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diligently worked in those years when communication 

 with the scientific centres of the world was not as easy 

 as it is nowadays. In 191 2 we will be able to cele- 

 brate the 70th anniversary of the first scientific Journal 

 published in Tasmania — in fact, if I am not very much 

 mistaken, of the first scientific Journal published in Aus- 

 tralia, and two years later the Royal Society of Tasmania 

 will look back on 70 years of scientific work. 



