DISTINGUISHED GEOLOGIST.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 8

DISTINGUISHED GEOLOGIST.

IN WELLINGTON. .Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard 1 University, arrived in. Wellington yesterday alter a week's--travel in , 'the Aorth Island. Tho visitor has been concentrating, his attention for somo timo on matters connected with the origin of the coral reefs of. tho South • Sea • .-Islands, and he is to deliver' an address Mors the Wellington Philosophical Society on that subject on his return from tile south about tho'en'd of tho month! During Juno and July ho intends', to make further investigations among the reefs of the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, before .attending the, Britisfi Association's Congress .in Australia. Professor Davis describes New-Zealand as a country that .teems with- interest to^ the geologist. , " ,, ■" •" ,; "• — The Professor delivered an interesting" address at Victoria Collego last evonJii£C on "The Sculptiiro'of Mountains byGlaciors," those present,.being largely students who are taking the course iii . geology. Thero was a capital attendance. Professor Picken, who presided, briefly introduced the speaker. . By, the aid of drawings on a .blackboard,' .the speaker was able to illustrate in a wonderfully clear manner tho erosion of tho mountains by glacial Action. Ho stated , that tho type of phenomena produced by glaciers was both beautiful and.remarkable, and the erosions produced hy a river were .entirely different to those caused by the sliding of moun--1 tain ice. Ho went on to give specific instances' of erosions, by glaciers. ,in mountain valleys. , " At tho conclusion of the lecture Professor Picken moved a vote of thanks, - - which was carried by acclamation. Beforo leaving; for the south to-mor-row night, Professor Davis will deliver a lecture to the students and teachers ' of tho Training College on "The Principles of Physical Geography."