Volume 16: Notes and Correspondence: Anthropology, 1864-1875

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f.1 Notes on the ethnology of Australasia, New Caledonians etc.

f.86 Sir James Fergusson (Adelaide) to Lord Granville, 30 March 1870: sends photographs of Aboriginals. (copy)

f.118 Sir Frederic Rogers (Colonial Office) to Huxley, 27 May 1870: sends copies of despatches from Australia and Gibraltar.

f.143 C.d'Oyly Alpin (Melbourne) to Huxley, 16 December 1864: details of Aboriginal skulls he has sent to Huxley.

f.145 Gerard Krefft (Sydney) to Huxley, 24 September 1866: information about skulls in the Australian Museum.

f.175 William Turner. Notes on an Australian male pelvis.

f.181 William B. Clarke (Sydney) to Huxley, 6 May 1864: sends photographs of a skull found near Bondi beach; details of an excavation; news of old friends.

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