SCIENTISTS' CONGRESS
THE- CANBERRA GATHERING. NINE HUNDRED DELEGATES CANBERRA, Jan. 11. (Received Jan. 12, at 0.5 a.m.) Wearing tropical suits and carrying their coats on their arms, 900 scientists assembled for their big congress to-day in a super-heated atmosphere. It was said that only the meteorologists and the solar radiation experts and students of thermal activity revealed in the heat, which was well over lOOdeg. Canberra has never housed a more distinguished aggregation of scientists. The presidential address by Professor Scott was delivered in Albert Hall to-night on "The History of Australian Science."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 9
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