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On the Fossil Mammals of Australia, [June 15, 



June 8, 1871. 



The Annual Meeting for the election of Fellows was held this day. 



Sir PHILIP GREY-EGERTON, Bart., Vice-President, followed by 

 Mr. W. SPOTTISWOODE, Treasurer and Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Fellows having been read, Dr. 

 Allman and Mr. W. li. L. Russell were, with the consent of the Society, 

 nominated Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in examining the lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present having been collected, the following 

 Candidates were declared to be duly elected into the Society : — 



William Henry Besant, M.A. 

 William Budd, M.D. 

 George William Callender, F.R.C.S. 

 William Carruthers, Esq. 

 Robert Etheridge, F.R.S.E. 

 Frederick Guthrie, B. A. 

 John Herscbel, Capt. R.E. 

 Alexander Moncrieff, Capt. M.A. 



Thanks were voted to the Scrutators. 



Richard Quain, M.D. 

 Carl Schorlemmer, Esq. 

 Edward Thomas, Esq. 

 Edward Burnet Tylor, Esq. 

 Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, C.E. 

 Arthur Viscount Walden, P.Z.S. 

 John Wood, F.R.C.S. 



June 15, 1871. 



General Sir EDWARD SABINE, K.C.B., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Besant, Mr. G. W. Callender, Mr. W. Carruthers, Mr. R. 

 Etheridge, Prof. F. Guthrie, Right Hon. R. Lowe, Capt. A. Moncrieff, 

 Dr. R. Quain, Mr. E. Thomas, Viscount Walden, and Mr. J. Wood, 

 were admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. 



"On the 

 therium, 

 1871. 



Fossil Mammals of Australia. — Part V. Genus Nuto- 

 Ow." By Prof. R. Owen, F.R.S. Received May 8, 



(Abstract.) 



The genus of large extinct Marsupial herbivore which forms the subject 

 of the present paper was founded on specimens transmitted (in 1842) to 

 the author by the Surveyor-General of Australia, Sir Thomas Mitchell, 

 C.B. They consisted of mutilated fossil mandibles and teeth. Subse- 

 quent specimens confirmed the distinction of Nototherium from Diprotodon, 

 and more especially exemplified a singular and extreme modification of the 

 cranium of the former genus. A detailed description is given of this part 



