ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 3

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

CONFERENCE IN HOBART. MANY VISITORS EXPECTED. The Association for the Advancement of Science, Australia and New Zealand, is to hold its nineteenth meeting in Hobart during the week commencing January 16. A very large number of visitors will be attending the conference, including some New Zealanders. The work of the conference will be divided into 15 sections. Professor H. G. Denham, M.A., M.Sc., D.Sc., Ph.D., of Canterbury College, Christchurch, will deliver the presidential address for the chemistry section. The president of the education section, Mr. M. P. Hansen, M.A., LL.B., of the Education Department, Melbourne, is to deliver an address on “Education of To-day,” and Professor A. J. Perkins, president of the agriculture and forestry section, will speak on “A Plea for Nation-wide Research into the Economy of our Various Agricultural and Livestock Industries.” The president of the veterinary science section, Mr. Max Henry, M.R.C.V.S., will deliver an address entitled, “The Problem of Pleuro-pneumonia Contagiosa in Australia.” Professor L. A. Cotton (N.S.W.) will be the principal speaker in the geology and geography section; zoology, Dr. Colin MacKenzie (Vic.); history, Mr. T. Dunbabin, M.A. (N.S.W.); anthropology, Dr. R. H. Pulleine (S.A.); economics Professor R. O. Mills (N.S.W.); engineering and architecture, Professor R. W. Chapman (S.A.); medical science and national health, Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston (Vic.); botany, Professor T. C. B. Osborn (S.A.): physiology, Professor H. G. Chapman (N.S.W.); pharmaceutical science, Mr Edward Mayhew (W.A.). The secretary for New Zealand is Professor C. Coleridge Farr, D.Sc., F.N.Z.. Inst., Canterbury College, Christchurch.