BY UON. A, C. GREGOUY, C.M.G., P.R.G.S. 



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The actual result of machineiy has been to vastly increase the 

 eniployiiient of labour, and to enable the workman not only to 

 profit by the use of his hands, hut also of his head. 



It has been the teaching in schools, supplemented by the 

 instruction gained by moving about the world and contact with 

 new conditions in new coup tries, which has rendered the British 

 Colonist a much more intelligent and successful citizen, and it 

 has been from similar causes that such great improvement has 

 been made in America in the method of constructing so many 

 of our domestic appliances. 



Thus we see how important it is to the community as well as 

 to the individuals composing it, that a knowledge of practical 

 science should be extended, and that societies like ours are not 

 mere associations for the discussion of fanciful theories, but that 

 they are institutions for the collection and utilization of infor- 

 mation which is of the utmost importance to the state and to our 

 social aud material progress, and I trust that each member of the 

 lloyal Society of Queensland will, according to his opportunities, 

 lend a helping hand in collecting material for such important 

 work. 



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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. 



THE VICE-niESIDENT, J. BANCROFT, M.D., IN THE CHAIfi. 



DONATIONS, 



" Cultural Industries for Queensland," ist Series, by Lewis 

 Adolphus Bernays, F.L.S., Brisbane, 1883. From the Author. 



" Report on the Mines of Herberton, Western and Thompson 

 Creek Districts, and the Silver Mines of the Dry River, Queens- 

 land," by R. L. Jack, F.G.S., Government Geologist, Brisbane, 

 T883. From the Author. 



The Treatment of Tin Ore in Europe," by Z. Wagemann, 

 Melbourne, 1883. From the Author. 



Specification of Patent to Henry Harris Lake, for " Process 

 for Extracting Metals from their Ores," London, 1883. From A. 

 J. TnvNNE, Esq., Brisbane. 



" On Ogyris Genoveva, Hewitson^ and its Life History," by 

 W. H. MisKiN, Esq., Brisbane. Trans. Ent, Soc, 1883, Part IV. 

 From the Author. 



