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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS — SECTION H. 
of this Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, be* 
wrought upon and widened out into a broad well-travelled highway 
for the benefit and prosperity of Australasia. 
I had intended when commencing this address to have offered 
some account of the public works of Tasmania with which I have been 
so intimately connected for more than twenty years, and also to have 
made some reference to the successful operations of the Hobart electric 
tramways — the first of their kind constructed in xlustralasia ; but it 
would make the address too long, and I must therefore await the 
favour of some future opportunity. 
