Note on the humeri of Tasmanian Labyrinthodonts

Last year we received from Dr. Hy. Woodward, Keeper of the Geological Collections in the British Museum (South Kensington) the replica of a cast in the British Museum Collection which had been obtained from Dr. Joseph Milligan, formerly of Hobart, and was labelled by Professor Owen " Humerus of labyrinthodont reptile from sandstone, probably carboniferous, Tasmania." Soon after informing Mr. Alex. Morton, Curator of the Tasmania Museum, of this circumstance, that gentleman brought to our notice and placed in our hands for examination a fossil bone (in two pieces), found in the sandstone quarry, near Government House, in the Domain, Hobart, and presented to the Museum, in 1856, by Mr. Kay, Director of Public Works. This bone, unnoticed for over forty years, is labelled " Humerus of a labyrinthodont reptile .... has been examined by Professor Owen," and on the reverse is written by one of the authorities at the British Museum, " Try Eosaurus of Marsh." Both the British and Tasmanian Museum specimens are left humeri, and unquestionably belong to the same genus, if not the same species. Includes illustrations.