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 .

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 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.

I. On the fossil mammals of Australia.—Part VI. Genus phascolomys, geoff

1872 ◽  
Vol 20 (130-138) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
Nasal Bones ◽  
Natural Size ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject

In this paper the author premises a reference to former ones on the Osteology of existing Marsupialia , in the * Transactions of the Zoological Society,’ and to his 'Catalogue of the Osteological Series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons,’ in which are defined cranial characters serving to distinguish existing species of the genus , Geoffr.; and after showing, in subsequently received materials, the kind and extent of variety of such characters in the same species, he proceeds to apply the knowledge so gained to the determination of some fossil remains of species of Wombat, similar in size to the known existing kinds. The extinct Phascolomys Mitchelli , indicated by remains brought to England in 1835 by Sir Thomas Mitchell, C.B., the discoverer of the bone-caves of Wellington Valley, Australia, is determined by specimens subsequently obtained by Prof. Alex. M. Thomson and Gerard Krefft, Esq., from the same caves. A second species, distinguished by characters of the nasal bones, is called, after its discoverer, Phascolomys Krefftii . Modifications of the lacrymal, maxillary, and palatal bones in the existing kinds of Wombat are also applied to the determination of the fossils: specimens from the freshwater deposits of Queensland are thus shown to belong to the species, Phascolomys Mitchelli , originally founded on fossils from the breccia-caves of New South Wales. The author next proceeds to point out the characters of the mandible in existing Wombats available in the determination of extinct species of Phascolomys . On this basis he defines specimens which he provisionally refers to his Phascolomys Krefftii . He then points out the mandibular characters of Phascolomys Mitchelli , and shows that the existing Phascolomys latifrons was represented by mandibular fossils from the breccia-caves of Wellington Valley. Proceeding next to the description of fossil mandibular remains of the genus Phascolomys , from the freshwater deposits of Queensland, the author defines Phascolomys Thomsoni , Phase platyrhinus , and Phase, parvus . The latter, seemingly extinct, species is markedly inferior in size to any of the known existing species. An account of the extinct kinds of Wombat, exceeding in size the existing species, will be the subject of a succeeding communication. The present is illustrated by subjects occupying seven plates and eight woodcuts, all the figures being from nature and of the natural size.

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.

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 XI. Description of the anatomy of the Ornithorhynchus Hystrix

1802 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 348-364 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
One Step ◽  
The Subject

At the time I had the honour of laying before this learned Society, an anatomical description of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, (see page 67,) I did not attempt to point out any quadrupeds as being nearly allied to it, there being none at that time within my knowledge; but the discovery of another of the same tribe, which is the subject of the present Paper, enables me to trace one step further, in the gradation between that extraordinary animal and the more perfect quadruped. The subject from which the following description was taken, was sent from New South Wales, preserved in spirit. It is a male, and had arrived nearly at its full growth, as the epiphyses were completely united to the bodies of the bones, which is not the case in growing animals.

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 X. Evidence of a large extinct lizard (notiosaurus dentatus, Owen) from pleistocene deposit, new south wales, Australia

1884 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 249-251 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pleistocene Deposit

On the 19th November, 1883, I received from Robt. Etheridge, Jun., Esq., the subject of the present Paper, with the following memorandum which accompanied the specimen transmitted to him by Ch. S. Wilkinson, Esq., F. L. S., F. G. S., of the Department of Mines, Sydney. “Portion of jaw and teeth from Cuddie Springs. These springs are in pleistocene deposits full of bones of Diprotodon , Sthenurus , Crocodile, &c., as far down as they have been sunk into—viz., 30 feet.”

Design and Build for Gondwanna: A Course in Mechanical and Electronic Design

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren F. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Analysis Concept ◽  
Design Experience

The subject course has as its central focus a design and build project that draws its context from addressing problems faced by a mythical Gondwannan population. Through it, students are exposed to an authentic design experience across a range of technical domains in an integrated semester long process. They grapple with user needs, requirements analysis, concept and detail design reviews and prototype demonstration. The course, as run at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, is described in the paper and the facilitation of the course academically and physically is discussed.

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