AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS' VIEWS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12474, 26 February 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS' VIEWS.

(Received Feb 26, 0.40 a.m.) Melbourne, Feb 25. Mr Barrachi, Government Astronomer, referring to Professor Hecker's discovery^ said tliat Professor Hecker was at one time in Australia taking observations of the Pacific, to determine qiiestions relative to variations in gravity. Professor Hecker informed' him that the instrument he had made had been in position since 1902, and- accurate records of the minutest variations had been obtained by means of photography. " Mr Barrachi added that such discoveries as Professor Hecker's may have a--: most profound bearing upon our knowledge of earthquakes, .and would possibly enable scientists to anticipate; dreadful calamities.