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The adoption of the Report of the Council aud the iinancial 

 statement was moved by the Hon. A. Norton. M.L.A., seconded 

 by Mr D. O'Connor, and carried. 



The Chairman then called upon Mr. W". Saville-Kent to 

 deliver the presidential address for the year 1889-90. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



By AV. Saville-Kent, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.. 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, Queensland. 



Following habitual custom, it has been incumbent that your 

 retiring president should prepare and submit for your consider- 

 ation, an essay upon some subject in harmony with the general 

 scope of the scientific Society which conferi'ed upon him the 

 high honour of election to its presidential chair. 



The theme selected for this address, should pi'eferably be one 

 with which the author liiids himself in a position to speak with 

 some amount of confidence, and in this direction I trust that I 

 have chosen one containing, or that may stimulate into life, some 

 few germs of thought, that in the no very distant future, may 

 bring forth a profitable harvest. The excellent address delivered 

 by your last year's retiring president, eloquently championed the 

 ju!-t chiims of Queensland to possess a university, whereat her 

 rising youth should be afforded the means of obtaining that 

 systematic training for the liberal professions, which under 

 present auspices, they are accustomed to seek in either Europe or 

 the neighbouring colonies. Another year's circuit has served 

 but to emphasise ihe necessity for the provision of these advan- 

 tages, within the boundaries of the colony. The gain that will 

 accrue from the highest and widest system of education, being 

 readily accessible to all classes of the community, has already 

 commanded such an extent of public recognition, that a committee 

 has been appointed to discuss and decide upon the most efficient 

 scheme for the establishment of such a university for Queens- 

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