In their research on comparative racial characteristics, anthropologists examined and measured Aboriginal skulls and teeth. Scientists added Aboriginal heads to their private collections or sent them to British and European museums. Aboriginal people are still trying to get back the skeletal remains of their ancestors so they can be given appropriate burial rites. (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – W Ramsay Smith, ‘The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in Recent Anthropological Research’, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Proceedings, 1907)