Darwin’s Home

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 1

Darwin’s Home

Presented to Nation Conference of Scientists An announcement will b© made to the conference of scientist and scholars in Glasgow that Darwin’s home in Kent, Down House, has been presented to the British Association with an endowment amply sufficient to secure its maintenance and preservation for all time. The donor is Mr. George Buckstone Browne, of London. Down House was purchased for Darwin by his father, hjuL the great scientist worked there continuously for nearly forty years, and it was there that he died. In the study he wrote “The Origin of Species.” It is planned to furnish the old study as closely as possible to the manner in which it was furnished when Darwin worked there, to fill the shelves with all editions of his works, and to make a repository of “Darwinia,” where students will be able to consult original documents. The country’s scientists and scholars are assembling in hundreds in Glasgow for the yearly conference of the British Association to be inaugurated by Sir William Bragg, says the London correspondent of the “Dominion.” There are two things which appear strikingly in the programme of the meeting. One in the growing number of women who are taking part in the highly intellectual proceedings of the association, and the other is the directly practical form which these proceedings take whenever possible. In the Botany Section, women figure most prominently. Vo fewer than 14 women will read papers, and Professor Dam© Helen Gwyne-Vaughan will be chairman and deliver the presidential address. In all, 26 women will read papers. In the Zoology Section four women will play leading parts, the same number in the section dealing with anthropology, and three In that concerned with psychology. Rather surprisingly, only two women are associated with the section on educational science. The subject with which these women scientists deal are as recondite as any put forward by the men. For instance, one woman zoolosist will read a paper on “Yolk Absorption In some Cephalopoda.” and A woman anthropologist will talk about “The Colour Top as a Means of Recording Skin Colour.”