BLOWING UP BRIDGES
‘THE map sketches reproduced here. are meant to be used as a guide by listeners to the series of discussions between a botanist (Professor V. J. Chapman) and a geographer (Dr. K. B. Cumberland) in 1YA’s next set of Winter Course Talks, beginning on Thursday, October 10, at 7.15 p.m. We asked Professor Chapman, of Auckland University College, to give us a brief outline of the series and he told us that there would first be three discussions on the Drifting Continents theory, then two on Wind, Rain and Vegetation, and finally one on Looking for New Crop Plants. In some confusion we told him that we were a little vague about Drifting Continents.
"That’s all right," he said, "it is a theory not at all well known to the non-scientific world. The idea is that at one time there was only one great land mass and that this broke up and the continents drifted apart. The hypothesis is based on botanical and geographical evidence and contradicts the earlier theory that the continents were joined together by bridges." "And in these discussions ‘are you and Dr. Cumberland in agreement or does one of you attempt to convince the other?" "We're in complete agreement. What we are trying to do is to explain. the hypothesis to listeners and blow up the bridges of the old theory. It should be quite an exciting set of discussions." And indeed he made it sound so.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 28
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244BLOWING UP BRIDGES New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 28
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