SCIENCE CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 9

SCIENCE CONGRESS

THE PACIFIC OCEAN

COMPLETE WEATHER CHART

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 14th May. Several hundreds scientists, authorities in a wide variety of fields drawn from practically all the countries or territories bordering on the Pacific Ocean, will attend the fifth plenary session of the Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver during the last week in May, 1932. As the host country, Canada will be largely represented at the sessions. Sir. John Patterson, of Toronto, director of the Dominion Meteorological Service Headquarters, has been appointed chairman of the committee on meteorology and terrestrial magnetism. "The- aim of the congress," explained Mr. Patterson, "is to foster in a broad way the study and solution of scientific problems commonly Effecting the countires of the Pacific, thus engendering a close community of interest among scientific men of these countries and indirectly creating goodwill among the Pacific nations." Such widely separated subjects as agriculture, radio, meteorology, geology, botany, and anthropology will be discussed. The main subject on which the Congress will initiate discussion is the circulation of the atmosphere over the Pacific, which affects weather conditions not only in Canada but in all other Pacific countries. A great step forward will be made, it is believed, and a complete picture can be built up of weather conditions ana movements over the Pacific Ocean a picture meteorologists so far have not had available.