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PKOrESSOE OWEN ON THE EOSSIL MAMMALS OE AUSTRALIA. 



Table of Localities of Diprotodon australis, showing :- 



Where found. 



By whom. 



Date. 



Breccia-cavern, Wellington Valley * 



Tributaries of Condamine Eiver, Darling Downs f 



Quaternary gravel, Mount Macedon, Melbourne J 



Tributaries of Condamine Eiver, Darling Downs § 



Freshwater beds, Mount Macedon, Melbourne || 



Bone-caves, Wellington Valley 



King's Creek, Darling Downs 



Gowrie, Darling Downs ^ 



Galtendaddai, Melville Plains 



Creeks, Darling Downs 



Gowrie, Darling Downs 



Welcome Springs, South Australia** 



Valley of Condamine ft 



Portland Bay, South Australia 



Hergott's Springs, Mount Attraction, 500 nules N. of Adelaide : 



Eton Vale, middle of Darling Downs 



St. Euth Station, Tributary of Condamine Eiver 



St. Jean Station, Queensland 



Clifton Plains, Darling Downs 



Breccia-cavern, Wellington Valley 



Sir Thomas Mitchell, C.B. . , 

 Sir Thomas Mitchell, C.B. . . 



E. C. Hobson, M.D 



Ludwig Leichhardt, M.D. . 



Patrick Mayne, Esq 



Count Strzeleeki 



Mr. Turner 



Ered. Neville Isaac, Esq 



Wm. Buchanan, Esq 



Henry Hughes, Esq 



John E. Allport, Esq 



Fred. Geo. Waterhouse, Esq. 



J. H. Hood, Esq 



James S. Wilson, Esq 



William Burrett, Esq 



Edward S. HUl, Esq 



Hugh Campbell, Esq 



M. Satche St. Jean 



F. Nicholson, Esq 



Gerard Krefi't, Esq 



1836 



1842 



1843-45 



1844 



1844 



1844 



1847 



1849 



1851 



1856 



I860 



1861 



1861 



1860 



1861 



1863 



1865 



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. 



" SiE, — 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. 



" I have the honour to be, Sir, 



" Your most obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) " John Eobektson, Colonial Secretary." 



" To Professor Owen, F.E.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 Australia,' 8vo, vol. ii. 1838. 



t Su- T. MircHELL places the locality in lat. 28° S., long. 150° E. ; and of the Condamine, ho writes : " This 

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

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

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



t Dr. HonsoN, 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 ra\dncs, which show on their steep sides, in many places, a regular columnar 

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

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

 round Mount Mucedoii, which is, I believe, composed of granite ou its tup, and of schistose slates on its side. 



