By Professor A. R. Simpson, Retiring President of the Society. Gentlemen,?Before I leave this now familiar seat, it becomes me to offer you my heartfelt thanks for the favour you showed me in making me a third time your President, and for the kindness and courtesy that have made my tenure of the office an unalloyed pleasure. There are positions of honour that entail a heavy burden of service. I...

Sunflower has historically been an important crop in Central Queensland. In recent years the sunflower area in Central Queensland has been reduced due to low and variable prices and increased competition from alternate summer crops. Issues of tall persistent stubble that provides little ground cover and a lack of in-crop weed control options have also contributed to declining popularity of sunf...

ML supports references to objects through mutable ref cells: A program can create a ref cell from an object, and subsequently replace the object accessible through the cell by another. Unfortunately, ref cells, when compared to mechanisms for handling mutable data in other programming languages , impose awkward restrictions on programming style. Moreover, introducing ref cells into a program af...

First, As to the Teaching of Medical Jurisprudence. It has often struck me with surprise that so few of the many lecturers on this important subject discharge the duties of Surgeon of Police, and thereby enable themselves to acquire a practical acquaintance with the many forms of violent death, not to speak of the opportunities afforded by that position of giving evidence in courts of law, and ...

Gentlemen,?I have now to occupy the Chair for the last time as your President. Two years ago, when by your kindness you placed me in it, I ventured to promise that if I could not be a brilliant Chairman, at least I would try to be a diligent one, and regular in my attendance. I have not missed one minute of the meetings of the Society during these two years, except when in May 1892, by the orde...