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INIr. T{. Etlieritlt^e, Jnv., on 



l\Ii'. Gerard Krefft, a former Curator of the Australian 

 jMuseuni, referred to his M. aitstralis on, at least, four 

 separate oecasions. Tiie first reference I have been able to 

 light upon is contained in one of our Museum publications — 

 'Guide to the Australian Fossil Remains exhibited by the 

 Trustees of the Australian Museum, and arranged and named 

 by Gerard Krefft,' Scc.'^, wherein we read : — 



*' Order Exdentata. 

 " Genus Mylodon ? 



" Mylodon ? australis, Krefft. 



"The presence of some animal, allied to the above extinct 

 American genus, is indicated by a single terminal phalanx, 

 or nail-bone, with its peculiar protecting bone, partly 

 broken "t- This phalanx was obtained from the ossiferous 

 dejjosit of the celeln'ated Wellington Caves, New South 

 Wales. 



The second reference appeared in Krefft's 'Australian 

 Vertebrata — Fossil and Recent ' +, as follows : — 



"Edentat a. — Sloth Tribe. 

 *' Mylodon. 



" ^Jylodon ? auslralis,'" 



with similar remarks to those already quoted. This phalanx 

 must have come into Krefl't's possession between 1867 and 

 1870, because there is no mention made of it in the first 

 edition of the 'Australian Vertebrata' §. 



The third reference is of a controversial nature, and is 

 contained in '' A Cuvieriau Principle in Palaeontology tested 

 by evidences of an Extinct Leonine Marsupial (Thylacoleo 

 cariiifex), by Professor Owen, &c. Keviewed by Gerard 

 Kreflt,'' &c. II . Confining our attention to that portion of 



• Pp. 16, 8vo, Sydney, 1870. 



t Ibid. p. 4. 



X ' Industrial Progress of New South Wales,' pt. iii. 1871, p. 715, 



§ Krefft, " Australian Vertebrata (Recent and Fossil), representing 

 all the Genera known up to the present time. With Notes Dy Gerard 

 Krefft." Cat. Nat. and Industrial Prods. N.S. Wales, sent to the Paris 

 Universal Exhibition of 18U7, by the New South Wales Commissionera 

 (8vo. Sydney, 18U7.— By Authority), pp. 91-110. 



II Krefft, Ann. & Mag. Nat. llist. (4) x. 1872, pp. 1C9-182, pis. xi. 

 & xii. 



