444 Froomdings. 



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 Messi-s. Mason, Clayton, Lawson, and Ross. To proceed fui-ther 

 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 be a 

 serious oversight not to mention the manufacturing industries that have sprung 

 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, etc. 

 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 IsTcav 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 



