Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)

Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)
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Discoveries in Australia is a two volume account of the voyages of H. M. S. Beagle by the coasts of Australia, written by Admiral Stokes, an officer in the Royal Navy who served on the Beagle for close to eighteen years. The work covers the expedition by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty which took place from 1837 to 1843 and provides accounts of exploring and surveying coasts and rivers of the continent. Travel reports are supplemented with records of new spices of fish, reptiles and insects. The book also contains a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley and his visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.



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John Lort Stokes. Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)

Discoveries in Australia (Vol. 1&2)

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1.1. INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1.2. PLYMOUTH TO BAHIA

CHAPTER 1.3. FROM THE CAPE TO SWAN RIVER

CHAPTER 1.4. FROM SWAN RIVER TO ROEBUCK BAY

CHAPTER 1.5. FROM ROEBUCK BAY TO SKELETON POINT

CHAPTER 1.6. POINT CUNNINGHAM TO FITZROY RIVER

CHAPTER 1.7. THE FITZROY RIVER TO PORT GEORGE THE FOURTH, AND RETURN TO SWAN RIVER

CHAPTER 1.8. SWAN RIVER TO SYDNEY

CHAPTER 1.9. BASS STRAIT

CHAPTER 1.10. SYDNEY TO PORT ESSINGTON

CHAPTER 1.11

CHAPTER 1.12

APPENDIX 1. LIST OF BIRDS, COLLECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S. BEAGLE, DURING THE YEARS 1837 TO 1843

APPENDIX 2. DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX FISH. TAKEN BY THE OFFICERS OF THE BEAGLE ON THE COASTS OF AUSTRALIA, BY SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D. F.R.S., ETC. INSPECTOR OF NAVAL HOSPITALS

APPENDIX 3. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN REPTILES. BY JOHN EDWARD GRAY, ESQUIRE, F.R.S., ETC

APPENDIX 4. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW OR UNFIGURED SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA. BY ADAM WHITE, M.E.S. ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM

APPENDIX 5. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR IMPERFECTLY CHARACTERIZED LEPIDOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA. BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY, F.L.S. ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

Volume 2

Table of Contents

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

CHAPTER 2.1

CHAPTER 2.2

CHAPTER 2.3. VICTORIA RIVER

CHAPTER 2.4. VICTORIA RIVER TO SWAN RIVER

CHAPTER 2.5

CHAPTER 2.6

CHAPTER 2.7

CHAPTER 2.8. GULF OF CARPENTARIA

CHAPTER 2.9. GULF OF CARPENTARIA

CHAPTER 2.10. INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO

CHAPTER 2.11. PORT ESSINGTON AND THE NORTH-WEST COAST

CHAPTER 2.12

CHAPTER 2.13

CHAPTER 2.14. AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND

APPENDIX

WINDS AND WEATHER ON THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. BY COMMANDER J.C. WICKHAM, R.N

ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA

ON THE NORTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA

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John Lort Stokes

With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle

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(*Footnote. Since this was written, I have consulted my friend, Mr. Darwin, who has kindly examined a specimen I brought away. He pronounces it "a superficial highly ferrugineous sandstone, with concretionary veins and aggregations." The reader should, however, consult Mr. Darwin's work on the Geology of Volcanic Islands page 143.)

WEIGH AND GRAZE ON A ROCK.

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