The Handbook Publication Fund 



OF THE 



Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 



In his address, delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Society in 

 duly. 1918. the then President (Mr. A. F. Basset Hull) referred to the want of 

 cheap hand-books to the Fauna of Australia, and suggested that there were mem- 

 bers of the Society capable of writing such hand-books, if funds to publish them 

 could be provided by public-spirited benefactors. 



In the following year it was announced that a special Handbook Publication 

 Fund had been established, donations to the amount of £101 having been received. 



In 1920 Sir George Kenrick, ex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham, England, and 

 a keen collector of butterflies, was on a visit to Sydney. He expressed a wish 

 to obtain a collection of Australian butterflies, and consulted Mr. G. A. Water- 

 house, Honorary Treasurer of this Society, who, in conjunction with Mr. George 

 Lyell, of Gisborne, Victoria, and Mr. G. M. Goldfinch, of Sydney, agreed to 

 make up a representative collection provided that Sir George Kenrick made a 

 contribution to the Society's Handbook Publication Fund. To this Sir George 

 agreed, and fixed the contribution at £150. 



From the moneys thus obtained, the cost of bringing out the first Handbook, 

 "The Fishes of New South Wales." will be defrayed. All moneys realised by 



sales of this Handl k will be paid into the Fund, with the view of producing 



another Handbook. 



Contributions to the Fund may be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary of 

 the Society. Box 2399 General Post Office, Sydney, and will be duly acknow- 

 ledged. 



List of contributors to the Fund to 31st March, 1922. 



Sir George Kenrick .... £150 Kelso King 



Walter & Eliza HallTrust 50 Sir Hugh Dixson . . .. 



Henry Luke White .... 10 10 George Judah Cohen . . 



Thomas Phillips Austin . 10 10 Alfred Edmund Jaques 



Sir James Burns .... 10 



Charles Henry Hoskins . . 10 £264 19 



