284 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Third Annual Report of the Acclimatization Society of New South 
Wales. 8vo,110 pp. Sydney, 1864. 
The leaders of Natural Science in New South Wales have, in our 
opinion, acted wisely in giving a practical tendenéy to the study of 
Natural History in all its branches, by establishing an Acclimatization 
Society, and thus aiming at results which can be appreciated by every 
intelligent colonist. To stock the rivers with fish, the woods with birds, 
the pastures with new kinds of four-footed animals, the orchards with 
fruit-trees, and the gardens with vegetables and esculents never before 
seen in these parts, is an object in which every one who has the well- 
being of the country at heart can cordially co-operate, and we are not 
surprised to see in the Third Annual Report of the Society so long a 
list of members. Few countries were so badly provided by nature 
with useful plants and animals as Australia ; literally speaking, we do 
not receive from it a single indigenous product, either animal or vege- 
table, for our table. Australia could add nothing to the comforts of 
civilized man in this respect; but how much she has already received 
from the other quarters of the globe, we learn from the excellent ad-. 
dress which Dr. George Bennett, that veteran traveller and explorer, 
delivered at the last anniversary meeting :— 
“We have lately heard of acclimatization dinners in London and other 
places, but a dinner in New South Wales of food naturalized in the colony, 
s, tongues, ete. ete. ; our poultry market abounds in turkeys, geese, guinea- 
fowls, pigeons, a great variety of fowls and ducks, and the Acclimatization So- 
ciety could supply peacocks, pheasants, and Buenos-Ayrean ducks. Then we 
have our large supplies of wheat, barley, oats, and maize, and by our system of 
naturalization are able to place bread, cheese, butter, eggs, and salads on the 
table. Of esculent vegetables we have a large supply, and if our dessert had 
been confined to native produce, it would have consisted of jibbongs, five- 
imet: cloudberries, lillipillies, the scarlet quandong, native currants, and the 
tasteless. Instead of these, by naturalization we can now exhib hes, nec- 
tarines, pineapples, a large variety of choice apples and pears, Iso 
dis oranges, lemons, citrons, shaddocks, grapes (in great variety), straw- 
berries, bananas, cherries, and a n r of others,—the c oy: 
roses of every tint, and lilies of every hue, indeed flowering trees and plan 
have been collected from all parts of the world, and in a few years become 
