SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

FALMERSTON NORTH MEETING. (By Telegraph.—iSpocial to "Star."') WELLINGTON, this day. Your correspondent was to-day informed that the Australian Science Congress, which was held at Hobart on January o, has been postponed till January 9, and the meeting place has been changed to Melbourne on account of the shipping trouble. Dr. Cotton, lecturer of geology at Victoria University College, has gone to Australia to attend the conference. Professor Kirk (lecturer on biology at Victoria College), Professor Coleridge Fair (lecturer on physics at Canterbury College), also intended to be present, but owing to the uncertainty of steamers it is not yet definitely known whether they will do so. Professor Benson (lecturer on geology at Otago University) is already in Australia, and will be chairman of the geological section of the conference.

A similar Science Congress will be held in Palmerston North on January 24 and 25 next, following the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute, also to be held at that centre. In addition to sessions for reading and discussion of papers on technical subjects, the afternoons will be devoted to scientific excursions. The presidential address will be delivered by Professor Easterfield. and addresses will be given by Dr. Tillyard, Professor Edmonson, of Napier, and Dr. Alan Thomson (secretary of the geological section)- T ~