Adelaide: Government Printer, 1923-1925. Octavo, text illustrations, modern half morocco and marbled boards, wrappers retained.

English born naturalist and anatomist Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), spent a considerable time in Australia and taught anatomy at the Universities of Adelaide and Melbourne throughout the 1920's and 1930's. He was a prodigious writer primarily on anatomical subjects (The Hand, The Foot) and held eccentric views on Darwinian and human evolution (Arboreal Man).

Part one: the monotremes and carnivorous marsupials. Part two: the bandicoots and the herbivorous marsupials. Part three: the Monodelphia.