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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 8

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SCIENCE CONGRESS. DETAILS OF PROGRAMME OPENING BY LORD OAIiWAT. The release of the official programme for the biennial congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, which will sit from January 12 to January 19, inelusive, shows how fully occupied the time will be. Some 000 persons will be present, it is expected, including an Australian delegation of over 200, most of the members of which will arrive next Monday by the Awatea. Sessions will be held, unless otherwise stated, in the Auckland University College. Among those taking part in the deliberations of the conference will be 120 delegates from 70 affiliated bodies, which comprise the general council ol the association, while the remainder of those present will be individual members. The general and sectional meetings will be open to members only, but two public lectures will be given in the Town Hall concert chamber on the evenings of January 13 and 18 respectively. The presidential address by Sir David Rivett will also be given in the Town Hall on the evening of the opening day, January 12. Membership of the association is, however, open to all, and officials of the organisation are especially anxiouS that the general public will enrol., It is for this especial reason that the technical aspects of the subjects will not be stressed in many papers to be given. There are other papers, of course, which are too technical to be dealt with popularly. Outside Lectures. Though not part of the official programme, Dr. A. L. Day, of the Carnegie Institute, Washington, will give a lecture next Monday evening on the "Problem of the Yellowstone Hot Springs." This lecture will be public, and will be given in the hall of the Auckland University College. At the meeting of the general council on Tuesday morning, January 12, a report of the past two years' operations will be presented, while the date of the next congress, to be held in Canberra in 1939, wjill be decided. The locale of the 1941 congress will also be determined. The annual award of the Mueller medal for research into natural history will be announced. . . . j The conference will be formally opened in the Town Hall on Tueßday, January 12, when the Governor-General, Viscount Gal way, joint patron with Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of the Commonwealth, will officiate. The retiring president, Sir Douglas Maw soil, will, preside and will introduce his successor. Sir David Rivett. Among those present will be the Hon. A. J. McLaqJilan, Commonwealth Minister in Charge of Scientific and Industrial j Research. Wide Field of Topics. | A wide field of scientific topics- will be j covered in the. 10 sections of the association. The sections are:-—Physics; Chemistry; Geology; Zoology; History; , Anthropology; Economics; Engineering and Architecture; Medical Science' Philosophy; Psychology ajid Education! Agriculture and ForestrV; Veterinary Science; Botany; Physiology; Pharmaceutical Science; Geography and Oceano- •- . . «. ~ A number of excursions have been arranged by the secretaries of the different sections to places of interest to that particular branch of science. There will be a general harbour excursion on Saturday, January 16, when memwill be taken, to the upper h&bour, Motuihi and to Rangitoto. Rotorua Will also be visited, as well as many places of, interest in the. environs of An(Jcland. v Two booklets have been produced for the occasion. One is a handbook of New Zealand generally, while the other deals specifically with Auckland. " ; • . Details of the Programme. m The resume. Of the general programme is as under:— Monday, January 11.—Sight-seeing for visitor*. Tuesday, January 12.—Congress opens; /assemble at University College, 9.30 a.m.; meeting of general council to follow; civic reception at Town Hall, 12.15 p.m.; garden party at residence' of Mr. and Mrs. F; C. Mappin in -afternoonj official opening by the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Galway, in the ToWn Hall, 8 p.m., \yith presidential address, 'The Scientific Estate," ,by Sir David Rivett, chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Coiincil for Scientific and Industrial Research. Wednesday, January 13.—SectionaJ meetings in morning and afternoon at University College; public lecture, "Beyond the Stratosphere," by Dr. D. F. Martin, Sydney University, in Town Hall concert chamber, 8 p.m. Thursday, January 14.—Sectional meetings. Friday, January 15.—Sectional meetings; conversazione in evening at the museum. Saturday, January 16.—Excursions. Sunday," January 17. —Free. Monday, January 18.—Sectional meetings; public lecture, "Geophysical Pros-1 pecting fpr Ores-and Oil," by Professor H. C. Richards,- University .of Queens-! land, in Town HalL concert • chamber, 8 p.m. ' .' ,y. ■}.. -J..;''"""-.-.--Tuesday, January ' 3?.—-£fecti6iial meetings inmorning; afternoon,..a -meet--ing of general council anddgairdfeh party given ty the Mayor, Mr. Ernes't Davis, In the grounds of Government House.'