SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1819, 10 January 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.

INTERESTING ADDRESSES.

Press Assn—By Telegraph—Copyright Received 11.40 p.m. Melbourne, Jan. 9. The Council of the Science Congress cabled to Professor Russell Wallace its greetings on his ninetieth birthday and its appreciation of his illustrious life and work.

Mr Dyei, Government expert of the Maffa Beet Sugar Factory, read a paper in which he claimed that there was no reason why the culture of beet sugar should not attain as high a position in maintaining the fertility of the Australian soils as it had attained in reclaiming those of Europe and America. Professor Fawsith, of Sydney, President, at an address to the chemistry section, said the greatest development of this generation was the gradual but sure reduction of chemistry to an exact science. Professor F. Schann, dealing with military science, said the defence scheme had already created a marked effect for the better observance of law and order among young Australians.

AUSTRALIA 400 YEARS AGO. A PORTUGESE DISCOVERER. Received 12.50 a.m. Melbourne, Jan. 9. Professor Petherick, of Sydney, claimed that Australia was discovered over 400 years ago by a Portugese navigator named Delope, who was accompanied by Vespucci, for whom the honour was claimed of first making the American Coast. Professor Petherick a)bo stated that he possessed evidence showing that the coast of Westralia was visited by Europeans as far back as 1499.