PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2185, 25 June 1914, Page 6

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

' GEEMAK JfEW GtfKEIA. ' Uutior t'tie auspices ef the Wellington FWtosophitel Society, Miss Pulton' . -ftfrf.v, jT.ii.G.S.,' an English delegate ' to the faxtncflmiHg BongFesa <sf tte tish Association' 'for tiie Advauccmeet '■ «)t'Science in;%Eln^j ! , delivargd- a-iy wi■dtflSil' last evening cai "N«W Ijritain'or f&rman Mow Guiijca." Dr. C. Miinro prosidewt of the society, wm\l>!«d tl'ie cha.il-, ■.',:. Miss Bafteii-titiwy spofe. lii.aiftly «i tho nntbropotogjeal aspects of Nfew Giii- ' wea and tho " Bism-aick ' Arempfetago. fhe. nvaiiflOM sM hltilts. or the initivfis of the tiffmnn portion of the njahi is- ; Jafltl o| New Gainoa, aii3 the lijany eU'tivittft islan.de w-efe iuieresttegly cjeseri.bed,. anff the- inforniaSiou ■ giscj!' WiSated; e.XfefiSive .res.earcli -by t-fe sjeflkor. Tiie' natives wire? feerib.ed , ! js of A, ■somewhai low oast> Mi tit. .tefy 45v6rgBllfteijes-. ' Their iißinOßcktur.c was so rarted' as , to j»fesen"t ' $ distiitet b.indratiep tt) scicutifie rasearch. 'Diseiise 'ins rampant, and, with the. oxeop'tfen i*f ; the'iiivMyef of the' Adniiralty- Ulands, .w-he w?k of »'. v<try' HfiMtaiif and f hirba..rou's type/ the - iKit«e.s. .-generfl-By 1 'sj3e:g ; king f were'Sn-dateftt. . It 'was- a ■rejji'QU : abdiinding m .Sanger,'.. the .feaBakas bei-nfl; treachfefoas aiid ait-fust" Wrti,V'.-'' : 'fiie Spea'ker-'passcfl 01S . to ; vp-ay a" high, tribute :to. t>i. E[arie, tho Governor ef.fche <se.ffiia.ii Pffrfec'for-3ie t :fe his adjumisiratiTC She stated Shat''the-': GoverMor had Spoken the- t.r«.ttt whoti fio said thai lio hjid no ' nimchfk pbsitjojj. sths Pufifn-Bun-.v cp.Dewed -with iise'se words: "Bismafck ' idl!<i libfci"apivtove ■ of the Gerfltaiia having 'cokfyk&t' &■ tfaty «"Q» : ld oiily. servo .1:0 ■prayii?' glades i'dr a ■■{litrobef of people. I subscribg to-tiiai,'becaaso it coold lint be for f%,w;el!-fatii»g ti the coloiij' sitseW %at. there- : were so ma'ay eerniaii oflicials* and Sd- few farmers a,n ; d planters," ' .."'.. ' . ' . .....

, fh& lecture, whiefc -was_ jll-u.strdted'l-ijf "b series' of descriptive viewg., -was. ilstr cnedT'tq with closq itttorest, and , coiieiuskn; MiSS Pullen-Bafrv' w-'as ft'eeorded; a" hnailjr vote, of .thanks, this boiip,' curtmi by 3C*laamt.ion,; .