SCIENCE CONGRESS
ASTRONOMY AND BIRDS
PROGRESS OF RESEARCH
VANCOUVER. Juno 9
Describing the work of all the Australian observatories, Mr. W. 1L Runnier, of Canberra, told the Pacific Science Congress to-day of co-operation effected with the Java stations in the studving of selected stars. Professor J. A. Prescott, of Adelaide Universitv, discussed the Australian wheat belt and problems of nitrogen SU Mr~ T. S. Palmer, of the United States Biological Survey Department, urged greater co-operation and extended legislative protection of birds in the Pacific Ocean. He pointed out that knowledge of bird life had advanced greatly, but stated that observers on the Pacific coasts of Canada, the United States, Japan and Australia were too few and too widely separated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21515, 12 June 1933, Page 9
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119SCIENCE CONGRESS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21515, 12 June 1933, Page 9
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