INTRODUCTION. 
In continuing the jilan adopted in Part I of this Catalogue it may not he out 
of jdace to indicate what appear to he some of the more important Works or 
Memoirs catalogued in the present numher, whether they he old or recently 
issued AVorks. 
On the G-eneral Manners and Customs of the Australians it will he 
Avell to consult the Hev. J. Mathew’s Australian Aborigines^ in Avhich will 
he found a full and accurate account of the origin of our Blacks from various 
points of view, and interesting remarks on their language. Similarly the 
Tasmanians are treated of in an equally exhaustive way hy Dr. H. Ling 
Both, in a recently issued volume. The Aborigines of Tasmania,^ one of the 
most complete works of its kind extant. Equally interesting is Mr. J. G. 
Calder’s Account of the Wars, Bxtir]}ation, Habits, Sfc., of the Native Tribes 
of Tasmania? 
The intricate Group Belations and Class Systems of the Australians 
are treated hy Mr. A . AA^. Howitt in his usual lucid and complete manner in 
two papers, Australian Group Relations,^ and Further Notes on the Aus- 
tralian Class Systems? 
The all-important question of Language is treated of very fully hy 
Dr. John Eraser, a subject for which he is eminently fitted, in Some Remarks 
on the Australian Languages f whilst that of the West Australians is touched 
on in two important papers, one hy Mr. J. Brady, Descriptive Vocabulary 
of the Native Languages of W. Australia,^ and the other hy one, who, 
years ago, had particular opportunities of mixing with the West Australian 
Blacks, The Hon. George Eletcher Moore, Descriptive Vocabulary of the 
Languages in common use amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia? 
Closely connected with this branch of learning is the subject of Grammars. 
The two most important are now catalogued — An Australian Grammar, 
comprehending the Principals and Natural Rules of the Language, 8fc.,^ hy 
L. E. Threlkeld, and Teichelmann and Schurmann’s Outlines of a Grammar 
Vocabulary and Phraseology of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia, 
* Journ. R. Soc. N. S. NVales for 188y [1890], XXIII, p. 335. ^ 8vo., London, 1890. ^ 8vo., Hobart 
Town, 1875. * Ann. Report Board Regents Smithsonian Inst, for 1883 [1885], p. 797. ® Journ. Anthrop. 
Inst. Gt. Brit, and Ireland, 1889, XVIII, p. 31. <= Journ. R. Soc. N. S. W’ales for 1890 [1891], XXIV, p. 231. 
’ 12ino., Roma, 1845. * 12mo., London, 1842. ® 8vo., Sydney, 1834. 8vo., Adelaide, 1840. 
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