58 W. H. WARREN. 
These special hand-labour saving appliances have materially 
increased the economy and output of the workshops. 
of ae * 
I have endeavoured to indicate in this address some of 
the achievements of the engineer during the last twenty 
years. The wonderful progress during that time, and the 
great activity to-day in all branches of science and engi- 
neering suggest gigantic possibilities in the future. All 
future progress in engineering must depend upon exact 
knowledge and scientific thought and work. Our systems 
of primary, secondary, technical and professional education 
must be carefully reconsidered in order to bring them up 
to the needs and requirements of modern civilization. The 
engineer of the future must be a still more widely trained 
and better educated man than his predecessor of to-day, 
so that he may be better able to solve the many problems 
which lie before him in the future. 
I will now bring this long address to a close by thanking 
you for the patient attention with which you have listened 
to it, and in vacating the Chair in favour of Mr. F. B. 
Guthrie, the newly elected President, I ask you to give 
him the same support which has always been accorded 
to me. 
