1893.] PROF. E. C. STIRLING ON DIPROTODON-REMAINS. 473 



Fig. 26. The germ of the lat upper molar of M. gigantetis. m}', germ of 2nd 

 dentition ; m^, rudiment of Ist. 



27. Premolars, canine, and abnormal incisors of Perameles (i^ and i. 



fused). 



28. Section through the dental lamina of Perameles between incisors 4 and 



.5 of the upper jaw, showing enlargement supposed to represent the 

 true 5th incisor. 



29. Palatal aspect of the premaxilla of a young Petrogale xanthopus, 



showing the three adult incisors in relation to the jaw and the 

 Tesligial canine. S, premaxillo-maxillary suture. 



May IG, 1893. 



OsBEBT Saltin, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited on behalf of Mr. Eowland Ward, F.Z.S., 

 a complete skin of Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi), from a specimen 

 receatly shot by Col. Arthur Paget in Somali-land. 



The following extracts from a letter, from Professor E. C. 

 Stirling, M.D., C.M.Z.S., to Professor Newton, dated " Adelaide, 

 April 10th, 1S93 " \ were read :— 



". ... I am writing now to give you early information of a great 

 ' find ' of Diprotodon remains which I have recently been exploiting, 

 and the results will clear up the remaining points of doubt about 

 this great beast. Some months ago I received information that 

 large bones were visible in a watercourse in a large dry salt lagoon 

 called Lake Mulligan, situated some 20 or 30 miles to the north 

 of a still larger dry salt lagoon which jou will find marked as 

 Lake Prome on any good map of South Australia. The accounts 

 were so favourable that I sent up a good man to inspect and report. 

 His accounts were also favourable, and I induced our Museum 

 people to institute a systematic search — and we sent up four men 

 with a complete outfit under the charge of a man who had some 

 considerable experience of the kind of work. This party has been 

 at work for nearly three months with very gratifying results from 

 the reports I got. According to them there are hundreds of skele- 

 tons available and accessible, and many of them have already been 

 excavated. Several nearly complete skeletons have been exhumed, 

 and all the bones of the body have been found .... It appears that 

 the animal had five well-developed toes, the five terminal phalanges 

 of which are almost equal in size. The carpal and metacarpal 

 bones have also been found, though I am not specially informed 

 whether the digits of the mauus are also five in number. This, 

 however, is implied from the enclosed sketch which I am able to send 

 you. 



"There is a tail of 9 vertebrae, which in one instance was 1 foot 



' N.B. — Professor Stirling's telegram to Professor Newton pubhshed in ' The 

 Times ' of 25th April and ' Nature ' of 27th April (vol. xlvii. p. 606) is of later 

 date. 



