CONTENTS. 
PAOE 
Introductory Paper. By tlie Rev. John Lillie, Minister of 
St. Andrew’s Church, Hobart . 1 
On the CaUorynchtut Australis. By Edmund C. Hobson, 
M.D. 14 
On the Habits of the Alectura Lathami. By John Gould, 
Esq., F.L.S. 21 
On the Examination of some Fossil Wood from Macquarie 
Plains, Tasmania. By Joseph D. Hooker, Esq., M.D. 
Assistant Surgeon of H.M.S. Erebus. 24 
Geological Remarks on Kerguelen’s Land. By Robert 
McCormick, Esq., Surgeon of H.M.S. Erebus. 27 
Remarks on the Indigenous Vegetable Productions of 
Tasmania available as Food for Man. By Ronald C. 
Gunn, Esq. 35 
A Catalogue of the Birds of Tasmania. By the Rev. T. J. 
Ewing, F.S.S. and Cor. M.E.S. 52 
Description of a Collection of Fish found at Port Arthur, 
Tasmania. By John Richardson, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S... 59 
Miscellanea. 
Gipps’ Land . GG 
Daguerreotype . 71 
Migrating Caterpillar. 72 
French Antarctic Expedition. 74 
Count Streleski’s Notes of an Excursion in the North¬ 
western Part of Tasmania. 70 
Table of Rain at the Hampshire Hills. 78 
On Irrigation in Tasmania. By Captain A. F. Cotton, 
Madras Engineers . 81 
Observations on the Blood of the Omithorhynchus para¬ 
doxus . By Edmund C. Hobson, M.D. 94 
Description of a Collection of Fish found at Port Arthur, 
Tasmania. By John Richardson, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. 
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