` name of Flinders Chase, as an asylum or sanctuary for our 
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rarities which but for his intervention would have been lost, 
not only to our State, but to our nation. 
As recently as 1911 he wrote a lengthy paper entitled 
"Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Native ains 
at Swanport, River Murray, with an Enquiry into the Alleged 
Occurrence of a Pandemic among the Australian Aboriginals. 
He intended to discuss later his anthropological findings from 
examination of the bones and skulls of more than 160 natives 
obtained from the Swanport burial place, but ‘‘art is long, and 
life is short," and this work is left for some other hand. 
fast disappearing indigenous animals an és 
Stirling several times supported its petition by cogent argu- 
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the value of his contributions. The Queen of the Netherlands 
conferred upon him a gold medal “‘for science and art’’ afte 
the National Muesum of Natural History in Leyden, Holland, 
had been enriched by him. He was made a Fellow of the 
. Jos. C. Verco, President. 
Evenihg Meeting, April 10, 1919. 
