 Under the current Act of Parliament, passed in 1911, the name was shortened to The Royal Society of Tasmania.On the event of the sesquicentenary of the Society in 1993 it produced the volume "Walk to the West" to publish James Backhouse Walker's diary of a walk in 1887, including William Piguenit's paintings from that journey.In 2017 the Society's membership numbered about 350 from throughout Tasmania and beyond, meeting in Hobart and Launceston.