364 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEUM. 



At this peiidd tlie Museum Committee consisted of tlie following 

 pi'ominent citizens : — 



William John Macleay, Esq. 



Georjjje Macleay, Esq. 



William Macarthur, Esq. 



Charles Nicholson, M.D. 



Captain P. P. King, K.N. 



Geoi'i^e Bennett, Esq. 



Mortimer W. Lewis, Esq. 



Archibald Shanks, M.D. 



Statf-Surgeon Loftns Hartwell 



Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A. 



Rev. Robert Lethbridge King, B.A. 



John Mitchell, M.D. 



Rev. George E. Turner, Hon. Secretary 



John Bidwell, Esq. 



It may not be uninteresting to reproduce here a facsimile of the 

 proclamation appointing the First Committee in 1836^00 (^Yig 12). 



Colonial Sc'crtiar!/\^ Oj/ict, 



Sydney \4lli Juncj 18'JO. 



HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to 

 be notified that the following Gentlemen 

 have been appointed " A Commit tee or Super- 



INTEDENCE OF THE x\uSTRALIAN MuSEUM AND 



BoTANicAti Garden," viz.: — 



The lIoNORABT.E Alexander M'Leay, Esq. 



Sir John Jamison, K.G.V. 



Phillip Parker King, Esq. 



William Macarthur, Esq. 



John Vaughan Thompson, Esq. 



Charles Sturt, Esq. 



Edward Deas Thomson, Esq. 



George Porter, Esq. 



RoB^ulT Andrew Wauch, Esq., and 



George M'Leay, Esq. 



By His Excellaicy\s Commmid^ 



ALEXANDER JNPLEAY. 



Pig. 12. 



"" (Tovernuiont Gazette, 18Sfi, p. 451, 



