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WEDNESDAY, 7th JUNE, 1876. 



Ordinary monthly meeting of tlie Eoyal Society of New South 

 "Wales, held in the Society's Eooms, Elizabeth-street. 

 The Eev. W. B. Claeke, V.P., in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 

 of the Society, viz. : — 



Eev. W. F. Eoberts, B.A. A. S. Webster. 



G-eorge Evans. Houlton H. Yoss. 



W. E. M'Carthy. Henry James Brown. 



The Hon. Saul Samuel, John Eales. 



C.M.a., M.L.C. John Y. Dalgarno. 



H. E. Southey. W. H. M'Guire. 



Eev. E. M. Saliniere. Walter Hugh Tibbits. 



H. Arding Thomas. Eev. P. E. Mackenzie. 



W. A. Murray. J. M. Marsh, P.M. 



Twelve new candidates were proposed and seconded. 

 The Chaieman reported to the members that the Committee, 

 appointed at the last meeting for the purpose of seeking assistance 

 from the Grovernment, had waited as a deputation upon the 

 Honorable the Minister for Justice and Public Instruction on 

 the 26th inst., and had submitted a request to be communicated 

 to the Government for the sum of £2,500, for the erection of a 

 suitable building, and £300 annually for the ordinary purposes 

 of the Society. 



The deputation was courteously received, and the Minister 

 promised to bring the matter before his colleagues. 



Memoeandum subsequently forwarded to the Honorable the 

 Minister for Justice and Public Instruction : — 



JReasons for the Application for Assistance, 



1. Popular scientific lectures — To enable the Society to institute courses of 

 popular scientific lectures. 



2. WorMng Sections — To permit the establishment of working Sections of 

 the Society for the promotion of special branches of science. 



3. Scientific library — To enable the Society to form a library of standard 

 ecientific works. 



4. To collect and distribute publications — To found a central institution iu 

 New South Wales for the exchange of scientific publications between the 

 Institutions of this Colony and those of other countries. Recent experience has 

 shown that tbe Transactions of this Society will be received as an equivalent 

 for the publications of most of the leading Societies of Europe and America. 



5. Scientific investigations — In England similar scientific Societies afford 

 valuable information to the G-overnment on many subjects. The Royal 

 Society of Sydney has done something in the past, and is anxious to do more 

 in the future. 



6. Insufficient funds — The money at its disposal will not pennit the Society 

 to maintain even its present relations with the public and other Societies, 

 and it is totally inadequate to carry out the contemplated extended scheme of 

 usefulness. 



