]^iVrES ON A BRUSH-TONGUED MOSQUITO. 



By W. R. COLIiEDGE. 



Presidential Address, read before the Royal Society of 

 Queensland, 25th February, 1911. 



liadies and Gentlemen, — 



You have heard from the Report that the year has 

 not been unfruitful. Our late Premier was reported to 

 have asked if the Royal Society was alive. The best 

 answer to that will be the substantial volume of the pro- 

 ceedings which mil soon issue from the press. It will be 

 found more bulky than some of its predecessors. This 

 is partly the result of kind contributors, the efforts of our 

 very energetic Secretary, supplemented by members of 

 the Council. But if the half of those who have been 

 appealed to had responded in the affirmative, the result 

 would have been a still more bulky volume as the evidence 

 of our existence. 



Only those who have sought to secure such work as 

 is desired by the Royal Society know the difficulty that 

 exists in obtaining original contributions. A trouble that 

 is not peculiar to our State ; for I note in the last report 

 of that old-established Microscopic Society of London, 

 the " Quekett Club " (of which our Bacteriologist, Mr. 

 Pound, is a member), that they complain of the same 

 difficulty ; and regretfully say that if more original papers 

 are not forthcoming, then the usefulness of their valuable 

 magazine will be much curtailed. This is somewhat sur- 

 prising, considering that the age is one of intense activity. 

 There has never been as much scientific work done, in the 

 same time, in any previous age, as in the present. All 

 the world over, more men are occupied, who possess wider 

 knowledge and more finished equipment than they ever 

 iiad before. New fields of work are continually opening 



