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“ Diprotoclon , evidence of another genus of extinct herbivorous 
“ marsupials, second only in bulk to that first discovered, and I 
proposed the name of Not other ium (Notos, South; therion , 
“ beast).” 
Mr. E. S. Hill (of Sydney) had, in 1868, sent some very 
valuable specimens, through Sir H. Cooper, Bart., to the British 
Museum, which were obtained at Eton Yale ; but I had great 
difficulty in finding any clue as to the localities in which these 
specimens were found — most probably Emu Creek, about four 
miles from the head station, as that creek seems to be about the 
richest part of the run. 
I then proceeded about three miles farther down the creek, 
passing over the Warwick and Toowoomba Bailway line at the 
Cambooya Station, and found a bank, evidently a good place for my 
labors. I then proceeded down near the water, when, to my delight 
and surprise, in the water, at a narrow part of the creek, I saw a 
mass of fossils, a great quantity of vertebrae being exposed. It being 
late, I could not do much that night ; so on my return to the 
station, I requested a gentleman, who was there on a visit, to 
accompany me next morning to exhume them. Next morning 
we proceeded, with hoe and shovel, to our work, and after 
making a small dam, and cutting a trench to turn the course 
of the water, we exhumed about a dozen vertebrae and twenty 
ribs of Dfyrotodon, but could not find any jaw or other more 
valuable bones. I hope shortly to be able to forward them to 
the Brisbane Museum, with a few others that I am keeping for 
that institution. 
I then went further down the creek, and found a good many 
other specimens, but in too mutilated a state to be of any value, 
as the sheep and cattle coming to water had, more or less, broken 
them up. Amongst them, in a very fair state of preservation, 
was a vertebra of that huge lizard Megalania jprisca , in speaking 
of which, in a letter to Hr. Bennett, Professor Owen says : — 
“ How I long for a bit of the jaws, with teeth, of that reptile.” 
I must certainly say, I long to have the gratification of supplying 
his want. It seems very extraordinary that stray specimens of 
the vertebrae of this reptile should be the only bones we can 
obtain — so in this case there is a field for future discovery. 
This creek runs out into swamps on the lower end of the 
Eelton Bun, but it does not appear very rich after it receives 
Emu Creek. A little below this junction a very good seam of 
coal shows itself. Emu Creek, which gives its name to a very 
rich agricultural district, gives signs of being rich in fossils; but 
I have not been able to bestow on this place the time I would 
wish — as my time is so limited, I can only give it a very super- 
ficial examination. The most of the specimens obtained here 
have been of the genus Pliascolomyf./ The first specimens 
recorded of this genus are by Sir T. Mitchell, C.B. (1836), from 
the Breccia Caves, ’Wellington Yalley; and Mr. Turner (1847), 
