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a local engineer, Mr. M*Gregor— must also be noticed, as it is a work of not 
only high scientific skill, but is likely to be a great success, and will form a 
type for many such other works round our coasts. 
Nor has the profession more allied to the fine arts been neglected. The 
architectural beauty for which Dunedin is prominent has been due mostly to 
the labours of Messrs. Mason, Clayton, Lawson, and Ross. To proceed further 
in this direction would appear to lead us out of the domain of the Institute ; 
but I think not, as our constitution allows us great latitude. It would bea 
serious oversight not to mention the manufacturing industries that h prung 
up. Foremost, because the pioneer one, is the foundry of Mr. William Wilson, 
at which water-wheels of the largest size are constructed, also rock-boring 
apparatus, river gold-dredgers, pneumatic tubes for the same purpose, 
machinery for saw-mills, steam engines, winches, quartz-crushing machinery, 
winding and pumping gear for coal mines, wool-presses, etc. Here also the 
propelling shaft of the “Gothenburg” steamship was repaired, the steamer 
“Wallace” was built, and vessels of the same class up to 500 tons could be 
constructed were there water frontage. 
To mention others by name would be invidious, as some would necessarily 
be omitted ; but while there are other factories in the same branch capable of 
turning out the same material, how numerous are just now the factories 
devoted to other branches of industry—such as the manufacture of woollen 
cloths, leather, boots, shoes, soap, gas, candles, biscuits, sweetmeats, agricultural 
implements in general, ploughs, reaping machines, anchors, boilers, chains, 
boards, windows, sashes, and last, though not least, whiskey, gin, and ales, ete. 
The tall chimneys everywhere rising indicate that, in this part of 
the world, all the skilled trades have found a suitable and ever-increasing 
location. The owners of these are the true representatives of applied science, 
and this Institute would be all the more flourishing if we had more of them as 
members of it. 
Nor have the pursuits which bring no money to their votaries been entirely 
neglected, though they return much heart’s content—a great gain. Dr. Lauder 
Lindsay, of Perth, came this long voyage to collect and study the botany of 
our Province; and we have a scientific representative from Sweden here 
to-night in the person of Dr. Berggren. Mr. John Buchanan, for many years 
before he found official support, gave much of his time to the same department, 
and since which time he, I believe more than any other man, has explored the 
natural vegetation of this part of New Zealand, and illustrated the same by 
publication. 
But we must not confine our attention to scanning ourselves alone ; we 
must look abroad and observe the great movements that, through the influence 
of science and its applications, are going on in the world. Steam has stimulated 
