DEATH OF DR. GELLATLY. 
onerous and responsible duties as financial editor of the Sydney Morn- 
ing Herald, but he took them both in his stride, and was successful in 
each. To most men, with either the one or the other duties to fulfil, 
the task would have proved a trying ordeal. He took his snecess 
modestly and lightly. Like all truly busy and active men, he was 
never so busy that he could not find time for additional work. His 
unassuming air, his quiet demeanour, and his kindly nature to a great 
extent concealed his great capacity for work, and it was not until he 
had accomplished some-particularly difficult task that his closest friends 
knew that he had even been engaged upon it. To the staff of the 
Institute he was guide, philosopher, and friend, and the work which 
he got from all his associates was instinctive, not propitiatory. It was 
his blend of the suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, which evoked honest 
and willing labour. 
The Executive Committee of the Advisory Council of Science and 
Industry has expressed its appreciation of the late Director in the 
following terms :— 
“That the Executive Committee desires to record its high 
appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the Institute by 
its first Director, the late Dr. Gellatly, and its sense of the severe loss 
the Institute and the Commonwealth have sustained by his untimely 
death. The Committee feels deeply that the Australian movement 
for bringing Science to bear upon the practical problem of Industry 
will always owe a debt to the untiring energy, the alertness of 
intellect, the wise and moderate counsels and the sympathetic 
temperament of the late Director.” 
Spiritual truth was the living force that turned 
the face of man toward the towering peaks of a true 
civilization; science the lamp by which he could 
guide his feet towards this distant goal. 
—W. M. HUGHES. 
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