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Anthropologists so fully recognised the value of Dr. Walter E. Roth's “Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aboriginals” that there was considerable satisfaction when the news arrived a year or two ago of his appointment as Northern Protector of Aboriginals in Queensland. We now have the pleasure of receiving two Bulletins on North Queensland ethnography, which are the first-fruits of that able investigator's researches in his new sphere, and at the same time we must thank and compliment the Home Secretary's Department in Brisbane for issuing these Bulletins, especially as we are promised two or three similar Bulletins annually. Dr. Roth expresses his deep indebtedness to the Hon. J. F. G. Foxton for all the kindly encouragement invariably received from him during the prosecution of his scientific labours, and it is due to his wishes, as ministerial head of the Department, that these researches of Dr. Roth's are now being made available to the public. Dr. Roth has anticipated the thanks which anthropologists at home would like to offer to this public-spirited Minister. Publications such as these will do something towards reducing that ignorance of our native races which is largely due to the apathy of our Government as a whole.
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Studies on the Ethnography of the North Queensland Aborigines 1 . Nature 65, 9 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065009a0
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