SCIENCE CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11

SCIENCE CONGRESS

CALIFORNIA'S INVITATION

The following letter has been received by Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, from Dr. E. B. Copeland, Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, California: —

"The sixth Pacific science congress, for which an official invitation has been sent by our Government to yours, will be held here July 24 to August 12 next, and I have been asked to arrange the programme for botany. Accordingly, I invite you personally to attend and participate .in such manner as you please; if attendance is impossible, to send a paper to be read and included in the proceedings; at your own discretion, on behalf, of the congress and myself, to extend this invitation to other New Zealand botanists; at your convenience, to inform me as to who may attend and what papers may be sent. The general theme is planned to be Pacific land floras; plant migrations; geographic comparisons, etc. But any papers of general interest —that is, not too local nor too narrowly technical — will be welcome."

It is deemed desirable that New Zealand botanists should be adequately represented at the congress either by personal attendance or by contributed papers. Articles for the botanical section may be forwarded direct to Dr. Copeland or to Dr. Oliver.