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"With the inauguration of a university, all this should be chano;ed. 

 At the biological laboratories associated therewith, those fell 

 diseases which periodically work so much havoc among our 

 sheep, cattle, and other live stock, will receive special attention ; 

 and the more widely diffused knowledge that will thus accru-' 

 concerning their primary nature, causes and effects, will no 

 doubt enable the rising generation of pastoralists to cope with, or 

 minimise the effects of these diseases, to an extent that will 

 represent the saving of untold wealth to the colony. With res- 

 pect to the departments of agriculture, arboriculture, and forestry 

 again, the college courses devoted to plant anatomy and physi- 

 ology, with their associated laboratory work and pi'obable experi- 

 mental agricultural farms, should similarly im])art or evoke 

 information that will ensure the successful tx'eatment of the 

 many destructive plant diseases. And on the other hand, give an 

 enormous impetus towards the fuller utilisation of the vast areas 

 which at present lie waste, or which through the absence of tech- 

 nical knowledge, are cultivated with such crops, or in such 

 manner, as to yield but a fractional proportion only of the profits 

 they might be brought to realize, under scientific treatment. 



The information and experience gained in the university 

 lecture-rooms and laboratories, and which will arm the agricul- 

 tural and pastoral student with the technical knowledge and 

 acumen enabling him to successfully handle the many prcdilems 

 of animal and vegetable physiology and pathology he will 

 encounter in his work-a-day life, have necessarily to be of a 

 thorough-going and comprehensive order. Types representative 

 of every important section of the animal and vegetable kingdoms 

 have to be intelligently comprehended, and, if jjossible, practic- 

 ally investigated with the aid of the scalpel and microscope. The 

 mutual relationship and interdependence of one group to oi' upon 

 another, it may be as a direct means of support or it may be as a 

 check serving to preserve the balance of power, is so subtly 

 adjusted that unless they are studied collectively they cannot be 

 intellegently understood. In this manner, certain of the diseases 

 rife among cattle and other live stock are now known to be 



