SCIENTISTS TO GATHER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 3

SCIENTISTS TO GATHER

Melbourne Congress Opens Shortly

NEW ZEALANDERS’ PARTS

Alore than 800 leading scientists and research workers from Australia and New Zealand are expected to attend the bi-annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, which will open at Melbourne University on January 16. The association has a twofold aim. and is similar in scope to the corresponding association in England. The meetings are designed, first, to give scientific teachers and workers an opportunity of discussing their subjects together, and, second, to give the public of each of the capital cities in turn a chance to hear addresses and papers bearing on the contemporary scientific situation. On the opening day, January 16, a garden party will be given in the afternoon by the Governor of Victoria, Lord Huntingfield. The main presidential address will be given at the university in the evening by the presi-dent-elect, Sir Douglas Alawson, whose subject will be “The Unveiling of Antarctica.” Lecture on Volcanoes. Section meetings, beginning with the presidential address in each section, will be held on the following day; and in the evening Dr. P. Marshall, of the Public Works Laboratory, Wellington, will give a public lecture in the Wil-

’ son Hall on “Volcanoes in the Pacific.’’ ’ The Liversidge Research lecture , will be given on January 21 by Sir ' David Orme Alasson, who will speak , on “Crucial Advances in Chemical L Theory During the Last Half Century.” ' In the evening Sir George Julius will ’ lecture on “The Problem of Unem--1 ployment.” ! Post-sessional excursions occupying ' four or five days and devoted to botany, geology, and other branches of science , will be held during the week following . the final meeting of the general council on Wednesday afternoon, January 23. Many Subjects. The presidents of the sections, with the subjects of their presidential addresses, will be:—Mathematics, physics, and astronomy, Professor O. U. Vonwiller (Sydney), “The Interpretation of Interference Phenomena in Optics”; chemistry, Professor J. C. Earl (Sydney), “The Learning and Practice of Chemistry”; geology, C. A . Sussmilch (Sydney), “The Carboniferous Period in Eastern Australia”; zoology, Professor W. J. Dakin (Sydney), “Experimental Zoology”; “The Scope and Value of Historical' Research”; anthropology, Professor A. P. Elkin (Sydney), “Anthropology in Australia, Past and Present”; economics, statistics, and social science, J. B. Brigden (Brisbane), “Competition and Control”; engineering and architecture, Professor R. W. H. Hawken (Brisbane), “Mathematics and Common Sense in Engineering”; medical science and national health, Dr. J. V. Duhig (Brisbane), “Place of Medicine in the Social Plan”;' education, psychology, and philosophy, Professor J. McKellar Stewart (Adelaide), “The Making of Selves”; agriculture and forestry, Professor J. K. Alurray (Brisbane), “Australian Agricultural Education”; veterinary science, C. S. AL Hopkirk (Wallaceville, New Zealand), “Live Stock of New Zealand”; botany, D. A. Herbert (Brisbane), “Climate and Australian Vegetation”; physiology, Professor H. Whitridge Davies (Sydney), “Some Physiological Effects of Hot, Dry Climates”; pharmaceutical science, Roy Gardner (Dunedin, New Zealand), “The Relative Places in Afateria Aledica of Inorganic, Synthetic Organic and Natural Organic Substances” ; geography and oceanography, Professor J. Macdonald Holmes (Sydney), “The Content of Geographical Study.”