GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21384, 29 January 1935, Page 11

GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

<> N.Z. PROFESSOR ABROAD ATTENDANCE AT MAST CONFERENCE? [THE PEESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, January 28. Advanced study and research work in geology has been done in Great Britain in the last 12 months by Professor W. N. Benson, professor of geology at the University of Otago, who returned to Wellington by the Marama from Sydney today. While abroad Professor Benson attended several scientific and educational conferences. He was present at. the Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Aberdeen, the conference of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-opera-tion, held in Paris, on the subject of collective security, at which he represented the New Zealand branch of the Institute of Pacific Relations, and the International Conference of University Teachers held in Oxford, at which he represented the Universities of Otago and New Zealand. Professor Benson also attended the congress in Melbourne of the New Zealand and Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Benson said that for a number of years he had been doing researches into various phases of New Zealand geology, and he had gone to Great Britain under a Carnegie Corporation fellowship to complete his study of New Zealand materials in comparison with the collection at the British Museum. The result had been to place on a firm footing the sequence and fauna of fossiliferous rocks in New Zealand with those of Australia and Great Britain. This was of considerable importance to structural geology. Much of the work done had been in collaboration with the Geological Survey. The second part of the work was a study of geology of the Dunedin area, which seemed to throw considerable light on the general process of volcanic action and the origin of different types of volcanic rocks. Professor Ecr.scn left for the south to-night.