138 " ^' .JOHNSTON MKMORIAL LECTIRE. 



Museum, Sydney. This evidence is important, as 

 confirming that of the human molar tooth, already 

 quoted. 



g. Professor J. W. Gregory (8) records finding re- 

 mains of Canis dingo associated with those of Thyla- 

 ciyms, in the N.E. part of the Lake Eyre region, on 

 the Diamantina. 



h. Professor Wood Jones (15) states that "the Dingo 

 "falls into line with all the other races of domestic 

 "dogs, in being of the true northern wolf type. 

 "Moreover, in the large size of the carnassial teeth 

 "he approaches nearer to the ancestral type than do 

 "the other races of dogs of which I can obtain speci- 

 "mens or records" (op. cit., p. 258). 



Wood Jones concludes that the Dingo, unaided 

 by man, could never have crossed Wallace's Line 

 (the Strait of Bali-Lombok), which is 15 miles in 

 width, oi" other still wider straits separating Timor 

 from the Sahul Bank, or the nearest other islands 

 of the Netherlands East Indies from New Guinea. 

 He summarises thus: — 



"The progenitor of the Talgai man came with 

 "his wife, he came with his dog, and with his dog's 

 "wife, and he must have done the journey in a sea- 

 "worthy boat, capable of traversing this unquiet part 

 "of the ocean, with his considerable cargo. Be- 

 "sides this living freight, and the food and water 

 "necessary for the adventure, he carried other things 

 " — he carried a knowledge of the boomerang, of the 

 "basis of a totem system, and various other cultural 

 "features, all bearing a strange suggestion of very 

 "distinctly western origin" {op. cit., p. 2G3). 



All this evidence combines to .show: — 



1. That man in Australia was almost certainly con- 

 tompo/aneous: — 



(a; with extinct marsupials such as Diprntodou, Thijht- 



coleo curnifcx, etc. 

 (b) With extinct birds such as Droinorvin aiiHtralis. 



2. That the Dingo, or Warrigal (Cauis dingo, or Canift 

 familinris dingo), was certainly contemporaneous with ex- 

 tinct marsupials in Australia, and that he was almost cer- 

 tainly introduced into Australia by aboriginal man. 



(8) Dead Heart of Auitralia. pp. 78 and 152. 



