SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7874, 8 January 1904, Page 2

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

DUN*,JL>IN, January 7. The work of the Australasian Associa ' tion for the Advancement of Science' was done in sectional divisions to-day, when the presidents of the various sections delivered their addresses. In the .biological section Colonel Legge dealt with bird l : fe m Australasia, and Polynesia. In geology rrofessor Twelvetrees ( spoke on some aspects of modern petrology; in agriculture ilr T. W. Kirk .spoke on the importance of agriculture; iin engineering -\fr H. Dean lectured on day labour on Government works, which 1 he said pai<l. insanitary and hygiene subjects pap-irs vfere read on the danger "of the use of boracic acid in milk, etc. In the anthropology section Professor Spencer spoke « totemism in Australasia. Mr J. B. Henderson spoke ori chemistry and food, dea) ing principally with adulteration. In education Mr J. Schilley, of Brisbane, lectured on educational and national trade 2ompetitioa. ' ' ■ Tnis evening Professor Baldwin gave a lantern lecture on the Australian aborigi-