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features of Lake Callabonna and its fossil remains were. sub- 
mitted to our Society and were printed as Memoirs, of which 
they naue the whole of our first volume. 
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taken in Central Australia. He and Mr. Zietz dealt with 
all the vertebrata obtained by the Elder Exploration in 1893, 
and published their results in our Transactions for 189 
: 95 he was appointed Director of the Museum as a 
salaried officer, and held this post until the end of 1912, when : 
he resigned (being followed by Mr. E. R. i 
April, 1914, was made Honorary Curator of Ethnology. Sir 
Edward Stirling was, perha as much interested in the 
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: He gradually accumulated a fine library of works 
: ig with its history and its aboriginals, and with the 
inhabitants of ad jacent islands. He collected in our Museum 
iem series of native skulls and skeletons, implements of 
branch of science, as well as an enduring testimony to his 
Persevering industry and special enthusiasm. ; 
: In 1898 he proposed a resolution in one of our meetings, 
Which was carried unani ously, “That whereas the aborigines 
» th Australia are rapidly disappearing, it is desirable 
preh inte: of science and of our successors that a com- 
full ensive and enduring record of the Australian race im 
lest anthropological and ethnological sense should be 
undertaken before it is too late." Whenever. any paper 
Co ng with this subject was presented for acceptance the 
MIO felt it had in Dr. Stirling an expert to whom it could 
submitted for an estimate of its value. It is to his zeal and 
Pioti tha a very large number of valuable 
Uu e *ven unique examples of ceremonial ornaments and other 
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