Fine copy of a scarce anthropological study carried out by French maritime medical officer Cauvin, during his visit to Australia and New Guinea in the early 1880s. Cauvin's work followed that of Labillardière in 1800, Huxley in 1870 and Topinard in 1872, in the study of cultural and physical attributes of the Tasmanian and mainland Aborigines, the Papuans and the Polynesians, in an attempt to determine their origins.

Fine copy of a scarce anthropological study carried out by French maritime medical officer Cauvin, during his visit to Australia and New Guinea in the early 1880s. Cauvin's work followed that of Labillardière in 1800, Huxley in 1870 and Topinard in 1872, in the study of cultural and physical attributes of the Tasmanian and mainland Aborigines, the Papuans and the Polynesians, in an attempt to determine their origins.

This work was issued as an offprint from the Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Litteraires; unlike the copies in the Mitchell Library and National Library of Australia, this is the separately paginated issue.