20 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
The fellowship in pure chemistry has been awarded 
to Dr. H. G. Denham, one of our former members, while 
that in economic biology has been allotted to me. It is 
my intention to continue my work on Australian para- 
sitology, giving more especial attention to the parasitic 
organisms affecting stock and other domesticated animals 
in Queensland. 
The fellowship in engineering is granted to a graduate 
in Engineering in our University, who must, during the 
first two years of its tenure, travel abroad and carry out 
work either in technical manufacturing works or engineer- 
ing research laboratories, or else in connection with special 
engineering enterprise ; while during his third year he must 
assist in teaching and demonstrating in the Engineering 
school of the University. 
The Commonwealth Government and Applied Science. 
The Commonwealth Government: has interested itself 
in industrial and scientific research and is now consider- 
ing, in conjunction with the State Government, the appoint- 
ment of a highly trained entomologist who shall be specially 
qualified to deal with the insect pests of the sugar cane. 
This is a matter of importance to Queensland. It has 
also assisted several workers who are investigating the 
problem of worm nodules in Australian cattle. 
Moreover the Prime Minister now proposes to establish 
a Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry. An 
advisory committee, consisting of scientific and business 
men, has been formed to assist the Government in formu- 
lating a scheme and has recommended that the functions 
of the Institute should be, amongst other things, “ to con- 
sider and initiate scientific researches in connection with, 
or for the promotion of, primary or secondary industries 
in the Commonwealth” ; ‘‘ the establishment of national 
laboratories”; . . . ‘“‘the immediate utilisation of 
existing institutions, whether Federal or State, for the pur- 
poses of industrial scientific research”; . . . “the 
establishment and award of industrial research student- 
ships and fellowships ”: “to draw attention to 
any new industries which might be profitably established 
in the Commonwealth’. . . ; ‘“‘ the co-ordination and 
