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Original Researches, — The Royal Society of New South Wales 
offers a Prize for the best communication, containing the results 
of original research or observation, upon each of the following 
subjects : — 
Series I. — To be sent in not later than September 30th, 1882, 
No. 1. On the Aborigines of New South Wales, £25, 
2. On the treatment of auriferous pyrites, £25. 
3. On the forage plants indigenous to New South 
Wales, £25. 
4. On the influence of the Australian climates and pas- 
tures upon the growth of wool, £25. 
Series II. — To be sent in not later than August 31st, 1883. 
No. 5. On the chemistry of the Australian gums and resins, 
£^5 ■ 
6. On water supply in the interior of New South 
Wales, £25. 
7. On the embryology and development of the marsu- 
pials, £25. 
8. On the Infusoria peculiar to Australia, £25. 
The competition is in no way confined to Members of the 
Society, nor to residents in Australia, but is open to all without 
any restriction whatever, excepting that a prize will not be 
awarded to a Member of the Council for the time being ; neither 
will an award be made for a mere compilation, however merito- 
rious in its way — the communication to be successful must be 
either wholly or in part the result of original observation or 
research on the part of the contributor. The successful papers 
will be published in the Society’s annual volume. Fifty reprint 
copies will be furnished to the author free of expense. It is the 
intention of the Society to offer additional prizes should this first 
attempt to encourage original scientific investigation be reason- 
ably successful. — A. Liversidge, A. Leibius, Hon. Secs. — The 
Society’s House, 37, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, November 2, 
1881. 
We extract from “ Light ” the following theoretical view of 
the interior of the globe : — “ Here, at what we call the centre of 
the earth, I see a small globe enveloped with a crust or shell ; 
the space within the said shell I designate No. 1 Space, and its 
crust I call No. 1 Crust, the whole of which forms a small globe 
which I name the Primal Globe. This globe may, with due 
propriety, be termed the heart of the earth. It seems to revolve 
on its own axis with great velocity, much quicker than the super- 
incumbent spheres. Within this Primal Globe is the grand source 
or fountain of all life upon this planet. Within this Primal Globe 
exists a light surpassing the light of the sun in brilliancy. This 
light existed* it might be, for millions of ages prior to the crust ; 
it then revolved in space like some bright star, and* as it at the 
