1877.] MR. 0. SALVIN ON THE VOYAGE OF CAPT. HUNTER. 95 
February 20, 1877. 
Professor Flower, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
A communication was read from Professor Owen, C.B., F.R.S., 
containing an account of the additional evidence recently obtained 
as to the occurrence of extinct gigantic birds of the unwinged group 
allied to Dromornis in Australia. The specimens upon which Prof, 
Owen’s remarks were based consisted of a pelvis obtained by Mr. 
W. B. Clarke from what is termed locally the ‘‘ Canadian lead,’’ at 
a depth of from 150 to 200 feet, in the county of Phillip, New South 
Wales, and of a mutilated left tibia, stated to have been found in 
a cave in Mount Gambier, South Australia. 
This paper will be published in the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ 

Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited a volume of original draw- 
ings taken by Mr. George Raper during the voyage of Capt. Hunter 
to Australia in 1788-92, and made the following remarks :— 
“Though the north-eastern side of New Ireland was discovered 
as early as 1616 by Le Maire and Schouten’, and the passage be- 
tween New Britain and New Guinea by Dampier in 1700, it was not 
until September 1767 that the channel between New Britain and 
New Ireland was discovered by Carteret*, and named by him St. 
George’s Channel. 
“From him and from Dampier most of the salient geographical 
features of the immediate district received names, including the Duke- 
of-York Island, which lies in St. George’s Channel. Carteret, how- 
ever, though he seems to have carefully examined the southern end 
of New Ireland, did not attempt to land on Duke-of-York Island, 
but passed to the eastward of it. Captain John Hunter, when in 
command of the transport ‘ Waaksambeyd,’ one of the ships which 
conveyed the first convicts to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island under 
Governor Phillip, appears to have been the first person actually to 
visit this island, and in his ‘ Historical Journal,’ chap. ix.*, gives a 
full account of the doings of himself and his ship’s company there, 
as well as a description of the vegetation and scenery of it and the 
adjoining islands. 
“With reference to this voyage I now exhibit some water-colour 
sketches which have recently come into Mr. Godman’s and my 
possession, and which were made by one George Raper, who was evi- 
dently in the ship with Capt. Hunter. In them are depicted scenes 
connected with the voyage of the ‘Sirius’ and ‘Supply,’ the two 
vessels which conveyed the first convicts to Australia; and with them 
are views of Port Jackson, Norfolk Island (then covered with pines), 
' ‘Directions for the Pacific Ocean,’ by A. G. Findlay, part ii. 
* Hawkesworth’s ‘ Voyages,’ i. p. 595. 
% ‘Historical Journal of the ‘Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk 
Island, with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in 
the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage,’ &c, 4to: London! 
1793. 
