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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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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 Phy- 
sical Geography and Geology, which are dispersed through 
the published accounts of Captain Flinders’ *, and Baudin’s 
Voyages t ; and these, with the collections above alluded to, 
form, I believe, the only sources of information at present 
existing in Europe, respecting the geological structure and 
productions of the north and western coasts of Australia. 
In order to avoid the interruption which would be oc- 
casioned by detail, I shall prefix to the list of specimens 
in Captain King’s and Mr. Brown’s collections, a general 
sketch of the coast from whence they come, deduced, prin- 
cipally, from the large charts |, and from the narratives of 
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. 
* ‘ 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. 
t ‘Voyage de Decouverte auxTerres Australes,’ &c. — Tome I., 
redige par M. F. Peron, naturaliste de I’Expedition ; — Paris, 1807. 
Tome II., redige par M. Peron, et M. L. Freycinet, 1816. — A 
third volume of this work, under the title of “ Navigation et Geo- 
graphic,” was published by Capt. Freycinet, in 1815. It contains 
a brief and clear account of the proceedings of the expedition ; and 
affords some particulars connected with the physical geography of 
the places described, which are not to be found in the other volumes. 
J These charts have been published by the Admiralty for gene- 
ral sale. 
