Copy of a Memorial dated June 27, 1913, addressed to the King’s 
Most Excellent Majesty Buckingham Palace, London. 
Sire, 
Representing' the Council and Members of the Natural History 
and Science Society of Western Australia, we, Your Majesty’s loyal 
and obedient subjects, pray that you will be graciously pleased to 
permit the Society to assume the title of “The Royal Society of 
Western Australia,” and, in addition, that Your Majesty will con- 
sent to become Patron of the Society — an honour which was accorded 
to the Royal Society of South Australia by Her Late Majesty, 
Queen Victoria. In petitioning these signal favours we beg to 
point out that the principal scientific societies of all the other States 
of the Commonwealth of Australia have received permission from 
the reigning Sovereign to assume the title of “Royal Society” of 
the respective States— Tasmania in 1843, Victoria in 1854, New 
South Wales in 1866, South Australia in 1879, and Queensland in 
1885— and, further, that our own Society, like those of the other 
States, is, and has been, actively engaged in fostering the study of 
the natural sciences, and in publishing the results of original re- 
search since the year 1897. 
We represent the collective scientific activity of the State, and 
number among our .members the heads and staffs of various scientific 
Departments of the Government and many of the Professors of the 
newly founded State University. We are sending herewith a bound 
volume of the last three numbers of the Society’s Journal, as evi- 
dence of the substantial contributions to the sum total of natural 
knowledge which have already been made within the State of West- 
ern Australia. 
We rgmain, 
With profoundest veneration, 
Sire, 
Tour Majesty’s most faithful Subjects and dutiful Servants, 
(Signed) C. G. THORP, 
President. 
(Signed) MAURICE A. BROWNE, 
Honorary Secretary. 
