SCIENTIFIC VISITORS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 9

SCIENTIFIC VISITORS.

THE LIST FOR * T EW ZEALAND {rilOM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, April-16. The officials of the British "Association have almost completed the list-of distinguished scientists who will visit New Zealand after the proceedings of tho Australian Congress have concluded. At present there are about eeventy (including wives).who have definitely decided on' the, New Zealand excursion. Probably a few more names -will bo later. I-am indebted to the courtesy of tb.3 Secretary of th© British Association for tho list, which includes: — " ' ' * Mr M. M. AUorge, of the University Museum at Oxford. Dr. C J. Bond, of Leicester, and Mrs Bond. Dr. Bond, is vice-president-of the Royal Leicester Infirmary, a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Insurance and of the Medical Research Commission. After his college career (Repton and University College, London), Dr. 'Bond engaged in agriculture before taking up medicine. ■."■', '"'»_:■ Dr. F. 0. Bower, Professor of Botany, ' in* the University of Glasgow. Also a R«pton boy, Dr. BowMlr.pro-. ceeded to Cambridge. He, has 'pubushed many books on botany. . Mr T. B. Browning, M.A., of Bromley, Kent. Mr W. Norwood Cheesman, of Selby; Yorks. and Miss Cheesman.

Dr. * Frank Clowes, who ie a governor of Dulwich College, and Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy at the University College at Nottingham. Dr. Clowes is" a very well-known chemist, having been adviser to the London County Council and director of its laboratories and nresidrtit of the Society of Chemical" Industry in 1897-8. One of his publications is on experimental bacterial treatment of London sewage. Dr. Clowes will be accompanied by his wife. . Dr. E7 G. Coker, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Fmsbury. Dr. Coker served his apprenticeship in the L. and N.W. Railway, and was for. some time an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mrs A. M. Collum, of Dublin. Sir Henry IT. Cunynghame, who was until last year assistant Under-Socre-tary at the Homo Office, will go to New Zealand with Lady Cunynghame. Sir Henry studied for the Army and entered the Royal Engineers, but was called to the Bar in 1875." He-was secretary to the Parnell'and Bbhring Straits Commissions, and afterwards chairman of the Royal Commission on Coal Mines.

Professor W. M. Davis, the wellknown geologist of Harvard University, U.S.A., is an American, by birth, sixty-four years of age. Hβ lias held Ideological and geographical positions in Argentine, Harvard and Berlin, and was a year or two ago exploring in Central Asia. In 1912, he organised and led the trans-Continental excursion of the American Geographical Society. * Dr. Dendy, Professor of ZooJogy in King's College, London, who will .be accompanied by Miss Dendy, is well-known in New Zealand, for he was Professor of Biology at Canterbury Collego for nine years. Ho afterwards went to the South African Collego at Cape Town, and hae been in London since 1905. - Professor H. B. IXxon, who is Professor of Chemistry at Manchester University, was educated at Westminster and Oxford. He lias served on ji number of> Royal Commissions on Coal Minos and the Coal Resources of Great Britain. Professor W. Geoffrey Ihiffield is from University College, Reading. Mr F. ."W. Dyson, F.K.J*., the As-tronomer-Royal, has been at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, since 1894, ■with tho exception of a period of five years when he was Astronomer-Royal for Scotland. He is the son of a- Baptist minister. Mr Dyson will, naturally, be much interested in the Nelson Observatory movement, of which .he spoke enthusiastically last week. Mr and Mrs J. T. Ewen, Aberdeen. 3lr H. T. Ferrar is engaged undur the Survey Department in Egypt.^ Mr and Mrs Hiram Fowlds, of Kfighlev, Yorkshire

Mrs Harvey French, of Bradford. Mr and Mrs E. Gold, Hampstoad. ; I>r. W. Graham, of the District Lunatic Asylum, Belfast. Mr E. Sidney Hartlnnd, of Gloucester, nnd Miss'HartJand. Mr Hartland is.Registrar of tho County in Gloucester. He. has specialised oa English folk-lore, and twenty yoars ago was chairman of the folk-lore section of tho International Congress. Ho has been president of the Folk-lore Society and of tho Lower Culturo Religious .section of tho Religious Congress at Oxford. It< 1302 ho was Mayor of Gloucester. l>r. W. A. Uerdman, F.U.S.. is Professor of Natural History at Liverpool. Ho was educated at Edinburgh, and as a young man was engaged as an officer tnthe Challenger F.xnodition. Ho established a. marine biological station at th«> lslo of Man. and a. hatchery near Barrow*. In 1901 lie was commissioned to investigate tho pearl oyster fisheries of Coy lon, and two years later ho was president of tho Linnwan Society. Professor Hardman will bo accompanied by his wife and daughter and Mr G. A. Heniman . Mr B. Hobson, M.5.., Sheffield. Mrs John Honkinson. Wimbledon. Sir Everard iin Tliurn. Into Governor of Fiji, whoso specialties are explor.\tion (particularly in British Guiana), th© Ceylon pearl fishery and anthropology. ■ Mi>s lii. Vaughnn Jenkins, "Loncton. Mrs Forbes Julian, Torquay. l>r. Hector Junger.seu, Professor of Zoolo.isy at, Copenhagen, and Mrs Jtnijcrsen. Professor A. Kirkaldy, Professor of Finance at Birmingham University. Professor Kir'caldy was educated at Oxford and Paris, after having epent six . years in business. He lias .lectured a good deal on economies and commerce, and was for four years warden ot" Queen's College Sir Charles P. Lucas, who. retimd three years ago from tho position r' Assistant of State, for the Colonies, has written sovornl volumes on colonial history. Ho visited Xew Zealand on behalf of tho Colonial Office. Dr. F. yon Lusclnmi, Professor "of Anthropology at Berlin University, who will be accompanied by his wife. l>r. It. R. Marelt. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Reader in Social Anthropology, has been secretary to tho University Committeo for Anthropology since 1906. 3>r. Man>ti< . has also been president of tho Folkloro Society, aud is at present organising an Anthropological conference. It was the Anthropological Committeo at Oxford that commissioned Mr Diamond Jenncss, of Wellington, to go to Now Guinea. Mr J. S. Nettlefold, Birmingham. Professor J. W. Nicholson, of King's College, London. He is a mathematician and a graduato of Manchester and I Cambridge I ]\liss E. Payne, of Romo. I Professor J. Perry, of the Royal Collego of Science, South Kensington. ProI fessor Perry was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and for some years was Professor of Engineering in Japan. Hethen practised for seventeen years as an electrical engineer before taking itp his present position. Professor E. B. Poulton (University Professor of Zoology, at Oxford), lias had a long career at Oxford, where ho was for seven years a member-of .the Hebdomadal Council. - Hβ lias been President of tlie Entomological and ■ Linnoan Societies, and of the Entomological Congress. Mr Poulton will bo accompanied by his wife (who was a daughter of the late Mr G. Palmer, M.P., of Reading) and Miss Poulton. Their son, Mr R. W. Poulton, is a wellknown Oxford Rugby '■ footballor. Miss Pullen Burry is -a very wellknown traveller, and she has lectured before the British Association on tho Negro Raco in different aspects. Shewas President of the first union of Women connected with geographical interests. • Mr A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., keeper of the Department of Botany at the' British Museum. Mr Rendle was educated; at Cambridge, and entered the- British ; Museum in 1888. He is chiefly inter- : ested in flowering plants. ' _ v _ ; Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S:, ifel- ' low of St. John's College. Cambridge, and Lecturer in the Physiology of the Senses. ' ■■ • ■'-.'■ ' ■.'..'■•" Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford and Miss Rutherford. ■ .■'•- ' ■■ ■' Miss E. R. Saunders, Nnnoham College, Cambridge, a lecturer in Natural Science. , --~ ;-. : Mr A. W. Scott, Professor of Mathematics at St. David's College, Lampeter. Mr , Scott was educated at, Trinity College, - Dublin. - Ho was Mayor of Lampcter in 1910. and is Chairman of the Lampeter Gas ComJ. E. A. Steggall, Professor of Mathematics at Dundee University College,, was Second Wrangler at. Cambridge in 1878; spent a yearjon. 'the.y staff of Clinton College, and then some time lecturing at the Owens College.Mr AY. N. Stocker, M.A., BraSonose College. Oxford. , ; . * ' Dr. W. M. Thornton, Professor of. Electrical Engineering at Armstrong College, Newcastle; a graduate of the University Collece at Liverpool; has lectured also at Bristol and Durham. Dr. H. W. Marrett Tims. Professor of Biology at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and Reader in Zoology at tho University of London. Hβ graduated at Cambridge and has lectured since at Edinburgh, London, and Cambridge. Ho wrote the Natural:; History of the National Antarctic Expedition. Dr. Tims will be accompanied by.his wife. ' . ■■ ■~-.• Dr. A. D. Waller, Pirector of the Physiological Laboratory at the University of London, was educated _at College de Geneve, Aberdeen.. Edinburgh, and Leipaig. • Mrs Waller, who will accompany her husband, is^ also a daughter of tho late MrG Palmer, MP Mr J. Claude Waller, 8.A., and Miss M. D. Waller, B.Sc, will go with their parents.