SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 17 August 1914, Page 6

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

I'U.S'iiillV'i.V. ui'U iCiiSOi-iUCES. By 'L'olcgrapli.—l'ross Association. VVdl'.ngtun, last nifrlit. t'ri fessor Lain-, srcn-uiry oi tli« lirititix Association Recent,on has issued .he following: The iiritish Assocj.!tio;i Rwcption Committee, in view of tin' outbreak oi' war, are cndeavor'n!; 1 to curtail the expenditure in co'.iiu I'iiim with i!'.c Science Congress, but there arc diiVicu!tics in carrying out tbit course, as arrangements for .tilt; Congress were very far advanced when the war brcke out. "Members of ill ft nritish Association hi Australia who have been invited to be present at. the Congress are being communicated with l>y cable, amd such of thorn as arc. willing .and able to rar.ci'l their acceptance of llic Government's invitation will be released from llieir nndertakins to visit New Zealand. It will not be known for sone. days bow man" \ire prepared to cancel their visit. Six members of tlie American party arrived yesterday In- the Tthi.'i fro-iii.S-.ji Francisco, having left America, c-n .Tuly 21, ar.d as five, menrhcr-s of this pnrtv a.re willing to remain in New Km la ml for some davs vet. it has been decided .0 ask them to read at Victoria Oil';"?" sontft of till' scii.rmt.ific pnncrs which thev have prepared. Tlie rwhlic will be r.r-ij-fied later as to the dates and titles of thr- tmmh-w that. tV-Y "'ill rcn-i. other (members of the American nartv 'are on flic N'iaL'ara.and acable mesfti'-e was sent releasing thorn from their nhliqatian to attend the OonsT-nss. bu + the cablenraTr iwiv jrnt have rcsirlvf! Vancouver before the >T : ajrirn left. As soon a* a ir^ 1 -' ''s received from A'-'s-frnlip. -'lie Brit's 1 ' •'■ion Cnmrriittc" -will ma]:., a further an >.nMTlCenie7ir.. If is hop-"' f'.'f, i considerable norti'-n of th" CivcrntnT* ."rant will \r savr-d.