20 president's address. 



various Government Departments, and amateurs; and therefore, 

 as a rule, in conjunction with, or in subordination to, official 

 duties. The only important exception, as far as I know, is the 

 Macleay Bacteriologist to this Society. But there is another class 

 of investigators, at present only casually or intermittently or not 

 at all provided for, in the above classification; and it was for this 

 special class that Sir William accepted the responsibility of pro- 

 viding an improved locals standi. Leaving the Macleay Bacteri- 

 ologist out of account. Sir William Macleay's liberality is then 

 correctly characterised as the endowment of Post-graduate 

 Research in Natural Science. 



The case for the endowment of research of this special character 

 has been well stated by Mr. Addison Brown in an excellent Address 

 upon "Endowment for Scientific Research, &c.," delivered in 

 jSTew York in 1892.* He says :— 



" Upon the post-graduate workers, the future of science and 

 the recruits for future teachers and professors, must necessarily 

 depend. In that view the importance of post-graduate endow- 

 ments in science can scarcely be magnified. The great majority 

 of the young men from w^hom all the new recruits must be drawn 

 have little or no pecuniary means. After graduating, often 

 through many difficulties, they must face the question of their 

 future calling. They must consider what promise of a reasonable 

 and comfortable support a life devoted to science afibrds. If this 

 risk should not deter them, still there are many with talents of 

 a high order who would be absolutely unable to proceed further 

 in the advanced scientific studies necessary to qualify them to 

 enter upon remunerative scientific w^ork, or to obtain situations 

 as professors or assistants, except by the aid of substantial 

 endowments for their support, during the three or four years 

 more of necessary assiduous study. 



" In the stress of modern life, and in the allurements towards 

 more certain pecuniary results, nothing but such endowments 



* Reprinted in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1892, 

 p. 629. 



