

NOTICE. 

 The Royal Society of New South Wales originated in 1821 as 

 the "Philosophical Society of Australasia," after an interval of 

 inactivity, it was resuscitated in 1850, under the name of the 

 " Australian Philosophical Society," by which title it was known 

 until 1856, when the name was changed to the "Philosophical 

 Society of New South Wales"; in 1866, by the sanction of Her 

 Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, it assumed its present title, 

 and was incorporated by Act of the Parliament of New South 

 Wales in 1881. 



