ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



By T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., 

 Professor of Physiology in the University of Sydney. 



[Delivered to the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, May 2, 1894.~] 



In determining what sort of an address I should deliver, I had 

 the excellent example of my two predecessors, who each in his 

 turn reviewed the progress the Colony had made during their 

 period of office in the departments of knowledge of which the 

 work of the Royal Society takes cognisance, and I was somewhat 

 constrained to follow in their footsteps. It occurred to me, how- 

 ever, that I might perhaps do wisely if on this occasion I directed 

 your attention to matters of interest or importance to us in New 

 South Wales at the present time or in the near future, rather 

 than so entirely to contemplate and record what had already 

 been achieved in the near past. And then, too, ne sutor ultra 

 crepidam. In a general review I felt that I should have either 

 to touch upon matters with which I have no special acquaintance 

 or to depend upon others who should write up each his own 

 department. The first alternative was not agreeable to me, and 

 for the second I had left myself rather little time, and so I come 

 to speak of matters which fall more or less within my own sphere 

 of activity. Possibly the next anniversary address will be a fitting 

 opportunity for reviewing the work of the preceding two years. 



THE SUPPLY OF ARTESIAN WATER IN AUSTRALIA. 



Two of the most important meetings of the past Session were 

 those at which the question of Artesian Water in Australia was 

 discussed, on the papers by Professor David and the Hon. W. H. 

 Suttor. It is apparent that the supply is by no means inexhaustible, 

 and, though of course our information is even now by no means 

 complete, still that there are data to estimate the possible yield 

 in New South Wales as being perhaps twenty times the present 



A— May 2, 1894. 



