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Art. XXXIII. Some Account of the Country lying between Lake 
St. Clair and Macquarie Harbour. By Mr. J. E. Calder, 
Government, Surveyor. Communicated by Lieut. Kay, R.N... 415 
Art. XXXIV. On the Fossil Botany and Zoology of the Rocks 
associated with the Coal of Australia. By Frederick M’Koy, 
M.G.S. and N.H.S.D. &e.... 429 
Art. XXXV. Statistics of Van Diemen’s Land firr 1844—1840. 
Compiled from Official Records in the Colonial Secretary’s 
Office, and published by order of the Lieutenant-Governor, 1847. 
By James Barnard, Esq. . 444 
Art. XXXVI. .4 List of 262 New Insects found in Tasmania, 
and described in Wagner’s Archives for 1842 . 455 
Art. XXXVII. The Carboniferous Formation of New South Wales 459 
Art. XXXVIII. Abstract from a Meteorological Journal kept at 
Port Stephens, New South Wales, during the years 1843, 4, 5, 0, 
and 1847. By Captain Philip P. King, R.N., P.R.S., &c. .. 405 
MISCELLANEA. 
New Birds of New Zealand..... 408 
On the position of Macquarie Harbour, and points on the west 
coast of Van Diemen’s Laud . 409 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
Zoological Society of London. 469 
Paris Academy of Sciences. 477 
Meteorological Register . 479 
*** It is requested that all communications for the Tasmanian Society and Tas¬ 
manian Journal may be addressed to the Secretary, Mu. Ronald C. Gunn, 
Launceston, Tasmania. 
