BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 25

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

TOUR FOR SCIENTISTS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, June 28. Sir Ernest Rutherford, with 400 other British scientists, is travelling this summer to South Africa to take part in the annual meeting of the British Association for the advancement of science. They will arrive in Capetown in the middle of July, .and many of them will not sail for home until the beginning of September, so that their attendance at this great annual assembly of scientists will this year opeupy nearly three months of their time, as distinct from the week they spend away from their studies and laboratories when it is held in England. The meetings of the sections will open at Capetown in July and be continued at Johannesburg in early August, and when they are finished there will be tours which will take the visitors to the Victoria Falls, Bulawayo, Rhodes' grave in the Matoppos Mountains, Pretoria. Pietermaritzberg, or “ hippo ” pool at Komatipoort, allow them to spend a night in a reserve at Skukuza visit Lourenco, Marques, and see the snake park at Port Elizabeth. SIR THOMAS HOLLAND PRESIDENT. At the inaugural meeting at Capetown on Monday, July 22, Sir Thomas Holland will bo installed as president of the association. and there will he an address by Mr J. 11. Hofmeycr, the president of the South African Association. The list of subjects dis.cus.scd by the members will embrace topics as varying as “ the witch cult in modern times ’’ (Alias M. A. Murray), motor transport in undeveloped country (Sir Henry Fowler), proper motions in the Greenwich astrographic zone (Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer-Royal), the structure of the atom (Sir Ernest Rutherford). evolution (Professor Julian Huxley), the steam turbine (Sir Charles Parsons), cnucer and diet (Dr S. Monckton Copeman), and the influence of antiknocks on the combustion of hydrocarbons (Mr A. C. G. Egerton)'.