TO FURTHER SCIENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 12

TO FURTHER SCIENCE

CONGRESS MEETS NEXT WEEK MANY DELEGATES COMING Distinguished delegates from all parts of New Zealand will arive in Auckland next week for the opening of the annual Science Congress of the ISTew Zealand Institute. The sessions will be from January 24 to 29, and Mr. B. C. Aston (Wellington) will preside over about 100 persons. The president of the physics and chemistry section is Dr. W. P. Evans, of Wellington, and the subject of his address will be “The Use af the Microscope in the Study of Coals.” cYhers in this department are Dr. J. Marwick and Messrs. H. T. Ferrar and L. I. Grange, of the geological survey; Mr. A. C. Gifford, astronomer, of Wellington; Professor D. C. H. Florance, professor physics at Canterbury College; Dr. E. Kidson, Dominion meteorologist; Dr. E. Marsden, secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, of Canterbury College; and Dr. C. E. Adams, director of the Dominion Observatory. The geology and geography section has at its head Dr. J. Henderson, director of the geological survey. The pi-esi-dent of the biology section. Dr. W. B. Benham, of Otago University, is to delivei* one of the evening lectures on the subject, "The Inheritance of Mental Ability.” Other biologists present will be Dr. D. Mil/.*, of the Cawthron Institute; Mr. A. E. .Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries; the Hon. G. M. Thomson, of Dunedin; Dr. Kath’leen M. Curtis, of the Cawthron Institute; Dr. H. H. Allan, of Feilding; and the Revd. Dr. J. E. Holloway, of Otago University. Mr. E. Phillips Turner, director of forestry, and other representatives of the Forestry Department, will represent the agricultural and forestry section. The president of the anthropology and history section, Mr. H. D. Skinner, of Otago University, will take for the subject of his opening address "The Temple in Polynesia.” Other authorities in this department of science who will be taking part are Dr. G. H. Scholefield, Parliamentary librarian; Sir A. T. Ngata, Archdeacon H. W. Williams, Mr. F. Waite, M.P. of South Otago, Mr. H. Hamilton, director of the School of Maori Art, and Mr. T. W. Downes, of Wanganui. The president of the social science and economics section is Professor A H. Tocker, of Canterbury College, who has chosen “Rural Credit” as the subject of his address. Other papers In this section will be contributed by Dr. E. P. Neale, of Auckland; Professor H. Belshaw, of Auckland University College: Dr. A. G. Fisher, of Otago University; and Mr. W. H. Cocker, of Auckland. On Thursday the delegates will meet in the University College at 10 a.m. At 11 o’clock they will he the guests of the Auckland Council of the Museum at morning tea, and at 1.30 the visitors will be shown the interior of the museum. At three o’clock the delegates will be the guests of the Auckland Racing Club at Ellerslie. The congress will sit for the first time at 8 Hall.