The complete run of 'Memoirs of the Royal Society of South Australia'
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia), [1900] to 1913.
Large quarto, eight parts (issued as, and here bound in, two volumes); full details of each part are listed below.
Later binder's cloth, retaining the original wrappers; cloth slightly scuffed and rubbed; both volumes a little bumped at the foot of the spines; small cancelled library stamp on each front wrapper ('College of Advanced Education Library, Adelaide. 7 June 1973'); small light tidemark to the top inner corner of Volume I, Part 3; minimal signs of age and use; in excellent condition.
All four parts of the first volume are by STIRLING, E.C. and A.H.C. ZIETZ: Fossil Remains of Lake Callabonna. An interesting note from the editor is printed on the verso of the front wrapper of the first part: 'For the purpose of presenting the descriptions of the "Fossil Remains ..." in a more suitable form than is permitted by the size of the "Transactions," the Council has decided to publish, in royal octavo, a series of "Memoirs" ... This issue is the first Fasciculus of the first Volume ..., of which other parts will appear as circumstances permit'. Individual subtitles are as follows. Volume I, Part 1. Description of the Manus and Pes of 'Diprotodon Australia', Owen. [1900.] 40 pages plus 18 plates. Volume 1, Part 2. Genyornis Newtoni. A New Genus and Species of Fossil Struthious Bird.... [and] The Physical Features of Lake Callabonna. [Circa 1900.] [iv], 41-80, xv pages plus 7 pages of plates (3 of them folding). Volume 1, Part 3. Description of the Vertebrae of Genyornis Newtoni. [1905.] [ii], 81-110 pages plus 11 pages of plates. Volume 1, Part 4. Description of Some Further Remains ... 1913. [vi], 111-178 pages plus 23 pages of plates. Loosely inserted in the first part is a colour transparency of a watercolour illustration of a diprotodon. Volume II, Part 1. ETHERIDGE, Robert: The Cretaceous Mollusca of South Australia and the Northern Territory. 1902. [iv], 54 pages plus 7 pages of plates and a publisher's slip tipped in at the first page ('The remainder of Vol. I of these Memoirs has been reserved for further descriptions of the "Fossil Remains of Lake Callabonna"'). Volume II, Part 2. TAYLOR, T. Griffith: The Archaeocyathinae from the Cambrian of South Australia. An Account of the Morphology and Affinities of the Whole Class. Edited by Walter Howchin. 1910. vi, [55]-188 pages with 51 illustrations plus 15 pages of plates, a large folding chart and a large 'Index Slip' tipped in at the contents page. Volume II, Part 3. MAWSON, Douglas: Chiastolites from Bimbowrie, South Australia ... Edited by Walter Howchin. 1911. [iv], 189-210 pages with a map and 12 illustrations plus 11 pages of plates (including one colour plate). Volume II, Part 4. MAWSON, Douglas: Geological Investigations in the Broken Hill Area ... Edited by Walter Howchin. 1912. [viii], 211-319 pages plus 26 pages of plates (containing 81 plates and an illustration), 5 pages of illustrations (containing 3 maps and 4 sections), and a very large folding colour geological map (525 × 680 mm, 'Geological Sketch Map of the Olary-Broken Hill Area). In all instances, each page of plates is accompanied by a leaf of text. The first part of the first volume, and the first two parts of the second volume, must be considered rare, if our experience is any guide. [2 items].
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