THE SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 6

THE SCIENCE CONGRESS.

JJBt Eiacwmio Timbbapb— Oormtms [United Presb Association.] (Received 10.4 a.m.) Sydney, August 26. | At the Science Congress Professor David, confirming Sir Douglas Mawson's deductions, said the presence of .Antarctica was of the utmost importance from a meteorology point of view. Were Antarctica obliterated there -would be a great deal less atmospherio

unrest and it would be impossible to predict the effect of rainfall. Professor KirkaldyV paper on the economics of marine fuel showed the advantages of oil over coal.

Professor Elliot Smith discoursed on the ancient inhabitants of Egypt and the Soudan.

Professor David read a paper on relation of the peuno-carboniferous fauna of Australia to Asia, Africa and South America.

Dr. Davenport created considerable interest with a paper on heredity. He said that emotional traits shewing sincerity or insincerity, generosity or stinginess, gregariousness or seclusiveness, truthfulness or untruthfulness, were all qualities whose presence or absence was determined by the factor of heredity.

In the agriculture section, Mr Richardson, Superintendent of Agriculture, Victoria, delivered an address on wheat breeding. ■; Sir H. Reichel opened a discussion in the education section on the training of teachers. Professor Bateson gave a demonstration of the Mendelian phenomena. He said the science ofMendelism expressed the fact that an individual could only pass to its offspring qualities he had received from his own pedigree. Once free from deformation man would always be free,