ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
By Mr. Caries Moors, F.L.S., Vice-President, 
Director of the Botanic Gardens. 
E [Delivered before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 12 May, 1880.] 
In addressing you this evening, I am happy in being able to 
congratulate my fellow members on the prosperous condition of the 
Society, financially and otherwise, on this its fifty-ninth anni- 
versary, @.¢., if we date from the year 1821, when the first Society 
of the kind was established, by the name of the Philosophical 
Society; or the thirtieth annual meeting, if we consider this Society 
established in the year 1850. The Society formed in 1821, as 
most of you have learned from a former address, had but a brief 
duration, arising mainly from disunion among the few members 
who composed it, of whom, it is sad to state, there is now nota 
survivor. Let us earnestly hope that the same cause will not in 
any way affect us, as it is very certain that if any antagonistic 
feelings should again arise among the members, we should soon 
cease to be useful as a body, and ere long, I fear, die out from 
sheer inanition. Since the re-establishment of the Society in 1850, 
although it has undergone many vicissitudes, and changed its name 
more than once, it has yet been continuous under some form, and 
the members hitherto have always been animated by a unity of 
spirit and-good fellowship, which I sincerely trust will be con- 
tinued. Of those who joined the Society in 1850, Mr. R. A. 
Morehead and myself are now the only members who have not 
severed our connection with it. As will be readily imagined, the 
Society since its establishment has not always been in a flourishing 
condition—it has had its seasons of success and times of depres- 
sion, Until within the last few years its greatest prosperity was 
