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''It will be seen that the objects sought, and the results 

 obtained, by the Adelaide Philosophical Society are similar 

 and equal to those sought and obtained by the Royal Societies 

 of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, and we feel 

 that the Society will be largely assisted in its efforts to increase 

 the value of these results, and that more attention will be 

 paid by scientific men throughout the world, to the facts 

 recorded year by year in its Transactions, if Your Majesty 

 will be graciously pleased to accede to the request of your 

 memorialists, who will, as in duty bound, ever pray, etc. 



''Ralph Tate, President. 



"Fredk. Chapple, ^__. _ .- , 



"Chas. Todd, | Vice-Presidents. 



"Thomas D. Smeaton, Hon. Treasurer. 

 "Walter Rutt, Hon. Secretary." 



Four months later a letter was received by the Governor, 

 enclosing a copy of a despatch received from the Secretary ot 

 State for the Colonies : — 



"South Australia. Downing Street, 



"No. 24. 3rd August, 1880. 



"Sir — I duly received your despatch No. 31 of the 15th 

 May last, and submitted to Her Majesty the Queen the 

 memorial from the Adelaide Philosophical Society, praying 

 that Her Majesty might be pleased to become the Patron of 

 the Society, under the title of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia, 



"I have now the honour to request that you will inform 

 the President of the Society, that Her Majesty has signified 

 her gracious approval of the Society being styled the Royal 

 Society of South Australia. 



"I have the honour to be, etc., etc., 



"Kimberley." 



The final letter in this correspondence is from the Private 

 Secretary to the President of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia, dated 20/1/81, informing him that His Excellency 

 wishes that the future volumes of the Royal Society should 

 be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 

 through him, and requesting the President to transmit to 

 him three copies of the volumes in question, as published. 



(b) New Buildings and a New Act. 



Almost from the beginning it was recognized that the 

 accommodation in the S.A. Institute was inadequate for the 

 purposes of a Museum. This became more and more apparent 



