I was presented by Mr. Smith with two Paper Nautilus shells (Argonauta tuberculosa) found on the shore of Flinders Island this season, a circumstance which he has remarked occurs but every seventh year, when many hundreds are thrown up: the shells are rarely obtained perfect, as they are extremely fragile, and the sea fowl pick the fish out of them.
Our Botanic Collector, Mr. Milne, ascertained, from what he obtained himself and from what we could contribute from our individual visits to the islets, the existence of plants, which he believes to be indigenous, belonging to the following families and genera, viz.
| Amentaceæ. | Umbelliferæ. |
| Asteraceæ. | Graminaceæ. |
| Rosaceæ. | Junceæ. |
| Geraniaceæ. | Solanum. |
| Euphorbiaceæ. | Geranium. |
| Myrtaceæ. |
Testing the chances of fish refreshment at this anchorage, we found little encouragement for hook and line; but the two favouring opportunities which the weather allowed for hawling the seine produced as tabulated on opposite page.
We found the Reef Islands in this sound so abundant in rabbits since Captain Stokes's forethought had set some loose upon them, that, in two visits of four hours with but four guns, 100 brace were brought on board.
I took care to follow my esteemed brother officers' example and the system of introducing such productions, and obtained a dozen couple alive for letting loose in Shark Bay.
[A coloured drawing of Cereopsis Novæ Hollandiæ accompanied Captain Denham's observations.]
| Trawl-seine, or hook and line. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locality. | How many hawls and phase of  | Depth of water. | Nature of bottom. | Natural History Names. | Common Names. | No. of sorts. | Pounds weight. |
| West side | 6 hawls | with seine. | Mugil | Mullet | 23 | 28 | |
| Flinders Isl. | ... ... | 1/2 | ... ... | Hemiramphus | Gar-fish | 10 | 5 |
| Settlement | 14 days | 1 fathom on a flat | Sand and weed | {Platycephalus | Flat-head, small | 3 | 1 |
| Bay | {Raia | Sting Ray | 2 | 29 | |||
H.W.F. & C.  X. 30. | {Iulis | Small fish of the Basse family | Several | ... | |||
| Range 10 ft. | L.W. | ... ... | ... ... | Labrax | Basse | 1 | 1 |
| East side of Hummock | 7 hawls | with seine (mar.). | {Myliobatis | Ray | 11 | 375 | |
 | ... ... | ... ... | {Mugil | Mullet | 20 | 30 | |
| Island centre | 26 days | 1 to 3 fams. | Sandy beach | Platycephalus | Flat-head | 3 | 2 |
| Bay | at 3/4 flood | ... ... | ... ... | {Siphyracus | Barracouta | 1 | 1 |
| {Scomberesox | Saury | 27 | 17 | ||||
| {Sepioteuthis | Cuttlefish | Several | ... | ||||
| Total | ... | 489 | |||||