Gigantic Pleistocene Marsupials. 
As our extinct faunal list of giant mammals now includes Tasmanian 
specimens of the genera Nototherium, Palorchestes, and Phascolonus, an 
attempt has been made to give pictorial evidence of this interesting item of 
natural history. All restorations are tentative, and constantly liable to— 
even drastic—emendations with advancing knowledge, but 1 think they serve 
a useful purpose in awakening an interest in such branches of science as they 
directly relate to. 
Many valuable specimens would have been thrown unheeded to the void 
but for a prior interest having been aroused in the mind of the finder by the 
contemplation of restorations. Although, upon the whole, roundly 
denounced by most scientific men, their utility cannot be denied in toto, and, 
acting upon such a belief, I called in the services of Mr. \ ictor Henry to 
make a sketch introducing the three animals above named. It will be noted 
that the head of the Nototherium has been re-sketched since the publication 
of Mr. Henry's former picture, and of this action it may be said:— 
1. Although if cannot be shown that anything in the nature of cerato- 
phoral epiphyses ever existed upon the nasal bones of Nototherian 
skulls, or even that the nasal bosses were manifest beyond the skin 
line, yet such states were possible. 
2. As Prof. Watson strongly advocated the latter idea, its inclusion 
into the present sketch has been decided upon. 
3. Whatever changes are made between the forehead and the tip of the 
nasals of a Nototherium in any restoration whatsoever, they must 
include a heavy, incipient, trunk-like upper lip as an essential 
appendix. 
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