SCIENCE CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1930, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS

DR MARSHALL TO ATTEND.

\ WELLINGTON, May 12

i New Zealand will be represented 1 at the' jcdnfeiiolnoe of .the Australasian Association for the Advancement -of Science, which is to open in Brisbaiie on Wednesday, May 28th, by Dr n. Marshall, of Wellington. ‘ In addition to übueiiuing- the conference on’ Wiiiuf of the Dominion, Dr. Marshall will go there as the accredited representau, e of the! -New Zealand institute and tlie Wellington l lliiosopliici.il Society. -:i hr. Marshall, who is- ’Government Petiologist, and is attached to -Die Department of ‘ Scientific; and industrial. Kesearoi), intends leave ’Wellington by tlie north-bound Limited on Sunday' 1 night next in, order to cmneot with the Sydney steamer • at Auckland.

The conference will last about J a week. Dr. Marshall lias been accorded the high honour of having been iu- • lted to deliver one of the two 1 popular lectures that will be given duiihg conference week. His subject will ‘.be o.i. A.al Ketvs.” On this subject lie is recognised as, a world authority. In view of the .numerous expeditions mat Have earned out’ ‘recently research work on the corah formation of the great' barrier reef, oil the northeastern coast of. i Australia and its close proximity, to the conference, meeting-place, his address on a subject on which he: is so highly 'qualified to speak should topical.