SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Our readers are probably aware that the third annual meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science will begin on Thursday, the 15th, at Christchurch. Several Australian members have arrived by the Te Anau, among them being the veteran botanist Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, the retiring president. The following extract from a long article by one of our Christchurch contemporaries will give some notion of the character of the meeting and of the arrangements already made:— THE PROGBAMME. The business of the meeting will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 15, with a meeting of the General Committee at Canterbury College. At 2 p m. on that day the sectional committees will meet in their rooms, and atß p.m. the first general meeting will oe held in the Provincial Council Chamber, where Paron Von Mueller will resign the chair to Sir James Hector, who will give the presidential address. His Excellency Lord Onslow has stated his Intention of being present at this meeting. On the following day (January 16) the presidents of the sections will give their presidential addres-es at various hours at Canterbury College. t'ome of the subjects of these are of interest to others than members of the Association. For example, the Hon. Dr Campbell will speak on ‘The Advancement of Sanitation among the People’; Mr O 8. Griffiths on ‘ A ntarctic Exploration ’; the Hon. G. W. C.tton on ‘ A State Bank of Issue’; Mr R. A. Murray on ‘The Past and Future of Mining in Victoria’; Mr A. IV. Howitt on ‘Ceremonies of Initiation in the Australian Tribes’; and Mr J. Sulman on ‘The Architecture of Towns.’ On the following Saturday, Morday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the sections will meet at 11 a.m. to read and discuss papers. The General Committee will meet on the Tuesday and the Thursday. RECREATION. It must not be supposed that the members of the Association will occupy all their time in discussing “enemies and elegies.” In the afternoons, and occasionally in the mornings also, they will recreate themselves by excursions and garden parties. On Monday, January 19, at 2 p.m., they will visit the drainage works under the guidance of Messrs Napier Bell and E. Cuthbert. On the following day, Tuesday, January 20, the Addington workshops will be inspected, under the direction of Mr J. P. Maxwell and Mr B. J. Scott. Oc Wednesday, January 21, an excursion will go to the Belfast Freezing Works and the Eaiapoi Woollen Factory, under the leadership of Mr F. Strouts and Mr F. Waymouth. On Thursday, January 22, Mr Strouts will conduct a party to the Lincoln Agricultural College. Garden parties will be given on

January 15, by Sir James Hector, at Christ's College; on Saturday, January 17. by Mr and Mrs Leonard Harper, at Ham; and on Tuesday, January 30, by the Right Rev, tlie Bishop pf Christchurch and Mrs Julius, at Hambledeu. On Friday, January 16, there is to be a lecture in the Provincial Council Chamber on ‘The Glaciers of the Tasman Valley,’ by Mr G. E. Monnering, a man particularly well qualified to speak about them. The lecture will be illustrated by a number of specially-prepared lantern slides. On Monday, January 19, Mr W. SavilleKent, Commissioner of Fisheries for Queensland, will lecture in the Provincial Council Chamber on ‘Oysters and Oyster CultureOu Tuesday, January 20, Mr Tcudall will lecture in tlie Provincial Council Chamber, on * A Short History of Vocal Music.’ The cathedral choir will give vocal illustrations. On the evening of Thursday, January 22, the last day of the meeting, there Is to be an oratorio in the cathedral—Spohr’s ‘Last Judgment.’ Further information may bo obtained from the local secretary (Professor Parker) at the museum.