SCIENCE CONGRESS.
LONDON, September 10. In addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science on “Can We Harness the Atom V’ Professor Richardson declared that Sir Ernest Rutherford's discoveries at Cambridge had made the artificial transmutation of chemical elements an established fact. if atomic energy could be intensified and controlled there would be an illimitable supply of power transcending anything hitherto known. September 14. The British Association concluded one of its most memorable gatherings at Edin-
| burgh. It will meet in Hull in 1922, at i Liverpool in 1923, and probably in Canada lin 1924. The president (Sir Edward Thorpe), in his concluding address, said that the proceedings had shown that science was on the verge of a great new epoch. There was no question of science being now at the parting of the ways. In the immediate future the foundations of science would receive fundamental development.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3523, 20 September 1921, Page 16
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