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pare petitions to his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and to 

 the Honorable the Legislative Council, requesting them to assist 

 in carrying out the ohject aimed at." 



S. Illla, Esq., M.l)., brought before the Meeting the advisability 

 of an application for a Royal Charter, in reference to which it was 

 moved by J. 31. Brooke, Esq., seconded by Dr. Iffla, and car- 

 ried — ''That the Council be instructed to make the necessary ar- 

 ran<rements to prepare the form of application for the incorporation 

 of the Society by a royal charter, and their report be laid before a 

 General Meeting of Members as soon as possible." 



■ December \2th, 1854. 

 Monthly MEEXiNa. D. E. Wilkie, Esq., M.D.,in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were confirmed. 



New Members admitted since the last Meeting : — Major Norman 

 Campbell, the Right Rev. Dr. Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop of 

 Melbourne, Sir William a' Beckett, Chief Justice, the Right Rev. 

 Dr. Perry, Lord Bishop of Melbourne, the Very Rev. Dr. Fitzpatrick, 

 Dr. McKenna, W. H. Campbell, T. Pardee, and S. Hanaford, Esqs. 



The following memorials in compliance with the resolution of the 

 last Meeting were unanimously agreed upon. 



To His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham, Knight, Commander of the Bath 

 . Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, Sc. 



The memorial of the Members of the Philosophical Society of Vic- 

 toria in General Meeting assembled, 



Humbly sheweth : — 



That your Memorialists, deeply impressed with the necessity of elicit- 

 ing the fullest information relative to the available sources of industry, 

 which exist in the Colony, would beg to draw the attention of your 

 Excellency to the following sug<^cstive scheme, which, in the judgment 

 of your Memorialists, is adequate to the end proposed. ^ 



That your Memoriahsts having seen with regret the inutility of indi- 

 vidual exertions in prosecuting researches for auriferous fields, coal and 

 other minerals, have devised and proposed that duly qualified agents 

 should be sent to explore such parts of the Colony as are most likely to 

 possess mineral or metallic wealth ; and that these agents, on the com- 

 pletion of such examinations, should report to your petitioners of the 

 same for the information of themselves and the public. That these 

 agents should also collect specimens which might seem to them of prac- 

 tical value or of peculiar scientific interest. 



That your Memorialists have brought this matter before the inhabi- 

 tants of Yictoria, and have sought to induce their co-operation, but 



