ETTEP^^ OF 
ANSA/LITTAL. 
Geological Survey Branch, 
Department of Mines, 
Sydney, June, 1890. 
Sir, 
I have the honour to submit Memoir No. 8 of the Falceontologiccil 
Series of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. This Memoir, entitled 
Contributions to a Catalogue of Works, Heports, and Jdapers on the Anthro- 
pology, Ethnology, and Geological History of the Australian and Tasmanian 
Aborigines, has been prepared with much care and labour by Mr. R. 
Etheridge, Jiinr., Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of New South 
Wales. 
The question of the antiquity of the Human Race in Australia is one 
which has hitherto been so neglected by Australian Scientists as to make 
them deserving of some adverse criticism on this account from their con- 
temporaries in Europe, America, and many parts of Asia, where the Early 
History of Man has been studied and elaborated by numbers of enthusiastic 
workers. The publication of the present Memoir will supply a want which 
has long been felt l)y those desirous of entering upon the study of the 
Branches of Science of which it treats, hut who have been deterred at the 
outset by the miscellaneous character of the relevant literature and the want 
of a Catalogue like the present. 
I have the honour to he. 
Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
T. IV. E. DAVID, 
Acting Geological Surveyor-in-Charge. 
Hareie Wool), Esq., J.P., 
Under Secretary for Mines. 
