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on other parts of the parietal and frontal bones numerous shallow indentations were pre- 

 sent which somewhat modified the contour and the general appearance of the cranium. 

 They were possibly due to pathological conditions, or may have been produced by blows 

 of the Tasmanian weapon named the waddy. # An adult male skull (xxx. 6) was 

 presented as from Tasmania, to the late Professor Goodsir, shortly before his death in 

 1867. The bones were discoloured, as if the skull had been buried, and the outer table 

 at the vertex and on the right parietal was abraded and the diploe was partially exposed. 



During my incumbency of the Chair of Anatomy, other specimens were obtained. 

 In 1870 an imperfect skull (xxx. 8), consisting of the frontal, both parietals, the supra- 

 inial part of the occipital, the left temporal, and the right malar, was given by Mr J. 

 Grant ; it was marked " extinct race V.D.L.," and from its appearance had probably been 

 buried. Another imperfect specimen, marked " skull of an aborigine found at Bridge- 

 water, presented by Mr Brent" (xxx. 9), consisted of the frontal and right parietal 

 bones, obviously those of a young person. In October 1888 one of my pupils, Dr 

 Lloyd H. Oldmeadow, presented to me the skull of an adult aboriginal male (xxx. 2) 

 which he had brought from Hobart. It had been given to him by Dr E. M. Crowther 

 of that town, and had been in the collection which had belonged to his father, Mr W. L. 

 Crowther ; it was believed to be the skull of one of the last of the aborigines, and indeed 

 possibly that of William Lanne, the last male to survive. In February 1889 an 

 adult skull marked Tasmanian was given to me by Mr J. C. Robertson. It had 

 previously been in the possession of Mr Seal, a member of one of the earliest 

 families to settle in Tasmania, and was regarded by him as that of an aborigine ; it has 

 female characters, and is marked xxx. 3 in Table I.t 



The collection in the Phrenological Museum of the Henderson Trustees, now lodged in 

 the Anatomical Museum of the University, contains an adult male skull which is marked 

 Van Diemen's Land. It is numbered 231 in the manuscript catalogue of that collection, 

 compiled in 1858, though it had undoubtedly been in the collection some years before 

 that date. Its number in the catalogue of the Anatomical Museum is xxx. 7. 



About the time when Monro tertius obtained the skull from Van Diemen's Land 

 already referred to, Professor Robert Jameson had in his Museum of Natural History 

 the skull of an aborigine marked Van Diemen's Land, which was also examined by Monro, 

 who gave some measurements in Table ii., p. 204, in his chapter on the distinctive 

 features of the skulls of different nations. The contents of Jameson's great museum 

 were transferred to a department of the State in 1854, and they are now lodged in the 

 Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. The characters of the skull are embodied in 

 the following description. 



* The waddy, about 2 feet long, was made of hard, heavy wood, sometimes knobbed at one end, which could be 

 used as a club, or could be thrown with a rotary motion cither in battle or in the pursuit of prey. Barnard Davis, 

 in his Thesaurus Craniorum and Supplement, refers to four Tasmanian skulls in his collection which showed marks of 

 injury on the vault, the character of which is not specified, but may have been due to blows from the waddy. 



t The Tasmanian crania are Group xxx. in the Catalogue of the collection of Crania in the Anatomical Museum 

 of the University. The specimens in each group have consecutive numbers. 



