CATALOGUE OF PAPERS AND WORKS RELATING TO 

 THE MAMMALIAN ORDERS, MARSUPIALIA AND 

 MONOTREMATA. - 



Compiled by J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 



The following list of papers is an attempt to do for students 

 interested in the study of the Marsupialia (including the Didel- 

 phidse) and the Monotremata, what Messrs. Etheridge and Jack's 

 Catalogue, recently republished in this colony, has done for 

 students of Australian Geology and Palaeontology. It was com- 

 piled in the first instance for private use, and with the resources 

 of the British Museum Library at hand. In these days, when 

 the Bibliography of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology and allied 

 branches has reached such formidable proportions, it is a task 

 involving some labour to get an accurate idea of what has been 

 done in connection with any important orders, without the aid 

 derivable from Catalogues. Much more is this the case in the 

 Colonies, where even the best of our libraries contain, as yet. but 

 imperfect collections of the publications relating to the Australian 

 Fauna in general, and to the mammalian section of it in particular. 

 Imperfect as this Catalogue doubtless is, it is hoped that it may 

 be of sufficient use to Australian students to justify its publication. 



Meckel in his classical monograph (1826) gives a bibliography 

 for the Monotremata, and this was subsecpiently amplified by 

 Strauch in his Dissertation (1859). Both these works, however, 

 are now out of print, and but few copies have found their way to 

 Australia, and moreover, many papers have been published during 

 the last twenty-five years. Incomplete lists of Papers relating to 

 the Marsupialia will be found appended to some of the memoirs, 

 but nothing like a complete list has hitherto been published. 



