SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10550, 15 January 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

United Press Association.—By Elec trie Telegraph Copyright. Melbourne, January 14.

The Congress adopted recommendations that in view of the rapid decrease of Australian aborigines it is the interests of science to secure further records illustrative of their beliefs and customs, favouring the strict enforcement of the law against the indiscriminate export of scientific specimens. The Congress appointed a committee to consider the best means of securing the £efficient teaching of English pronunciation in Australian Universities, colleges, and schools. Dr. Love, in a paper dealing with the North. Mount Lyell disaster, said a' large number of the victims lay peacefully with their heads pillowed on their arms and their bodies composed as for sleep. Others at the air-boxes with the air playing on their dead faces, their eyes bright, cheeks rosy, and lips cherry red as those of healthy infants.

Dr. Purdy, Chief Health Officer of Tasmania, stated that it was probable .that as the result of the disaster, recommendations of the Transvaal mining regulations commission of 1910 would be adopted throughout Australasia, and would include proT ision for one oxygen knapsack and pump, airmask, and oxygen breathing apparatus of improved type for each miner. Professor David claimed that in the importance of the papers the value of the work done was unsurpassed by any previous Congress.