The first truly scientific periodical produced in Australia was the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science. The three volumes of this journal, published in a number of parts between 1841 and 1849, recorded the Transactions of the Tasmanian Society of Natural History that was established by Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin FRS soon after his arrival in Van Diemen's Land in 1837 (Fitzpatrick 1968). This historic journal attracted articles by scientists in the other Australian colonies, and even from overseas. For example, Part I of Volume 1, published in 184l,t included a paper by John Gould on Australian ornithology, and one by Joseph Dalton Hooker of Kew on some Australian plants: it also contained a paper by the distinguished Tasmanian botanical collector Ronald C. Gunn on indigenous Tasmanian food plants. But of particular interest for the present discussion are three publications by the Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, two in 1842 and a third in 1846. One of these, 'On certain varieties of Australian coal' (Streleski 1842a),
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机译：塔斯马尼亚自然科学杂志是澳大利亚第一本真正的科学期刊。这本杂志的三册于1841年至1849年间分多个部分出版，记录了塔斯马尼亚自然历史学会的交易，该会由州长约翰·富兰克林·弗里斯爵士（FRS）于1837年到达范迪门的土地后不久成立（菲茨帕特里克（1968）。这本具有历史意义的期刊吸引了其他澳大利亚殖民地甚至海外科学家的文章。例如，184l年出版的第1卷的第1部分，t包括John Gould撰写的关于澳大利亚鸟类学的论文，以及Kew的Joseph Dalton Hooker撰写的关于一些澳大利亚植物的论文：其中还包含塔斯马尼亚著名植物学家Ronald C的论文。冈恩·塔斯马尼亚土著食用植物。但是，对于本次讨论特别感兴趣的是波兰探险家Paul Edmund de Strzelecki的三份出版物，两份于1842年出版，第三份于1846年出版。其中之一，“关于澳大利亚煤炭的某些品种”（Streleski 1842a），
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