BUSINESS PRACTICALLY CONCLUDED.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11790, 13 January 1904, Page 8

BUSINESS PRACTICALLY CONCLUDED.

(PBESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, January 12. The business of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science was practically concluded to-day. Recommendations were made at the meeting of the general council to the following effect: — That letters be seat to the various universities and training colleges •urging the desirability of making provision for training mathematical teachers; that State and other governments bo urged to establish iMilne seismographs at various places; that in ths interest of the science of the world a description of fossils in the colonial museum, Wellington, should be commenced immediately; that the Association gratefully recognises the aid the New Zealand Government has afforded for the preservution of native fauna and flora, especially in passing the recent Act for the preservutiori of scenery, and expresses the hope that further facilities will be granted to naturalists for investigating the natural history of the outlying islands; that Captain Hutton, F.R.S., and Professor Baldwin. Spencer be elected life members of the Association. A number of committees were appointed, and various recommendations made in connection therewith. Votes of thanks were passed to the Governor, Bishop Neville, and those who had shown hospitality, Professor Spencer remarking that their stay in Dunedin had been rendered a plt-asant one. Votes of thanks were passed to the Government of New Zealand for its generosity in voting a sum to defray expenses.; to Sir J. <i. Ward for the liberal concessions grunted, and also to the steamship companies, to. the secretary, president, Press, and others.