PUBLIC LECTURERS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 8

PUBLIC LECTURERS

Three public lectures will be given in Christchurch by delegates to the Pacific Science Congress. Dr. E. S. Archibald, director of the Experimental Farms Service of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, will deliver the Hilgendorf Memorial Lecture at the Canterbury .College Hall at 8 o’clock this evening. The Hilgendorf Memorial Lectures are given under the auspices of the Canterbury Agricultural College Old Students’ Association, from time to time, and this is the second. Dr. Archibald is a noted authority on wheat breeding. and his subject is “The Story of Canadian Wheat.” Dr. Hilgendorf was a leader in the field of wheat breeding in New Zealand. In the Civic Theatre to-morrow evening two coloured films will be shown by Dr. Clarence E. Cottam. assistant director of the United States Fish and Wild Life Service. films are called “Alaskan Wild Lifd* and *vTl!a Life Refuges in the United States.” Dr. Cottam is administrator of sanctuaries and refuge areas in the United States. On Monday evening in the college hall a lecture will be given by Professor C. Skottsberg. director of the Eotanic Gardens. Gothenberg, on “The Influence of the Antarctic Continent on the Vegetation of Southern Lands.”