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APPENDIX. 
B. 
CONTAINING A LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECTS OF 
NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTED DURING CAPTAIN 
KING'S SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND 
WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Previously to the establishment of the British Colony 
at Port Jackson, in the year 1787, the shores of this ex- 
tensive continent had been visited by very few navigators 
who have recorded any account of the productions of its 
Animal Kingdom. The first authentic report that we 
have, is that of Vlaming, who is celebrated as the first 
discoverer of that “ rara avis” the black swan: next to 
him followed Dampier, who has handed dawn to us in his 
intelligent, although quaint, style, the account of several of 
the productions of the North-western and Western Coasts ; 
but the harvest was reserved for Banks and Solander, the 
companions of Cook, whose names are so well and widely 
known in the fields of science. These distinguished na- 
turalists were the first collectors upon the Coast of New 
South Wales ; and although their labours were not con- 
fined to any particular branch of Natural History, yet 
Botany appeared to be their chief object, of which the 
Banksian Herbarium yields ample proof. 
Among the collectors of Natural History, in the neighbour- 
hood of the colony, since the year 1787, may be recorded 
the names of White, Paterson, Collins, Brown, Caley, Lewin, 
Humphreys, and Jamison ; and in this interval the coasts 
