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IN kindly reviewing my little book on the Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland, in NATURE of September 24, 1908, the reviewer, “J. W. G.,” states that Mr. Ling Roth “objects to calling the blackfellows aborigines, as he holds that Australia was first occupied by a negroid people who have been supplanted, by the present race. This view, well known from its adoption by [the late] Sir William Flower, appears to be now generally discredited, owing to the lack of evidence in its support.”
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ROTH, H. The Origin of the Aborigines of Tasmania. Nature 79, 367 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079367a0
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