ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS, 2 3 
Head of Botany Bay, to commemorate the landing of Captain 
Cook. The inscription is given in the Gazette of 22 March, 1822, 
as follows :— ’ 
A.D. MDCCLXX. 
UNDER THE AUSPICES or BRITISH ScrENCE, 
THESE SHORES WERE DISCOVERED 
: BY 
JAMES COOK AND JOSEPH BANKS, 
THe CoLumBus AND McCENAS OF THEIR TIME, 
THIS SPOT ONCE SAW THEM ARDENT 
IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE; 
Now, 
TO THEIR MEMORY THIS TABLET IS INSCRIBED, 
IN THE FIRST YEAR 
OF 
THE PurtosoruicaL Socrery or AUSTRALASIA, 
Siz Tuomas BrIsBAne, SOK, £2 SL. ae S 
(CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE), 
PRESIDENT. 
A.D, MDCCCXXI. : 
In Mr. Clarke’s inaugural address in 1867, particulars are given | 
of the resuscitation in 1850 of the old Society, under the name of - 
the Australian Philosophical Society ; but there must have been 
an attempted revival at an earlier date, for in the New South Wales 
Calendar, of 1832, I find mention made of an “ Australian : 
Society” for promoting colonial products and manufactures, under 
the presidency of Mr. Samuel Terry. I cannot, however, find 
any other reference to it. The 1850 Society began under favour-_ 
able auspices, and with influential leaders; but the gold fever of - 
1851-2 seems to have sapped its vitality, and for two or three 
years nothing is heard of it, until in July, 1855, it met once more 
and resolved to make a fresh start, under the name of the 
Philosophical Society of New South Wales. It seems that twenty- 
_ two Members passed over from the old Society to the new, and 
___ they brought with them £88 to start the funds of the new 
