Index. 



339 



Fry, Mr., Launceston, exchange 



of fruit trees, 171 

 Fuel, compiirative heating 



powers, 6 

 Fungia patellaris, 267 



Galena, specimens from Norfolk 



Plains, 172 

 Geological Society, exchange 



duplicates with, 301 

 • specimens from north 



of Van Diemen's Land, 277 

 Ghost-moth, larvae of, 158 

 Gibraltar, rock of, 298 

 Glauco7iome, 314 

 Gleichenites odonfopter aides, 305 

 Globe-iish, 271 



Glossopteris Broivniana, 279, 307 

 Glycera, 171 



Goldsmith, Capt., plants, 273 

 Goldbeater's-skiu, 284 

 Gold-leaf, 284 

 Gorgonia, from D'Entrecasteaux 



Channel, 169 

 Goshawk, Australian, 269 

 Gould, John, F.R.S., on a new 



Apteryx, 183,301 



Birds of Australia, 172 



Mammals, ib- 



Granite, 280 



with garnet, 290 



from Pompey's Pillar, 298 



Gray, J. E., F.R.S., on the genus 



Placenta, 184 



letter from, 290 



Grasses, indigenous, experiments 



suggested, 155 

 Greenland, minerals, 283 

 Greenstone, Mount Picton, 267 

 Greenwood, Capt., New Zealand, 



presents box of shells, 274 

 Grey, Earl, despatch on analyses 



of coal, 301 

 Guano, as a manure, 155 

 Gunn, R. C, F.L.S., on the 



Petaurus sciureus, 253 

 Gutta percha bucket, 173 



Haliotis, fossil, 177 



Harrison, Lieut., presented mine- 

 rals, 158 



Harpoon gun, 275 



Hawaiian Agricultural Society, 

 302 



//■fiZi.-c, fossil, 269 



Hematite, 272 



Hemp, Italian, 284 



Hepialus humuli, larvae, 158 



Hinau, 232 



//i;?;;ocam/?t«s, donations, 168,171 , 

 294 



Hobbs, Mr., survey of the West 

 Coast, 295 



Honolulu, fish from, 270 



Huish, Dr., antidote for snake 

 bites, 286 



Hull, Mr. H., on a gigantic gum- 

 tree, 157 



■ , statistics, 161 



Huon River, slate and quartz, 

 267 



Illodictyon, 301 

 Imports and Exports, 112 

 Tnoceramus Mitchelii, 323 

 Insects, Tasmanian, 298 



donation, 280 



Iron ore, 164,272 



pyrites, 156, 170,268, 272 



Iron-sand, New Zealand, 160 



, Long Bay, 175 



Irrigation, dams, 257 



Janthina fragilis, 175 

 Jerusalem coal, 67, 79 



Kahikatea, or white pine, 228 



Kauri, 234 



Kay, Capt. R.N., on the aneroid 



barometer, 83, 169 

 — meteorological tables, 



(1847), 144 



ditto, (1848), 149 



■ - ditto, (1849), 255 



Kay, W. Porden, Bridgewater 



bridge, 176, 214 

 Keppeil, Hon. Capt,, presented 



shells, 274 

 Kerguelen's Land minerals, 270, 



283 

 Koala ( Phascolarctus cinereus), 



298 

 Kohai, 230 



Laap or Lerp, 235, 275 

 Lamprey, pouched, Clyde, 300 



, small sp., Brown's 



River, ib. 



