See J. H. MAIDEN. 
I can find no more entries, and as Sir William Denison, 
who instigated the formation of the Committee, and warmly 
supported it, shortly afterwards left the Colony, the Com- 
mittee probably lapsed. 
11. The Royal Society of New South Wales, (12th 
December, 1866 —.) 
It seems proper to record the 12th December, 1866, the 
date on which the Royal Assent was communicated toa 
meeting of the Society, as the new birthday of the Royal 
Society of New South Wales. 
(The following abstract of minutes, almost exclusively of 
the monthly meetings, are from June 1867 until January 
1875, after which date abstracts began to be published in 
each annual volume). 
The minutes of the Council Meeting of 17th June, 1867, 
record—“*The Secretary was instructed to furnish Mr. 
Olarke with the necessary documents to enable him to 
write an Historical Sketch of the Society from the com- 
mencement.” (Later Council Minutes are given below, p. 
338). The result of this was the ‘‘Inaugural Address to 
the Royal Society delivered at its first meeting, 9th July, 
1867, by the Revd. W. B. Olarke, M.A., F.G,S., etc., Vice- 
President,’’} and which is the best account we have of the 
history of the Society. 
First Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 9th 
July, 1867. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.a., Vice-President, read the 
Inaugural Address. It is printed in Vol. I, and contains a 
valuable historical summary of the Society from its founda- 
tion. 
1 Trans. Roy. Soc. N. 8. Wales, for year 1867, Vol. 1, p. 1, (1868). 
