SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 7

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

0 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. By Tolojrraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Soptember VI. Professor Bat-osoii lias Leon olccted : President of tho British Association for 1014. [Professor Bateson, ' M.A., F.R.S., is director of tho John Inncs Horticultural Institution, Morton Park, Surrey. Ho wa Silliman Lecturer to the Yalo University in 1307, and Professor of Biology at .Cambridge .ill 190S-09. Ho was bom in 1801.] LAUGHTER AS A TONIC. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. • , London, September 13. At the meeting of tho British Association, Dr. M'Dougall, of Oxford, submitted a now theory of laughter. Ho argued that laughter, primarily, was fundamentally an antidoto of Bympathy. Sympathetic tendencies wero of tho first importance, for social lifo would be at a serious disad/antage if each man had to sillier all those minor pains from which his fellows ailed. The cumulative effect of many slight pains would seriously lower vitality, and hence social habits required an antidote or preventive for, these sympathetic pains. Nature, therefore, had orcatcd laughter a3 a protective reaction against them. THE AUSTRALIAN CONGRESS. (Reo. September 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 14. Additional selections to tho British Association delegates to tile meeting in Australia includoMr. John Arnold, Dr. Thomas Asliby, Mr. Henry Balfour (Curator of Oxford Museum),- Professor Henry Bassett (chemist). Professor Hud-' son Bear© (engineering), Professor Bevan ' (physicist), Professor George Carpenter (zoologist), Mr. 'Frederick Chattaway (chemistry), Dr. Frank Clowes (chemistry), Professor Coker (engineering), Dr. VaughaA Cornish (geographical research), Professor Ernest Dalby .(engineering), Mr. Frederick Dixoy (Curator of Hope Collection), Professor Harold Dixon (chemistry), Professor Frederick Donnan (chemistry), Mr. Wyndham Dunstan (Director of tho Imperial Institution), Dr. Dyson (Astronomer Royal), Mr. Arthur Eddington (Greenwich Observatory). Professor Georgo Forbes (Natural Philosophy), Professor Percy Frankland (chemistry). Dr. Hans Gadow (zoology), Mr. E. Gold (statistician). Professor Andrew Gray (Natural Philosophy), Professor John Green (education), Dr. William Halliburton (physiology), Profeisor Mitchin6on Hicks (physics), Professor William Hudson (mathematician), Professor James. Jeans (mathematics), Professor Frederick Kipping (mathematics), Dr. Charles Leps (medicine), Mr. Lowry (chemist), Professor Hector MncDonald (mathematics), Professor Hugh Marshall (chemistry), Professor Hugh Meredith (economics), Dr. Benjamin Mooro (biochemist), Sir Daniel Morris (natural science and agriculture), Si- John Murray (naturalist), Professor Myres (geography), Professor Alfred Porter (physics), Professor Edward Poulton (zoology), Mr. Alfred Rendle (botanist, British Museum), Professor Sydney Reynolds (geology), Mr. W. H. Riven (psychologist),' Dr. Walter Rosenhain (metallurgy), Mr. Robert Scharff (Dublin Natural History Museum), Dr. Charles Sherrington (physiolopy), Professor William Sollaa (geologist), Pro J fessor John Steggall (mathematics), Professor Johnson Symington (anatomy), Dr. Jocelyn Thorpe (chemistry), Professor Herbert Turner (astronomy), Professor Swalo Vincent (physiology), Mr. Harold Wager (botany), Dr. Augustus Waller (physiology). Professor Frederick Weiss (botany), Dr. Arthur Woodward (geology), Dr. William Young (mathematician). Owing to ths-number of applicants, a further final selection will bo deferred till October.