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MEMORANDUM FOR AUTHORS OF PAPERS. 



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1. All papers must be typewritten, unless special permission to send 

 in written papers has been granted by the Editor for the time being. 

 Wide spacing between the lines and ample margin should be left. 



2. The author should read over and correct the copy before sending 

 it to the Editor of the Transactions. 



3. A badly arranged or carelessly composed paper will be sent back 

 to the author for amendment. It is not the duty of an editor to amend 

 either bad arrangement or defective composition. 



4. In regard to underlining of words, it is advisable, as a rule, to 

 underline only specific and generic names, titles of books and periodicals, 

 and foreign words. 



5. In regard to specific names, the International Rules of Zoological 

 Nomenclature and the International Rules for Botanical Nomenclature 

 must be adhered to. 



6. Titles of papers should give a clear indication of the scope of the 

 paper, and such indefinite titles as, e.g., " Additions to the New Zealand 

 Fauna " should be avoided. 



7. Papers should be as concise as possible. 



8. Photographs intended for reproduction should be the best pro- 

 curable prints, unmounted and sent flat. 



9. Line Draivings. — Drawings and diagrams may be executed in line 

 or wash. If drawn in line — i.e., with pen and ink — the best results are 

 to be obtained only from good, firm, black lines, using such an ink 

 as Higgin's liquid India ink, or a freshly mixed Chinese ink of good 

 quality, drawn on a smooth surface, such as Bristol board. Thin, 

 scratchy, or faint lines must be avoided. Bold work, drawn to about 

 twice the size (linear) of the plate, will give the best results. Tints or 

 washes may not be used on line drawings, the object being to get the 

 greatest contrast from a densely black line drawn on a smooth, white 

 surface. 



10. Wash Draivings. — If drawing in wash is preferred, the washes 

 should be made in such water-colour as lamp-black, ivory black, or 

 India ink. These reproduce better than neutral tint, which inclines too 

 much to blue in its light tones. High lights are better left free from 

 colour, although they may be stopped out with Chinese white. As in 

 line drawings, a fine surface should be used (the grain of most drawing- 

 papers reproduces in the print with bad effect), and well-modelled 

 contrasted work will give satisfactory results. 



11. Size of Draivings. — The printed plate will not exceed 7Jin. by 

 4^ in., and drawings for plates may be to this size, or preferably a multiple 

 thereof, maintaining the same proportion of height to width of plate. 

 When a number of drawings are to appear on one plate they should be 

 neatly arranged, and if numbered or lettered in soft pencil the printer 

 will mark them permanently before reproduction In plates of wash 



