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| Description | Correspondence relating to dating and analysis of Australian material
Report from Department of Agriculture Chemistry Branch relating to a Keilor Thigh Bone sample from A N Old
E D Gill, National Museum of Victoria, relating to the analysis of dingo remains from Lake Colongulac and Wellington Caves and radiocarbon dates of Aitape material
Correspondence relates to the Koonalsa Cave
G L Pretty, The South Australian Museum, relating Tartanga fossil
‘Statement on Radioactive Dates with Respect to the Age of the Talgai Cranium’ by Edmund D Gill
Correspondence between D Gill and Kenneth P Oakley relating to 16 samples sent for testing, including Keilor craniai, Talgai, Mossgiel,Cohuna, and Keilor fossil men), list of samples included.
Richard H Tedford relating to bone samples from Lake Menidee burials
N B Tindale, South Australian Museum, relating to results of samples
Alister Hardy relating to specimens of Diprotodon breccia from the Wellington Caves at last
D Ride relating to Burramy bones and Wellington Caves specimens
Separate file titled ‘New Guinea B.A. 1955/3’ contains correspondence about the analysis of the Aitape, including calvarium/skull, charcoal and fossil marine shells between P S Hossfeld, University of Adelaide, E Gill, W V Macfarlane, Australian National University as well as notes on a crocodile vertebra from New Guinea with H Th Verstappen |