CONFERENCES OF SCIENTISTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 6

CONFERENCES OF SCIENTISTS

DOMINION’S DELEGATES APPOINTED (P.AJ WELLINGTON. March 1. A series of Empire scientific confer’ ences will be held in London in June anq this year, said the Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) to-day. The main conference, which His Majesty will open, will be held under the auspices of the Royal Society for the British Government. «■ The New Zealand Government, the „ University of New Zealand and the Royal Society qf New Zealand naye been asked to take part, and it has been arranged that the New Zealand representatives will be Sir Theodore Rigg, chairman of the Research Councrt and Director of the Cawthron Institute; Professor C. E. Hercus, Dean at the Medical School of the Umwrity of New Zealand; and Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Various scientists throughout New Zpqlapd were collaborating in preparing papers for submission to the conference, the Minister said, and it was understood that Australia, Canada, South Africa, and India would be represented at the conference, wtucn would provide for an exchange e o*. views pn scientific problems of immediate practical importance to vanops parts of the Empire. .. The Royal Society conference would be immediately followed by a mopwealth scientific official ence, which would discuss detaU«J measures to be taken to organise any , promote collaboration in scientific research through the Commonwealth on subjects of direct interest to the uov ernments concerned.