708 NARRATIVE AND ITINERARY 
These eleventh-hour alterations created a difficult situation for the 
Executive at Brisbane, but it was ably and generously dealt with. 
Members now desiring to be included in the Brisbane party were 
allowed, so far as possible, to take the places of those who no longer 
desired inclusion, the party (of 182 members) being kept at or about the 
total number originally arranged for. Members of the Brisbane Execu- 
tive attended at Sydney and worked with the general organisers in 
rearranging the party: the allocation of railway accommodation for the 
journey north from Sydney had to be recast, and the Brisbane Execu- 
tive had in the short time available to make many new dispositions 
in regard to guests and hosts, but they were able to distribute complete 
Information Lists on the special trains in ample time before Brisbane 
was reached. Of that section of the party which did not proceed 
to Brisbane some stayed in Sydney or made other independent arrange- 
ments; a few, under the informal leadership of Sir E. Rutherford, 
F.R.S., visited New Zealand. 
Wednesday, August 26.—Some of the Sections met in the morning. 
The first special sleeping-car train left for Brisbane at 12.40 and 
the second at 1.50 p.m. Dinner was served at Singleton, where the 
President and other official Members (travelling on the first train) were 
received by the Mayor. 
Brisbane, August 27—September 1. 
Thursday, August 27.—The trains reached Wallangarra, at the fron- 
tier between New South Wales and Queensland, about 7.25 and 8.5 a.m. 
respectively. Here breakfast was provided, the Members, at this meal 
and luncheon at Toowoomba, being the guests of the Queensland 
Government. Tickets for these meals had been distributed on the 
trains during the previous day’s journey, together with ribbon-badges 
which constituted free passes over the tramways in Brisbane. A 
break of gauge occurs at Wallangarra, the Queensland Government 
lines being of 3 ft. 6in. gauge. Members continued their journey from 
this point in two special trains, which reached Brisbane at 5.33 and 
6.15 p.m. respectively. The party was accompanied from Wallangarra 
to Toowoomba by the General Traffic Manager at Toowoomba, and 
thenceforward by the Deputy Commissioner for Railways. The Deputy 
Mayor of Toowoomba (Mr. T. A. Price) welcomed official Members 
as the first train passed. By the courtesy of the railway officials, 
the second train made two short stops, enabling passengers to alight 
while passing through the fine scenery of the ranges near Toowoomba. 
Friday, August 28.—The Reception Room was established in the 
former Government House, now occupied by the University. 
At 10 a.m. in the Albert Hall Mr. A. D. Hall, F.R.S., delivered 
the second part of his Presidential Address to Section M (Agriculture), 
dealing in particular with tropical agriculture, and at 11.30 a.m. in the 
same place Professor E. W. Brown, F.R.S., Vice-President of Sec- 
tion A (Mathematics and Physics), delivered an address in the Depart- 
ment of Cosmical Physics. 
In the afternoon some of the official and other leading Members were 
