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IV. An Account of some Geological Specimens, collected by 

 Captain P. P. King, in his Survey of the Coasts of Australia, 

 and by Robert Brown, Esq., on the Shores of the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, during the Voyage of Captain Flinders. By 

 William Henry Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. V.P.G.S* 



HPHE following enumeration of specimens from the coasts of 

 ■~ Australia, commences, with the survey of Captain King, 

 on the eastern shore, about the latitude of twenty- two degrees, 

 proceeding northward and westward : and as the shores of the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, previously surveyed by Captain Flinders, 

 were passed over by Captain King, Mr. Brown, who accom- 

 panied the former, has been so good as to allow the specimens 

 collected by himself in that part of New Holland, to supply 

 the chasm which would otherwise have existed in the series. 

 Part of the west and north-western coast, examined by Cap- 

 tain King, having been previously visited by the French voy- 

 agers, under Captain Baudin, 1 was desirous of obtaining such 

 information as could be derived from the specimens collected 

 during that expedition, and now remaining at Paris ; although 

 I was aware that the premature death of the principal minera- 

 logist, and other unfavourable circumstances, had probably 

 diminished their valuef : — But the collection from New Hol- 

 land, at the School of Mines, with a list of which I have been 

 favoured through the kindness of Mr. Brochant de Villiers, 

 relates principally to Van Diemen's Land; and that of the 

 Jardin du Roi, which Mr. Constant Prevost has obliged me 

 with an account of, does not afford the information I had 

 hoped for. I have availed myself of the notices relating to 

 physical Geography and Geology, which are dispersed through 

 the published accounts of Captain Flinders' if, and Baudin's 

 Voyages §; and these, with the collections above alluded to, 



form, 



* From Captain King's Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and 

 Western Coasts of Australia, 1826, vol. ii. p. 566. 



f M. Depuch, the mineralogist, died during the progress of thevoyage, in 

 1803 ; anil, unfortunately, none of his manuscripts were preserved. M.Peron, 

 the zoologist, after publishing, in 1807. the first volume of the account of 

 the expedition, died in 1810, before the appearance of the second volume. 

 Voyage, &c. i. p. 417, 418; and ii. p. 163. 



f A Voyage to Terra Australis, &c, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, 

 by Matthew Flinders, Commander of the Investigator. Two vols, quarto, 

 with an atlas, folio; London, 1814. 



§ Voyage de Decouverte aux Terres Australes, fyc.— Tome i. redige par 

 M.F.Peron, naturaliste de l'Expedition; — Paris, 1807- — Tome ii. redige par 

 M. Peron, et M. L. Frecinet, 1816. — A third volume of this work, under 

 the title of Navigation et Geographic, was published by Captain Freycinet, 



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