X. president's address. 



Science Master of the Technical College at Bathurst from its com- 

 mencement; and, later, as Lecturer in Chemistry and Metallurgy 

 at the Sydney Technical College. Mr. Ross was the author of a 

 number of chemical papers contributed to the Royal Society of 

 New South Wales. He was interested also in Natural History; 

 and, during his residence in Bathurst, he collected and studied 

 the plants of the district, especially in relation to the geological 

 formations on which they occur. The results were embodied in 

 an important paper, " Notes on the Flora of Bathurst, and its 

 connection with the Geology of the district," which will be found 

 in the Report of the Seventh Meeting of the Australasian Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science (Sydney, 1898), p. 467. 



Mr. James R. Garland, deceased on 5th February, 1915, had 

 a special claim upon our regard. He was educated at the Sydney 

 Grammar School, and entered Sydney University as an under- 

 graduate in 1857, one of the fifth batch of students. At this 

 time, Sir Charles Nicholson was Chancellor, and William Charles 

 Wentworth was a member of the Senate; so that Mr. Garland's 

 recollections went back to a very interesting period of both 

 University and New South Wales history. He took his B.A. 

 degree in 1859, and his M. A. in 1862. After serving his articles 

 in Sydney, he was admitted as a Solicitor on July 1st, 1865, and 

 practised with a Sydney firm for some time, until, in 1870, he 

 took up practice in Wagga, where he continued to practise until 

 his removal to Sydney in 1890. Perhaps before, but more pro- 

 bably during the early part of his residence in Wagga, Mr. 

 Garland came to know Sir William Macleay, who, from 1855 

 until November, 1874, represented the Murrumbidgee electorate 

 in the Legislative Assembly, or its predecessor. Wagga was the 

 headquarters of his electioneering campaigns, and Mr. Garland 

 became one of Sir William's active supporters. Somewhat later, 

 Mr. Garland, as Sir William's Solicitor, undertook the business 

 oversight of some property near Wagga in which the latter was 

 interested. Whatever the details may be, it is certain that their 

 association, at this early period, ripened into warm regard on 

 both sides. In February, 1880, Mr. Garland joined the Societ}^. 

 In 1892, shortly after his removal to Sydney, on the initiative 



