INDEX. 



Aborigines, Tasmanian, 105 

 ■ , baskets aud neck- 

 laces made by, 272 



' , disposal of their 



dead, 290 

 , crania of, presented, 



IfiO, 290 

 Aborigines of New Zealand, 



crania presented, 159, 169 

 — , weapons, dress, and 



ornaments, 169 

 Aborigines of Port Phillip, baskets 



and bags made by, 298 

 Acacia, timber of, (odorous) 283 



melanoxylon, 175 



■■ pendula ? 1 64 



Acanthylis caudacuta, 166 

 Acrohates pygmceus, 274 

 Actinocrinus pygmceus, 315 

 Agiiculture, statistics of, 120,122 

 AlgcB, donations of, 160,283 

 Allorisma curvatum, 324 

 Alsophila Australis, 164 

 Alum, sulphate of, 170 



from Bridgewater, 297 



America, shells from, 267 

 Ammonites, donation, 170 

 Amplexus arundinaceus, 315 

 Anderson, Dr., on Manna from 



New South Wales, 241 

 Aneroid, etymology of, 170 

 Ant-eater, native, 178 

 Antelopes' heads, &c., donations, 



280 

 Anthracite, 5 



, Adventure Bay, 155 



■ J Pennsylvania, 283 



, Three Hut Point, 



298 

 Apple-trees, exchange of, Laun- 



ceslon", 289 

 Apteryx Owcnii, 183, 302 



Aquila fucosa, donations, 171, 



283 

 Arachnidce, 171 

 Araliacece, 292 

 Ardea Novce IloUandiae, 283 

 Argonautus Argo, 292 

 Ascension Island, minerals, 283 

 ^seroe. New Zealand, 301 

 Asterophyllites equisetifomiis F 52 

 Astur approxima7)s, 269 

 A try pa cymhceformis, 318 



■ Juberii, ih. 



Australian Islands, shells of, 



268 

 Autographs of eminent authors, 



279 

 Avicula tessellata, 323 



Bairdia eurtus, 316 



Balistes P species of, presented, 



168 

 Banks, statistics of, 119 



, Savings, 120 



Banhsia serratifolia, cone of, 



294 

 Bark, Wattle, export of, 219 

 Barnard, James, on Statistics of 



Van Diemen's Land, 102, 174 

 on LarvcB of the Hepi- 



alus Humuli, 158 

 Barometer, Aneroid, described, 



83, 87, 273 

 Baskets made by Aborigines, 272 

 Bass's Straits, specimens from, 



160 

 , fossil shells from, 



177 

 Bat, New Zealand, 301 

 Bats under bark of She-oak, 167 

 Belemnites, donation, 170 

 Bellerophon micromphatiis , 330 

 interstrialis, ib. 



