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PERHAPS the most remarkable incident of the meeting of the British Association in Australia last year was the demonstration given by Profs. Edgeworth David and Wilson to Section H in Sydney of a completely mineralised skull found in the neighbourhood of Talgai in the Darling Downs, Queensland. When war broke out and Prof. Wilson had to devote himself to military duties, Dr. Arthur Smith was appointed acting-professor of anatomy in the University of Sydney, and Colonel Wilson most magnanimously handed over to him this most important human relic for investigation and description. With the valuable assistance of Mr. D. M. S. Watson he has succeeded in removing the matrix and fully exposing the extraordinary features of Australia's earliest known human inhabitant, perhaps a member of the earliest family to ferry across Wallace's line and tramp dogs through Papua to Queensland.
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The Talgai Skull . Nature 96, 52–53 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096052b0
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