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



Fig. 26. The germ of the 1st upper molar of 21. cjiganteus. m^', germ of 2ud 

 dentition ; m^, rudiment of 1st. 



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



fused). 



28. Section through the dental lamina of Pcramehs 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 j'oung Fetrogale xanthopus, 



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

 vestigial canine. »S', premaxillo-maxiLLary sutui-e. 



May 1(5, lb93. 



OsBERT Salvin, Esq., F.ll.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 {Equtis grevti'i), from a specimen 

 recently shot by Col. Arthur Paget in Somali-laud. 



The following extracts from a letter, fi'om Professor E. C. 

 Stirlino;, M.D., C.M.Z.S., to Professor Xewton, dated " Adelaide, 

 April iOth, 1893 " ', were read : — 



". . . . I am writing now to give you eai'ly information of a great 

 ' find ' of Diprotodoii remains \\hich 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 Mulligau, situated some 20 or 30 miles to the north 

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

 Lake Frome ou any good map of South Australia. The accounts 

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

 His accounts \Aere 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 \\ork. 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 apjx'ars 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 siiecially informed 

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

 however, is implied from the enclosed sketch which 1 am able to send 



" There is a tail of 9 vertebrtc, wlucli in one in>stance was 1 foot 



' N.B.— Professor Stirling's telegram to Profcs.sor Newlon jjiibiislied in ' Tiie 

 Times ' of 2i)th April and ' ^I'aturc ' of 27th April (vol. xivii. p. GU()) is of Liter 

 diilf. 



