HOUSE OF SCIENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 16

HOUSE OF SCIENCE.

BIG NATIONAL SCHEME. “*“■ in one n.w buil'dinfat W«Lf“' by S5S£ U^sa IM?*fa^js3 1 M?*fa^js3 *? *u e . cei ? tral building tween f the C^ r i ID! f-fi he c, ? se aSsocia tion between the scientific societies of the indnstoies which has already been achieved in r oceSß ., of realisation in r ranee. The building will have » lnr<ra SuT?OMO l ”1 h * U f d • „A n , hi ® address Professor Thorpe spoke .on. Itarnod during lh/™ “ tion ™ r f c 9‘°P era tion or rationalisawhh l v 8 groups dealing wun related subjects to join interests It s&r “" «»*»- «•« 2» ifd witness a struggle for supremacy in scient lie effort and in the industrial apnllcaScience -throughout the world b f even more intense than was the struggle between the contending tho war ‘ Jt niuet be recog- * B ?P ar .ation into isolated the organisation dealing with th» scientific and technical development of the inrf 1C fh ndUS - r l? 9 was not in necordance with the existing state of scientific knowledge, and that the nation and Emnot utilise to the full the forces i 6 ?* ,i ln • th , er ? UI 3^ SS some scheme could be devised by which close co-opera-effected tW6en tbeee erou P ß could be The need was urgent, because other nations, notably the French, were actively engaged in co-ordinating their chemical activities, and the Americana already had their chemists’ club in New York.' Unless, therefore, something -was done, and that quickly, they would be handicapped In the atruggle.