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TRAINING SPECIALISTS FOR INDUSTRY. 
done during the first year being considered satisfactory by the Director 
of the Institute. It is yuite evident, however, that if an opportunity is 
presented of proceeding with this scheme of training that a sum of £150 
will be insufficient for necessary living expenses. 
Tt was thought that the field of work could scarcely be too Jarge, and 
it was proposed, therefore, that fellowships should be awarded in agri- 
culture, botany, veterinary science, zoology, chemistry, engineering, 
geology (economic), metallurgy, and physies. Provision was to have 
been made in conferring this benefit that preference should be given, 
other things being equal, to graduates who selected some subject for re- 
search which was likely to be important to the industries of Australia or 
to the development of the natural resonrces of the country. It was 
further proposed that any person to whom a fellowship was awarded 
must either be a graduate in Applied Science or have received an equi- 
valent training in an institution possessing adequate facilities of a 
scientific character for providing such training. The fellowships 
would be open to both men and women. 
Following on the tentative adoption of the scheme, copies were cir-— 
culated among twenty Professors and Lecturers at the various Aus- 
tralian Universities, with a request for brief comment. Each of the 
nineteen replies received indorsed the general principles laid down. 
Naturally, there was division of opinion as to the amount of the annual 
‘allowance, and the sum of £150 was generally regarded as inadequate. 
It is a simple matter, however, to harmonize the differences of opinion 
on this point. The important thing is that the trained educationist 
and scientist are in complete agreement on the main principles, and that 
they regard the adopton of some such scheme as a matter which should 
not be much longer delayed. 
Primary and secondary industries alike need all the assistance that 
science can render them, and if they are to be developed to the. full 
extent of their possibilities, trained men will be required to solve those 
problems which are already impeding progress, and to dispose of others 
which are bound to arise as onward stages are reached. 
