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Minutes of the Tasmanian Society. 406 
Meteorological Register . 409 
Some Account of the Country lying between Lake St. Clair and 
Macquarie Harbour. By Mr. J. E. Calder, Government-Sur¬ 
veyor. Comrnuuicated by Lieut. Kay, R.N. 415 
On the Fossil Botany and Zoology of the Rocks associated with 
the Coal of Australia. By Frederick M’Coy, M.G.S., and 
N.H.S.D. 429 
Statistics of Van Diemen’s Laud for 1844—1846. Compiled 
from Official Records in the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and 
published by order of the Lieut.-Governor, 1847. By James 
Barnard, Esq. 444 
A List of 262 new Insects found in Tasmania, and described in 
Wagner’s Archives for 1842 ... 455 
The Carboniferous formation of New South Wales. 459 
Abstract from a Meteorological Journal kept at Port Stephens, 
New South Wales, during the years 1843, 4, 5, 6 , and 1847. 
By Captain Philip P. King, R.N., F.R.S., &c. 465 
Miscellanea— 
New Birds of New Zealand . 468 
On the Position of Macquarie Harbour, and Points on the 
West coast of Van Diemen’s Land . 469 
Proceedings of Learned Societies— 
Zoological Society of London . 469 
Paris Academy of Sciences . 477 
Meteorological Register .. 479 
