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Papers of Archibold Meston, manuscript no. OM64-17, Archibald Meston

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Papers of Archibold Meston

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Archibald Meston

manuscript no. OM64-17

"Archibald Meston was a journalist, poet, botanist, historian, politician (MLA Rosewood 1878-1882) and amateur ethnologist. He was also appointed Protector of Aborigines 1897-1903, a position later held by his son Harold. Meston had a lifetime interest in Aboriginal culture and the languages of the indigenous people and his 'Report on the Aboriginals of Queensland' was the basis of the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1897, the law which regulated Queensland's indigenous people into the 1970s"--State Library of Queensland

Papers of Archibald Meston, [microform]State Library of Queensland manuscript no. OM64-17, [microform]Manuscript no. OM64-17, [microform]