1803-1876, the Passing of the Tasmanian Race (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book 1803-1876, the Passing of the Tasmanian Race (Classic Reprint) written by William Edward Lodewyk Crowther and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 1803-1876, the Passing of the Tasmanian Race One on the crania of the natives of Victoria) is intimately concerned with tonight's oration. This treatise describes briefly the racial characteristics of a series of crania drawn to scale. It may be said to be the first of that long series of works upon Australian anthropology for which the Mel bourne School of Medicine has been responsible. The fortunate chance that took Sir Baldwin Spencer with the Horn expedition to Central Australia in 1894 changed the whole trend of his life's work.(3' This was to bring him into contact with F. J. Gillen and inaugurate their lifelong friendship and collaboration. It is no exaggeration to say that the publishing of their work on the natives of Central Australia was the beginning of a new era in anthropology. The coming of R. J. A. Berry in-1904 brought new life to the anatomy school. After a reorganiza tion of this department he turned to the systematic study of the osteology of the aborigines of south eastern Australia. To obtain material he enlisted the aid of his students. To us Tasmanians he stressed the importance of obtaining crania and other remains before the opportunity should be lost for all time. A foray by three of us on a burial ground on my father's estate at Oyster Cove was most successful, the disintegrated remains of some twelve bodies being discovered. Other crania in Tasmanian collections, hitherto undescribed, were also located and later fully examined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.