HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 349 
1. His Excellency Sir William Denison, whomI may call 
a refounder of the Society, who insisted on the re-establish- 
ment of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales in 
1855, regularly attended the meetings, and gave it motive 
power. | 
2. The Rev. W. B. Clarke, who joined the Society in 1850, 
regularly attended its meetings and, by means of his papers, 
addresses, and exhibits, did much to raise the work of the 
Society to a higher plane. 
3. Professor Liversidge, who practically re-founded the 
the Society when he became Honorary Secretary in the 
year 1875, organised its activities on proper lines, and made 
it the power for good itis to-day. Heisour greatest living 
benefactor. 
Meeting Days. 
The first three monthly meetings of the Society (May — 
July, 1856), took place on the second Friday of the month, 
but on the 11th July it was decided to meet on the second 
Wednesday of the month, while the Council Meeting was 
fixed for the previous Friday. 
On 10th August, 1859, the meeting was altered to the 
third Wednesday in the month, and the minutes of the 
monthly meeting of the 17th July, 1861, record that the 
meetings were altered from the third to the second Wednes- 
day of the month. 
On 17th August, 1864, it was decided to hold the meet- 
ings on the first Wednesday in the month, and the Council 
Meetings on the last Wednesday, and that arrangement 
has continued to the present time. 
It will be observed that the monthly meetings were first 
numerically recorded from 9th May, 1856. There are two 
series, the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, first 
monthly meeting at the date given, and eighty-fifth, 12th 
December, 1866. | 
