AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 162, 14 August 1914, Page 9

AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.

EN ROUTE FOR AUSTRALIA. Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 13. There arrived by the E.M.S. Tahiti from San Francisco to-day a group of distinguished American scientific men who have come to attend the meetings of the British Association -which are to be held in Australia. They are:—Professor Ira Runsen, ex-president of the Johns Hopkins University, an eminent chemist and the discoverer of saccharine, also a writer of text-books on chemistry which are in general use throughout the civilised world; Dr C. B. Davenport, director of the Department of Evolution at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a recognised authority on evolution,' who first studied the subject by experimental methods and who will probably speak in New Zealand upon the question of eugenics in the United States; Dr L. H. Bailey, for a long period the director of the School of Agriculture at Cornell University and now chairman of the Roosevelt Country Life Commission, a leading authority in America on agriculture who has published many books on the subject that fyave been very widely read; Dr W. Wheeler, professor of Economic Entomology at Harvard University, head of the Graduate School of Applied Biology, Plant Breeding and Animal Breeding, and working in connection with the Agricultural Bureau of the United States; Professor Conklin, professor of biology at Princeton University, New York, who. has made important studies of the early development of the cell of the fertilised egg with a reference to heredity; Professor Hanus, professor of education at Harvard University, who was in charge of the Commission of Industrial Education organised by the United States Government some years ago.