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best effected by the creation of a Minister for Agriculture ; and 
that to make his administration more effective he should have at 
his elbow a man of the training and with the special qualifications 
which I have described. It is no reflection upon the admirable 
administration of Mr. De Vis, as curator of the museum, or upon 
the acknowledged services rendered to science by the labours of 
Mr. Bailey, as Government botanist, when I say that our museum 
is singularly defective in the absence of sections of technological 
and economic botany. ‘There is no doubt a sufficient reason for 
this in the want of space; but if I had the ordering of things, the 
mummies and the ethnological curios would give place to the 
legion of educational exhibits involved in the full “meaning of those 
phases of museum illustration. We seem to be drifting farther 
and farther from the recognition of science-with-practice in the 
cultivation of plants as a subject deserving inclusion in our 
educational system. At one time we made a pretence at a botanic 
garden ; a poor one I admit, but there was at least the recognition 
of the principle that it should possess educational features. Now 
the pretence is not even left, and ithas become a mere garden and 
promenade. It may be said that, as one of the trustees, I am 
partly responsible for this; but, while not thinking it necessary to 
refuse my assistance in managing the gardens in their present 
form, my views of what they should be were given formally to the 
Government, from whom I accepted the appointment, and are on 
record. I must not close my remarks without bearing testimony 
to much that has been done by our valued colleague, Dr. Bancroft, 
to aid the labours of the tiller of the soil in Queensland by 
throwing light upon some of the hindrances to successful cultiva- 
tion, and by his pioneer experiments with new plants and new 
species. I should much like to see the various papers and leaflets 
which from time to time have issued from that gentleman’s pen 
brought together, as they would form a highly interesting and 
instructive volume. 
A vote of thanks having, on the motion of Mr. R. Roe, 
been unanimously accorded to Mr. L. A. Bernays for 
his address, the follewing Officers and Council for the 
ensuing year were then elected :— 
President, A. Norton, M.L.A.; Vice-President, C. W. 
Des Vissy M-ASe Coane, ) F/M.) Bailey, FiLS; bi As 
Bernays, | yar S.: J. Tolson, Esq.; Richard Rendle, Be ST 
W. A. Tully, B. A, FR.G.S) | De. J. Bancroft was ‘appointed 
Treasurer, a second nominee having been declared ineli- 
gible through absence from the colony; and Mr. Henry 
