BY J. BROWNLIE HENDERSON. V. 
that lie open to them at their very doors and of the intense 
fascination of the search after such knowledge, we would 
hear a great deal less about the monotony of the Australian 
bush. Why, the bush simply teems with scientific facts 
waiting to be made known to a huge audience thirsty for 
the knowledge. 
In the Old Country, the Royal Society’s work largely 
depends on the use of expensive apparatus—natural history 
has been to a great extent worked out. But here in Queens- 
land Natural History papers ought certainly to be sent in 
by hundreds, and yet they are comparatively few in number. 
I trust that ere long we will have far more work of this class 
entered in the records of the Society. 
When the powers that be in Queensland wake up to 
the necessity of seriously fighting the various pests that 
tend to destroy our agriculturai industry the scientists 
who take up the work will, I hope, find much of the life 
history of those pests already recorded in the Proceedings 
of the Royal Societv. At present we have some such infor- 
mation collected, but the amount is very small indeed 
compared with what might be and ought to be on record. 
I sincerely trust that my successor in office will find a 
change for the better in the amount of research work recorded 
during the year 1906, and that the present members of the 
Society will look through their observations for the last 
few years to see if they cannot find there some work worthy 
of a place in our Proceedings. I think it must rather be 
excessive modesty than excessive laziness that causes our 
Proceedings to contain the names of so very few members 
of the Society, seeing that many of them are continually at 
work in their special branches of study. 
And now to the subject of the evening— 
EDUCATION IN QUEENSLAND. 
There is absolutely no need to apologise for introducing 
such a subject as education in the President’s Address to 
this Society. I know it is much more common in Royal 
Societies to give a resume of the scientific research of the 
world during the past year in one or more branches of science, 
but it would be absurd for me to attempt such a task in 
Brisbane. It must be a very hard task indeed where there 
are many to help and first-class libraries to refer to, but here 
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