AUSTRALIAN ALiOUTGrX 



ES. 



louN ^[ATiiKW, M.A., Coburg, 



riutoria 



[With Plate and Map.] 





[Read hefon- the Ro;,nl Society, X.S.U'., December J, JS; 



Pkkfatory Note. 

 Obligations have boon ^'enoniliy ackn()v\lo(lg(Hn)y o: 

 ences in loco, but the wj-iter desires to express special Iik 

 to the work of Ins friend, tlio late Mr. E. 31. Cu.r. 

 Australian Race,'" which fnnn its comprehensiveness and 



although some of AFr. Curr's main conclusions have Ix 

 different from those enunciated in thi^ essay. 



The Origin ok the Australian Race. 

 In entering i 



the common belief correct 



IS their being so called the result of hasty cai t K -. <> 



imperfect knowledge ? To call them the Al .mih ■ 



especially as they have from their iirst appe ..,.,.,. i 

 so called, and as they seem homo-ene..u- .mmI 

 claimants to the distinction, but with-.ut .uu <!.• 

 aepriving them of the title it %v ill be e.is\ to"pi-^ 

 not properly belong to them. 



At the time when this southern continent \\as 1- 

 ^olland its inhabitants were loosely designated J 

 «ter British settlement, ()bsei\ers among the u.l 

 Panng the natives with typical Melane.ians, . ..uld ,^ 

 ^ery marked physiological dirterene«'s and MMiie < 

 hit upon the hypothesis that the Au.t.ahu... v 

 Papuan and Malay blood. The ex ,den.-.> in Mipi.-u- 

 geographical position of Austrah:t ..imI the phvM.al 

 people superticially scanned, and vva-, m. .I'mht a 

 J_"egation only a bare assumption. How, ^.hru, 

 ^«on took place, if not in.soluble the solution ua. , 

 ,JfJ quite recent theory of Dr. Less<m, cleulx .i 

 ^ted IS almost identical with this dimly o.iKfi> 

 V^tter substiintiated. On physiological grourxls 

 "Allies that the Australians hfue anything in com 



* I>r.A. Lesson, Lee Folynesiens, Pans, 1880, Vol. i 



