(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 241-258 a. 9 lithographed plates. Plates with a few light brownspots. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of ""extinct Wombats of markedly superior size to any now living"" and I shall describe the fossils as the species they represent progressively predominate in bulk.""