Regarding request by JB Birdsell for extra blood group samples form Lake Tyers and Point McLeay in South Australia.

Enclosed is a duplicate letter from RT Simmons to FT Wheatland, superintendent of Point McLeay Aboriginal Station, requesting additional blood samples from the residents on behalf of JB Birdsell.

Additional pages contain blood group data for Australia, collected by RT Simmons include the following:

• Menindee, New South Wales
  
  
• Derby, Western Australia
  
  
• 'Oomadatta' [Oodnadatta], South Australia
  
  
• Woorabinda, Queensland
  
  
• Broome, Western Australia
  
  
• Sunday Island, Western Australia
  
  
• Port Hedland, Western Australia
  
  
• Cherbourg, Queensland
  
  
• Darwin, Northern Territory
  
  
• Wyndham, Western Australia
  
  
• Alice Springs, Northern Territory
  
  
• Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Territory
  
  
• Hermannsburg Mission, Northern Territory
  
  

This blood group data also includes the age and the group of the participants with the exception of data from Oodnadatta in South Australia, Woorabinda in Queensland and Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, which includes the name, age, group and place of origin of the participants.

Includes a list of the groups included in these areas, and a hand drawn map of groups between La Grange and Forrest River in Western Australia.

In total this item is 23 loose pages, comprising of 28 pages of data.