The "Mika" or "Kulpi" operation of the Australian aboriginals / by T.P. Anderson Stuart.
- Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart
- Date:
- [1896?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The "Mika" or "Kulpi" operation of the Australian aboriginals / by T.P. Anderson Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![nearly allied to Flac/iaulax and considerably removed from existing Diprotodonts, In 1872Kreift*communicated a secondshort paper to the Annals & Magazine of Natural History, in which he agrees in the main with Flower's position. In this paper he records his opinion that the animal under discussion is a mixed feeder allied to the phalanger tribe.t But he appears to have been slightly in doubt as to the habits, for he states that with the true molars reduced to a pair below, one of which is tubercular, and to a single transverse tooth above, the somewhat carnivorous character of the animal becomes manifest;! while further on in the same paper he speaks of Thylacoleo as a certainly harmless creature,§ and in a paper pubHshed a year later,|| he says, — the view I took first of the herbivorous habits of the ' lion in phalanger hide ' was a perfectly correct one.11 Since then, beyond a short paper by Owen** in 1887, in which he describes the posterior part of a perfect jaw, I am not aware of any special papers having been pubHshed on the subject, but numerous short notes have appeared by various scientists in different publications, ff Flower's article on Mammalia in the 9th * A Cuvierian Principle in Paljeoiitology tested by evidences of an Extinct Leonine Marsupial [Thylacoleo carnifex),hy Professor Owen,F.R.S. Reviewed by Gerard Krefit. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1872, (4), x. p. 16P. + Loc. (lit. p. 175. + Loc. cit. p. 174. § Loc. cit. p. 181. II Australian Natural History. Trans. Roy. See. N.S.W. 1873, p. 135. U Loc. cit. p. 138. ** Additional Evidence of the Afi&nities of the Extinct Marsupial Quadruped, Thylacoleo camifex, Owen. Phil. Trans. 1887, B. ft [It seems desirable to mention that when this paper was written the author was resident in Namaqualand, Cape Colony, quite out of reach of libraries. Otherwise no doubt some special reference would have been made to tM'o papers by Mr. De Vis, of the Queensland Museum, in -n hich the carnivorous (ossiphagous) character of Thylacoleo is upheUl (On Tooth- marked Bones of Extinct Marsupials, P.L.S.N.S.W. 1883, viii. p. 187; and On a Femur probably of Thylacoleo, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 1886, iii. p. 122). Two later papers by Prof. Owen ( On the Affinities of Thylacoleo and on the Pelvic Characters of Thylacoleo c'ani(/ea;, Phil. Trans. Vol. 174, Part ii. 1880, pp. 575 and 639) have also been inadvertently overlooked.—Ed.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21467997_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
