SCIENCE DELEGATE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2216, 31 July 1914, Page 7

SCIENCE DELEGATE

DEGREES CONFERRED. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright Perth, July 30. , Many degrees were conferred on the visiting scientists at the University graduation ceremony. Professor Herdman, in the course'of . the first lecture, urged Australia to ' take a' lesson from the older nations ' in exploring and exploiting fisheries, bearing in mind that all regulation fisheries must be based on scientific investigation. . 1 ■The following is the programme of the lectures to ba given by the visiting scientists:—Prof. Bower: "Ferns." Prof. Clowes: "The use of the Hydrogen Flame for testing for Fire Damp and Petroleum ■ Vapour"; or "On. the Bacterial. Treat- ! - meat of Sewage." Prof. Coker: "The Stress Distribution due to Rivets in the members of Engineering Structures.", v Prof. Dendy: "On the Pineal Eyo and Associated Structures in the Tiiatara." . Prof. H. E. Dixon: "The Nature of Explosions," also on the "Initiation, -of Plames"; lantern illustrations. E. Gold: "Recent Investigation <Sf the Upper Air" Prof. Herring: "Eecent Discoveries concerning the Physiology of the ' Pituitary Body." Sir E'verard im Thurn: '"Bellingshausen in the South Pacific and Antarctic Seas (1820-21)"; lantern illus- '••• trations. Prof. Jungersen: "Remarks,on the' White Whalo and - the Narwale." Prof. Economics of Shipping Management." Sir. C._ P. Lucas: • "Islands," with special reference to theBritish Empire. Prof, von Liischan: 1. ' "Unity of Mankind"; 2 "Artificial Doformation of the Human. Body"; 3, "Excavations, of Sainal, a 'Hittite Capital in Northern Syria." Dr. R. R. Marett: "Prehistoric Man in the Channel Islands." Prof. .B. Poulton: "Eecent Researches in Insect Bionomics," with , special reference to Neiv Zealand. Dr. A. B. Eendle: "The work of the International Botanical Congress, 1915." Dr. W. H. E. Rivers! "The Peopling of Poly- . nesia." Sir E. Rutherford: "The Transformation. of Matter." Prof. H. W. Marett Tima: "Polyphyodontism afidv Tooth replacement in the Mammalia," with 6peoial reference to the Marsupials. Dr. W. G.- Duffield: A note upon th» : . origin of "Spectrumlines." •