The Fossil Human Skull Found at Talgai, Quensland. By Stewart Arthur Smith. Communicated by Prof. G. Smith (pp.351-397, 7 Taf., 29 Figs.).

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Phil. Trans. B., 208. - London, Harrison & and Sons, November 1918, 4°, VIII, 442 pp., 49 Taf., Halbledereinband dr Zeit. Edition! "Altghough this skull was found in 1884 at Darlin Downs, South Quensland it was not described until 1918. Arthur Keith considered thje skull to be a representatove of "Australian Pleistocne man," namely an the Talgai palate." Amer J Phys Antropol 19: 1-15, 1934. See- Neil William George MacIntosh (106-1977). The Talgai teeth and dental arch: remeasurement and reconstruction. Oceania 23: 106-109, 1952. "Stewart Arthur Smith (1881-1961) graduated MB, ChM from the University of Sydney in 1903. Stewart was born in Grafton, one of seven children of Stephen Sheldrick Smith, headmaster of Grafton Public School. Two of his brothers rose to prominence: Sir Grafton Elliott Smith, an Egyptologist, and Stephen Henry Smith, NSW Director of Education. Dr Smith in 1938 became the first director of post-graduate medicine at Sydney University, Chair of the Australian Rheumatism Council 1949-59, President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and a committee member of the National Heart Foundation. At the time he practised in Glebe he lectured in anatomy, and in 1918 published a formal description of the prehistoric Talgai skull, ." Glebe Society Bulletins. Frank Spencer, Ecco Homo 4.971.…

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The Fossil Human Skull Found at Talgai, Quensland. By Stewart Arthur Smith. Communicated by Prof. G. Smith (pp.351-397, 7 Taf., 29 Figs.).
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Smith, Stewart Arthur
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1918
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