534 EARLY VOLUMES OF THE SOCIETY'S PROCEEDINGS, 



It seemed advisable, therefore, that the effort should be made, 

 once for all, to ascertain if possible the dates of publication of the 

 first twenty-six Parts with a view to their publication. On 

 applying to the Librarians of the Public Library, Sydney, and 

 the Royal Society of New South Wales, I was most kindly 

 furnished with almost complete lists of the dates of their receipt 

 of the various Parts — which are approximately those of publica- 

 tion. Messrs. F. Cunninghame & Co., who printed Part 1, very 

 obligingly referred to their books, and supplied the requisite 

 information about this Part. Mr. P. White, who printed Vols. 

 iv.-vii., most courteously provided me with a list of the dates of 

 delivery to the Society of the sixteen Parts comprised in these 

 Volumes. Prom the data so supplied, the list — as approximately 

 correct as it is now possible to make it— given overleaf has been 

 compiled. 



One or two other matters may also be noted. 



The first Volume is exceptional in that it comprises the Pro- 

 ceedings of two years — Part 1 constitutes the Proceedings for 

 1875 : Parts 2-4 the Proceedings for 1876. In the separate 

 copies of Part 1 as issued, was inserted a slip — which is missing 

 in all the bound Volumes I have seen — setting forth that — 



" The first 20 pages of this Part were printed and circidated ten 

 months ago. They have now heert re-printed iit order to make the 

 Part com'pleter 



The sixteen consecutive Parts, commencing with Vol. viii., and 

 ending with Vol. i. (Second Series), have the dates of issue on 

 the paper coa ers, but there only. If the covers have not been 

 preserved in binding all clue to dates is lost in bound volumes. 

 They are accordingly included in the list. 



Commencing with Vol. ii. (Second Series), not only is the date 

 given on the cover of each Part, but it is repeated at the head 

 of the lists of the Contents of the four Parts comprised in each 

 Volume, supplied along with the title-page and Index in the 

 concluding Part thereof. No room for doubt, therefore, can arise 

 in connection with these and future Parts : — 



