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 66 sI, FtNmx. [c. Co P. P. K, in his &trey of the Coasts of Autralt, and pentaX, d,,,'in the Vove   Fan&rs. BY WILIAAM HBNRY PITTON, M.D., P.R.S., V.P.G.S. T/tz following enumeration of specimens from the coasts of Australia, commences, with the survey of Captain King, on the eastern shore, about the latitude of twenty-two degrees, proceeding northward end westward: and as the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, previously surveyed by Captain Flinders, were passed over by Captain glng, Mr. Brown, who aeeomlmnied the former, has been so good as to allow the specimens enHeeted by himself in that part of New Holland, to supply the chasm whioh would otherwise have existed in the series. Part of the west end north- western coast, ,.nmied by Captain King, having been pre- viously visited by the French voyagers, under Captain Bau- din, I was desirous of obtaining such information as could be derived from the specimens collected during that expedition, and now remaining at Pris; although I wu aware that the premature death of the principal mineralogist, and other unvounthle eircumstences, had probably diminished their value ':--But the collection from New Holland, it the voyage, iu 1808; and, unfortunately, none of his manuscripts
 * M. Depuch, th minertlogist, died during the prreu of the

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