SCIENCE CONGRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 7

SCIENCE CONGRESS

GREAT HEAT EXPERIENCED IN CANBERRA

TROPICAL SUITS FAVOURED.

PROFESSOR SCOTT’S ADDRESS,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CANBERRA, January. 11.

I Wearing tropical suits and carrying their coats on their arms, 900 scientists assembled for their big congress today in a super-heated atmosphere. It was said that only the meteorologists, solar radiation experts and students of thermal activity revelled in the heat, which was well over 100 degrees. Canberra has never housed a more distinguished aggregation of scientists. The presidential address by Professor Scott was delivered in the Albert Hall tonight on "The History of Australian Science."

Professor Scott suggested the resumption of publication of Australian historical records until at any rate they had reached the date of establishment of responsible government in Australia. Professor Scott urged that a z resolution in these terms be included in the motions carried by the congress at the termination of the meetings.

In Australia and also in New Zealand, the professor observed, science had a vast field for original research. The process of development revealed unexplored opportunities. “The future of Australia is bound up with the progress of science to a greater degree than with any other of the instrumentalities of civilisation at work within our borders," he said. “Australia is a land of almost immeasurable antiquity. The Australia that we know was born into the scientific age.”