HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 261 
Professor Woolley, G. K. Holden, Hsq., Professor Pell, 
John Thompson, Esq., Rev. George Turner, R. J. 
Want, Esq., together with the office-bearers. 
‘‘That a deputation, consisting of Sir Charles Nichol- 
son, Captain Ward, and Dr. Douglass, be appointed to 
wait on his Excellency to request his acceptance of 
the Presidency, and to know his pleasure as to the 
calling the Society together.”’ 
His Excellency further explained that a Committee had 
been appointed to draw up Rules for the guidance of the 
new Society, that this committee had accordingly prepared 
a code of fundamental laws, which were afterwards adopted 
at a general meeting, and the Australian Society thereupon 
merged into the one now inaugurated. The fundamental 
laws are as follows:— 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Constitution. 
1. The object of the society is to receive at its stated 
meetings, original papers on subjects of science, art, liter- 
ature, and philosophy. 
2. The office-bearers to consist of a president, two vice- 
presidents, a treasurer, and two or more secretaries. 
3. The council of management to consist of the office- 
bearers and six ordinary members, three to form a quorum. 
4, Candidates for admission as ordinary members, to be 
proposed and seconded at one of the stated meetings of the 
society. The vote on their admission to take place by 
ballot, at the next subsequent meeting; the assent of the 
majority of the members voting at the latter meeting being 
requisite for the admission of the candidate. 
). Honorary members to be nominated by three ordinary 
members at one of the stated meetings of the society: The 
vote for their admission to take place by ballot at the next 
subsequent meeting; one adverse vote in five to exclude, 
