Royal Society of New South Wales

The Royal Society of New South Wales is an Australian academic society based in Sydney. It was founded on June 7, 1821 as Pilosophical Society of Australasia. It is the oldest learned society in Australia and one of the oldest in the southern hemisphere.

After a period of inactivity, it was renamed on 19 January 1850 in Australian Philosophical Society. The current name was established on December 12, 1866 by a Royal Decree.

It may at any join that is interested in the study of the sciences, art, literature and philosophy. The Company issues the Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales out. In Sydney regular monthly meetings are held, as well as the branch of the company shall be in the Southern Highlands as very active. The Governor-General of Australia and the Governor of New South Wales are patrons of the society.

Notable members

• Edward Wollstonecraft, a founding member of the original Philosophical Society of Australasia
• Branwhite William Clarke, geologist and longtime Vice President
• Been Philip Sydney Jones, surgeon and 51 years as a member
• Simon Jacques Prokhovnik, mathematicians and high school teachers

President

List is incomplete!

• Thomas Brisbane, 1821
• George Handley Knibbs, 1881
• Archibald Liversidge, 1885, 1889 and 1900
• Charles Smith Wilkinson, 1887
• William Henry Warren, 1892 and 1902
• Henry Chamberlain Russell
• Frederick Bickell Guthrie, 1903
• Richard Hind Cambage, 1912 and 1923
• Henry George Smith, 1913
• Ernest Clayton Andrews, 1921
• Carl Süssmilch, 1922
• Edgeworth David
• James Douglas Stewart, 1927-1928
• William Rowan Browne, 1932-33
• Ronald Sydney Nyholm, 1954
• Peter A. Williams, 2001
• J. C. Kelly