INDEX. 
Aborigines of Tasmania, 409. 
A clinometer, description of, 397- 
Agnew’s, Dr. J. YV. notes on teeth and 
poison apparatus of snakes of Tas¬ 
mania, 190. 
Alga of Tasmania described, 377, 421. 
Alseuosmia Ilookeria, Colenso, 297. 
Alsophila Australis, 310. % 
Amadina Gouldiae, 367. 
A nous stolidus, 374. 
Antarctic continent, general remarks 
on, 41. 
. expedition, natural history 
collection of, 235. 
.... botany of, 235. 
Aptenodytes, habits of, 44. 
. undina, 4^3. 
Aqueous rocks, definition of, 6. 
Argonauta, sp. of New Zealand, 215. 
Aspidium Cunninghamianum, 166. 
. pulcherrimum, 167. 
. Waikarensc, 169. 
Asplenium Colensii, 170. 
..Forsterian um, 171. 
.Hookerianum, 169. 
.oblongifolium, 171. 
Australia, notes on coasts of, 55. 
.. on interior of, 351. 
. Western, discovery in the 
N.E. of, 385. 
.. South, discovery in interior 
of, 427. 
Axe-stone of New Zealand, tradition 
respecting, 215. 
Basalts and trap rocks near Hobart 
Town, 12. 
Bicheno, J. E., observations on im¬ 
ported plants, 79. 
Birds, wingless, of New Zealand, 239. 
Boomerang, antiquity of, 238. 
Books, catalogue of in Franklin Mu¬ 
seum, near Hobart Town, 313. 
Breton, W. H., excursion to the West¬ 
ern Mountains, Tasmania, 121. 
Caladium esculentum, plantations of, 
in New Zealand, 217. 
Chapel, native, in New Zealand de¬ 
scribed, 229. 
Cheilanthes pellucida, 173. 
Claudea elegans, 378. 
Colenso, Kev. W., on fossil bones of 
enormous bird in New Zealand, 81. 
. classification and description 
of new ferns from New Zealand, 161. 
.. Memoranda of an excursion 
in New Zealand, 210, 241. 
Comet of March, 1843. 155. 
Convicts, number of at Macquarie 
PI arbour, 202; rations, hours of la¬ 
bour, 203. 
Copper found in New Zealand, 214. 
Coprosma arcuata, 298 
. crassifolia, 289. 
Crustacean, fossil from Australia, 240. 
Cuculus lucidus, cuckoo of New Zea¬ 
land, habits of, 227. 
Cyttaria sp. of Tasmania, 320. 
Dieffenbach, Dr., on geology of New 
Zealand, 449. 
Dasya bolbochrote, 421. 
..ceram ioides, 422. 
.uaccarioides, 383. 
.verticillata, 422. 
.villosa, 421. 
Davallia Novec Zelandirc, 182. 
Davies, 11. H., on habits of sooty 
petrel, 13. 
. on Aborigines of Tasmania, 
409. 
Deinornis Novae Zelandi®, 81,106, 239. 
455. 
Dicksonia fibrosa, 179. 
. lanata, 181. 
Dictyomcnia tridens, 381. 
Diprotodon, from Port Phillip, 345. 
Discovery in Australia, 351, 385. 
427. 
Doodia caudata, 162. 
D’Urville, Admiral Dumont, memoir 
of, 74. 
Earthquake at Flinders Island, 309. 
Echinus, fossil, from near Hobart 
Town, 317. 
Eclipse of the sun, 30th October, 1845 
389. 
Encrinus Australis, 118. 
