Index. 
487 
Hobson, E. C M on geology of Port 
Phillip, 74, 78, 236, 240, 323 
-on the Diprotodon Australis, 387 
-memoir of, 406 
Hooker, J. D., microscopic animalcules 
collected by, US 
- deep sea dredging, 129 
- flora antarctica noticed, 66 
- on the coniferajofTasmania, 278 
- botanical mission to India, 394 
Humboldt, Baron, letter to J. D. Hoo¬ 
ker, 394 
Huon pine, 278 
Hypotropis Jukesii, J. E. Gray, 299 
Ibacus Pcronii, 326 
Ieracidea occidentalis, Gould, 61 
I nsects of the country between More- 
ton Bay and Port Essington, 10+ 
__ list of 262 new species of Tas¬ 
mania, 455 
Janthina fragilis found in V.D.Land, 407 
Jukes, J. B., on the geological structure 
of Australia, 220 
---on the pnheozoie forma¬ 
tions of N. S. Wales and V. D. Land, 
311,376 
Kay, J. IT. observations on the coasts I 
of V. II. Land, 3S9 
King, P. P., meteorological journal 
kept at Port Stephens, N. S. Wales, 
during 1843 — 3847, 465 
_ on the position of Mac- ! 
qnarie Harbour and points on the 
west const of V. D. Land, 469 
Landslips on the river Tamar, 358 
Lankester, Ur., on the fucus called 
Australian moss, 219 
Launceston, statistics of, 1846, 139; 
1847, 372 
Lead found near Macquarie Harbour, 
243 
Lectures on the geology, botany, na¬ 
tural history, Ac., of the country ! 
between Moreton Bay and Port Es¬ 
sington, 81 
Leichardt's, Dr., report of expedition , 
from Moreton Bay to Port Essing- ! 
ton, 18 
-lectures, 81 
Lightning setting fire to grass, 421 
Lightwood of the colonists, 12 
Lopholaimus antarcticus shot in V. D. | 
Laud, 77 
M’Coy, F., on the fossil botany and 
zoology of the rocks associated with 
the coal of Australia, 429 
Macleay, W. S., on the skull said to be 
that of a liunyip, 275 
Macquarie Harbour, position of, 389, 
428, 469 
Magnetism of greenstone peaks in V. j 
D. Land, 408 
Malurus pulcherrimus, Gould, 63 
Mammalia of the country between 
Moreton Bay and Port Essington, 107 
- geographical distribution of 
extinct, 214 
j -extinct, of Australia, 297 
Manna of Arabia and Australia, 229 
Melithreptus melanocephalns, Gould, 
234 
Meteorological register kept at Laun¬ 
ceston, 160, 244, 328, 409, 479 
Meteorological register kept at Port 
Stephens, N. S. Wales, 1843 — 1847, 
465 
j Microcnclirys tetragons, Hook, fil., 289 
! Microscopic’ life in the ocean at the south 
pole, and at considerable depths, 114 
j Milligan, Jos, on fossil plants found 
near Hob. Town and Launceston, 131 
Mimosa bark, quantity exported from 
Launceston, 17 
Minutes of the Tasmanian Society, 74, 
236, 322, 406 
Mitchell, Sir T. L., expedition into in¬ 
terior of N. S. Wales, 165 
Mitra tumida, Keeve, 151 
- forticostata, Reeve, 233 
Moa of New Zealand, 297 
-— discovery of eggs 
of, 400 
Molluscous animals of country between 
Moreton Bayand Port Essington, 103 
- greatest depths at which 
found, 1 16 
Moreton Bay, expedition from, to Port 
Essington, 18 
Murex triformis, Reeve, 307 
- turritus, Reeve, 403 
Mas lineolntus, Gould, 300 
- gracilicaudntus, Gould, 301 
- albocinereus, Gould, 301 
Nepean, Point, Port Phillip, geology of, 
74, 78, 240, 323 
Nerita, some Australian species de¬ 
scribed, 403 
Notes on the acacia 1 of Tasmania, 5 
Odontopteris micropbyUa, M’Coy, 432 
Otopteria ovata, M'Coy, 433 
Owen, Prof., on the geographical dis¬ 
tribution of extinct mammalia, 214 
_ comparion of the skulls of 
wombats, 271 
_geographical distribution of 
Australian marsupialia, 273 
__extinct mammals of Austra¬ 
lia, and on the dinornis of New Zea- 
_ on the living echidna, 305 
land, 297, 474 
Oyster Bay pine, 287 
Pachycephala Gilbcrtii, Gould, 63 
- glaueura, Gould, 232 
Palaeozoic formations of N. S. Wales 
and V. D. Land, 311, 376 
