-li/V-6 



REGULATIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION OF PAPERS 

 IN THE PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE 

 SOCIETY. 



The Council beg to direct the attention of authors of communications to 

 the Society to the following Regulations, which have been drawn up in 

 order to accelerate the publication of the Proceedings and Transactions, 

 and to utilise as widely and as fairly as possible the funds which the 

 Society devotes to the publication of Scientific and Literary Researches. 



1. Manuscript of Papers. — As soon as any paper has been passed 

 for publication, either in its original or in any altered form, and has been 

 made ready for publication by the author, it is sent to the printer, whether 

 it has been read or not. 



The 'copy' should be written on large sheets of paper, on one side 

 only, and the pages should be clearly numbered. The MS. must be 

 easily legible, preferably typewritten, and must be absolutely in its final 

 form for printing; so that corrections in proof shall be as few as possible, 

 and shall not cause overrunning in the lines or pages of the proof. All 

 tables of contents, references to plates, or illustrations in the text, etc., 

 must be in their proper places, with the page numbers left blank; and 

 spaces must be indicated for the insertion of illustrations that are to 

 appear in the text. 



2. Illustrations. — All illustrations must be drawn in a form im- 

 mediately suitable for reproduction; and such illustrations as can be 

 reproduced by photographic processes should, so far as possible, be 

 preferred. Drawings to be reproduced as line blocks should be made with 

 Indian ink (deadened with yellow if of bluish tone), preferably on fine 

 white bristol board, free from folds or creases; smooth, clean lines, or 

 sharp dots, but no washes or colours, should be used. If the drawings are 

 done on a large scale, to be afterwards reduced by photography, any 

 lettering or other legend must be on a corresponding scale. 



If an author finds it inconvenient to furnish such drawings, the Society 

 will have the figures re-drawn at his expense ; but this will cause delay. 



When the illustrations are to form plates, a scheme for the arrangement 

 of the figures (in quarto plates for the Transactions, in octavo for the 

 Proceedings) must be given, and numbering and lettering indicated. 



3. Proofs. — In general, a first proof and a revise of each paper will 

 be sent to the author, whose address should be indicated on the MS. If 

 further proofs are required, owing to corrections or alterations for whicli 



[Continued on page iii of Cover. 



