HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 2aF 
the Secretary is given as (W.G.) Pennington. The office 
is now 416 George Street. 
‘“‘The scene is still more lively on annual or half-yearly 
exhibitions of the Australian Botanic and Horticultural 
Society, when many thousands assemble to inspect the 
fruits, flowers, and vegetables, and other colonial products, 
arranged in marquees, and to listen to the music of the 
regimental and city bands, sitting or strolling under the 
shadow of trees of many climes, and looking forth upon the 
calm grassy cove dotted with boats, the opposite edge of 
the Inner Domain, crowned with the vice-regal palace, the 
frigates riding at anchor off the point, the less trim mer- 
chantmen in ‘the stream’ waiting for a wind, and the 
woody hills of the north shore in the back-ground.’’—(““Our 
Antipodes,’”’ by G. O. Mundy, Vol. I, p. 71. 
There is a list of office-bearers in the “‘ Australian 
Almanac’’ for 1852, an abbreviated one in that for 1853 
(Moore’s), and an extended one in the “ Australian 
Almanac” (Ford’s) for the same year, from which we learn 
that the office was now in Wynyard Terrace. 
The 1854 Almanac tells us:—‘*The chief object of this 
Society is the promotion of botanical and horticultural 
science. The Society is managed by a President, five vice- 
presidents, a committee of twelve members, a secretary 
and a treasurer. A subscription of one guinea constitutes 
membership with the following privileges:—two tickets for 
each exhibition and free admittance for the member and 
the holders of his tickets at 2 o’clock to the exhibition, 
with a right for the former to introduce ladies on payment 
of one shilling each and children at sixpence each. Mem- 
bers are entitled to vote at the general meetings, and are 
privileged to introduce their friends at the monthly meet- 
ings. A portion of the funds of the Society is expended 
annually in the purchase of books and periodicals for the 
