26 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



sympathy and assistance of all interested in Marine Biology, as well as 

 those interested in the Fisheries, I am, yours very sincerely, 



J. COSSAR EWAET, 



Professor of Natural History (Zoology), 

 University of Edinburgh. 



Technical Education. — Having in the foregoing given a short 

 report on the affairs in connection with our Society, I propose to 

 refer briefly to the present position and progress of some branches 

 of applied Science in New South Wales from which it will be seen 

 that this Colony is making marked progress in the application of 

 Science to the development of its natural resources and the improve- 

 ment of the conditions under which we have to live. To bring this 

 about the Government and Parliament have wisely recognised the 

 great advantage, nay the necessity, of improving and extending in 

 the first place the Department of Technical Education. In ad- 

 dition to the excellent opportunities given by our University for 

 studying Science in all its branches, the Government, by the estab- 

 lishment of a Technical College and Technological Museum in 

 Sydney, with branches in different parts of the Colony, have 

 brought within the reach of every body who so desires it, the means 

 of acquiring that scientific and technical knowledge which must in 

 course of time be of immense advantage, not only to the fortunate 

 possessor thereof, but to the Colony at large. 



One of the buildings forming part of the new Technical College 

 at Ultimo, was opened in March last. It comprises mechanical 

 engineering workshops, in which among other subjects taught 

 will be organised courses of electrical, mechanical, mining, and 

 sanitary engineering. Branches of the Technical College have 

 been established at Goulburn, Bathurst, West Maitland, New- 

 castle, and Broken Hill, and technical classes are held at several 

 other country towns. 



The Technological Museum in Sydney, which dates from the 

 year 1880, when it was a branch of the Australian Museum, is 

 now, together with the work of the former Board of Technical 

 Education, taken over by the Minister for Public Instruction and 



