Papers regarding Aborigines, 1822-2009.

From the pages of the Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Listed chronologically.

• Barron Field,
  (Jan. 2, 1822, before the Philosophical Society of Australia) On the Aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land.
  Geographical memoirs on New South Wales,
  edited by Barron Field. London: John Murray, 1825, pp. 193-229.
• Phillip Parker King,
  (Oct. 2, 1822, before the Philosophical Society of Australia) Natives of New Holland,
  Excerpted from his “On the maritime geography of Australia,”
  Geographical memoirs on New South Wales,
  edited by Barron Field. London: John Murray, 1825, pp. 269-295.
• John Uniacke, with contributions from John Finnegan and Thomas Pamphlett,
  Natives of Morton Bay, 1823
  Excerpted from his “Narrative of Mr. Oxley’s expedition to survey Port Curtis and Moreton Bay, with a view to form convict establishments there.
  Geographical memoirs on New South Wales,
  edited by Barron Field. London: John Murray, 1825, pp. 27-86.
• Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell,
  (30 Dec 1850) On the boomerang propeller.
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Jan 1851, p.2.
• Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft,
  (Aug. 2, 1865) On the manners and customs of the Aborigines of the lower Murray and Darling,
  Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, 1862-1865 1: 357-374
• Hyde Clarke,
  On the languages of Australia in connection with those of the Mozambique and of the south of Africa.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 13: 81-85, 1879.
• Peter MacPherson,
  Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 15: 71-80, 1881.
• James Manning,
  Notes on the Aborigines of New Holland.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 16: 155-173, 1882.
• John Fraser,
  The Aborigines of New South Wales.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 16: 193-233, 1882.
• Peter Beveridge,
  On the Aborigines inhabiting the Great Lacustrine and Riverine depression of the lower Murray, lower Murrumbidgee, lower Lachlan, and lower Darling.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 17: 19-74, 1883.
• Edward Palmer.
  On plants used by the natives of north Queensland, Flinders, and Mitchell Rivers, for food, medicine, &c.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 17: 93-113, 1883.
• Peter MacPherson,
  On the oven-mounds of Aborigines in Victoria.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 18: 49-59, 1884.
• Peter MacPherson,
  Stone implements of the Aborigines of Australia and some other countries.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 19: 113-120, 1885.
• George Pratt,
  A comparison of the dialects of east and west Polynesian Malay, Malagasy, and Australian.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 20: 45-68, 1886.
• Peter MacPherson,
  The Aboriginal names of rivers in Australia philologically examined.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 20: 113-141, 1886.
• W. T. Wyndham.
  The Aborigines of Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 36-42, 1889.
• John Mathew.
  The Australian Aborigines,
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 335-449, 1889.
• Edward Stephens.
  The Aborigines of Australia, being personal recollections of those tribes which once inhabited the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 476-503, 1889.
• F. B. W. Woolrych,
  Native names of some of the runs &c. in the Lachlan District.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 24: 63-70, 1890.
• W. T. Wyndham,
  Australian Aborigines: varieties of food and methods of obtaining it.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 24: 112-120, 1890.
• John Fraser,
  Some remarks on the Australian languages.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 24: 231-253, 1890.
• Sidney H. Ray,
  On the importance and nature of the Oceanic languages.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 51-59, 1892.
• E. J. Statham,
  Observations on shell-heaps and shell-beds. Significance and importance of the record they afford.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 304-314, 1892.
• J. Fraser
  On the languages of Oceania
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 342-367, 1892.
• Robert Hamilton Mathews,
  Rock paintings by the Aborigines in caves on Bulgar Creek, near Singleton.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 27: 353-358, 1893.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Aboriginal bora held at Gundabloui in 1894
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 28: 98-129, 1894.
• Archibald Liversidge,
  Notes on some Australasian and other stone implements.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 28: 232-245, 1894.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Some stone implements used by the Aborigines of New South Wales.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 28: 301-305, 1894.
• Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart,
  The ‘Mika’ or ‘Kulpi’ operation of the Australian Aboriginals.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 30: 115-123, 1896.
• Robert Etheridge, Jr., Tannatt William Edgeworth David, and J. W. Grimshaw
  On the occurrence of a submerged forest, with remains of the dugong, at Shea’s Creek near Sydney.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 30: 158-185, 1896.
• R. H. Mathews
  Additional remarks concerning Aboriginal bora held at Gundabloui in 1894.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 30: 211-213, 1896.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The burbung, or initiation ceremonies of the Murrumbidgee tribes.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 31: 111-153, 1897.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The totemic divisions of Australian tribes.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 31: 154-176, 1897.
• Thomas Lane Bancroft,
  Note on mutilations practised by Australian Aborigines.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 31: xxv-xxviii, 1897.
• James Larmer.
  Native vocabulary of miscellaneous New South Wales objects.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 32: 223-229, 1898.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The group divisions and initiation ceremonies of the Barkunjee tribes.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 32: 241-255, 1898.
• R. H. Mathews
  Divisions of some Aboriginal tribes, Queensland.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 33: 108-114, 1899.
• Walter John Enright,
  The initiation ceremonies of the Aborigines of Port Stephens, N.S.W.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 33: 115-124, 1899.
• Walter John Enright,
  The language, weapons and manufactures of the Aborigines of Port Stephens, N.S.W.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 34: 103-118, 1900.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Marriage and descent among the Australian Aborigines.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 34: 120-135, 1900.
• R. H. Mathews and Miss Mary Martha Everitt.
  The organisation, language and initiation ceremonies of the Aborigines of the south-east coast of N.S.W.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 34: 262-281, 1900.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The Thurrawal language.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 35: 127-160, 1901.
• R. H. Mathews
  Rock-holes used by the Aborigines for warming water.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 35: 213-216, 1901.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Some Aboriginal tribes of Western Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 35: 217-222, 1901.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The Aboriginal languages of Victoria.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 36: 71-106, 1902.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Languages of some native tribes of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 36: 135-190, 1902.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Language of the Bungandity tribe, South Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 37: 59-74, 1903.
• R. H. Mathews,
  The Aboriginal fisheries at Brewarrina.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 37: 146-156, 1903.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Notes on some native dialects of Victoria.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 37: 243-253, 1903.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Ethnological notes on the Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales and Victoria.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 38: 203-381, 1904.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Notes on some native tribes of Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 40: 95-129, 1906.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Notes on some Aboriginal tribes.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 41: 67-87, 1907.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Notes on the Arranda tribe.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 41: 146-163, 1907.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Aboriginal navigation and other notes.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 41: 211-215, 1907.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Vocabulary of the Ngarrugu tribe, N.S.W.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 42: 335-342, 1908.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Some rock engravings of the Aborigines of New South Wales.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 44: 401-405, 1910.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Some curious stones used by the Aborigines.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 45: 359-365, 1911.
• R. H. Mathews,
  Description of two bora grounds of the Kamilaroi tribe.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: 423-430, 1917.
• James Paroissien de Beuzeville,
  Vocabulary of one hundred and fifty-four words of the Yuckaburra dialect, spoken by the Munkeeburra, South Kennedy district, Cape River, Queensland.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 53: 102-106, 1919.
• Richard Hind Cambage and Henry Selkirk.
  Early drawings of an Aboriginal ceremonial ground.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 54: 74-78, 1920.
• Alfred Louis Kroeber,
  Relationship of the Australian languages.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 57: 101-117, 1923.
• Thomas Griffith Taylor and Fitzroy Jardine,
  Kamilaroi and White, a study of racial mixture in New South Wales,
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 58: 268-294, 1924.
• Clifton Cappie Towle,
  Stone scrapers. An inquiry concerning a certain conventionalized type found along the coast of New South Wales.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 68: 117-143, 1934.
• Adolphus Peter Elkin,
  Initiation in the Bard tribe, north-west Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 69: 190-208, 1935.
• Frederick David McCarthy.
  Presidential address. Part II. Theoretical considerations of Australian Aboriginal art.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 91: 3-22, 1957.
• P. J. Hughes and M. E. Sullivan.
  The re-deposition of midden material by storm waves.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 107: 6-10, 1974.
• Tim Flannery.
  The impact of humans upon the biota of Australasia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 124: 41-43, 1991.
• Claire Smith.
  Thesis Abstract: Situating style: an ethnoarchaeological study of social and material context in an Australian Aboriginal artistic system.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 129: 154, 1996.
• Peter J. Dowling.
  Thesis Abstract: “A great deal of sickness”. Introduced diseases among the Aboriginal people of colonial southeast Australia 1788-1900.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 131: 39-40, 1998.
• Christopher R. Illert.
  The centenary of Mary Everitt’s “Gundungurra” grammar.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 134: 19-44, 2001.
• Graham Knuckey.
  Thesis Abstract: Variation in the anterior mandible of Homo sapiens sapiens.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 134: 125, 2001.
• Duncan Cook.
  Thesis Abstract: A 2000-year record of environmental change from Tocal Homestead Lagoon, eastern Australia.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 140: 22-23, 2007.
• Grant A. Mackenzie.
  Thesis Abstract: Effects of pneumococcal vaccination on otitis media and bacterial carriage in remote Australian Aboriginal communities.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 140: 94-96, 2007.
• Ragbir Bhathal.
  Pre-contact astronomy.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 142: (3-4) 15-23, 2009.
• Thomas Keneally.
  Mungo Man imagined: writing the ultimate historical novel.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 151: 5-13, 2018.
• Robert E. Marks.
  Editorial.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 151: 1-4, 2018.
• Marcelle Townsend-Cross.
  Thesis abstract: Difficult knowledge and uncomfortable pedagogies: student perceptions and experiences of teaching and learning in Critical Indigenous Australian Studies.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 152: 148, 2019.
• Barbara J. Gillam.
  Figure-ground and occlusion depiction in early Australian Aboriginal bark paintings and 
 Appendices (on-line only)
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 152: 251-267, 2019.
• Yael Bar-Zeev,
  Thesis Abstract: Improving health providers’ management of smoking in Australian Indigenous pregnant women
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 205-208, 2020.
• Terri Janke,
  Thesis Abstract: True Tracks: Indigenous Culture and Intellectual Property principles for putting self-determination into practice
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 214-215, 2020.
• Jonathan Jones,
  Thesis Abstract: Murruwaygu: Following in the footsteps of our ancestors
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 216-217, 2020.
• Graeme Lyle La Macchia,
  Thesis Abstract: Big Gubba Business: The making of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, First Nations resurgence and the Australian connection
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 218-219, 2020.
• Danièle Hromek.
  Thesis Abstract: The (re)Indigenisation of space: weaving narratives of resistance to embed Nura [Country] in design.
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 154: 247-248, 2021.
• Tamika Worrell
  Thesis Abstract: Prioritising Blak voices: representing Indigenous perspectives in NSW English classrooms
  Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 156, part 2, 2023, pp. 318–319.

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