TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



Jlffiral ^tf^iijtg af ^kioi'h. 



Inaugural Address of the President, His Excellency Sir 

 Henry Barkly, K.C.B._, ^c, ^c. 



[Delivered to the Members of tlie Eojual Society, at the Anniversary 

 Meeting held on the 10th April, 1S60.] 



Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria^ 



I AM conscious that my unanimous election to the office on 

 which I to-night enter^ Avas in nowise owing to the scientific 

 qualifications you supposed me to possess, but to your desire, 

 as Members of the late Philosophical Institute, to evince a 

 grateful sense of Her Majesty^s recent condescension, by thus 

 making Her Representative your first President under the 

 new style you have been permitted to assume. 



In this view I felt I had no right to decline the proffered 

 compliment, nor to shriuk from the duties its acceptance 



