INDEX 



Aborigines, Cook's account of, 

 16 ; Billardiere's account 

 of, 19 ; Peron's account of, 

 22 ; physical characters of, 

 27 ; culture of, 29, 30 ; 

 wars with white settlers, 

 32 ; extinction of, 35. 



Abrotanella, 60. 



Acacia melanoxylon, 43. 



Adventure Bay, 15. 



Anaspides, 68-71, 129, 145, 

 146. 



Ancylus, 82. 



Andes, 134. 



Antarctica, 134-43. 



Afhritis, 107, 138, 146. 



Astacopsis, 109, 110. 



Astelia alpina, 60. 



Athrotaxis, 115. 



Australia, subdivisions of, 131, 

 132. 



Banksia, 42. 



Bass, 20, 21. 



Bass's Straits, 20, 143. 



Bedfordia, 53. 



Beech, deciduous, 121. 



— , see Fagus. 



Billardiere, account of the 



aborigines, 19. 

 Black-fish [Gadopsis marmo- 



ratus), 107, 108, 147. 

 Blackwood, 43. 

 BoecMla, 123, 137. 

 Bridport, 107, 110. 

 Brown, Robert, 26. 

 Bruny Island, 15, 37. 

 Bunyip, 83. 

 Bush-fires, 50, 51. 

 Bushranging, 24. 

 Button-grass, 58. 



Cash, Martin, 25. 

 Cassowary, 132. 

 Casuarina, 43. 

 Ceratodus, 129. 

 Cherry, native, 43. 

 Chiltonia, 82, 101, 136. 

 Cockatoo, White, 46 ; Black, 



67, 68. 

 Coenolestes, 139. 

 Cook, Captain, 14 ; his account 



of the aborigines, 16. 

 Crayfish, 108, 109, 135. 

 Crow, 75. 

 Crustacea, of Great Lake, 81 ; 



of Tasmania, of Lake St. 



Clair, 101, 136, 137. 

 Cyathea, 58. 



Dasyure, 87. 

 Dendrolagus, 132. 

 Derwent River, 36, 98. 

 Devil, native, 97. 

 Diaptomus, 137. 

 Dicksonia, 52, 58. 

 Didelphys, 139, 140. 

 Dividing Range, 132. 

 Donatia, 61. 

 Dromicia, 118. 



Echidna, 124, 125, 126. 



Elenchus, 15. 



Emu, 132. 



Eucalyptus ; general charac 

 ters, 41 ; used as timber, 

 48 ; forest, 50 ; compared 

 with myrtle forests, 118. 



Exocarpus, 43. 



Fagus Cunningkami, 51, 113, 



133. 

 — Gunnii, 52, 121, 133. 

 Farming, 46, 47. 



