RESEARCH WORK INTO FOREST PRODUCTS. 
Perhaps the most striking practical result of the laboratory investi- 
gations is the erection of four large paper mills to manufacture paper 
from bamboos. The preliminary experiments occupied several years, 
and much work had to be done in removing prejudices. This great 
success is due to the work of Mr. Ridtt, the paper expert of the 
laboratory. 
The field of research into forest products has by+no means been 
exhausted, and if Australia means to utilize to the best advantage such 
forests as remain to her, and to establish the large number of secondary 
industries depending upon the forests for raw materials, such research 
must be begun at once. Results cannot be obtained in weeks or months. 
In some cases years are needed. Already the waste of wealth through 
inefficient methods, or through lack of knowledge of possibilities, has 
been immense. The establishment of a properly equipped and staffed 
Forest Products Laboratory can do much to prevent this waste. No 
other method can prove as satisfactory as the co-ordination of all such 
research under one institution, and it is to be hoped that the establish- 
ment of this will be gone on with as soon as possible. 
“The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every sug~ 
gestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by 
appearances; have no favourite hypothesis ; be of no school; and in 
doctrine have no master. He should not be a respecter of persons, but 
of things. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities be 
added industry, he may indeed hope to walk with the veil of the temple 
of Nature.” 
—FARADAY. 
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