SCIENCE LEADERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22461, 3 July 1936, Page 13

SCIENCE LEADERS

ASSOCIATION MEETING

AUCKLAND NEXT YEAR

FIRST TIME IN DOMINION

When it assembles in Auckland at the beginning of next year, the Australian and Now Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science will be meeting in the Dominion for the first time, all other conferences having been held in Australia. The gathering, which will be the society's 23rd, will begin on January 12 and continue for several days. The first circular issued by the society to give information about the meeting contains the names of the elected officers of the society and of those appointed officers for the meeting.

Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia, and Lord Galway, GovernorG Miera! of New Zealand, are the patrons. The president is Sir Douglas Mawson, famous as an Antarctic explorer, and the president-elect is Sir David Rivett, deputy-chairman and chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Local Officials In addition to the usual officers, two local honorary secretaries and a local honorary treasurer for the Auckland meeting have been appointed. Professor C. Coleridge Farr, whose retirement troin the Chair of Physics at Canterbury College was recently announced, and .Mr. Gilbert Arcliey, Director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, are the secretaries and Mr. A. T. Pycroft, also of the Auckland Museum, is the treasurer. Already the president, a number of vice-presidents, and the secretaries of the various scientific interests have been appointed. These officors have been drawn from all over Australia and New Zealand, from universities, museums, scientific institutes, libraries, Government departments and professions. Altogether, 128 appointments have been made. t Some Notable Men The presidents of the sections are:— Astronomy, mathematics, and physics, Professor J. P. V. Madsen, University of Sydney; chemistry, Professor A. Killen Macbeth, University of Adelaide; geology, Dr. W. G. Woolnough, Department of the Interior, Canberra; zoology, Dr. G. A. Waterhouse, Science House, Sydney; history, Mr. K. R. Kramp, Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney; anthropology, Mr. A. S. Kenyon, Melbourne Public Library; economics, statistics and social science, Professor T. Hytten, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney; engineering and architecture, Sir Henry Barraclough, University of Sydney; medical science and national health. Dr. A. R. Southwood, chairman of the Central Board of Health, Adelaide; education, psychology and philosophy. Professor Alexander Gunn, University of Melbourne; agriculture and forestry, Professor J. A. Prescott, Waite Agricultural Research Institute. South Australia; veterinary science, Dr. J. A. Gilruth, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Melbourne; botany, Mr. Edwin Cheel, Botanic Gardens. Sydney: physiology and experimental biology, Professor C. Stanton Hicks, University of Adelaide; pharmaceutical science, Mr. B. L. Stanten, Melbourne; geography and oceanography. Dr. C. T. Madigan, Blackwood, South Australia.