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discloses that the bones are certainly those of aboriginals, 

 evidently of a whole party, probably numbering a score, 

 who met their death at this spot. 



All ages are represented, there is a clavicle of a child 

 barelj'' two years old, a lower jaw of a child of between 

 seven and nine years, others denoting the age to have been 

 still young at the time of death, while there are other 

 vai-ious grades through to old age. As regards the skulls, 

 two immediately attract attention. The first on account of 

 its abnormal size, and the second because of its exceptional 

 thickness. One lower jaw recovered shows enormous de- 

 velopment. The teeth, with the exception of two which 

 are missing, are in a remarkable state of preservation and 

 arc worn down in an exceptionally level manner. 



Exactly what the discovery will lead to remains to be 

 proved by subsequent detailed observation, but there can 

 be no doubt cf its extreme value from an ethnological 

 standpoint. In a comjDrehensive list of Tasmanian crania, 

 published in 1909, ^" the number of such skulls known to 

 science Avas shown to be 120. Since that time several 

 additional skulls have been acquired by the Tasmanian 

 Museum from hitherto unknown sources, and the present 

 discovery will add very considerably to the previous total. 

 Further,' taking into consideration the paramount im- 

 portance to science of the study of the Tasmanian aborigi- 

 nals, the need for a complete and detailed examination can 

 be realised and its value assessed. 



Before closing this short note I would like to express 

 my thanks, as Curator of the Tasmanian Museum, to Mr. 

 T. I. Brister, of Hobart, first for bringing the matter under 

 my notice, and secondly for his enthusiastic assistance in 

 the work of the removal of these valued osteological speci- 

 mens to the Museum. 



*Berry and Eobertson. Proc. Eoy. Soc. Victoria 22 (X.S.I. Pt. I., 

 1909, p. 47. 



