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in company with the bones of our extinct animals would not be 
unprecedented ; that discovery has already been made in Victoria * 
But further evidence is so very desirable that no seeming opportunity 
of obtaining it should be lost. In the present instance, the question 
raised on the banks of the Leichhardt should be settled by a thorough 
search of the spot in which the bones are said to lie, and this search 
is strcngly recommended. 
* I take the opportunity of mentioning a fact of some importance which was 
omitted from my notice of the implement and bones found in Victoria. (R. Soc. 
Vict. 1899, p. 81.) I should not have failed to say that they occurred beneath a 
bed of basalt. 
