TIME'S SECRETS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7

TIME'S SECRETS

m .WAS HAWAII ONCE PART OF AUSTRALIA? (fGOM OHIt OWN CORRSSPONDMiT.) 0 ■■ SYDNEY, 10th August. Professor Lawson, <£ the Chair of-Bot-any at the Sydney University, welcomed to Sydney the other day -an interesting friend in the person of his old chief at Stanford University, Dr. D. H. Campbell, whose knowledge of the world's plants would be hard to excel. Dr. Campbell has been surprised by . the similarity between some Australian plants and those of Hawaii, especially between acaoia of the latter and the wattle here. He Accepts it as: an mdi-, cation that there must at one time have ,been much larger, land formations'in the Pacific, for America, which .is much nearer the Hawaiians.has none of these similarities. "Hawaii," he says, '^undoubtedly must have been nearer to Australia at one time, but by' earth disturbances at distant periods in the past areas intervening have been swept away." This, together with animal similarities, he regards as most remarkable. During his visit he intends to prosecute investigations in North Queensland and Western Australia. !