BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., Ph.D., ETC. 



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printed on the back cover, and in binding the volume it 

 is therefore imperative that the covers should be pre- 

 served. 



The Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land during the 

 eleven years of its existence has issued the following 

 publications : — 



(a) Annual Report, 1845 to 1855 (11 numbers). 



(b) Papers and Proceedings, 1849 to 1855 (7 annual 



volumes), viz.: — Vol. I., part i, May, 1849; P^^t 

 2, January, 1850; part 3, January, 1851; Vol. 

 IL, part I, January, 1852; part 2, January, 1853; 

 part 3, January, 1854; Vol." III., part i, 1855. 



It appears that the Annual Report was not intended to 

 form a portion of the society's scientific publications, be- 

 cause it was issued separately; the Papers and Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land are 

 therefore complete vv^ithout the Annual Report, while this 

 is not the case with some later publications. 



3. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 OF TASMANIA. 



By Act of Parliament in 1856 '' Van Diemen's Land " 

 was henceforth to be known as " Tasmania," and as the 

 new name automatically replaced the old one wherever it 

 occurred, the Royal Society of " Van Diemen's Land " 

 became the Royal Society of " Tasmania." 



This change apparently upset the arrangements for 

 the publications of the Papers and Proceedings, and 

 though in their Annual Report for 1856 the Council state 

 *' that Part 2 of Volume III. of the Papers and Proceed- 

 ings is now in the Press, and will appear as speedily as 

 possible," it was not issued till three years later, in 1859- 

 It was then published under the title, " Papers and Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Societv of Tasmania, Vol. III., 

 Part II., 1859." 



The inconvenience of the original arrangement of 

 issuing three-yearly volumes instead of annual ones be- 

 comes now obvious, because the above title is unques- 

 tionably a misnomer. The Royal Society of " Tasmania," 

 whose year of birth is 1856, had only published Annual 



