NOTE ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LORD HOWE 

 ISLAND. 



By R. Etheridge, June., &c. 



Pal-<eontologist to the Australian Museum, and Geological 



Survey of N. S. Wales. 



In a work on Lord Howe Island,"^ recently published by the 

 Trustees of the Australian Museum, I called attention to the 

 general Bibliography of the island, and regretted my inability to 

 refer to a report by a Dr. Foulis, who was said to have passed 

 three years there as a resident. I further stated that Mr. 

 Surveyor H. F. White's report, who surveyed Lord Howe Island 

 in 1835, "did not seem to have been published." I am now 

 indebted to the kindness of Prof. W. J. Stephens, M.A., in 

 calling my attention to the ''Votes and Proceedings of the 

 Legislative Council of New South Wales"! for 1853, in which 

 Dr. Foulis's account appears, and also a short one by Mr. White. 

 They form a part of the papers relating to a " Proposed New 

 Penal Settlement," the formation of which was contemplated by 

 the authorities at that time. These old papers, however, reveal 

 much more than the above even, for accompanying them are 

 reports by Captain H. M. Denham, R.N., of H.M.S. "Herald," 

 and that accomplished naturalist, Dr. J. Denis Macdonald, who 

 acted as surgeon to Captain Denham's South Pacific Exploring 

 Expedition. It may not be without interest to briefly recapitu- 

 late some of the more important facts detailed by these observers. 



* Lord Howe Island : its Zoology, Geology, and Physical Characters. 

 Mem. Australian Mus., 1889, No. 2. (8vo. Sydney, 1889.) 



t Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, 1853, 268, A. 

 (2 vols. fcap. Sydney, 1853.) 



