66 Prof. Owen on the Genus Phascolomys, Geoffr. [Dec. 7, 



Transactions (continued). 



Turin : — Regio Osservatorio. Atlante di Carte Celesti. Oblong. 



The Observatory. 



Utrecht: — Koninklijk Xederlandsch ITeteorologisch Instituut. Keder- 

 landsch lleteorologisch Jaarboek voor 1869, Deel 2 ; 1870, Deel 

 1. 4to. The Institute. 



Vienna : — K. K. Central-Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und Erdmagnetisnius. 

 Jahrbiicher von Carl Jelinek und Carl Fritsch. Neue Folge. Band 

 Y. 4to. Wien 1870. The Institution. 



Plaster Bust of Martin Folkes, P.R.S. ; also Plaster Bust of Benjamin 

 Franklin, F.R.S. Presented by Earl Stanhope, F.B.S. 



December 7, 1871. 



GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, C.B., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had appointed the following Members 

 of the Council to be Yice-Presidents : — 



The Treasurer. 

 Mr. Francis Galton. 

 Sir John Lubbock. 

 Sir James Paget. 

 The Earl of Rosse. 

 Sir Edward Sabine. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. — Part VI. Genus Phas- 

 colomys, Geoffr." By Prof. Owen, F.R.S. Received September 

 14, 1871. 



(Abstract.) 



In this paper the author premises a reference to former ones on the 

 Osteology of existing 3Iarsupialia, in the * Transactions of the Zoological 

 Society,' and to his ' Catalogue of the Osteological Series in the Museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons,' in which are defined cranial characters 

 serving to distinguish existing species of the genus Phascalomys, Geoffr. ; 

 and after showing, in subsequently received materials, the kind and extent 

 of variety of such characters in the same species, he proceeds to apply the 

 knowledge so gained to the determination of some fossil remains of species 

 of Wombat, similar in size to the known existing kinds. 



