
1877.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. SF 
April 1875 in the ‘ John Wesley,’ and, after a visit to several mis- 
sion-stations, arrived at Port Hunter in the August following. Here 
he at once proceeded to collect living specimens for the Society, and 
in September 1875 wrote to me announcing the dispatch to Sydney! 
of a number of birds, of which, I regret to say, only the Cassowaries 
eventually reached us alive’. In replying to Mr. Brown, I took the 
opportunity of pointing out to him the very interesting nature of the 
locality in which he was resident, and of assuring him that I would 
do my best to see that any zoological specimens that he might be 
able to collect there were properly worked out, and that due credit 
was given to him. 
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Outline Map of Duke-of-York Island, New Britain, and New Ireland, from the 
Admiralty Chart, 
M:. Brown returned to Sydney in October last, bringing with him 
the collection which we have before us this evening, in making which 
he had, I believe, the assistance of Mr. Cockerell, a young Australian 
naturalist and collector. Mr. Brown’s letters, however, do not contain 
details upon the manner, nor, I regret to say in many cases, upon the 
exact localities in which his specimens were obtained; but I gather 
1 See extract from his letter, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 2. 
? See P.Z.S8. 1876, p. 413, where these birds are determined as Casuwarius 
bennetti. But until these birds are adult this determination must be considered 
provisional only, 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1877, No. VII. 7 

