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especially that of the Australian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, and from whom, when the time is ripe, material 

 assistance may, no doubt, be depended on. The Queensland 

 Koyal Society will also, I trust, when that day arrives, be in the 

 position to take a leading part in the establishment and mainten- 

 ance of an institution capable of yielding the highest practical 

 and scientific results, and of which, moreover, it will possess 

 some claim for recognition as having given birth to the germ of 

 its initiation. 



The President (Mr. P. M. Bailey, F.L.S ) remarked that the 

 address that had just been delivered was one of the most 

 interesting he had ever been privilegetl to listen to, and 

 expressed the hope that Mr. Saville-Kent would favour the 

 Society with many more papers of a similar character. 



Mr. Ji. A. Berxays, in moving a vote of thanks to the 

 retiring President for his address, said that if the ladies and 

 gentlemen present had listened to it with the keen interest that 

 he (Mr. Beriiays) had, they must have been largely impressed 

 with the advantage of having in the colony a gentleman of Mr. 

 Saville-Kent's scientific attaiiunenls. His paper had shown that 

 not only was he a scientist in the technical sense of the term, 

 but one who could explain his investigations in such a manner 

 that they were interesting and readily understood by the common 

 and non-technical mind. 



Mr. Palmer, M.L.A., seconded the motion, and stated his 

 concurrence with the views of the mover in respect to the 

 address. The more scientific portions of it Avere highly 

 interesting, but it was the practical way in which the subject was 

 dealt with that impressed his niiiid. Uidess science was 

 addressed to the practical part of life in the colony, it would not 

 be greatly taken notice of. for this was a utilitarian age. One 

 difficulty in connection with the establislunent of a university in 

 Queensland was the fear that it would not beneficially afPect 

 matters practical. But there was no doubt that Mr. Saville- 

 Kent's suggestion as to the advisableness of establishing a 



