NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE of tue SAND-ROCK 



coNTAixiN.i liONEs OK EXTINCT SPECIES OF MARSUPIALS 



(Emu, Kangaroo, Womiut, etc.,) on Kino Island, 



Bass Strait, Tasmania. 



By Wim.iam Anderson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., 



former]}^ of the Greoloj^ical Surveys of New South Wales and 



India; late Government Geoh:)gist of Natal. 



During a recent visit to King Island I was, tlirough the kind- 

 ness of Ml'. J. M. Bowling, fortunate in being able to make a 

 cursoi-j examination of the deposits in which the bones of 

 extinct species of Marsupials occur, and to obtain a small 

 collection of the fossils wliich are now deposited in the Austral- 

 ian Museum, Sydney. 



, It lias not previously been observed that the wind-blown 

 sand forming the recent dunes is not the original matrix of 

 tlie fossils. Hence this note ! 



The literature dealing with the geology of the island, the 

 occurrence of the deposits and the description of their bone 

 contents is as yet of a very limited character. The earliest 

 reference to the fossil bones is a short note, recording their 

 discovery by Mr. Bowling, published in an early number of 

 the King Island " Record," ^ subsequently followed by a paper" 

 in which Professor Baldwin Spencer und Mr. J. A. Kershaw 

 describe a collection of these bones and a paper^ by Mr. F. 

 Debenham on the general geology of the island. 



Allusion is made, in a paper* by Mr. F. Noetling, to the 

 occurrence of remains of Nototheriuiii, obtained by Mr. 



' The Record, King Island, i., 2, 6th Dec, 1905. 



- Spencer and Kershaw — Mem. Nat. Mus. Melbourne, 3, 1910. 



Debenham — Journ. Roy. Soc. New South Wales, xliv., 1910, p, 560. 



Noetling — Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1911, p. 124. 



