SCIENCE CONGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18295, 11 January 1923, Page 8

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

, . M... ■■<&» ■- ■■■ AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES, ARRIVAL IN WELLINGTON. SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED. ■ »BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT, . WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Australian delegates to the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Ulimaroa this afternoon. There are over 150 delegates and many of them are accompanied by members of their families. The meetings of the association will commence to-morrow. The first public lecture will be given in the evening, when the president-elect, Mr. G. H. Knibbs, director of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, mil deliver an address. In addition to the Australian delegates a large ..number of New Zealand scientists will also attend the congress. ; At one of the meetings there will be a discussion on upper winds, during which the Commonwealth meteorologist, Captain Kidson, formerly a Canterbury resident, will give the results of some valuable j researches as to the circulation of winds i during cyclones. The staff at Apia observatory have forwarded valuable results of their observations, which, it is anticipated, will be of importance in connection with future navigation and will lead to an improvement in weather forecasting. ..Several interesting papers relating to the recent solar eclipse, the theory of relativity, and wireless transmission, will be read and discussed. The question of a volcano observatory for New Zealand wilt be brought up. The recent earthquakes at Taupo received some attention from New Zealand geologists and physicists but, owing to the lack of "observatory pursuing Systematic observations over a number of years, the significance of the recent disturbances remains uncertain. Several oL the Australian geologists who are visiting the congress have had an opportunity of studying the volcano observatory at Kiiauea in Hawaii, and consequently the discussion on this subject, which is being introduced by Mr. Sussmilch and Dr. Allan Thomson, is likely to lead to some practical proposals being f put forward.