SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

AUSTnAUAN AND N. 7.. Mlll.E ASSOCIATION. PACIFIC FLORA. SVDNKT. Aug. 20. \t the Science Congress. Dr Ttiyard pointed out that the Pacific is not a unitv biologically. In tracing i s biological history. Dr Tilyard said that addition to a eucalypb Dr Men had recently found a New Zealand fi al ,d a New Zealand rammeulus. of ti c same species as that now growing in New Zealand, at a height ot d,H . oh the island of .Mindanao, in the I’hili ppincs. TRKK PLANTING. SYDNFY. Aug- 30 The Science Congress resoluti.med nrgino the necessity of pau-Pacihc countries giving immediate attention t „ planting in view of the approaching world’s shortage of eoniterous woods, and also resolutioned that the C one monwoalth should extend the scope of the Science Institute by the establish-1 incut of a forest products ahoratory. A number of papers read, dealt » the origin and history ol coral '<s and their investigation twin aeroplanes ; also the progress made in forecasting earthquakes. With respect to of Ottawa said some writers do hue that small but sudden yield,ngs 111 rock probably precede an earthquake. Simultaneous records could be produced daily by tremors on a seismograph which are probably less iroquont than disturbances on inisoplione revcords.