SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Dr. F. Stoward, D.Sc. (Birmingham), formerly Botanist and 
Plant Pathologist to the Department of Agriculture of Western Aus- 
tralia, has accepted a scientific position with Messrs. Penfold, the well- 
known vignerons of South Australia. Dr. Stoward’s studies in 
bacteriology and fermentation at Birmingham University and the 
Pasteur Institute, Paris, render him specially well qualified for this 
work. During the period when thousands of people were inoculated 
weekly with the vaccine prepared at the Commonwealth Serum Labora- 
tory, Melbourne, Dr. Stoward was assisting in its preparation. 
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Mr. Gerald Lightfoot, M.A., has been appointed Head of the Infor- 
mation Bureau of the Institute, as well as Secretary. To enable him 
efficiently to carry on his dual duties, he will be relieved of routine 
secretarial duties. 
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Professor Woolnough has been granted five months’ leave of absence 
by the Senate of the Western Australian University to visit England 
and place the claims of the Western State before Messrs. Brunner, 
Mond, and Co. as the most suitable site in Australia upon which to 
establish the alkali industry. 
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Dr. H. OC. Richards, who has for some time acted as Honorary 
Secretary of the Queensland State Committee of the Advisory Council, 
has been appointed Professor of Geology of the Brisbane University. 
He was formerly lecturer on the same subject. 
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Dr. T. Harvey Johnston has been appointed to the new Professorship 
of Biology at the Queensland University. Dr. Johnston was one of 
the Travelling Commissioners sent abroad by the Queensland Government 
to investigate the Prickly Pear problem. More recently he has been 
engaged on the Life History of Cattle Tick for the Institute. 
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Mr. W. S. Robinson represents the Commonwealth Government and 
the Institute of Science and Industry on the newly-created Imperial 
Mineral Resources Bureau, of which Sir Richard A. 8. Redmayne, 
C.B., is the chairman. 
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Mr. J. T. Bull, the first secretary of the McGarvie Smith Institute, 
has left that institution and gone into business on his own account, 
Mr. C. S. Nathan, chairman of the Western Australian Industrial 
Development Board, and representative of the Western Australian 
Government on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council, has 
been in the East consulting about the tick pest and the forest products 
laboratory project. 
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