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them. With regard to the so-called braxy-like diseases in Australia, I 
have come to the same conclusion as Dr. Dodds, 7.c., that further research 
is necessary before concluding that they are the result of a braxy type 
of bacillus. Sheep diseases in Australia require urgent investigation, 
and that investigation, in many cases, will have to mean a great deal 
more than the recognition of death as due to this or that disease of 
Europe or elsewhere. Up to the present, with certain excellent excep- 
tions, there has been too much dependence on the work of other countries 
which may not apply here, and some of the stuff printed for farmers 
is worse than out of date. J have in mind a weird article on Sarcospori- 
diosis, which I have seen somewhere. 
Let me conclude with a little extract from the Royal Commission 
report, which I have more than once referred to. It was published 
thirteen years ago, but still holds good :— 
“The side issues which have cropped up show how little the diseases 
to which sheep are liable are understood—how much, in fact, they are 
misunderstood—and what necessity there is for more extended and trust- 
worthy knowledge of their nature and cause. From a pathological 
point of view, they are a perfect mine of wealth, are fraught with 
scientific problems of the highest interest and importance, and are 
most suggestive of what may turn out to be a new light on the pathology 
of many of the contagious and infectious diseases of man and the lower 
animals.” ; 
I should suggest that any arrangement fostered by the Common- 
wealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry for the better study 
of sheep diseases and parasites should be correlated with existing Univer- 
sity laboratories in the different Australian States. - The Universities 
provide greater freedom for the enthusiastic research worker than other 
institutions, and they, for their own good, must be brought into closer 
-contact with industrial matters. As a matter of fact, if the science 
departments I have known become “ academic” and “ unpractical,” it 
will be because they were not allowed to be anything else; it will not be 
from a matter of choice. 
Scientific thought does not mean thought about 
scientific subjects with long names. There are no 
scientific subjects. The subject of science is. the 
human universe; that is to say, everything that is, 
or has been, or may be related to man, 
—W. K. CLIFFORD. 
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