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remarks :—‘ A comparison of the fossils with the bones of existing 
species (which are much wanted in our osteological collections) is 
obviously necessary to establish the important fact of the specific 
difference, or otherwise, of the extinct Phalanger.’ 9. Phascolomys 
Mitchellii. O, This ‘wombat,’ according to Owen, comes nearer to the 
existing species than any of the preceding genera. 10. Diprotodon. 
Subsequently described as Diprotodon Australis. O. The largest of 
the extinct marsupials—an animal which in bulk must have exceeded 
a large elephant. I give the measurements of some of the bones in 
the Australian Museum :—Skull, 38ft.; Scapula, 2ft. 4 in. ; Humerus, 
Zit. Zin. ; Femur, 2ft. din.’ Toe-nail, 8in. 11. Dasyurus laniarius. 
-O. Larger than any of the existing species. 
These are all the animals enumerated by Professor Owen in 1838. 
Since then many new discoveries have been made, in other parts of 
the country, but more particularly by Mr. Isaacs on the Darling 
Downs, and Mr. Stutchbury at Wellington, and other localities. 
I believe that some of the breccia from the Wellington caves, 
lately examined by me, and in which I discovered the fossil remains 
of rodents and dogs, was collected by the late Mr. Stutchbury ; and 
though this eminent Geologist does not in any of his papers refer to 
these fossil remains, I have no doubt, judging from a few specimens 
displayed in the Museum collection, that he was cognizant of the 
existence of both dogs and rats in a fossil state in Australia. 
Many of the lumps of this breccia had never been examined be- 
fore; and besides teeth of dogs and rodents, they contained the 
remains of animals, in a fossil state, which at the present day exist 
only in Tasmania. 
I will now give a list of the specimens so discovered :— 
1. The second molar tooth of the right ramus, upper jaw, of a 
species of Thylacine. 
2. The third molar tooth of the left ramus, upper jaw, of a Thy- 
lacine. 
3. Four fragments of canine teeth, probably belonging to the same 
enus. 
f 4. Twelve molar and premolar teeth of a species of Sarcophilus 
(now confined to Tasmania), and a canine tooth of the same. 
5. Portion of the left ramus, upper jaw, of a species of Sarco- 
philus, showing the second premolar, and suture of the first molar. 
6. Portion of the left ramus, upper jaw, of a species of Sarcophilus 
much larger than the preceding one, with the first and second pre- 
molar and first molar tooth 27 sztu. 
7. A skull, nearly complete, of the same species, showing the 
perfect dentition (somewhat crushed). 
8. Portion of left ramus, lower jaw, with canine first, second and 
third premolar, and first of the molar series. 
9. Right ramus, lower jaw, of a Dasyure allied to Dasyurus 
maculatus, with three premolar and two first molar teeth. 
10. Portions of the right ramus, lower jaw, of a species of a 
Perameles, containing the first two premolar and first two molar 
teeth. 
