PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



By T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., ll.b., Professor of 

 Physiology, University of Sydney. 



[Delivered to the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, May 1, 1907.'] 



In selecting a subject upon which to address you, I have 

 chosen not to follow a common precedent in attempting to 

 give a retrospect of scientific work during the past year. 

 It is not possible for any one to do this completely even 

 for one branch of science, and besides there are plenty of 

 such retrospects published which have been done by abler 

 pens than mine, and by men who by geographical position 

 have greater opportunities than I have of keeping abreast 

 of the general progress of science. But it has occurred 

 to me that there are matters of local interest and impor- 

 tance to ourselves, and of personal interest to me, which I 

 might fitly bring before you, with a view to helping some 

 of the various enterprises of our time and place, enterprises 

 more or less nearly or remotely, as the case may be, con- 

 nected with the kind of studies pursued by members of 

 this Society. This was the course I followed when I had 

 the honour of addressing you from this chair in 1894, and 

 I am told that that address did good in directing attention 

 to some matters at that time still under discussion but 

 since settled satisfactorily. 



The Rabbit Experiments.— The past year has been ren- 

 dered interesting by the visit of Dr. Danysz in order to 

 test the efficacy of a certain microbe in the way of 

 destroying the rabbit. As is well known, the notion of 

 employing some disease for this purpose has been in the 

 minds of men here for over twenty years. When, in 1890, 

 I was in Berlin as Commissioner for several of the Aus- 



A— May 1, 1907. 



