ANNUAL ADDRESS. VII. 



M Approximate 



Society. hprshin averaere 



bership. attendance# 



N. S. Wales Engineering Association ... 122 40 



Electrical Association of N. S. Wales ... 92 40 



Institution of Surveyors 230 15 



Institution of Architects ... ... ... 105 15 



Sydney University Engineering Society... 170 45 



The total membership of tiiese societies is considerable, 

 but no one has yet been able to suggest a method by which 

 their efforts should be more concentrated. We have a 

 certain small consolation at any rate in knowing that the 

 same difficulty besets many, even of the largest scientific 

 societies in other parts of the world. 



It is practically certain that we shall at least have one 

 continuous session this year to deal with the subject of 

 scientific and industrial education in Australia. This it 

 was proposed to hold last year, but it seemed wiser to again 

 postpone it until the publication of the Education Oom- 

 misioners' Report on Technical Education, which it is 

 expected will be ready in the course of a few weeks, the 

 whole of it I am led to understand being now set up in type. 

 The object of this session, in which it is hoped representa- 

 tives of all other kindred associations will participate, will 

 not be so much to discuss the general question of technical 

 education as an endeavour to discover the proper conditions 

 for industrial and scientific training in this country. 



It was at first proposed that the remarks I address to 

 you to-night should be in the nature of an introduction to 

 this session. It has proved, however, more convenient to 

 hold this special meeting for the election of officers and to 

 inaugurate the work of the year, but you will naturally 

 understand that owing to the interest I take in the subject 

 of scientific and industrial education, part at least of my 

 remarks will be concerned with that topic. 



