SCIENTISTS' MEETING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 8

SCIENTISTS' MEETING.

FIXTURE FOR WELLINGTON.

SOME AUSTRALIAN VISITORS. [BT TELEQRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCTAHTftN.] WELLINGTON, Sunday.

A meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, which is to be held here in January, will bring to Wellington a large number of notable visitors. The local secretary, Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, of the Dominion Museum staff, has supplied the list of Australian members who have intimated their intention of attending:—

Mr. G. H. Knibbs, director of the Commbnweath Institute of Science and Industry, who will be president for tha meeting; Sir Baldwin emeritus professor of biology at Melbourne University, who will deliver a public lecture on Australian aborgincs, with cinema views; Sir Douglas Mawson, the wellknown Antarctic explorer, who is also to deliver a pnblio lecture, illustrated with cinema views, on Antarctic workj Mr. E. C. Andrews, Government geologist, of New South Wales, the permanent secretary of the association; Mr. 0. H. Wickens, the newly-appoint2d Commonwealth statistician; Professor T. Harvey Johnston, of Brisbane University, president of the biology section; Mr. H. G. Smith, late of the Technological Museum, Sydney, president of the chemical section; Mr.. L. K. Ward, Government geologist of South Australia, president of the ecology section; Professor J. Griffith Taylor, of Sydney, president of the geography and history section; Professor W. H. Warren, of Sydney, president of the engineering and architecture section; and Mr. A. G. V. Richardson, director of the School of Agriculture at the, Melbourne University, and Dr. S. S. Cameron, director of agriculture at Melbourne, who will be presidents of the agriculture section and veterinary science section respectively.