INDEX 
Aborigines, characteristics of Tasma¬ 
nian, 247. 
Acalepha , economy of the nutritive 
juices in, 94. 
Acanthiza inornata , 994. 
Adelaide tribe, arts of the, 112: astro¬ 
nomical ideas of the, 11G: sacred 
implements of. 114. 
Africa, deposits of dust off the coast 
of, 322. 330. 
Albatross, 58 : breeding of, 242 : new 
species of, 400. 
Alecturu Lathami or Bush Turkey, 21 : 
food of, 22 : nest, 23. 
Aleuteres 771 n chIos us, 105. A . paragon- 
dot us, 106. 
Alps, Australian, 09. 
Altitudes between Launceston & French¬ 
man’s Cap, 78. Ditto of mountains in 
Tasmania taken with a view to irri¬ 
gation, 147. Ditto on the line of the 
V.D.L. Company’s road, 77. 
Anas ncevosa , 400. 
Ancestry of the New Zealanders, 261. 
Anguilla australis , 403. 
Animalculur agency in the formation of 
limestone, &c. 149.152. 
Antarctic Expedition, discoveries of 
Ross’s, 409: instructions for, 226. 
Ditto under M. D’Urville in 1839-40, 
74. 
Antarctic regions, sketch of, 241. 
A pistes marmoratus , 63. 
Aplodactylus arctiilens , 61. 
Appleberry of Tasmania, 36. 
Arable land, when to be irrigated, 91. 
Aracaiue, 403. 
Araucaria , new species of, 404. 
Arctic gull, 244. 
Arts of the Adelaide tribe, 112. 
Aspidium Cttnninghamii, 379. 
Asteliu alpina, fruit of, 45, 46. 
Astronomical ideas of the Adelaide tribe, 
116. 
Atherosperma moschata (sassafras), re¬ 
semblance of, to the Coniferip, 43. 
Atmospheric deposits of dust, &c. 321. 
Attraction of a sphere of iron, pecu¬ 
liarity of, 130. 
Auckland Island, 242. 
Audubon’s Birds of America, 139,140. 
Aurora Borealis, effect of, observed by 
Sir J. Franklin, 131. 
Australian Bight, coast of, 156. 
Australian Fish, 402. 
Australian Mammalia, catalogue of, 382. 
Australian Reptiles and Amphibia, 385. 
Avery’s engine, advantages of, 173. 
Avoset, 37. 
Aweto, 307. 
Backhouse’s paper on the esculent plants 
of Tasmania, 35. 
Bald Sultan, 57. 
Balleny’s Land, 247. 
Barber, Tasmanian, 59. 
Barlow’s method of discovering the at¬ 
traction of the ship’s iron, 128, 129. 
Barracoota, 107, 108. 
Basaltic dykes in Kerguelen’s Land, 27. 
31. 33. 
Battles of the New Zealanders, 343. 345 
Bedford, E. S. P., on marsupial .animals 
187.224. 9 
Bifilar magnetometer, 216. 
Big River, navigation to, 185. 
Billardiera mutabilis available for food, 
36. 
Birds of N. E. Africa, by Ruppell, 140: 
of W. Africa, by Swainson, 140 : of 
S. Africa, by Le Vaillant, 140: of 
Tasmania, catalogue of, 52: preserva¬ 
tion of specimens of, 239. 
Bittern, 57. 
Blackcap, 5G. 
Black swan, 57. 
Blennius Tasmaniensis, an undescribed 
species, 99. 
Blood-globules of the platypus, Echidna 
wallaby, and squirrel, 98. 
Blood, microscopic appearance of, 95,96: 
component parts of, 96. 
-of Anndidcs , &c. 95 : of Verte - 
brata, 96. 
Bondi Bay, drift puinicc in, 340, 341. 
Bone-breccia, 227. 
Bone manure, 405. 
Bones, use of the marsupial, 187. 
