[Pkoc. Rot. Soc. Victoria, 24 (N.S.), Pt. T, 1911.] 



Ar'I". yill. — The Oi'i</iti of Ciifst ,),} Bones of Austrcdian 

 Extinct McvrsapiaU 



By BALDWIN SPENCER, C.xAI.G., M.A., F.R.S., 



Hon. Director, National Museum, Melbourne, 



AND 



R. H. WALCOTT. F.G.S., 



Curator of the Geological and Ethnoloy-ical Collections, National 

 Museum. 



(With Plates XXXVI. -XXXIX.). 

 [Read 11th May. 1911]. 



In this paper we propose to deal with a series of bones show- 

 ing cuts and incisions of various descriptions, our main object 

 being to discuss the agency or agencies responsible for the 

 production of these cuts and incisions. The bones have been 

 derived from three different localities in Victoria — viz., (1) Per- 

 jark Marsh, (2) Buchan, ('3) Lake Colongulac, 



1. — Tjhe Pejark Boxes. 



The specimens from this locality were obtained during a special 

 search made on behalf of the National .Museum, Melbourne, in 

 Decc:mber, 1909, in the hope of securing additional evidence of the 

 antiquity of man in Victoria, Mr, A. J. Merry, of Terang, some 

 time previously having discovered under the volcanic tuff at 

 that place an aboriginal stone implement,^ together with frag- 

 ments of bone, which he generously presented to the Museum. 



Before dealing with the bones themselves, it will be well to 

 give an account of the deposits of Pejark Marsh. This is ren- 

 dered more necessary, as hitherto little was known concerning 

 the relationship of the various associated beds, the nature of the 

 bone bed itself, and the mode of occurrence of the bones in tlie 

 various localities in the south-west part of Victoria where mam- 

 malian remains have been found. 



I This disooverv has not vet l)eeii described. 



