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Tabic of Localities of Diprotodon australis, showing: — 



Where found. 



By whom. 



Date. 



Breccia-cavern, Wellington Valley* 



Tributaries of Condaminc River, Darling Downs t 



Quaternary gravel. Mount Macedon, Melbourne J 



Tributaries of Condaminc River, Darling Downs § 



Freshwater beds. Mount Macedon, Melbourne || 



Rone-eaves, Wellington Valley 



King's Creek, Darling Downs 



Gowrie, Darling Downs if 



(ialtendaddai, Melville Rlains 



Creeks, Darling Downs 



Gowrie, Darling Downs 



Welcome Springs, South Australia** 



Valley of Condaminc ff 



Portland Ray, South Australia 



Hergott's Springs, Mount Attraction, 500 miles N. of Adelaide %; 



Eton Vale, middle of Darling Downs 



St. Ruth Station, Tributary of Condaminc River , 



St. Jean Station, Queensland , 



Clifton Plains, Darling Downs 



Rreccia-cavern, Wellington Valley 



Sir Thomas Mitchell, C.R. . . 

 Sir Thomas Mitchell, C.B. . . 



E. C. Hobson, M.D 



Ludwig Lcichhardt, M.D. . . 



Patrick Mayne, Esq 



Count Strzelecki 



Mr. Turner 



Fred. Neville Isaac, Esq 



Win. Buchanan, Esq 



Henry Hughes, Esq 



John E. Allport, Esq 



Fred, Geo. Waterhouse, Esq. 



J. H. Hood, Esq 



James S. Wilson, Esq 



William Rurrctt, Esq 



Edward S. Hill, Esq 



Hugh Campbell, Esq 



M. Satche St. Jean 



F. Nicholson, Esq 



Gerard Krefi't, Esq 



18:30 



1842 



1843-45 



1844 



1844 



1844 



1847 



1849 



1851 



1856 



1800 



1861 



1861 



1860 



1861 



1863 



1865 

 1866 

 1866 



To this letter I was favoured with the following reply : — 



(Copy.) 



" Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, New South Wales, 

 16th June, 1869. 



" Sir, — With reference to your letter of the 23rd of February, 1867, recommending that the Government of 

 this Colony should cause a careful and systematic exploration to be made of the Limestone-caves of Wellington 

 Valley, I have now the honour to inform you that the sum of £200 has been voted by the local Parliament for 

 carrying out your suggestion, and that the Curator of the Australian Museum has been charged with the duty 

 of making the necessary exploration. 



" 1 have the honour to be, Sir, 



" Your most obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) • "John Robertson, Colonial Secretary." 



" To Professor Owen, F.R.S." 



I was gratified by reading in ' The Times ' of December 1st, 1869, a notice from the Sydney Correspondent 

 of that Newspaper to the effect that " the Wellington Bone-caves have been explored by Dr. A. M. Thomson 

 and Mr. Krefft of the (Sydney) Museum, with astonishing and unexpected results." 



* See description of these Bone-caves by their discoverer in his ' Three Expeditions into the Interior of 

 Eastern AustraMa,' 8vo, vol. ii. 1838. 



f Sir T. Mitchell places the locality in lat. 28° S., long. 150° E. ; and of the Condamine, he writes : " This 

 stream is remarkable from fomiing large basins at some places and losing its course in swamps at others, and 

 at other parts again cutting its course in a deep channel, through deep beds of alluvium, in which these bones 

 [of Diprotodon] are thus brought to light." — Letter dated January 3, 1842. 



X Dr. Hobson, in transmitting these specimens, sent a sketch of the locality with the following Note :- — 



" The country from Melbourne is volcanic the whole way ; indeed the bank which borders the estuary on 

 which the town is built is the commencement of vast elevated plains of volcanic origin, covered with vesicular 

 lava, scoria;, interrupted by deep ravines, which show on their steep sides, in many places, a regular columnar 

 basaltic arrangement. Of this nature is the entire country betwixt Mount Macedon and Melbourne, gradually 

 rising, but so slightly as to be almost imperceptible, till you arrive at the volcanic hills that immediately sur- 

 round Mount Macedon, which is, I believe, composed of granite on its top, and of schistose slates on its side. 



