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CONSULATE OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. 



Sydney, 10 May, 1876. 

 Sir, — With reference to your letter of 6tli July, 1875, in which you informed 

 me that the Royal Society of New South Wales was desirous of being 

 placed in communication with similar Scientific Societies and Institutions in 

 G-eirmany, and in which you forwarded to me copies of the Fundamental 

 Rules and other information relating to the Society, I have the honor to 

 hand to you herewith translation of a letter bearing on this subject, which I 

 received from the Foreign Office, Berlin, in reply to my report, and also beg 

 to forward you 167 volumes, and two charts, as particularised in the list, 

 enclosed herewith. The communication which has thus been established 

 through the diplomatic channel between the Royal Society and the 

 leading scientific Societies of Grermany, will I trust be a permanent one, and 

 of mutual advantage. 



I have, &c., 



CARL L. SAHL, Imperial Grerman Consul. 

 Peofessoe Liveesidge, 



Hon. Secretary, Royal Society, Sydney. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, BERLIN. 



1 March, 1876. 

 Sir, — Referring to yovir report of 9th July, 1875, in which you intimate 

 that the "Royal Society of New South Wales" wishes to enter into closer 

 connection with Scientific Societies and kindred Institutions, for the purpose 

 of interchanging pubhcations of scientific tendencies, I have the honor to 

 inform you that I have brought this under the notice of the Governments of 

 Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wiirttemberg, Baden, and Sachsen Weimar, and 

 now acquaint you with the result, so that you may take any further steps 

 necessary. 



With reference first to the SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS of Prussia. 



*' The Royal Academy of Science" here (Konigliche Akademie der 

 Wissenschaften) has resolved to forward to the "Royal Society" 

 their Monthly Report from the year 1860. 



" The Royal Society of Science in Gottingen" (Konigliche Gesellschaft 

 der Wissenschaften in Gottingen), which is already exchanging 

 publications with the Royal Society of Victoria, in Melbourne, is 

 ready to enter into similar relations with the Royal Society of 

 New South Wales, and from its publications it has sent in " The 

 Communications of the Society of Sciences and the George Augustus 

 University" (Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 

 und der Georg August Universitat) for 1875, which contain 

 principally transactions of their meetings, and communications on 

 subjects of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and of Historical 

 and Philological interest. 



"The Society of Natural History in Gorlitz" (Naturforschende 

 Gesellschaft in Gorlitz) has also declared itself willing to exchangt) 

 piiblications, and for this purpose has sent in three volumes of its 

 present Report of Proceedings, as well as three volumes from a 

 former period. 



" The Society of Natural History of Prussian Rhinelands and Westphalia 

 in Bonn (Naturhistorische Verein der Preussischen Rheinlande und 

 Westphalens in Bonn) has some time ago expressed its readiness 

 to Dr. Leibius of the Royal Society, through its Secretary, Professor 

 Andra, to exchange publications, and has sent in a packet of pub- 

 lications under his address. 



