7 
** saltatory limbs to which its small congeners and contemporaries 
“ the kangaroo have owed their safety, or the scansorial ones by 
“ which the koala climbs out of danger.” 
After spending about a week at Gowrie, I left for Eton ] 
Yale, the property of Messrs. Hodgson and Ramsay, situated on 
Hodgson’s Creek, about eight miles from the town of Drayton. 
Although, in former times, many good specimens had been found ; 
there, on a previous occasion I had visited this place without any 
success at all. At that time, I went up from the head-station to 
the head of the creek, which rises in the Main Dividing Range, 
and from the time I started until my return, I never even saw 
the sign of a bone, which was very disheartening, as I saw the 
drift in which they are usually to be found, and everything 
looking most promising ; but I was doomed to disappointment, 
after having gone fully ten miles. So this time I did not expect 
to obtain much, but I was very successful, which made up for 
previous disappointments. On leaving the station, I proceeded 
down the creek, and, after going about two miles, I found a 
very good specimen of Diprotodon , which appears new to me ; 
but I have since sent it to Dr. Bennett, for his opinion. It is in 
a very brittle state, but, I have no doubt, will be fit for inspection 
and record. 
I then proceeded about a mile further, when I obtained a 
very nice and perfect mandible of the genus Nototheriumf of 
which genus there are many species. As in the previous fossils, ^ 
Queensland is the foremost in yielding the earliest specimens of 
this fossil; Sir T. Mitchell, C.B. (1812), and Dr. Leichhardt 
(1845), being amongst the first to send home specimens of this 
genus. Professor Owen thus speaks in his paper on the Noto- 
therium , in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society, 1871 : — “ So 
“ much of the molar teeth as remains in the mutilated mandibles 
“ transmitted to me in 1842, by Sir T. Mitchell, from the bed of 
“ the Condamine River, indicated their transversely two-ridged 
“ character, and suggested, at first sight, that the fossils might 
“ belong to some smaller species of Diprotodon. Closer 
“ scrutiny, however, showed them to be parts of full-grown 
“ animals, and that they could not be the young of any larger 
“ extinct herbivore. Moreover, sufficient of symphysial or 
“ anterior part of one of the mandibular fossils remained to 
“ demonstrate the absence of any incisor developed as a tusk or 
“ defensive weapon, such as coexisted with the bilopkodont molar 
<£ tooth in Diprotodon. The small portions of the enamel on the 
“ remaining bases of the molars (for the crowns all had been 
more- or less broken) showed a smoother surface than that at 
“ the corresponding parts of the molars in Diprctodon. I was 
“ therefore led to recognise with much interest, in the fossils 
ct transmitted by my esteemed friend, on his return to his duties 
<£ as Surveyor- General of the Colony of Australia, after the 
“ publication of the work containing the first notice of 
