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The Secretary then read :— 
November 15th, 1866. 
I am directed by the Governor to forward the enclosed copy of 
a despatch received by the last mail from the Secretary of State, 
and to say that His Excellency has much pleasure in transiaitting 
it to you for the information of the Philosophical Society. 
I have, etc, 
(Signed) F. Turvitue. 
To W. H. Catietr Esq , Secretary, Philosophical Society. 
(Copy of Despatch). 
New South Wales. Downing Street, 
No. 10. 24th September, 1866. 
I have received your Despatch No. 37 of the 10th of June, 
requesting on behalf of the members of the Philosophical Society 
of New South Wales, of which you are the President, that Her 
Majesty will be pleased to permit that Society to assume the title 
of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 
Having laid this application before the Queen, I have much 
pleasure in informing you that Her Majesty has been graciously 
pleased to signify Her Assent to it, and to sanction and approve 
of the Philosophical Society in future assuming the title of “‘The 
Royal Society of New South Wales ” 
I have, etc, 
(Signed) CARNARVON. 
Governor, The Right Honourable Sir Joun Young, Bt., K.c.n. 
The Rev. W. B. Clarke exhibited two species of Fossili- 
ferous Trigonia found in the Inferior Oolite of Western 
Australia, in order to correct a statement made at a recent 
meeting of the Society to the effect that only living speci- 
mens of the genus have hitherto been found in Australia. 
Paper read.—‘‘On our Condition and Resources,”’ by Mr. 
Christopher Rolleston. 
The Philosophical Society of New South Wales, after 
holding 85 monthly meetings then adjourned, (as the Royal 
Society of New South Wales) for its usual vacation. 
