Index. : 529 — 
Mount Alexander, specimens, 311, 
312 
— Picton, clay-rock, 141 
—— Wellington, painting of, 333 
Mummy wheat, 141. 
Mummy, linen fragment, 160 
Murchison, Sir R., address of, 338 
“Mus, sp. 156 
Museum, presentations to, (Pro- 
ceedings), passim 
Myrtle-tree, 137 
Mytilacea, 146 
Nankin bird, 149 
Native bread, 332 
— — hen, 156 
New Guinea, spears from, 336 
New Zealand, specimens, 317 
_-- flora of, 434 
—— —— fossil remains, 518 
Society, 313 
— , earthquake, 490 
Norfolk Island, presentations, 506 
Nototherium, cranium, 158 
Nyeticorax Caledonicus, 149 
Observatory, geographical position 
of, 264 
————-., longitude, 279 
—, latitude, 280 
———,, magnetical  obserya- 
tions, 479 
Obsidian, 170 
Gidicnemus grallarius, 143 
Opal, 308 
Oranges, speck on, 512 
Orchids, drawings, 324 
Oreocincla lunulata, 490 
Ostracion, 162 ' 
Otto, Professor, experiments, 335 
Ourali_ poison, 163 
Ouse River, combustible matter 
from, 154 
Owen, Professor, on gigantic 
birds, 200 
Oyster shells, 486 
Pecten, fossil, 141 
Peel, Sir R., portrait, 151 
Pelargonium, 165 
Pensions, 7 
Pennatula grisea, 148, 311 
Phaeton pheenicurus, 489 
Phalangista nudicaudata, 194 
Photography, 523 
Pipe-clay, 146 
Plants, new, 334 
received at Society’s Gar- 
dens, (Proceedings), passim. 
sent from the Gardens, 
(ditto), ditto 
Platina, 177 
Polar lights, 178 
Pollard, Lieut. R.N., shells, &c. 
from, 140 
Plover, southern-stone, 143 
» Spur-winged, 489 
Polynesia, decrease in population, 
Population, 1, 34 
——, of United States, 372 
Porcupine fish, 482 : 
.Porphyrio melanotus, 139° 
Porphyry, 158, 309 
Port Davey, specimens from, 141 
Post-oftices, 18 
Potato, from seed at Society’s Gar- 
dens, 151 
, on the culture of the, 52 
Price, Mr., Norfolk Island, com- 
munication from, 506 
Primnoa Australasie, 198 
Pterocera, 151 ; 
Pteropus conspicillatus, 194 
Priloris Victoria, 195 
Lygoscelis Papua, 160 
Quartz, 309, 488 : 
——, auriferous, 157, 160, 162, 
63h 
with gold, 489, 509, 517 
Queen, the, graciously accepts 1st 
volume, 142, 811 
Quicksilver, reported discovery, 156 
Rain, fall of, 825 ; 
Rankine, W. J. M., report on 
electric telegraph, 494 
Reindeer, antlers, 309 
‘Religion, statistics, 22 
Resin, 511 
Revenue and expenditure, 6 
Rhine, panorama of, in relief, 486 
Richea Milliganii, 334 
Ricinula, 317 x 
Robinson, C. A., feathered tippets 
from, 149 : 
Robson, G., diagram of dredge 
from, 145 
Rock-specimens, 482 
Rodentia, 79 
Roebuck, head of, 515 . 
