172 Dr. Gerard Krefft on a Cuvierian 



tioned. The first tootli in each upper ramus is curved, com- 

 pressed, and almost destitute of enamel on the inner side ; the 

 second tooth is conical, with a short tliick produced crown, 

 showing a transverse mark made by the lower incisor ; the 

 third tooth, again, is curved, three-sided, and inserted in such a 

 manner that the sharp angle stands inwards. Professor Owen, 

 disregarding my careful investigations, freely communicated to 

 him, figures it constantly as a " canine " (pi. xi. figs. 10, 11, 

 and 12). The conical second incisor (fig. 13 of the same plate) 

 he names the " first upper premolar, outer side," though he 

 figures the small tuberciilar premolars with their nail-headed 

 crowns (pi. xi. fig. 2, pp. 2, 3) right enough. 



The upper canine puzzles Professor Owen considerably, as 

 it did myself when I first found loose specimens of it. This 

 tooth, which encroaches further into the palate than is usual 

 (and is sometimes almost covered by the first premolar and 

 last incisor) , has a curved tapering fang and a heart-shaped 

 flattened crown. Mistrusting my observation, the author 

 again calls it "the second incisor" in one instance, and "the 

 second upper premolar" in another (figs. 9 and 14 of pi. xi.). 



I make these statements with confidence, and will explain 

 why. 



Every tooth Avhich Professor Owen figures on pi. xi., from 

 no. 9 to 14, was collected by myself and transmitted to him, 

 as my list and photographs will prove. These teeth are not 

 from a breccia cave, but from " ^/^e breccia cave of Welling- 

 ton valley ^^ and they are what I stated them to be, and not 

 what Professor Owen designates them in his treatise. 



I have known the teeth for years to be those of Thylacoleo^ and 

 I reconstructed the skull with all the teeth in it in 1869 (PI. XI. 

 fig. 3). This plate, lithographed by Mrs. Forde, was printed 

 at the Government Printing Office in 1870, with seventeen 

 other plates of fossil remains (by Miss Scott and Mrs. Forde) , 

 which, however, for want of funds, have never been published. 

 I was desired to give Professor Owen all the information I 

 could ; and I kept nothing back ; but for some reason or other 

 the most typical specimens, of which I could send photographs 

 only, are not figured in his paper. 



The illustration of a tooth (pi. xi. no. 6) named " crown of 

 a less worn upper laniary, outer side," which means " a left 

 first upper incisor," should have been drawn from the inner 

 side as well, so as to show the absence of the enamel. Com- 

 pared with Sir Thomas Mitchell's figure in the ' Three Ex- 

 peditions ' (fig. 5. pi. 32), the fallacy of Professor Owen's 

 argument as to its laniaiy (/. e. flesh-cutting) character becomes 

 at once apparent. 



