AN ADDRESS ON SCIENCE AND THE STATE. 



WITH SPECIAL EEEERENCE TO 



TUBERCULOSIS AND THE 



PUBLIC HEALTH 



By PROFESSOR E. M. CROOKSHANK, 



M.B., LoND. 



(Delivered before the Royal Society of Queenslaml, 22nd May, 1902 j. 



Mk. Peesident, Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen,— I 

 consider it a great honour to have been invited to deliver an 

 address before the Royal Society of Queensland, and it is also 

 a great pleasure to comply with the request of the President 

 and other scientific friends who have shown me much hospitality 

 and kindness during my visit to Australia. My time and 

 thoughts have been more than occupied with the mission which 

 has brought me to this country, and more especially with the 

 disastrous condition of the pastoral industry, caused by the 

 drought which is so seriously affecting the prosperity of Queens- 

 land and New South Wales. If, however, by complying with 

 the request of the President, I succeed in the smallest way in 

 giving encouragement to the scientific work which is being car- 

 ried on in Queensland, I shall feel amply rewarded for the 

 sacrifice of the little time which I have had at my disposal. It 

 is especially gratifying to me to be associated in any way with 

 the work of the Royal Society of Queensland, which, under 

 the able presidency of Dr. John Thomson and his distinguished 

 predecessors, has done so much to spread scientific knowledge. 

 PRACTICAL VALUE OF SCIENCE. 

 In spite of the marvellous advances made by science dur- 

 ing the past century, there are still those who question the 

 practical value of many of its branches, and even if they do not 

 oppose financial assistance on the part of the Government, they 



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