LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIG. 



Hobart Harbour, with Mount Wellington 

 at the back ..... 



1. View of Adventure Bay, Bruny Island 



where Captain Cook landed . 



2. Trigonia pectinata^ picked up on Adven 



ture Bay 



3. Tasmanian Aboriginal, Woureddy 



4. Lanne, or King Billy, the last of the male 



Tasmanian Aboriginals 



5. Types of Skulls : Australian, Tasmanian 



New Guinea, and Andaman . 



6. View over the Derwent Estuary, from near 



the top of Mount WelHngton 



7. Lake Sorell, with an old Peppermint Gum 



(Eucalyptus amygdalina) 



8. A young Wattle (Mimosa) Plantation 



9. Blackwood Tree (Acacia melanoxylon) 



10. FelHng Eucalyptus Trees . 



11. Eucalyptus forest on Mount WelUngton 



after the great Bush fire . 



12. The ' Potato-fields ' on Mount WelHngton 



consisting of huge Greenstone boulders 



13. Sprig of the Bottle-brush (Callistemon) 



with flowers and fruit 



14. Sprigs of the Grass-tree (Richea scoparia) 



15. Sprigs of the Waratah (Telopea truncata) 



16. Tree Ferns (Cyathea) in a Gully in the gum 



forests near Geeveston . 



17. Giant Grass-trees (Richea fandanifolia) on 



the Harz Mountains 



18. Anaspides tasmaniae, the Mountain Shrimp 



19. Phreatoicus spinosus, from the Great Lake 



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