DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 4

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

The cablegram which we-_ publish-, in another column announcing that the High Commissioner'for Australia has been entertaining Phofessob Bajeson and ottwr members of the British Association will serve as a reminder that ew distinguished scientific visitors will be with u& before many weeks go by. The official meetings of the association are to bo held in Sydney and Melbourne, but arrangements have ken made for a large number' of British, and foreign sci&ntists to come- on to 33cw Zealand and hold .meetings in the principal centres. This will give the genei'a.l public an opportunity of seeing and hearing same of the .trie/ft whose names are famous in the world of thought, and who are only -known to most -oi us through tha.ined'hvm. of books and newspapers. It is intended to make thij meetings' as i,nie,rg-s;ti&g. as possible to the average mm and woman as well as to_ experts -and speciafets. It is one thing for a tain' te know his subject, bat it is quits firjother thing for hitn to make his- ideas easily intelligible to othei's, It Is stated that Lobr Kei-vis's pupils found it ve.ry hard to follow wis lce%res, as be gave them crc4i* for fcttowirtg far ffioro ihm they re-Sily did,. Othe'r great British seient-'i&ts, howe-yer, have possessed a wooderfivl pftwer of lii : eid csplwatfoft., and auiong fte party earning to N«w. Zealand' Wt) a 1 B.uiinbei' wlto xstaad in the- frpiit m-nk of pojwla-i 1 lec-kirara, .' Dr. : ißivfitT, the gftncrdl organisiftg see're* . ta<i'y lot thfi Comiiiotifteaitii, states tktfc broad discussions' '.oil laßge proMfrnjs nfc to be madc.iho featoVe of.the sectional work, The suijeels Will ineludc such Interesiiftg topies as the, tmhws'ity 4ud the- State, towa-plannlng, the wigifl" pi species, and the Antarctic.' . Paoffi'sson. lATfisojf (ite president) writ d&al with various asirect® of file pfobiem of heredity, and will' ft'lso ' discuss 'the itifluen.ce which'tnodefti work on g(siie-tjfts mwst have oil sotsial pmblems and. ideas _ of the eon'structiOD. of hutftan sbei©l;y in igene-ral. Aj-rangC' menfe will he ffi.adei for freseattn w6ty during the siiceeediftg year, and it la hoped that some, of tire prob/leais; oj s.peefel intc-Sest to this part oi tho world will receive attention. $fj.e assoeiatien. is aot likely to. pS-y -an'other visit to Augtealasia fe many years io.fipjlie; %b is-, desirable that the best should be ma,d'c o'f the' comihg .tout. The 'rocnMifs to eoni.e m to Kcw Z&fayi a-wj W.rc Cif a hearty v^el.e-ome,