A Royal Charter

The Governor of New South Wales has always and continues to be the sole patron of the Society. By 1908, almost thirty years after its formation, the Society had risen in prominence to the extent that the then President of the New South Wales Zoological Society, Dr T.P. Anderson-Stuart, sought permission to add the "Royal" prefix to the name. A Royal Charter was duly granted in September 1908.

On the 10th February 1909, the Society changed its name to The "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales".