JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
The March issue of the "New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology" (issued by the Board of Science and Art) comples the volume of six numbers for the year 1922-23. Its chief feature is a condensed report of the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Wellington ,in January. The presidential address by Mr. G. H. Knibbs is abstracted into one page. There follows a list of the papers read, with abstracts of several of the more interesting and important. Mr. Elsdon Best contributes an article on the occurrence of lizard forms in Maori carvings. The lizard, he remarks, is the only natural form depicted by the Maori so as to resemble the original, and not distorted or conventionalised. Even the human figure is as a rule grotesquely distorted. The author discusses the place of lizards in Maori mythology, and" his discussion of the dread in which the reptiles were held makes most interesting reading. A number of excellent photographs of. carved lizards illustrates the paper. "The case for the Electric Locomotives," a paper read last year by Mr. H. R. Halloran, is published ia full.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 2
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194JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 2
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