Laboratories and workshops, where the large testing machine was 

 exhiliited in work by Prof. Warren. 



The ^Nlacleay Museum and the various Lecture Rooms, were 

 also thrown open to the guests. 



Mr. F. Morley presided at the organ, and select pieces were 

 played at intervals. 



The number of guests present was about 1,500, the unusually 

 large gathering being due to the fact that invitation cards had 

 been issued to the members of the Australasian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the Inaugural Meeting of which 

 had just closed. 



Impressed as I am with the importance of this movement, I 

 deeply regret being compelled to deal with it in this very meagre 

 and cursory manner ; but I must pass on to note the work done 

 by the various sections of the Society during the past year. 



In the Medical Section, seven meetings were held, at which the 

 attendance was far above the previous average. The papers read 

 and the specimens exhibited were also interesting and valuable. 

 Dr. Knaggs was elected Chairman, and Dr. MacCormick and Dr. 

 Jenkins Secretaries. This Section is gradually developing a 

 better form of work, and I look eagerly forward to the time when 

 the strain upon the physical and mental powers of its members, 

 caused by the arduous duties of general practice, will be diminished 

 and they will be enabled to devote more time and greater energy 

 to original research. I feel confident also that the stimulus given 

 by the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science 

 and the very successful Medical Congress held in Melbourne last 

 year, will beneficially affect this section, which is destined to take 

 a first place in its special branch of Scientific Research. 



I regret to observe that the Sanitary Section has not yet 

 assumed the position which the vital importance of the subject 

 requires. It is unfortunate that in this the early stage of the 

 development of Scientific Hygiene, it has often to work against 

 the unpopularity of the term " Sanitary Reform," which by too 



