534 EARLY VOLUMES OF THE SOCIETY'S PROCEEDINGS, 
It seemed advisable, therefore, that the effort should be made, 
once for all, to ascertain if possible the dates of publication of the 
first twenty-six Parts with a view to their publication. On 
applying to the Librarians of the Public Library, Sydney, and 
the Royal Society of New South Wales, I was most kindly 
furnished with almost complete lists of the dates of their receipt 
of the various Parts — which are approximately those of publica- 
tion. Messrs. F. Cunninghame &, Co., who printed Part 1, very 
obligingly referred to their books, and supplied the requisite 
information about this Part. Mr. F. White, who printed Yols. 
iv.-vii., most courteously provided me with a list of the dates of 
delivery to the Society of the sixteen Parts comprised in these 
Yolumes. From the data so supplied, the list — as approximately 
correct as it is now possible to make it — given overleaf has been 
compiled. 
One or two other matters may also be noted. 
The first Yolume is exceptional in that it comprises the Pro- 
ceedings of two years — Part 1 constitutes the Proceedings for 
1875 : Parts 2-4 the Proceedings for 1876. In the separate 
copies of Part 1 as issued, was inserted a slip — which is missing 
in all the bound Yolumes I have seen — setting forth that — 
" The first 20 pages of this Part were printed and circidated ten 
months ago. They have now been re-printed in order to make the 
Part complete." 
The sixteen consecutive Parts, commencing with Yol. viii., and 
ending with Yol. i. (Second Series), have the dates of issue on 
the paper covers, but there only. If the covers have not been 
preserved in binding all clue to dates is lost in bound volumes. 
They are accordingly included in the list. 
Commencing with Yol. ii. (Second Series), not only is the date 
given on the cover of each Part, but it is repeated at the head 
of the lists of the Contents of the four Parts comprised in each 
Yolume, supplied along with the title-page and Index in the 
concluding Part thereof. No room for doubt, therefore, can arise 
in connection with these and future Parts : — 
