422 
Index . 
Sopholaimm antarcticus , 414. 
Soimdings, observation to be made of, 229. 
South Esk coal, analysts of, 195. 
Species of birds, number of, 141. 
Specimens, rules for collecting geologi¬ 
cal, 226. 
Steam, application of, to irrigation, 169. 
Steam-digger, 295. 
Sterling’s native vocabulary, 309. 
Streleski’s, Count, altitudes of Tasma¬ 
nian mountains, &c. 147 : discovery of 
Gipps* land, 66—70 : excursion to the 
N.W. district of Tasmania, 76: va¬ 
rieties of Australian coal, 190. 
Strix castanops, the adult of S. per - 
sonata, 52. 
Structure of land, observations to be 
made on the, 2*28, 2*29. 
Study of Natural History, moral effects 
of, 13. 
Styphelia adscendens resembles the 
cranberry, 41. 
Sula australis, 400. 
Summer bird, 53. 
Summer frosts prevented by irrigation, 
88 . 
Sun and Moon, legend of the, among 
the Adelaide tribe, 116. 
Superb warbler, 53. 
Superstitions of the Adelaide tribe, 120. 
Swallow, 56. 
Swallow-shrike, 53. 
-, native, 53. 
Swift, wire-tailed, 56. 
Syngnathus argus , 107. 
Table of proximate constituents of va¬ 
rieties of Australian coal, 202: of 
ultimate elements of ditto, 203. 
Tainui, legend of, 261. 
Talegalla, 303. 
Tandanya, 117. 
Tanks, capacity of, required for irriga¬ 
tion, 92: cost of, 171: embankment 
of, 162. 
Tanna, eruptions of, 328. 
Tanning, 234. 
Tapurro, 113. 
Tara fern, 46. 
Tara moeroa, 264. 
Tarkanye, 115. 
Tarnda, 121. 
Tarnma, 112. 
Tarro-tarro, 121. 
Tasmania, capabilities of, 177 : facilities 
for irrigation in, 84: name of, 414: 
observations to be made in, 231: pro¬ 
ductive powers of, 6: vocabulary of, 
310. 
Tasmanian Society, account of, 1, 2 : 
Journal, leading objects of the, 3. 
Tattooing used by the natives of Aus¬ 
tralia, 114. 
Taylor, Rev. R., on the bulrush cater¬ 
pillar, 307. 
Teal, 57. 
Tea-tree, two kinds of, 38. 
Tern, three species of, 58. 
Terraces, observations to be made on, 228. 
Terror, Mount, 246. 
Thalassidroma, four species of unde¬ 
scribed, 58. T. Nereis, 401. 
Thrush, black-crowned, 54 : mountain, 
53 : native, 54 : spotted, 53. 
Thyrsites altivelis, 99. 
Tirkatti, 111. 120. 
Titlark 54. 
T. J. E.’s review of Gould’s Birds, 139. 
Tomboro, eruption of, 326. 
Toomb’s Lagoon, 178. 
Torsion, method of overcoming the, in 
declination magnetometers, 213. 
Tramway at Port Arthur, 268. 
Tree ferns, 233 : eaten by the natives, 47. 
Tribes of New Zealand extinct, 344. 
Trigla kurnu, 61 : polyommata , 62 : 
vaiicssa, 62. 
Trout, 108. 
Trumpeter, 108. 
Turlo, 113. 
Tutta kuinyo, 111. 
Upper-currents of the atmosphere, 321. 
Variation, species of magnetic, 207, 208. 
Vegetable geography, 204. 
Vegetating caterpillar, species of, on the 
Mumimbidgee, 308. 
Vegetating wasp, 304. 
Velocity of currents, condition of, 166. 
Vertical force magnetometer, 219. 
Vesuvius, eruption of, in 79, 324 : in 
472,323: in 1631,324: in 1794,325: 
in 1799,326 : in 1813, 331 : in 1822, 
327. 
Volcanoes, antarctic, 245. 
Volcanic eruptions, height of, 322 : phe¬ 
nomena, observations to be made on, 
230. 
Wadlaworngatti, 116. 
Wad Nun, sand storm at, 337. ’ 
Waste channel in embankments, 163. 
Water-belt, use of the, 186. 
Water, quantity of required to irrigate 
an acre, 91. 
Wattle-bird, 56 : little, 56. 
Wax-berries, Gault heria hispida, flavour 
of, 40: species found on Ben Lomond, 
40. 
Weapons of the Adelaide tribe, 115. 
Weight of water, 172. 
