HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. aD7 
descent from it, or even collateral descent, except with 
important reservations. 
Professor Smith (p. 3) referring to Mr. Clarke’s state- 
ment as to the “‘resuscitation in 1850 of the old Society,”’ 
says, “‘there must have been an attempted revival at an 
earlier date, for in the New South Wales Calendar of 1832 
I find mention of an ‘Australian Society’”’ etc. This isa 
reference to the Australian Society of 1830, and at p. 228, 
I have stated that I know of no evidence to connect our 
Society with it. 
The relations of our Society with the 1850 Society. 
In ‘‘Sydn. Mag. Sci. and Art’’ we have:—His Excellency 
Sir William Denison, on arrival in the Colony, enquired if 
there were a Society. He found...‘*there had previously 
been a Society called the Australian Society (the 1850 
Society). This however, had discontinued its operations, 
and was esteemed extinct. (It however had never been 
wound up and the funds were intact.—J.H.M.) By the 
exertions of His Excellency, in connection with some of 
the old officials’’...the 1856 Society was formed. 
The Rev. Mr. Clarke (p. 15), guardedly says ‘*‘ The interval 
between 1822 and 1856 was marked by a partial resuscita- 
tion of the Philosophical under the name of the Australian 
Philosophical Society, which was formed in the beginning 
of 1850,”’ etc. 
Mr. Charles Moore, ‘in his anniversary address to the 
Society for 1880 (xiv, p. 1) said, ‘‘Since the re-establishment 
of the Society in 1850, although it has undergone many 
vicissitudes, and changed its name more than once, it has 
yet been continuous under some form...... Of those who 
joined the Society in 1850, Mr. R. A. Morehead and myself 
are now the only members who have not severed our con= 
nection with it.”’ . 
