PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 3 
“The members of the Royal Society of New South Wales learn 
with the deepest regret of the death of Captain Hutton, F.R.s., 
one of its Honorary Members, and they hereby place on record 
their high appreciation of Captain Hutton’s great and life long 
services for the advancement of science. That the above resolution 
be forwarded to the late Captain Hutton’s family with an express- 
ion of this Society’s deep sympathy with them in their bereave- 
ment.” 
The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, N.Z., is 
establishing a fund for original research, asa memorial to 
Captain Hutton. 
Aithough not a member of our Society, | may mention 
the name of one of the greatest benefactors of the Sydney 
University, Sir Peter Nicol Russell, who by his gift of 
£100,000 founded the school of Engineering. He died on 
July 10th, 1905, at the age of 89. 
Amongst distinguished non-Australian men of science 
who have passed away during my term of office I may 
mention Professor Jules Oppert, Professor of Assyrian 
Philology and Archeology at the Collége de France, 
renowned for his contributions to astronomical chronology 
and his works on Chaldea and Assyria. 
The death is also announced at 76 years of age of Prof. 
Franz Reuleaux, who as author of a number of engineering 
works and Director of the Berlin Industrial Institute, 
rendered good service to the development of practical and 
scientific engineering in Germany. 
Mr. C. T. Yerkes, whose death was announced on 30th 
December, 1905, came into prominence over proposals for 
vast schemes of electric railways in London in 1903. Pre- 
viously he had been connected with street railways in 
Philadelphia and Chicago. He presented the finest tele- 
scope in the world to the observatory called after his name 
