SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

AUSTRALIA AND EUGENICS. EARLY MARRIAGES. t STATE PENSIONS FOR WIDOWED MOTHERS. I, ' £By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 0 Melbourne January 11. Dr. Ramsay Smith, of Adelaide, in a paper read before the Anthropological .. Section, dealt with inbreeding, marriage, .. and military trailing in relation to the 0 Australian race. Evidence existed, he said, that changes, due to altered environ--1 ment, had already occurred among , the j white people in Australia. Early unions j wore desirable, especially among profesj sional people. This implied fair salaries and a State pension for widowed mothers, j Mir. Wickens, of the Federal Statistics Buriiau, stated that tho, investigation into ' infantile mortality disclosed by the CommoiiTealth experience for the decennium j 1901-10 that of a hundred thousand males j born 87,620 would reach the age of five, while of a hundred thousand females the 6 number would be 69,289. j Professor Kirk, of Wellington, in his presidential address to the biology secl_ tion, dealt' with the present aspect of some problems of heredity. THE ALIEN MENACE. | TO THE NOETHEEN TEEEITOET. • Melbourne, January 11. Professor Henderson, in dealing with national eeleotion, eaid it needed only asufficient number of strong and peaceablydisposed nations to sign a treaty to make it practically impossible for warlike nations to take the aggressive. Professor Baldwin Spencer, in lecturing on the Northern Territory, stated that it contained, : apart from aboriginals, less than 4000 people, scattered over an area of 523,000 square miles. There were only 840 whites in Darwin, while a few days' sail away were some small islands con- ' taining thirty-seven millions. On seeing these, one had fears as to what might i happen in the near future. i, ■ — ■ 1 BUSH SICKNESS. IN THE BAY OF PLENTY. , Melbourne, January, 11. Mr. C. J," Reake3, of tho Department ! of , Agriculture of New Zealand, contribut- ■ cd notes of his investigation of a nutri- ( tivedisorder of ruminants, the so-called ( "bush sickness," which occurs in a sect tion of the Bay of Plenty country, MUELLER MEMORIAL MEDAL, , AWARDED TO PROCESSOR HOWCHIN Melbourne, January 11. I : • The Mueller Memorial Medal has been awarded by the Science Congress to Professor Howchin, of Adelaide,. for geotopical research. FUTURE.CONGRESSES. BRITISH AND AUSTRALASIAN. / Melboiirna, January 11. The Congress resolved that, as : the , British Science Congress will be held'in Australia'in''August;'"lOW; Australasian Congress should bo held in Hobart in. 1916/ and in 'Wellington 1 subsequently. • V " . v r . , Professor Spencer was elected . president of the association.