Proceedings of the Royal Society of 
Queensland for 1923. . 
Presidential Address. 
By H. J. Priestury, M.A. 
(Delivered before the Royal Society of Queensland, 
26th March, 1923.) 
BEFORE proceeding with the main topic of my address, 
I should like to refer to three matters mentioned in the 
Annual Report. 
You will have noticed how large a proportion of our 
annual expenditure is devoted to printing. Like all other 
seientifie societies we are badly hit by the increased cost 
of publication, and I would urge on members the need for 
continued efforts to maintain and increase our resources. 
A gratifying feature of last year’s work is the vo-opera- 
tion between our Society and fie Royal Geographical 
Society. It is to be hoped that we may see a gradual 
drawing together for mutual support of all kindred societies 
in Brisbane. In such a way we might diminish the evils of 
isolation, serious everywhere, but especially serious in a city 
far from the main centres of intellectual activity. 
During the past vear we have lost by death two 
ordinary members and one corresponding member of the 
Society—Dr. Alfred Sutton, Mr. James Johnston, and 
Professor J. A. Pollock. 
At the outbreak cf war im 1914 Dr. Sutton was 
principal medical officer of the Queensland Military 
District. He left Australia with the first expeditionary 
foree as Licutenant-Colonel in command of the Third Field 
Ambulance, and was present at the Janding on Gallipoli. 
For his services throughout the war he was appointed a 
Companion of the Orders of the Bath and St. Michael and 
St. George, and a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. doh 
of Jerusalem. 
Mr. JAMES JOHNSTON entered the service of the Depart- 
ment of Public Instruction in !881 as a pupil teacher at 
Warner. He served as assistant teacher at Warner and 
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