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APPENDIX, 
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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 Car- 
pentaria, during the Voyage of Captain Flinders. 
Bv WILLIAM HENRY FITTON, M.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 
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[Read before the Geological Society of London, Ath November, 1825.] 
The 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 accompanied 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 Captain King, having been pre- 
viously visited by the French voyagers, under Captain Bau- 
din, I 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 mineralogist, and other 
unfavourable circumstances, had probably diminished their 
value * : — But the collection from New Holland, at the 
* M. Depuch, the mineralogist, died during the progress of the 
voyage, in 1803 ; and, unfortunately, none of his manuscripts 
