218 . J. H. MAIDEN. 
history of the Society, and will, we doubt not, be read with 
much interest :— 
‘* PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
President: Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, kK.c.B., 
F.R.S.L., and E., and Corresponding Member of the French 
Institute. Treasurer and Secretary: Henry Grattan 
Douglass, M.D.* 
** Members (alphabetically)—Alexander Berry, Esq., 
Barron Field, Hsq., Barrister-at-law; Frederick Goulburn, 
EKsq., Majorinthe Army; Patrick Hill, Hsq., Surgeon, R.N.; 
William Howe, Hsq., Captain Irvine, 11th Bengal Native 
Infantry; Oaptain King, R.N.; John Oxley, Esq., Lieuten- 
ant R.N.; Edward Wollstonecraft, Hsq.’’ 
In Trans. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1, 2 (1867) the enumeration 
is put slightly differently, and the name of Oharles Stargard 
Rumker, Esq., Astronomer, is added. 
Resuming the 1862 minutes, we have, “ Extract from 
the ‘Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser,’ 
of friday, March 15th, 1822:—On Wednesday morning his 
Hxcellency the Governor came to town for the purpose of 
accompanying the Philosophical Society to the south head 
of Botany Bay to erect an inscription to commemorate the 
first landing of Captain Cook and Sir Joséph Banks; but 
when the party arrived at the north shore, the state of the 
wind forbade their crossing the bay. The excursion was 
therefore postponed till the following Wednesday, and the 
President and members dined where they were, and were 
honoured by the company of the principal officers of the 
‘Dauntless,’ together with Captain Elliott and Captain 
Piper.’’ 
' He had, earlier in the year, 1821, arrived from Britain, and been 
appointed by Macquarie Assistant-Surgeon at Parramatta. He received 
the favour of Brisbane, who supported him during a trying experience. 
For particulars concerning him, see Hist. Rec. Austral., Vol. x. He became 
Hon. Sec. of both the 1850 Society and of the Philos. Soc. N.S.W. (1855). 
