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Abstract

WE have more than once had to notice the liveliness recently exhibited by science at the Antipodes. This has now found expression in the issue of a monthly journal in Australia called “The Scientific Australian,” a journal of industry and instruction, specially devoted to those engaged in scientific, artistic, and industrial pursuits, and to the promotion of technological education amongst the operative classes. The editor, Mr. J. S. Knight, Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.R.I.B.A., appears to have enlisted the services of the most eminent scientific men, not only in Victoria, but in the sister colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and the articles, as a general rule, are to be signed. It is gratifying to find these signs of life in our colonies; we shall watch with interest the career of our contemporary, the first number of which was to be published at Melbourne on the 1st of the current month, and wish it every success.