Letter to Editor of Australian
Transcription - Page 1
The Editor of the "Australian"
Melbourne
Dear Sir
I have read with interest Mr W Craig's
communication in the Australian of the 19th inst on the subject of the name
"Kangaroo".
Permit me now to point out as a
further contribution to the discussion of this
much disputed name that another
explanation is suggested by a "Vocabulary
of Australian aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown
N. Queensland" by Richard Phillips with a
note by Sydney H. Ray. This appeared
in the |Journal of the Anthropological Institute
of Gt Britain of August 1897, and it
includes the following inst:
"Thumb Mangal-Kangaroo
"Toe (great) - Tamal - Kangaroo
Document Details
Date
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Letter From
Howitt, Mr Alfred William
Letter To
The Editor - The Australian
Author
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Country
Australia
Colony/State
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Holding Institution
Museums Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
XM 458
Medium
Letter
Region
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Locality
Melbourne
Summary
"A.W. Howitt's response to W. Craig's communication in the Australian on the origin of the word ""Kangaroo""."
Physical Description
Draft letter, handwritten in ink, undated. Two sheets, two pages. Condition: paper loss (torn) from upper edge.