68 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 
learning what were the ailments from which the earlier Chinese 
immigrants to this colony suffered. The particulars are most 
carefully recorded in them, and although Dr. Barton has not 
used the words leprosy and elephantoid disease, the descriptions 
he has detailed leave no doubt in the mind of any experienced 
surgeon who reads them, that several of the patients were con- 
firmed lepers, and also that elephantoid disease was at this early 
date (1853) introduced into the colony. After the death of Dr. 
Barton the Rev. Mr. Bliss acted as secretary to the Philosophi- 
cal Society, and compiled the meteorological statistics. He has 
since died in England. For many years Sir James Cockle, 
whose high rank asa mathematician was then as now generally 
recognised, was its president, and several very learned papers 
from his pen are to be found in the printed records of the 
Society. By the death of Mr. Charles Coxen the society lost an 
excellent supporter, whose investigations into the conchology 
and ornithology of Queensland, and whose study of the habits 
of bower-birds in particular have made his name famous. This 
reputation is shared also by the late Mr. H. C. Rawnsley, who 
wrote on this last subject, as well as on the lyre bird, in 1863-5. 
Mr. Sylvester Diggles was for many years a great supporter of 
the society, and did much to elucidate the entomology of Queens 
land. His publication of “The Ornithology of Australia,” is 
well known. The late Mr. Tiffin, Colonial Architect, took much 
interest in the growing improvements in sanitary contrivances, 
and read a paper on the subject in the year 1866. Of the mem- 
bers of the society still living in Queensland I have no remarks 
to make, as they, it is to be hoped, will, at any rate by their 
contributions to the records of the Royal Society, prevent their 
names from being forgotten. 
Of the subjects on which I had the privilege of reading papers 
on various occasions before the late Queensland Philosophical 
Society, I will refer to the following as suggestive of further 
research. The account of poisonous animals, which I wrote in ~ 
