1913-14.] Curvatures of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Cranium. 141 
Working, then, on totally different craniological lines, it is sufficiently 
obvious that, as regards the Tasmanian-Australian type — the “ Hesper- 
anthropus tasmanianus, spec.” of Sergi, — the present work sustains the 
thesis of Berry and Robertson that the “ lately extinct Tasmanians recall 
the mental level of eolithic man in Britain we can quite believe ; but that 
either the Australian or the Tasmanian carries us back nearly to the 
Neanderthal physical type, we must, as the result of the present investiga- 
tion, deny, because the physical construction of the Tasmanian is herein 
certainly shown to go back only so far as the Galley Hill type at furthest, 
and more than this cannot be maintained with any degree of scientific 
certainty.” 
REFERENCES. 
(1) Berry, R. J. A., and A. W. D. Robertson, “Preliminary Communication 
on 'Fifty-three Tasmanian Crania, forty-two of which are now recorded for the 
first time,” Proc. Roij. Soc. of Viet., vol. xxii., N.S., pt. i., 1909, pp. 47-58. 
(2) Berry, R. J. A., and A. W. D. Robertson, “Preliminary Account of the 
Discovery of Forty-two hitherto unrecorded Tasmanian Crania,” Anat. Anz., Bd. 
xxxv. pp. 11-17, 1909. 
