THE chairman's ADDRESS. 905 



Mr, Ethei-idge's " Catalogue of Works, &g., on tlie Anthro- 

 pology, &c., of the Australian and Tasmanian Aborigines." 

 Part i. (issued as No. 8 of the same series) ; Mr. Whitelegge's 

 " List of the Marine and Fresh-water InverteV)rate Fauna of Port 

 Jackson" (Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. XXIII. p. 163), Mr. 

 Froggatt's " Catalogue of the desci'ibed Hymenoptera of Aus- 

 tralia." Part i. (in our own Proceedings\ and Mr. North's 

 " Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds found 

 breeding in Australia and Tasmania" (Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 12), 

 continue the series of catalogues, bibliographical or systematic, 

 and censuses, zoological or botanical, so useful to students in the 

 colonies where good libraries are very few in number, and so 

 helpful in economising both time and energy. 



Three important innovations during the year are the establish- 

 ment of a Department of Agriculture, a Department of Forestry, 

 and of country branches of the Technological Museum. 



It is to be hoped that in this colony the carrying on of agricultural 

 operations will now gradually but steadily come to be modified in 

 accordance with, and to be based upon, the teachings of science, 

 which hitherto have been somewhat out of reach of many of our 

 agriculturalists, who have had to battle more or less helplessly 

 against the attacks of injurious pests, animal and vegetable. 

 Indeed the necessity of conducting agriculture on scientific 

 principles is one which has for some time past occupied the 

 attention of our neighbours in Victoria and South Australia, 

 from whom in the course of the year we received the "Eighth 

 Progress Report of the Royal Commission on Vegetable Products," 

 and Bulletins Nos. 1, 6, 7, 9-11, of the Victorian Department of 

 Agriculture ; and Proceedings of the First Congress, Agricultural 

 Bureau of S.A. (1890). These, with their forerunners, together 

 with the publications of our own Department ("Agricultural 

 Gazette," Vol. I, Nos. 1-3, " Bulletin " No. i. and Turner's 

 " Census of Grasses "), and Mr. Tryon's Report on Queensland 

 Pests No. i, make up a very bulky contribution to the literature 

 of the subject. But while rejoicing that the necessity for taking 



