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Man’s Geological History in Australia is at present a comparative 
blank. In connection with this branch of our subject is that of Kitchen- 
middens, which are numerous on some parts of the Australian coast line. 
Very few accounts seem to have been published, l)ut the reader is referred to 
the previously mentioned AA^ork of Mr. II. B. Smyth, Mr. R. M. Johnston’s 
Geology of Tasmania,^ and the description of a Kitchen-midden at North 
Harbour, Port Jackson, by Mr. T. W. EdgeAVorth David and the Author.^ 
The absence of reliable evidence of Man’s existence in Post-Tertiary 
times has been minutely commented on by the late Mr. B. B. Smyth, and the 
late Ptev. P. MacPherson,^ It has also formed the subject of a paper by the 
Author — who critically examined the remarkable statement by the late Mr. 
G. Krefft, of his discovery of a human molar in the fossiliferous red earth of 
the Wellington CaA^es, accompanying the bones of Diprotodon and Thylacoleo 
— under the title “ Has Man a Geological History in Australia ?”^ 
’ 4to., Hobart, 1888, by Authority. ® Records Geol. Survey N. S. AA’'ales, 1889, I, pt. 2, p. 140. 
^ Journ. R. Soc. N. S. AA^ales for 1885 [1886], XIX, p. 119. * Rroc. Linn. Soc. N. S. AA''ales for 1890, in lilt. 
