vi Preface. 



A Catalogue of the Library, and a list of the 

 Members and Societies that the Royal Society of 

 Victoria is in Correspondence with, will be found 

 appended to the proceedings. 



The work of the Editor has been limited to the 

 very narrowest point, but what time and labour he 

 has expended over the present volume, in addition 

 to the duties imposed on him as Honorary Secre- 

 tary he has cheerfully bestowed, in the hope that 

 the prosperity which must inevitably attend the 

 colony may be participated in by the Royal Society 

 of Victoria. 



Melbourne, 



New Tear's Day, 1869. 



