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NOTICE. 



The Royal Society of New South Wales originated m 1821 

 as the " Philosophical Society of Australia" ; after an interval 

 of inactivity, it was resuscitated in 1850, under the name of the 

 '* Australian Philosophical Society," by which title it was known 

 until 1856, when the name was changed to the "Philosophical 

 Society of New South Wales" ; and finally, in May, 1866, by the 

 sanction of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, it assumed 

 its present title. 



