Describes young Aboriginal girl and boy with boomerang legs (an anteroposterior curvature of the leg below the knee). References the grant of £300 from the University of Adelaide to to investigate this condition and his departure in a few weeks time for a six month trip into Central and Northern Australia. Annotation in pencil ("Monograph 1 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1936"). 17 July 1933 arrived Wiluwilura, east of Ilbil (Mt Kintore).
1. Photograph: (JA33: 190) Australian Aboriginal boy with Boomerang legs
2. Photograph: (JA33: 67) three generations of Australian Aboriginal women.
3. Photograph: Nest of House-building rat (greater stick-nest rat) (Leporillus conditor)
Places mentioned: Wiluwilura; Ilbil (Mt Kintore)
Fauna mentioned: House-building rat (greater stick-nest rat) (Leporillus conditor)
Medical condition mentioned: Boomerang Legs (an anteroposterior curvature of the leg below the knee)