RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 9

RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS.

AUSTRALIAN -ABORIGINEES. ONE OF FUNDAMENTAL RACES. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. . At Newhaven, Dr Ales Hrdlicka, president of tho American Anthropological Society, addressed the organisation with reference to his investigations in Africa. Asia and Australia into racial developments. Ho declared : “I found the Rhodesian skull of much scientific importance, but still so enigmatic that no one knows what to make of it.” Dr Hrdlicka, referring to his Australian studies, said: “I was especially interested in the pure-blooded aborigines along tho coast, and their particularly impressive nocturnal ceremonies.” He described an exceptional type from the Wyndham district — full-blooded, full-coloured aborigines, with tow hair, and said: “Australian and Tasmanian aborigines deserve to bo classed as one of the fundamental races of mankind, although not a race which shows a close connection with our ancestral stock,, namely, not with negroes or Melanesians, but with the old white people of the post-glacial times.” —A. and N.Z. cable.