SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Personal. 
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The Hon. W. Massy Greene is now the Minister in charge of the 
Institute, in place of Senator Russell, who has gone to the Defence 
Department. 
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Among recent visitors at the head-quarters of the Institute have 
been:—His Excellency Judge J. H. P. Murray, Lieut.-Governor of 
Papua; Sir Henry Lefroy, Premier, and Hon. James Gardiner, Trea- 
surer, Western Australia. 
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Mr. G. D. Delprat, C.B.E., a member of the Executive Committee, 
has been granted six months’ leave of absence, and has left for a trip 
to America and Europe. 
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Dr. Cameron, Victorian Director of Agriculture; D. H. Avery, 
M.Sc., of Collins House; H. W. Jepp, Electrolytic Zinc Company, 
and A. McKinstry, B.A., M.Se., late Director of Munitions, have been 
added to the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council. 
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Mr. Geo. Valder, Under-Secretary and Director of Agriculture 
(New South Wales), and Mr. F. W. Reid, Principal of the School of 
Mines, Adelaide, have also been gazetted members of the Advisory 
Council. 
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Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, of the Melbourne University, and Professor 
B.D. Steele, of the Brisbane University, are back from munition mak- 
ing. They both resume work at their respective universities. 
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Major A. J. Gibson, late manager of the Arsenal, who sat upon the 
Executive Committee while resident in Melbourne, by reason of his 
being chairman of the Queensland Committee, has now resigned. He 
does not leave the Advisory Council, but, being now domiciled in New 
South Wales, will no longer sit upon the executive. His advice will be 
much missed. , 
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Mr. W. ‘B. Alexander, M.A., who for the last two years has acted 
as science abstractor and editor of publications of the Advisory Coun- 
cil, has returned to his old position as keeper of the Biology Depart- 
ment of the Perth Museum. Before leaving Melbourne Mr. Alexander 
completed a bulletin on the prickly-pear problem, which will shortly 
be published. Ie has been made a member of the Advisory Council. 
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Mr. Walter Leitch, C.B.E., late Director of Munitions and Director 
of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, has resigned the latter post, 
and has sailed for Europe. He resumes his position on the directorate 
of Messrs. Joseph Baker and Sons, and will act as local director for the 
United States, with head-quarters at Chicago. 
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