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Inaugural and Anniversary Addresses of the Royal Society

Inaugural Address, delivered by Mr. Justice Barry, President of the Institute, at the Opening Converzazione, 22nd Sept., 1854

Inaugural Address of the President, Captain Clarke, R. E., Surveyor-General, &c., &c.

Anniversary Address of the President, the Honourable Andrew Clarke, Captain R. E., M.P., Surveyor-General of Victoria, &c., &c., &c.

Anniversary Address of the President, His Honor Sir William Foster Stawell, Knight, Chief Justice of Victoria, &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute, 12th April, 1858]

Anniversary Address of the President, Ferdinand Mueller, Esq., Ph.D., M.D. F.R.G. and L.S., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute, 28th March, 1859]

Address of the President, Ferdinand Mueller, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.G. & L.S., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute at the Inauguration of the Hall, January 23rd, 1860.]

Inaugural Address of the President, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Royal Society, at the Anniversary Meeting held on the 10th April, 1860.]

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Anniversary Address of the President, the Honourable Andrew Clarke, Captain R. E., M.P., Surveyor-General of Victoria, &c., &c., &c.

The office of your President requiring qualifications I am aware I do not possess, and being ordinarily occupied in the discharge of official duties requicring all my time, I fear I shall be able to add but little to the proceedings of a Society which can be made the means of great benefit to the country, yet let me assure you that my hopes will not be the less sanguine, or my efforts the less ardent, to place your Institute on a basis which will commans support and respect.

It now becomes my duty briefly to revert to the past history of the two societies, the union of which we are met here this evening to cement.

Though the past efforts of both have not been unworthy of their object, they have fallen far short of what we can hope to attain for the future by their combination. When I had the pleasure of addressing the first meeting of the Philosophical Society, its members were few, and it had a powerful rival in the Victorian Institute. It seemed then as though there were insuperable difficulties to their amalgamation, but connected as I have been from the first with both, it was always my earnest desire to see consolidated the strength and energy of the two Societies.

The circumstances of the country indeed precluded the possibility of two such Societies existing successfully, and as this became more evident it was proposed to effect their union on a wide and permanent basis.

The management of this was entrusted to committees of the Council of both, and I have to congratulate the gentle men forming those committees on the temper and prudence they exhibited in conducting the arrangement to a successful conclusion.

United as we now are, and receiving accessions of new members, our means of useful exertion are greatly increased.

If we are firm to those principles which pest experience has shown to be best for scientific bodies, we need entertain no fears that our efforts will be misconstrued, or that the public will long remain indifferent to our pursuits.


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