PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 5 
The following is a list of members who have died during 
the year :— 
James Comrie; elected 1856. 
J.J. Farr; elected 1889. 
Dr. A. M. Megginson; elected 1888. 
Dr. F. Milford; elected 1873. 
James Milson; elected 1882. 
Sydney Moss; elected 1882. 
Joseph Thompson ; elected 1875. 
Dr. G. A. Tucker; elected 1877. 
Rev. Dr. James 8. White; elected 1874. 
THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF HNGINEERING DUR- 
ING THE LAST TWENTY-ONE YEARS. 
In selecting a subject, or group of subjects, for my 
address, I have been guided by the practice of my prede- 
cessors in the Presidential Chair, who have inalmost every 
case given special prominence to the subject to which they 
have devoted the greatest attention, and upon which they 
are most competent to express an opinion. I have there- 
fore chosen the ‘ Development and Progress of Engineering 
during the last twenty-one years.’ Itso happens that the 
establishment of the Department of Engineering at the 
University of Sydney dates from 1883, nearly twenty-one 
years ago. During this period I have travelled on two 
separate occasions to the principal engineering centres, 
and have inspected the most important engineering works 
in the world, so that I am able to speak from personal 
knowledge on most of the topics dealt with in this address. 
The past twenty-one years has been a period of great 
engineering activity and progress in almost every branch 
of the profession, and I will endeavour to deal with the 
most important of these as fully as possible, consistent 
with the limited time at my disposal for a Presidential 
Address. 
