NATIVE VOCABULARY OF MISCELLANEOUS N.S.W. OBJECTS. 223 



NATIVE VOCABULARY of MISCELLANEOUS NEW 

 SOUTH WALES OBJECTS. 



By Mr. Surveyor Larmer. 



•(Communicated by Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., by 

 permission of the Honourable the Secretary for Lands.) 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, November 2, 1898. ~] 



The following letter is explanatory of the paper : — 



" 21st October, 1898. 

 Sir, 



In compliance with the request contained in your letter of 

 the 8th instant, I have the honor to forward herewith a copy of " Larmer's 

 Native Vocabulary," and to inform you that there is no objection to its 

 being printed in the Society's Proceedings, as proposed. 



"It may be of interest to learn that the late Mr. J. Larmer was 

 employed by the Government of New South Wales in the capacity of 

 Surveyor, and bore a very high reputation as an efficient and reliable 

 officer, as evidenced by his long term of over thirty years service, ranging 

 from 1829 to 1860, and the importance of the surveys entrusted to him, 

 some of which are enumerated hereunder. Although, during the period 

 mentioned, Mr. Larmer carried out many surveys in the Counties of 

 Cumberland and Northumberland, he was chiefly engaged in the vicinity 

 of Sydney. 



" Surveys of the Coast between Sydney and Botany, portion of George's 

 Eiver, Botany Bay and adjacent country, the Hawkesbury River, the 

 Dividing Eange. Surveys around Parramatta, Lane Cove, Willoughby, 

 Gordon, Neutral Bay, etc." 



I have the honour to be Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 W. Houston, 



Under Secretary. 

 Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., 

 University of Sydney." 



