR.C.S., Honorary President, 



in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Prof. R. J. A. Bert}', M.D., Melbourne University, Australia, read a paper 

 on " The Place in Nature of the Tasmanian Aboriginal." At the outset he 

 dealt generally with the problem of the nature of the aboriginal inhabitants 

 of the Australian region, and regarded his own researches on the subject as 

 supporting the view that the inhabitants of the Australian mainland were 

 of a mixed race, while they indicated the homogeneity of the Tasmanian. 

 Prof. Berry then proceeded to discuss the relations of the Tasmanian aboriginal 

 with the anthropoid apes, Pithecanthropus, Homo primigenius, Homo fossilis, 

 and Homo sapiens, illustrating his remarks with diagrams shown by the 

 epidiascope. His deductions were based on a minute study of the Tasmanian 

 calvaria. 



On the motion of the President, Mr. W. P. Baxter, a hearty vote of 

 thanks was accorded to Prof. Berry for his interesting paper. 



In acknowledging the vote of thanks Prof. Berry remarked that the 

 Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society was at one 

 time the only Anatomical Society in Europe and probably the only one 

 in the world carried on by students. He recognised its value during his 

 term as Examiner in Anatomy at Aberdeen University, and was so impressed 

 with its usefulness that on going out to Melbourne one of his first steps was 

 to organise a society there, on the same lines as the Northern Society at 

 Aberdeen. 



Professor Berry's paper has already been published in the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1910. 



