Anniversary address by the president T. P. Anderson Stuart.

  • Anderson Stuart, Thomas Peter, 1856-1920.
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[1894]
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Credit: Anniversary address by the president T. P. Anderson Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. By T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., Professor of Physiology in the University of Sydney. [Delivered to the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, May 2, 1894.'] In determining what sort of an address I should deliver, I had the excellent example of my two predecessors, who each in his turn reviewed the progress the Colony had made during their period of office in the departments of knowledge of which the work of the Royal Society takes cognisance, and I was somewhat constrained to follow in their footsteps. It occurred to me, how- ever, that I might perhaps do wisely if on this occasion I directed your attention to matters of interest or importance to us in New South Wales at the present time or in the near future, rather than so entirely to contemplate and record what had already been achieved in the near past. And then, too, ne sutor ultra crepidam. In a general review I felt that I should have either to touch upon matters with which I have no special acquaintance or to depend upon others who should write up each his own department. The first alternative was not agreeable to me, and for the second I had left myself rather little time, and so I come to speak of matters which fall more or less within my own sphere of activity. Possibly the next anniversary address will be a fitting opportunity for reviewing the work of the preceding two years. THE SUPPLY OF ARTESIAN WATER IN AUSTRALIA. Two of the most important meetings of the past Session were those at which the question of Artesian Water in Australia was discussed, on the papers by Professor David and the Plon. W. H. Suttor. It is apparent that the supply is by no means inexhaustible, and, though of course our information is even now by no means complete, still that there are data to estimate the possible yield in New South Wales as being perhaps twenty times the present A—May 2,1894.