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One of the most remarkable, strange, and, at the same time, interesting 
hooks published for a long time past is that by Capt. J. G. Bourke, of the 
3rd Cavalry, U.S.A. It deals with the Scatologic Rites of all Nations,^ 
and contains full and copious notes on the use of ordure and urine by the 
Aborigines in their tribal ceremonies. 
The ever increasing subject of Bibliography receives attention at the 
hands of Mr. Thomas Gill in his Rihliography of South Australia fin which 
an entire section is devoted to literature relating to the present subject. The 
Bibliography of the Australasian, Papuan, and Polynesian Races^ has been 
compiled by Dr. John Eraser on behalf of the Australasian Association for 
the Advancement of Science. Here, it may be well to mention that I have 
analysed Curr’s Australian Race,^ giving references to the entire contents of 
these volumes under the various contributors’ names to whom Mr. E. M. 
Curr was mainly indebted foi\the valuable information contained in his work. 
And, lastly, I desire tojcall the attention of Bibliographers to an entirely lost- 
sight-of set of papers bearing on the eastern parts of New South Wales, 
which appeared in 1836 in the pages of the Saturday Magazine? These 
essays contain a mass of quaint, original, and valuable information, both on 
the Physical Structure and Geology of the district in question, and the 
Aborigines and Natural Productions are by no means neglected. The articles 
are, most of them, accompanied by a half page illustration, and all are signed 
“W. R. G.” The context, especially as so much information is afforded 
about the Blue Mountains, leads to the belief that these initials are those of 
Mr. Surveyor W. B. Govatt, after whom Govatt’s Leap, in the Valley of the 
Grose, is named. I am indebted for a knowledge of these interesting essays 
to Mr. H. H. Hargraves, through Mr. C. Hedley. 
' A Dissertation upon the employment of Excrementitous Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, 
Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Filters, &c., in all parts of the World, &c. (8vo., Washington, D.C., 1891.) 
* Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London, 1886 (8vo., Adelaide, 1886). ® Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 
1890 [1891], II, p. 293. ■* * Sea this Catalogue, Part I, p. 10. ® 4to., London, 1836 (pp. 201, 217, 255, &c. ) 
