88 SECTIONAL ADDRESSES. 
It is important to be able to record an advance in securing an inter- 
change of information among Government Departments, and between 
their work and that of the universities, a matter which before the war was 
unsatisfactory, as it was mainly personal and sporadic. 
And it is a hopeful sign also that, although the knowledge and apprecia- 
tion of the methods and capabilities of science are still generally wanting, 
there have been of late signs that these matters are coming to engage the 
attention of those who guide the policy of the State. 
SECTION C.—GEOLOGY. 
Note to Address on following pages, by the President of the Section.—It was hoped 
that this Section would have been presided over by Dr, C. W. Andrews. He had 
indeed accepted the invitation of the Council to become President, but the state of 
his health later compelled him to resign. His untimely death has deprived our 
science of a widely-travelled and most talented geologist, and a vertebrate 
paleontologist of world-wide distinction. 
