II. Description of fossil remains of two species of a Megalanian genus ( Meiolania , Ow.), from Lord Howe’s Island

1886 ◽  
Vol 40 (242-245) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Differential Characters ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Survey

In a scientific survey by the Department of Mines, New South Wales, of Lord Howe’s Island, fossil remains were obtained which were transmitted to the British Museum of Natural History, and were confided to the author for determination and description. These fossils, referable to the extinct family of horned Saurians described in former volumes of the “Philosophical Transactions" under the generic name Megalania , form the subject of the present paper. They represent species smaller in size than Megalania prisca , Ow., and with other differential characters on which an allied genus Meiolania is founded.

scholarly journals XIV. Description of fossil remains of two species of a genus (Meiolania) from "Lord Howe's Island."

1886 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 471-480 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Government

In 1884 I was favoured by Dr. Woodward, F. R. S., F. G. S., with the inspection of a series of fossil remains from “Lord Howe’s Island,” which had been transmitted by the Government of New South Wales (Department of Mines) to the Department of Geology in the British Museum of Natural History. These fossils indicated a Saurian Reptile allied to the genus, characters of which are described and figured in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ for the years 1858, 1880, and 1881.

scholarly journals XIV. On fossil remains of Echidna Ramsayi (Ow.). Part II

1887 ◽  
Vol 42 (251-257) ◽  
pp. 390-390
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject

Since the transmission of the evidence of the large extinct species of Echidna ,the subject of the paper (‘Phil. Trans.,’ 1884, p. 273, Plate 14), the discoverer of the specimen, Ed. P. Ramsay, Esq., F. L. S., has prosecuted his researches in the “Wellington bone and breccia caves, New South Wales,” and has added to the mutilated subject of that paper an entire humerus, a large portion of the skull, the atlas vertebra, a tibia, and fragmentary evidences of other parts of the same skeleton—adding to the knowledge of a former existence in Australia of Echidna Ramsayi .

Type Specimens of Palaeozoic Corals from New South Wales in W. B. Clarke's First Collection, and in the Strzelecki Collection

1937 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
South Wales

In this paper is given a revision of all but one of the corals in the Rev. W. B. Clarke's first collection of fossils from New South Wales; the collection was placed by him in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge in 1844, and was described by M'Coy (1847). The types are still preserved at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. A description is also given of the holotype of Amplexus arundinaceus Lonsdale, which was collected from New South Wales by Strzelecki in 1842, and is now in the British Museum (Natural History), London. The species are distributed as follows: 1? Permian, 1 Lower Carboniferous, 1 Devonian, and 1 Silurian or Lower Devonian.

scholarly journals IV. On the fossil mammals of Australia. - Part II. Description of an almost entire skull of the thylacoleo carnifex, Owen, from a freshwater deposit, Darling Downs, Queensland

1866 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Present Series ◽  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Carnivorous Marsupial

have been favoured by E dward H ill, Esq., of Sydney, New South Wales, through the kind offices of his brother-in-law Sir D aniel Cooper, Bart., with a small collection of fossil remains from that part of the freshwater deposits of Darling Downs through which the river Condamine has cut its bed. Among these fossils were parts of a broken skull, at once recognizable, by its carnassial teeth, as belonging to the same large carnivorous marsupial as afforded the subject of Part I. of the present series of papers.

scholarly journals XV. On the affinities of thylacoleo

1883 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 575-582
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject

In a former Paper on Thylacoleo was summed up what I then inferred from the fossil remains of the species “ carnifex ” which had reached me at that date, but acquiescence in those conclusions seemed, in the opinion of some contemporary Palæontologists, to require further evidence. I have, accordingly, omitted no opportunity of obtaining such, and the fossils so acquired form the subject of the present communication. The locality which promised success in this quest was the limestone district of Wellington Valley, New South Wales, from one of the caves of which the first evidence of Thylacoleo had been obtained.

Drysdale, Russell (1912–1981)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gray
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
World War ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S

Russell Drysdale was an Australian artist who created an original vision of the Australian landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s, portraying the emptiness and loneliness of the Australian outback and country townships in his paintings, drawings, and photographs. During World War II, he depicted everyday subjects, including groups of servicemen waiting at railway stations. He traveled numerous times to the interior of Australia, including a trip to record the drought devastation in South Western New South Wales in 1944, where he created images that convey the environmental degradation of the landscape. In 1947, he explored the Bathurst region with Donald Friend where he discovered Sofala and Hill End, an area that served as the subject matter for his art for a number of years. Drysdale painted many images of deserted country towns as well as brooding landscapes peopled with stockmen and station hands. In his paintings of Aborigines, Drysdale expressed a deep concern for the Indigenous people, often placing them within his paintings in a manner that conveys a sense of dispossession. His work was singled out by Kenneth Clark in 1949 as being among the most original in Australian art, and his exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1950 convinced British critics that Australian artists had an original vision.

II.—A Contribution to the Tertiary Flora of Australia

1883 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Baron von Ettingshausen
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Flora Of Australia ◽  
South Wales

The series of fossil plants from the Tertiary strata of New South Wales and Tasmania, to which these remarks relate, were sent to Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., at the British Museum, for examination partly by Prof. Liversidge, of Sydney University, and by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., Government Geologist for New South Wales, whilst the remainder already formed a portion of the National Collection.

scholarly journals Evidence of a large extinct monotreme ( Echidna Ramsayi , Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales

1883 ◽  
Vol 36 (228-231) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Formed Part

In this communication the author gives a description of a fossil humerus from the breccia cave of Wellington Valley, which repeats the characters of that bone in the existing monotrematous genus Echidna more closely than those of the same bone in any other known kind of mammal. The fossil, however, greatly exceeds in size that of the existing Australian species, Echidna hystrix , Cuv. The existence of, at least, two other kinds lately discovered living in New Guinea has been made known in memoirs by Professor Gervais and Mr. E. P. Ramsay, E .L .S.; these occupy, in respect of size, the interval between them and the Australian Ech. hystrix , but the subject of the present paper makes known the largest Monotreme hitherto discovered. Figures of the fossil in question, and of the corresponding bone of the smaller existing Australian kind, accompany the text. The fossil formed part of the series of remains obtained from the cave above cited, and was with them submitted to the author, who proposes to indicate the present acquisition by the name Echidna Ramsayi .

scholarly journals IX. Description of teeth of a large extinct (marsupial ?) genus, Sceparnodon, Ramsay

1884 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 245-248 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

The only known Mammals of Australia with rootless, ever-growing scalpriform incisors, in bodily size suitable for wielding those about to be described, are the Diprotodon , the Notherium , and the Phascolonus , all of which have become extinct. But the incisors of the known species of the above genera differ in shape from each other and, in a still more marked degree, from those of Sceparnodon ; nor do any such teeth from other and smaller Mammals match with the present Fossils. My first cognizance of this form of tooth was derived from casts, which were kindly transmitted to me in October, 1881, by Edward P. Ramsay, Esq., Curator of the Museum of Natural History, Sydney, New South Wales.

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