THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 3

THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

The attention of the public is drawn to what promises to be a very interesting lecture to be delivered, by Professor Blacmillan Brown in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, oh Monday evening next, under the auspices of the Navy League. The professor, has ■ chosen for his subject "French Oceania" and the Pacific Ocean. As a man of letters, explorer, ' and. scientific theorist, the lecturer is sure to have much of interest to j say regarding this great region of Pacific subsidence, the part it has played in previous history, and its placel in the future. Professor Macmillan Brown has an unusual knowledge from personal experience of Polynesia, and has visited in the search for information the most obscure corners of Japan and South America. The lecturer will deal \vith the Polynesian as a distirict type apart from all others in the Pacific, his relationship to the people of America and Asia,. and whence he came. The evidences of great changes in the distribution of Pacific land areas even within the time of human occupation will be dealt with in a very interesting manner. A series of lantern, slides will b© used to illustrate the lecture. .