PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 
BY 
CAPTAIN F. W-. HUTTON, F.R.S., 
PRESIDENT, 
HOBART, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902. 
EvoLUTION AND ITS TEACHING. 
I wis, very sincerely, to thank the Members of the 
Council of the Association for choosing me to preside over 
this meeting. The position of your President, elected by 
his brother workers, is the greatest honour to which a 
scientific man in Australasia can aspire, and the offer of it . 
to me gave me very great pleasure. The feeling of re- 
sponsibility for having undertaken to prepare an address to 
be read before such a distinguished and learned audience 
came later. It is a task from which the boldest might well 
shrink. 
OxpituaRy Notice or PRoFrEsSoR TATE. 
But before commencing my address, I regret to say that 
I have to record the death of a former President—Professor 
Ralph Tate. Born at Alnwick, in Northumberland, in 
1840, he early showed a strong taste for natural science, and 
in 1858 won an exhibition at the School of Mines in London. 
Subsequently, he became a teacher of science, and in 1864 
was appointed Library and Museum Assistant to the Geo- 
logical Society. 
In 1867 he went to Nicaragua, and afterwards to 
Venezuela, to examine some mining properties in those 
countries, and on his return to England he was, in 1871, 
engaged to organise mining schools in Durham and North 
Yorkshire. _In 1875 he was appointed Professor of Natural 
Science in the Adelaide University, which appointment he 
held until his death, last September. 
