ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. xlix. 



Associate Sydney Institute of Public Accountants, were 

 re-appointed Auditors for the current year. 



Eighteen volumes, 179 parts, 6 reports, and 12 pamphlets, 

 total 215, received as donations since the last meeting, 

 were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 



In view of the fact that he would be leaving the State 

 prior to the Annual Meeting in May, Mr. O. O. Burge, 

 m. inst o.B., had been asked, and had kindly consented, to 

 deliver his Presidential Address that evening. 



The following is an abstract : — The President, Mr. O. O. 

 Burge, said that the subject of his address would be the 

 connexion between Engineering and Science, and showed 

 that in the earlier ages that connexion was closer than in 

 later times, for though the names of the designers of the 

 great ancient works now extant in Egypt and throughout 

 the Roman Empire were, to a large extent, lost, we might 

 be fairly sure that, it being before the age of specialism, 

 the science and engineering necessary for these monuments 

 of human skill, were concentrated in the same individuals. 

 Tracing down the names of the scientists who helped 

 engineering from the earliest times, those of Tliales, 

 Anaxagoras, Ptolemy, Euclid, Hipparchus, Appolonius, 

 Archimedes in the classic period, the Moors of Spain in the 

 middle ages, and Leonardo da Vinci, who investigated the 

 laws of motion at the dawn of the Renaissance period, 

 were referred to. Astronomy, whicJi helped geodesy, 

 algebra, mechanics, hydraulics and hydrostatics, magnetism, 

 logarithms, the invention of which was spoken of as one of 

 the greatest efforts of the human intellect, and other sub- 

 jects, were connected with the names of Cardan, Tartaglia, 

 Stivinius, Record, Gilbert, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, 

 Tycho Brahe, Napier, and others. But the constructing 

 engineers or mechanics as they were then called, of those 

 times, took no heed of these sciences, every one followed 



d— Dec. 7, 1904. 



