ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



An Act to incorporate a Society called "The 

 Royal Society of New South Wales." [16 

 December, 1881.] 



WHEREAS a Society called (with the sanction of Her Preamble 

 Most Gracious Majesty the Queen) "The Royal 

 Society of New South Wales" has under certain rules and 

 by-laws been formed at Sydney in the Colony of New South 

 Wales for the encouragement of studies and investigations 

 in Science Art Literature and Philosophy And whereas 

 the Council of the said Society is at the present time com- 

 posed of the following office-bearers and members His 

 Excellency the Right Honorable Lord Augustus Loftus p.c. 

 g.c.b. Honorary President The Honorable John Smith 

 c.m.g. m.d. lld. President and Charles Moore Esquire f.l.s. 

 Director of the Botanic Gardens Sydney and Henry 

 Chamberlaine Russell Esquire b.a. (Sydney) f.r.a.s. f.m.s. 

 (London) Government Astronomer for New South Wales 

 Vice-Presidents and H. G. A. Wright Esquire m.r.c.s. 

 Honorary Treasurer Archibald Liversidge Esquire Associate 

 of the Royal School of Mines London Fellow of the Institute 

 of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland and Professor of 

 Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Sydney and 

 Carl Adolph Leibius Esquire Doctor of Philosophy of the 

 University of Heidelberg Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry 

 of Great Britain and Ireland Honorary Secretaries W. A. 

 Dixon Esquire Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Great 

 Britain and Ireland G. D. Hirst Esquire Robert Hunt 

 Esquire Associate of the Royal School of Mines London 

 Deputy Master Sydney Branch Royal Mint Eliezer L. 



