OWEN, RICHARD - EXTINCT KANGAROOS.

On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part IX. Family Macropodidae; Genera Macropus, Pachysiagon, Leptosiagon, Procoptodon, and Palorchestes. Received April 19, - Read June 19, 1873.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1874. Vol. 164 - Part II. Pp. 783-803 a. 8 lithographed plates. Fine and clean.

First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of some of the extinct Kangaroos - Macropodidae, meaning "large foot".

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