64 ANNUAL MEETING. 
announced to you in the monthly Abstracts of the Society’s 
Proceedings. 
Shortly after the date of the last annual meeting your Council 
appointed a Sub-committee to take measures (in conformity with 
precedent afforded by the actions of other Societies in similar 
cases) for securing to the Society the proper sanction for the 
use of the term “ Royal;” and on its recommendation adopted 
the following petition to His Exceitlency Sir Anthony Musgrave, 
which was duly forwarded to him :— 
To His Excentency Str ANTHONY MUSGRAVE, Kynieur Com- 
MANDER OF THE ORDER OF St. MicHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, 
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF QUEENS- 
LAND AND ITs DEPENDENCIES. 
Tue Humble Petition of the Members of a Society provisionally entitled 
“Tue Royat Society OF QUEENSLAND,” sheweth unto your Excellency 
as follows :— 
1. That your petitioners are a Society in the Colony of Queensland, 
having for its objects the furtherance of Scientific Research, and 
Publication of Papers on matters of Scientific Interest. 
2. That the Society was formed at the commencement of the present 
year; and subsequently the Queensland Philosophical Society, 
which had been in existence for upwards of twenty years, became 
incorporated with it; and that it has already enrolled more than 
one hundred persons as members. 
3. That it is the unanimous desire of the Members of the Society to 
obtain the gracious assent and approval of Her Majesty the Queen 
to the use by them of the title Royal Society of Queensland. 
4. That a similar privilege has been granted to Societies of a kindred 
nature in the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. 
Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Excellency will be 
pleased to take such steps as may be necessary to obtain the gracious 
assent and approval of Her Majesty the Queen to the use by them of the 
title Royal Society of Queensland. 
And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, etc. 
Signed on behalf of the Members, 
Henry TRYON, JOSEPH BANCROFT, 
Honorary Secretary. — PRESIDENT, 
