BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., Ph.D., ETC. 227 



issued in a different form. Instead of being published 

 every month they appeared every three months, the 

 quarters being March, April, May^ — June, July, August — 

 September, October, November — no Monthly Notices 

 being issued for December, January, February. This prac- 

 tice was started in 1870; the exact year is not quite known; 

 it may have even commenced in 1869, or even 1868, but 

 this is not quite certain, and it continued till 1875, when a 

 slip appended to the September, October, November 

 number informed the Fellows that in future the Proceed- 

 ings would be issued in a yearly volume, complete, with 

 index, etc., instead of quarterly as hitherto. The year 

 1875 closes therefore the first period of the publication 

 issued by the Royal Society of Tasmania since its change 

 of name. Its publications are: — 



1856, 1857, 1859 — Annual Reports only; no Papers 

 and Proceedings. 



1859 — Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania, forming Part 2 of Vol. III. of the Papers 

 and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's 

 Land. 



i860, 1861, 1862 — Annual Reports only; no Papers 

 and Proceedings. 



1863 to 1875 inclusive — Monthty Notices of the 

 Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tas- 

 mania. 



1863 — Separate paging of each number; issued 

 monthly. 



1 864- 1 869 — Consecutive paging; issued monthly. 



1 870- 1 875 — Consecutive paging; issued quarterly. 



The Annual Reports were issued separately from 1863 

 to 1866; from 1867 to 1874 it was included with the 

 Papers and Proceedings and consecutively paged; in 1875 

 it was again separately paged. 



The second period begins with the year 1876, when 

 the old practice of the Tasmanian Society and the Royal 

 Society of Van Diemen's Land, to issue annual volumes 

 only, was resumed. These appeared under the title — 



" Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal 

 Societv of Tasmania." 



