Abstract
It is a curious fact that European naturalists of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were generally unaware of the existence of the remarkable marsupial fauna of Australasia. Later researches have shown that some members of the kangaroo family (Macropodidae) had already been described by early travelers when the publication in 1773 of the account of Captain Cook's first voyage brought these animals into prominence. Observations made on the coast of western Australia by Pelsart in 1629 and by …
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