26 THE PROBLEM OF ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN AUSTRALIA 
well-hole where Krefft found human skeleton in red breccia.’ 
This skeleton, as far as I can ascertain, had never before been 
mentioned in any publication, and Dr. Walkom, Director of the 
Australian Museum, has informed me that no record of it can 
be found in the Australian Museum. 
C. Anderson (1926) considered that the fossil bones of the bone- 
breccia are those of animals which either fell through sink holes 
or were swept in by flood waters; that they probably differ con- 
siderably in age; and that the human tooth, therefore, may possibly 
belong to a later period than some of the other bones. 
Finally, Dr. T. D. Campbell has kindly allowed me to say that 
in 1935 he had an opportunity of briefly examining the specimen, 
and in notes made at that time he recorded that the attrition of the 
tooth fragment does not appear to accord with that usually found 
on aboriginal molars; and this appearance, together with other 
features, left in his mind a definite doubt that the tooth fragment 
is human. 
Both geological evidence of antiquity and specific determination 
of the tooth are unsatisfactory. 
The specimen is in the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
The Talgai Skull. 
The Talgai skull was found in 1884 by a man employed at Talgai 
Station, near Clifton, Darling Downs, Queensland, and was in 
private possession until 1914, when it was forwarded to Professor 
Edgeworth David. Shortly afterwards, David and Wilson (1914) 
published a preliminary note on the skull. Stewart Smith (1918), 
who described it in detail, says that late in 1914 Professor David 
visited 'Talgai and there found the original discoverer, then a very 
old man, who pointed out to within a few yards the spot in the 
bank of the gully where he had found the skull 30 years previously. 
He said that it protruded from the bank about 3 ft. above the 
bottom of the gully. Here black soil 6 or 7 ft. thick overlies red- 
brown clay, and according to the finder, the skull was embedded 
in the upper part of the clay. No bones of extinct marsupials 
have been found at this site, but they have been found in similar 
clay at various places in the Darling Downs, such as King’s 
Creek, 10 miles from Talgai. David supplied Stewart Smith with 
geological notes and the section reproduced in Fig. 3. 
The skull is that of a male youth with unerupted wisdom teeth. 
It is mineralized and has been considerably distorted by pressure 
of the clay in which it was embedded. 
Geological evidence cannot be regarded as satisfactory since it 
depends on the memory of an untrained observer who found the 
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