SCIENCE CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 8

SCIENCE CONGRESS

SOME PROMINENT VISITORS.

The meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held here in January, 'will bring to Wellington a large number of notable visitors. The local secretary, Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, of the Dominion Museum staff, has supplied the following list of Australian members who have intimated their intention of attending:— Mr. G. H. Knibbs, C.M.G., the Director of the Comonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, will be president for the meeting; Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., Emeritus Professor of Biology at the Melbourne University, who ■will deliver a public lecture on the Australian aborignes, with cinema views; Sir Douglas Mawson, the well-known Antarctic explorer, who is also to deliver a public lecture, illustrated with cinema views on Antarctic work; Mr. E. C. Andrews, Government Geologist of New South Wales, the permanent secretary of the- association; Mr. C. H. Wickens, the newly-appointed Commonwealth Statistician; Professor T. Harvey Johnston, of the Brisbane University, president of the Biology section; Mr. H. G. Smith, late of Wie Technological Museum, Sydney, president of the Chemical section; Mr. L. X.' Ward,, Government Geologistl of South Australia, president of the Geology section; Professor T. Griffith Taylor, of Sydney, president of the Geography and History section; Professor W. H. Warren, _of Sydney, president of the 'Engineering and Architecture section; Mr. A. B. V. Richardson, Director of the School of Agriculture at Melbourne University; and Dr. S. S. Cameron, Director of Agriculture at Melbourne, will be presidents of 'the Agriculture section and Veterinary Science section respectively.