232 A. LIVERSIDGE. 



NOTES on some AUSTRALASIAN and OTHER STONE 

 IMPLEMENTS. 



By A. LlVERSIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., 



Professor of Chemistry in the University of Sydney. 

 [With Plates XIII. - XXXVI.] 



[Bead before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, December 5, 1892.'] 



The implements, referred to in the following notes, form a com- 

 parative series from the Australasian Colonies, with the exception 

 of South and Western Australia. 



All the specimens, with but one exception have been obtained 

 directly from the natives themselves, or from the localities formerly 

 occupied by them, many of them have been personally and expressly 

 procured for me by friends, to whom I have much pleasure in 

 tendering my thanks for their kind assistance. The exception 

 referred to is that from Niagara bought from a dealer at the Falls, 

 but I have no reason to doubt its authenticity. 



Some of the specimens described are not figured, as they do not 

 differ sufficiently from others from the same locality, to warrant 

 the cost of extra plates. All of the figures are somewhat reduced 

 in size, and some of them considerably, the true dimensions how- 

 ever are given in the text. 



For comparison, representative forms from New Britain, New 

 Guinea and other Oceanic localities are added ; there is also one 

 from Java, which is of the New Zealand type, i.e., with a chisel 

 edge or bevelled on one side only, and one from Niagara Falls 

 District, America, obtained by me there in 1887, which is included 

 because it bears a remarkable resemblance to sOme of the New 

 South Wales specimens, especially to No. 2 from Botany, New 

 South Wales. 



