SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
these bitter attacks that Dr. Gellatly displayed a true quality of great- 
ness. He possessed a sense of proportion which rendered him indif- 
ferent to criticism designed merely to hurt and destroy. On the other 
hand, he was eager to benefit from criticism of a frank and friendly 
nature designed to assist the Commonwealth in equipping itself for the 
struggle for industrial and economic supremacy which is now being 
entered upon. In this connexion, it is noteworthy that Canada, New 
Zealand, and South Africa are adopting similar measures to those 
which Great Britain has already given effect to, and which Japan, 
quick to seize upon every means for strengthening her commercial 
position, has closely imitated. 
In the editorial referred to Dr. Gellatly pointed out that the 
Institute has more than justified itself for several years to come as the 
result of the work it has done in standardizing steel. Already the 
standardization has been effected of structural steel sections, of railway 
rails and fish-plates, and of tramway rails and fish-plates, and the 
newly-born steel industry of Australia has been given assistance of 
tremendous value towards meeting the competition of huge and wealthy 
overseas corporations. And these three achievements represent only 
the first instalment of the Institute’s contribution to industry. Engi- 
neering standardization, which has so greatly helped to build up the 
gigantic basic industries of the United States and of Germany, and 
which is also being applied to British industry, has already been 
invested with new interest to Australian manufacturers, and many 
requests have been made to the Institute to assist towards the standard- 
ization of the industrial elements. 
Other matters to which passing reference must be made, which Dr. 
Gellatly has particularly interested himself with since his connexion 
with the Institute, are the establishment of a scientific and industrial 
library, the creation of a Bureau of Information, and the establishment 
of this journal. All three are receiving more and more public support. 
and must prove of material benefit to the scientific workers of the 
Commonwealth. That the Institute has been able to accomplish so 
much when it has been compelled, owing to its temporary organization, 
to restrict its energies mainly to the co-ordination of research, indicates 
the wide field of usefulness which awaits the ‘advent of a permanently 
established and a completely organized and equipped Institute of 
Science and Industry. 
Dr. Gellatly was a Doctor of Laws of Sydney University, and a 
barrister-at-law of the New South Wales Bar of seven years’ standing. 
This high academic honour which he won, and the manner in which he 
won it, throws an interesting sidelight upon his character. During the 
time he was working for his examinations he was carrying out his 
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