MEMOIR 
Macropus Anak,” 
A FOSSIL KANGAROO 
FROM KING ISLAND. 
hk Spkcimkn which served as the subject of this Memoir 
is exhibited in Case 43, in the Victoria Museum, Laun¬ 
ceston, together with other fossil remains from the same 
Island. 
HISTORY. 
The bones were discovered by Mr. James McKie Howling, of 
Surprise Hay, King Island, embedded in a soft friable (shell) lime¬ 
stone rock, of marine origin, and after extraction, were generously 
donated by him to our Museum. As far as is known to me this is 
the first time “ Mackopus Anak,” or any of the larger pleistocene 
Mammals of Australia have been found upon the Islands of Bass 
Straits, hence the fact seemed to 1 e worth recording. 
SKULL. 
As will be seen by an examination of Photograph No. 1, the 
whole of the facial portions of the skull are broken away, but the 
maxillary bones, together with the cheek dentition, are available for 
study-and in the picture are arranged to show the palate and 
