vi Proceedings. 
pare petitions to his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and to 
the Honorable the Legislative Council, requesting them to assist 
in carrying out the object aimed at.” 
S. Iffla, Esq., M.D., brought before the Meeting the advisability 
of an application for a Royal Charter, in reference to which it was 
moved by J. H. Brooke, Esq., seconded by Dr. Iffla, and car- 
ried—* That the Council be instructed to make the necessary ar- 
rangements to prepare the form of application for the incorporation 
of the Society by a royal charter, and their report be laid before a 
General Meeting of Members as soon as possible.” 
December 12th, 1854. 
Montuty Meeting. D. E. Wilkie, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were confirmed. 
New Members admitted since the last Meeting :—Major Norman 
Campbell, the Right Rev. Dr. Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop of 
Melbourne, Sir William a’ Beckett, Chief Justice, the Right Rev. 
Dr. Perry, Lord Bishop of Melbourne, the Very Rev. Dr. Fitzpatrick, 
Dr. McKenna, W. H. Campbell, T. Pardoe, and S. Hanaford, Esqs. 
The following memorials in compliance with the resolution of the 
last Meeting were unanimously agreed upon. 
To His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham, Knight, Commander of the Bath 
Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, ée. 
* 
The memorial of the Members of the Philosophical Society of Vic- 
toria in General Meeting assembled, 
Humbly sheweth :— 
That your Memorialists, deeply impressed with the necessity of elicit- 
ing the fullest information relative to the available sources of industry, 
which exist in the Colony, would beg to draw the attention of your 
Excellency to the following suggestive scheme, which, in the judgment 
of your Memorialists, is adequate to the end proposed. 
That your Memorialists having seen with regref the inutility of indi- 
vidual exertions in prosecuting researches for auriferous fields, coal and. 
other minerals, have devised and proposed that duly qualified agents 
should be sent to explore such parts of the Colony as are most likely to 
possess mineral or metallic wealth; and that these agents, on the com- 
pletion of such examinations, should report to your petitioners of the 
same for the information of themselves and the public. That these 
agents should also collect specimens which might seem to them of prac- 
tical value or of peculiar scientific interest. : 
That your Memorialists have brought this matter before the inhabi- 
tants of Victoria, and have sought to induce their co-operation, but 
