LIST OF PLATES. 
View of Gallery of Foreign Fossils . . . . . . Frontispiece 
Tables of Geological Strata. Foreign and Victorian. . . . . vii 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. 
FIG. PAGE 
1 Thylacoleo carnifex Owen. Lower right and upper left jaws. 
Pleistocene. Buchan Caves, Gippsland . . . . . . 2 
2 Diprotodon australis Owen. Restoration. After C. H. Angas 
and F. Chapman . . . . . . . . . . 4 
3 Skeleton of Diprotodon australis Owen. Reproduced from casts of 
skeletons found at Lake Callabonna, South Australia, by Dr. E. 
C. Stirling . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 
4 Wynyardia bassiana Spencer. Upper Cainozoic ( Turritella bed), 
Table Cape, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . 6 
5 Cranial rostrum of a Beaked Whale. Mesoplodon compressus 
Huxley. Kalimnan (Lower Pliocene). Grange Burn, near 
Hamilton, Victoria . . . . . . . . . . 6 
6 Dinornis maximus Owen. The Great Moa. Pleistocene, New 
Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 
7 Restored skeleton, by Dr. C. W. Andrews, of the Madagascan 
Moa ( Aepyornis hildebrandti). Late Pleistocene. Central 
Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 
8 Head and part of paddle of the Australian Fish-lizard. Ichthyo- 
saurus australis McCoy. Lower Cretaceous. Flinders River, 
Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 
9 Ideal Seascape in the Liassic period, with Saurians. From a 
water-colour by F. Chapman. After E. Fraas . . . . 9 
10 Block of Tertiary Foraminiferal ( Lepidocyclina ) Limestone, from 
the Filter Quarries, Batesford, near Geelong, containing teeth 
of Isurus and of Car char odon . . . . . . . . 10 
11 Goniograptus speciosus T. S Hall. A graptolite from the Lower 
Ordovician. Black Forest, south-west of Woodend, Victoria . . 11 
12 Leaf of Glossopteris browniana, Brongniart. Permo-carboniferous. 
Newcastle, New South Wales . . . . . . 12 
13 Ideal Tasmanian Landscape in the Pleistocene period. Showing 
extinct Marsupials — Palorchestes, Nototherium, and Phascolonus. 
After Victor Henry .. .. .. .. .. 13 
14 Scaldicetus macgeei Chapm., L. Pliocene. Beaumaris, Port Phillip 14 
15 Nothofagus risdoniana Ettingshausen, in Tertiary travertine. 
Lindisfarne, Hobart, Tasmania . . . . . . . . 14 
16 P alliocypraea gastroplax (McCoy). Balcombian (Oligocene). 
Muddy Creek, near Hamilton . . . . . . . . 15 
17 A fossil Nautilus, N. altifrons, showing interior of chamber filled 
with transparent gypsum, and with the siphuncle in position. 
Miocene. Murray Cliffs, South Australia . . . . . . 16 
18 Spirulirostra curta Tate. Of Miocene age. Bird Rock Cliffs, 
Torquay . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 
19 Boliteceras daintreei Etheridge. Lower Cretaceous. Flinders 
River, Queensland . . . . . . . . . . 18 
20 Ginkgo digitata Brongniart. (Ipswich Series). Brisbane . . 19 
