NOTICES, 



The Royal Society of New South Wales originated in 1821 as 

 the "Philosophical Society of Australasia"; after an internal of 

 inactivity, it was resuscitated in 1850, under the name of the 

 " Australian Philosophical Society," by which title it was known 

 until 1856, when the name was changed to the "Philosophical 

 Society of New South Wales"; in 1866, by the sanction of Her 

 Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, it assumed its present title, 

 and was incorporated by Act of the Parliament of New South 

 Wales in 1881. 



The Society's Journal for 1899, Vol. xxxni., has been forwarded 

 to the same Societies and Institutions as enumerated on the printed 

 list in Vol. xxx. (viz. 400), with the addition of the Field 

 Columbian Museum, Chicago; Royal Society of Sciences and 

 Belles Lett res, Gothenburg; the Editor of Science Abstracts, London; 

 Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nuremberg ; British Medical 

 Association (N.S.W. Branch); Mount Kosciusko Observatory, 

 N.S.W.; Societa Italiana di Fisica, Pisa ; Bernice Pauahi Bishop 

 Museum, Honolulu ; Illinois Biological Station, Havana, 111.; 

 University of Chicago Press ; Maryland Geological Survey, Balti- 

 more; Philadelphia Commercial Museum, U.S.A.; Editor of the 

 Mineral Industry, New York ; American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers, New York. 



It is requested that the volume may be acknowledged by 

 returning the Form of Receipt (to be found stitched in the com- 

 mencement of the volume) signed and dated in order that any 

 delay or mis delivery may be brought to notice. 



Plates I. and II. illustrating the paper of Mr. R. A. Bastow, 

 on " Red or Purple Marine Algse," (pp. 45 - 47) may be had on 

 application to the Hon. Secretaries. 



TO AUTHORS. 



Authors of papers desiring illustrations are advised to consult 

 the editors (Honorary Secretaries) before preparing their drawings. 

 Unless otherwise specially permitted, such drawings should be 

 carefully executed to a large scale on smooth white Bristol board 

 in intensely black Indian ink; so as to admit of the blocks being 

 prepared directly therefrom, in a form suitable for photographic 

 "process." The size of a full page plate in the Journal is 4 \ in. 

 x 6 1 in. The cost of all original drawings, and of colouring plates 

 must be borne by Authors. 



EEEATA. 

 Page 109, last line, for " No. 3," read " No. 2." 

 „ 114, line 5, for " No 3," read No. 1." 

 „ 114, line 10, for " divisons," read "divisions." 

 „ 125, line 14, for " an," read " no." 

 „ 128, line 9, for " 76," read " 7'6." 

 „ xvi., line 16, for " comfusing," read " comprising. 



