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Index . 
Boobialla, seeds of, eaten by the natives, 
37. 
Boobook owl, 53. . 
Boreal and Austral fluids, 12G. 
Botanicws, inquiries of, 319. 
Botany-bay greens, 42. 
Botany, observations to be made in, 232. 
Bowerbank’s, Mr., observations on fossil 
Infusoria, 150. 
Bread, native, 48. 
Brick-kilns of Port Arthur, 289. 
Broad-tails, 144. 
Bronzewing, 57. 
-, little, 57. 
Buckland, Dr., on animalcules in lime¬ 
stone, 149 : on Daguerreotype, 71. 
Bullocks, labour of, 173. 
Bulrush caterpillar, 307. 
Burn, D., on the Settlement at Port Ar¬ 
thur, 265. 
Burnett’s, Mr., account of an atmo¬ 
spheric deposit of red dust, 338. 
Burr, leaves of, used for tea, 38. 
Burtonna, 115. 
Bush-sparrow, 54. 
Butcher-bird, 55. 
Butler, Lieut., improvement of Mac¬ 
quarie Harbour by, 364. 
Callorhynchus antarcticus , 238 : aus¬ 
tralis, 14: air-bladder of, 16: teeth, 
17 : pyloric secretion, 18 : bones, 18, 
19 : organs of re-production, 20. C. 
Tasmanius , 106. 
Campbell Island, 243. 
Canagong or native fig, 38. 
Cannibalism, instance of, 349. 
Canoes, native, 251. 
Cape Barren goose, 57. 
Cape Barren tea, 37. 
Cape de Yerde Islands, showers of dust 
near, 333. 
Cape Grim, 78. 
Cape Riche, 159. 
Carbonate of limejn volcanic springs, 
151. 
Carrot, native, a species of geranium, 36. 
Cascade, 291. 
Caterpillar, migrating, 72. 
Celery-pine, 235. 
Centropristis salar , 60. 
Channels, cost of, in irrigation, 171. 
Cheilodactylus gibbosus , 402. 
Cherry-picker, 56. 
Cherry-tree of Tasmania, Exocarpus 
cupressiformis , 43. 
Chiefs, native, 253. 
Chlamydera metadata , 388. 
Christmas Harbour, geology of, 28. 
Circumcision practised by the Abori¬ 
gines, 113. 
Clarke, Rev. W. B., on Volcanic Dust, 
&lc. 321 . 
Cleavage to be distinguished from stra¬ 
tification, 229. 
Cliffs, observations to be made of, 229. 
Climacteris erythrops , 389 : C. rufa , 
390. 
Climate of Australia, effects of, on the 
human constitution, 11. 
Clinus despicillatus , 99. 
Clyde, cost of embankment at the head 
of, 171. 
Coal-mines of Port Arthur, 294. 
Coal underlying porphyry, 28: shale and 
basalt, 32. 
Coal, varieties of, in Australia, 190. 
Cobbler’s Awl, 56. 
Cockatoo, black, 55: rose-crested, 55: 
white, 55. 
Colenso, Y\ r ., description of New Zealand 
ferns by, 375. 
Columbus, the first to notice the mag¬ 
netic variation, 126. 
Compass, how protected from the action 
of the ship’s iron, 130. 
Component parts of blood, 96. 
ConifertE silicified, 25, 26. 
Correa alba, leaves of, used for tea, 37. 
Correcting the observations for magnetic 
dip, method of, 222, 223. 
Corruption of English words by natives, 
309. 
Coseguina, enormous eruption of, 327, 
328. 
Cotopaxi, eruption of, in 1768, 325. 
Cotton, Capt. A. F., on a proposed steam 
plough, 295 ; on irrigation in Tasma¬ 
nia, 81. 161. 
Cranberry of Tasmania, Astroloma hu - 
mifusa , 41. 
Craters of extinct volcanoes in Ker¬ 
guelen’s Land, 27. 29. 31. 
Cresses of Tasmania, 35. 
Crow, 54. 
Crustacea , method of preserving, 237. 
Cuckoo, bronze, 55. 
-, brown, 55. 
-, grey, 55. 
Cumberland Bay, geology of, 30. 
Curlew, 57. 
Currant-tree of Tasmania, Coprosina 
microphylla , 39. C. nitida , 40. Leu- 
copogon Richei , 41. 
Cuthbertson, Lieut., death of, 362. 
Cyprus brig carried off, 367 : fate of her 
crew, 370. 
Cystosonia Soundersii, 404. 
Daguerreotype engraving, 71. 
Jjajaus Diemensis, 101. 
Uasyornis tongirostris , 392. 
