342 J. H. MAIDEN. 
Professor Liversidge, Charles Moore Esq., The Honorable 
Francis Lord, M.L.c., Dr. Leibius, Rev. Dr. Lang. 
The deputation having been introduced to Mr. Docker by 
Mr. Farnell, submitted a request to be communicated to the 
Government for the sum of £2,500 for the erection of a 
suitable building and £300 annually for the ordinary pur- 
poses of the Society. 
The deputation was courteously received,and the Minister 
promised to lay the matter before the Government in the 
following form, viz:—‘‘To place on the Supplementary 
Hstimates for the current year, the sum of £300, so as to: 
enable the Society to draw from the above named sum an 
amount equal to the annual subscriptions of the Society, 
and to place on the Hstimates for the year 1877 the sum of 
£2,500. 
The following memorandum was signed by the deputation. 
and handed in to the Minister, viz:— 
In re Royal Society’s application for Assistance—Reasons for the 
Application. 
1. To enable them to give popular Scientific Lectures. 
2. To establish working Sections of the Society for the pro- 
motion of special branches of Science. 
3. To collect a Standard Scientific Library. 
4. To be a central Institution in New South Wales for the 
collection of Scientific works from all parts of the world. Their 
recent experience has shown them that the Transactions of their 
Society will be received as an equivalent for the publications of 
many of the leading Scientific Societies of Europe and America. ° 
5. In England similar Scientific Societies afford valuable: 
information to the Government on many subjects. The Royal 
Society of Sydney has done something in the past, and is anxious. 
to do more in the future. 
6. The money at their disposal will not enable them to main- 
tain their present relations with the public and other societies, 
