SCIENCE CONGRESS
VISITORS TO AUCKLAND SYDNEY MUSEUM OFFICIALS SYDNEY, Dec. 26 Eight scientists from the Sydney Museum, including the president, Mr. F. S. Mance, and the director, Dr. C. Anderson, will attend the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science to be opened at Auckland on January 12.
Mr. F. S. Mance has been undersecretary of the New South Wales Department of Mines since 1924. He was born in July, 1872, and joined the department in 1890. He is chairman of the New South Wales State Mines' Control Board. Dr. C. Anderson, who was born in Scotland in 1.879, previously had charge of the Ben Nevis observatory. He went to Australia in 1901 to take control of the mineralogical department of the Sydney Museum, of which he was appointed director in 1921.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 9
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