6 J. B, CLELAND. 
member of this Society, having been elected in 1886. He 
also occupied a seat at the Council table. 
The Chairs of Pharmacology and Zoology in the 
University of Sydney. 
It is a great pleasure to be able to congratulate two 
members of our Society on their appointments to Profes- 
sorial Chairs in the University of Sydney. Our Honor- 
ary Treasurer, Dr. Henry G. Chapman, is the first occu- 
pant of the newly-established Chair of Pharmacology. His 
researches in physiological chemistry and the advances he 
has made in our knowledge of these obscure processes show 
his eminent fitness for such a position. Dr. Stephen Jason 
Johnston has been chosen to succeed Professor W. A. Has- 
well, F.R.S., in the Chair of Zoology. That he is likewise 
an eminently suitable cccupant of such a high and honor- 
able position is shown by his published zoological works, 
and especially by his contributions to Australian helmin- 
thology. In wishing them all success and many years of 
fruitful labour in the provinces of knowledge they have 
made their own, it is an additional gratification to know 
that Australian citizens have been appointed to lead Aus- 
tralian thought. | 
It seems not out of place here, and before this Society, one 
of whose objects is the advancement of natural knowledge 
in Australia, to refer with gratification to the manner of 
the appointment to the new Chair of Pharmacology. A 
really suitable candidate being available in Australia, and, 
in fact, being actually at work in the University of Sydney, 
the chair was offered directly to him instead of the vacancy 
being advertised in Britain as well as in Australa. The 
latter procedure, however commendable in theory, is 
fraught with many difficulties, may be unfair to Australian 
applicants, and is ill-caleulated to encourage young Aus- 
tralians to take up scientific careers. We want as many 
