Excerpt from Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, for 1897, Vol. 31 The royal society of New South Wales originated in 1821 as the Philosophical Society of Australasia; after an inter val 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.