HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Jape 
were not published and we do not know their titles.— 
J.H.M.) of the Transactions of the Philosophical Society 
of Australia are printed by the permission of the respective 
authors,’’ and he goes on to say, “for Iam sorry to say 
that that infant society soon expired in the baneful atmo- 
sphere of distracted politics, which unhappily clouded the 
short administration of its President, the present Governor 
of New South Wales. Let me hope that it is only a case 
of suspended animation and that our little Society will be 
resuscitated by the new colonial government.’’ These 
remarks were dated 28th February, 1825. 
At p. 497 of his work he published a ‘‘Sonnet on visiting 
the spot where Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks first 
landed in Botany Bay.’’ The poet refers to the tablet. 
There is an account of Barron Field, by Mr. J. Arthur 
Dowling, in “‘Journ. Aust. Hist. Soc., ii, 92,101. See also 
K. J. Godfrey’s “‘Australian Historical Gleaner,’’ Sydney, 
1911, p. 26. See also a note on him in this Journal (XLi, 
101, 1908). 
Not much is known of the first editor of our collected 
papers, and hence the following spicy reference to him may 
come here. 
Disraeli wrote as pompously as Field ever did, from 
Cadiz, on 14th July 1830 to his father, Isaac Disraeli. 
“The Judge Advocate at Gibraltar is that Mr. Baron 
(Barron—J.H.M.) Field who once wrote a book, and whom 
all the world took fora noble, but it turned out that Baron 
was to him what Thomas is to other men. He pounced 
upon me, said he had seen youat Murray’s, first man of the 
day, and all that, and evidently expected to do an amazing 
bit of literature; but I found him a bore and vulgar, a 
Storks without breeding, consequently I gave him a lecture 
on canes, which made him stare, and he has avoided me 
