SCIENTIFIC VISITORS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 9

SCIENTIFIC VISITORS

THE LIST FOR NEW ZEALAND (FROM OCR OWN COERBSPONDENT.) LONDON, 16th April. The officials of the British Association have almost completed the list of distinguished scientists who will visit New Zealand after tho proceedings of the Australian congress have concluded. At present there are about seventy (including wives) who have definitely decided on the New Zealand excursion. 'Probably a few more names will be received later. lam indebted to the courtesy _ of the secretary of the British Association for the list, which includes : Mr. M. M. Allorgo, 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 Repton boy, Dr. Bower proceeded to Cambridge. He has published many books on botany. Mr. T. B. Browning, M.A., of Bromley, Kent. Mr. W. For wood Cheesman, of Selby, Yorks, and Miss Cheesman. Dr. Frank Clowes, who is 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 Us laboratories and president of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1897-98. One of his publications is on experimental bacterial treatment of London sewage. Dr. Clowes will be accompanied by his wife. Dr. E. -C. Coker, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury. Dr. Coker served his apprenticeship in the L. and N.W, Railway, and was for some time an assistant professor at M'Gill University in Montreal. Mrs A. M. Collum, of Dublin. Sir Henry H. Cunynghame, who was until last year Under-Secretary at the Home Office, will go to New Zealand with Lady Cunynghame. Sir Henry studied for the army, and entered tho Royal Engineers, but was called to the Bar in 1875. He was secretary to the Parnell and Behring 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, sixtyfour years of age. He has held geological 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 transcontinental excursion of the American Geographical Society. Dr. Dendy, Professor of Zoology in King's College, London, who will be accompanied by Miss Dendy, is well known in New Zealand, for he was Pro fessor of Biology at Canterbury College for nine years. He afterwards went to the South African College at Capetown, and has been in London since 1905. Professor H. B. Dixon, who is Professor of Chemistry at Manchester University, was educated at Westminster and Oxford. He has served on a number of Royal CommisHioiis on Coal Mines and the Coal Resources of Great Britain Professor W. Geoffrey Duffield is from University College, Reading. Mr. F. W. Dyson, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal, has been at the Royal Observatory/ Greenwich, since 189h with the exception of a period of five years, when he was Astronomer Royal for Scotland. He is tho 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. Mr. H. T. Ferrar is engaged under the Survey Department in Egypt. Mr. and Mrs.. Hiram Fowlds, of Keighley, Yorkshire. Mrs Harvey French, of Blandford. Mr. and Mrs. E Gold, Hampßtead. Dr. W. Graham, of the District Lunatic Asylum, Belfast. Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, of Gloucester, and Miss Hartland. Mr. Hartland is Registrar of the County Court in Gloucester. Ho has specialised on English lolk-lore, and twenty years ago was chairman of the folk-lore section of the International Congress. He has been president of tho Folk-lore Society and of the Lower Culture Religion Section of the Religious Congress at Oxford. In 1902 he was Mayor of Gloucester. Dr. W. A. Herdman, F R.S-, is Professor of Natural History at Liverpool. He was educated at Edinburgh, and as a young man was engaged as an officer in the Challenger expedition. He established a marine biological station at the Isle of Man, and a hatchery near Barrow. In 1901 he was commissioned to investigate the pearl oyster fisheries of Ceylon, and two years ■ later he was president of the Linnean Society. _ Prolessor Herdman will be accompanied by by his wife and daughter, and Mr. G. A. Herdman. Mr. B. Hobson. M.Sc, Sheffield. Mrs. John Hopkinson, Wimbledon. Sir Everard im Thurn, late Governor of Fiji, whose specialties are exploration (particularly in British Guiana), the Ceylon Pearl Fishery, and anthropology. Miss E. Vaughan Jenkins, London. Mrs. Forbes Julian, Torquay. Dr. Hector Jungersen, Professor of Zoology at Copenhagen, and Mrs. Jungersen. Professor A. W. Kirkaldy, Professor of Finance at Birmingham University. Professor Kirkaldy was educated at Oxford and Paris, after having spent six years in business. He has lectured a good deal on Economics and Commerce, and was for four years Warden of Queen's College. Sir Charles P. Lucas, who retired three years ago from the position of AssistantUnder- Secretary of State for the Colonies, has written several volumes on colonial history. He visited New Zealand on behalf of the Colonial Office. Dr. F. yon Luschan, Professor Anthropology at Berlin University, who will be accompanied by his wife. Dr. R. R. Marett, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Reader in Social Ani/iiropology, has been Secretary to the University Committee for Authropology since 1906. Dr. Marett has also been President of the Folklore \ Society and is at present organising an Anthi opological Conference. It was the Anthi opological Committee at Oxford that commissioned Mr. Diamond Jenness, of Wellington, to go to New Guinea. Mr. J. S. Nettlefold, Birmingham. Professor J. W. Nicholson, of King's College, London, lie is a. mathematician and a graudate of Alanchester and Cambridge. Miss E. Payne, of Rome. Professor J. Perry, of the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. Professor Perry was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and for some years was Professor of Engineering in Japan. He then practised for seventeen years as an electrical engineer before taking up his present position. Professor E. B. Poulton (University Professor of Zoology, at Oxford) has had a long career at Oxford, where ho was ior seven years a member of the Hebdomadal Council. He has been

President of tho Entomological and Linnean Societies and of the Entomological Congress. Mr. Poulton will be 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 footballer. Miss Pullen Burry is a very well-known traveller, and she has lectured before the British Association on the Negio Race in different a&pects. She was president of the first uiiion of women connected with geographical interests. Mr. A. B. Rcndle, 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 interested in flowering plants. Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S., Fellow 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, Nuneham 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. He was Mayor of Lampeter in 1910, and is Chairman of tire Lampeter Gas Company. Mr. J. E. A. Steggall, Professor of Mathematics at Dundee University College, was Second Wrangler at Cambridge in 1878 ; spent a year on the staff of Chiton College, and then some time lecturing at the Owens College. Mr. W. N. Stocker, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford. Dr. W. M. Thornton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Armstrong College, Newcastle ; a graduate of the University College at Liverpool ; has lectured ateo at Bristol and Durham. Dr. H. W. Marrett Tims, Professor of Biology at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and Reader in Zoology at the University of London. He graduated at Cambridge and has lectured since at Edinburgh, London, and Cambridge. He wrote the Natural History of the National Antarctic Expedition. Dr. Tims will be accompanied by his wife. Dr. A. D. Waller, Director of the Physiological Laboratory at the University of London, was educated at College de Geneve, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Leipsig. Mrs. Waller, who will accompany her husband, is also a daughter of the late Mr. G. Palmer, M.P. Mr., J. Claude Waller, 8.A., and Miss M. D. Waller, B.Sc, will go with their parents.