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XVII.—The Craniology, Racial Affinities, and Descent of the Aborigines of Tasmania

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Wm. Turner
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The Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh contains a valuable collection of the skulls of the aborigines of Tasmania, which has not as yet been described. As the skulls of this now extinct people are limited in number in museums, and as the opportunity of collecting additional specimens no longer exists, I have thought that an account of their characters, a detailed statement of their measurements on lines similar to those pursued in my previous craniological memoirs, and a comparison of their conformation with that of the Tasmanian skulls in other collections, as described by previous writers, would be of interest to anthropologists, and might assist in the preparation of a summary of their most constant features. Consideration of the affinities and possible descent of the Tasmanians may also be appropriately included in the Memoir.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , 1909 , pp. 365 - 403
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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