The aborigines of Australia : their ethnic position and relations.

London : The Victoria (Philosophical) Institute … Australia and New Zealand : G. Robertson & Co., [1888]. Octavo, printed buff wrappers (sunned, and detached as is often the case with this publication); pp. ii, 36, 4 (publisher’s ads.); a good copy.

A paper read at a meeting of the Institute, and transcript of the ensuing discussion. The author, John Fraser, was a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and a substantial part of his lecture is devoted to the Bora initiation ceremony practiced by Aboriginal groups in eastern Australia, principally New South Wales. Ferguson, 9738.