BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 3

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT, LONDON, Sept 13. Additional selections for the British Medical, Association meeting in Australia next year include Professor John 0. Arnold, Dr. Thomas Ashby, Dr. Henry Balfour, Dr. Henry Bassett, Professor T. Hudson Beare, Professor Sevan (physicist). George Carpenter (zoologist), Dr. Frederick Ohattaway, Frank Clowes, Professor Ernest Cocker, Dr. Vaughan Cornish, Professor Ernest Dalhy, Professor R. H. Frederick Dickey, Dr. Harold Dixon, Dr. Frederick Donnan, Dr. Wyndham, R. Dustan, Professor Prank IV. Dyson, Dr. Arthur Eddington, Professor George Forbes, Professor Percy Frankland,\ Professor-Hans F. Gadow, Dr. E. Gold (statistician), Professor Andrew Gray, Professor John A. Green, Professor William D. Halliburton, Professor W. Mitchinson Hicks, Dr. William Hunson (mathematician), Professor James H. Joans, Professor Frederick S. Kipping, Professor Charles H. Lees, Dr. Lowry (chemist), Professor Hector Munro MacDonald, Professor Hugh Marshall, Professor Hugh Meredith, Dr. Ben.iamin Moore, Sir Daniel Morris, Dr. John Murray (naturalist). Professor John L. Myres, Dr. Alfred Porter (physicist), Professor Edward V. Poulton, Dr. Alfred Rcndle, Dr. Sidney Reynolds Rivers (psychologist), Dr. Walter Rosenhein, Professor Robert Seharff, Professor Charles Sherrington, Professor William J. Sollas, Professor John E. A. Heggall, Dr. Johnson Symington, Dr. Jocelyn Thorpe, Professor Herbert H. Turner, Dr. Swain Vincent, Mr. Harold W. T. Wager, Dr. Augustus, D. Waller, Professor Frederick E. Weiss, Dr. Arthur S. Woodward, and Sir W'illiam Young '(mathematician). Owing to the number of applicants, a further and final selection has been deferred till October. A THEORY OF LAUGHTER. TIMES—SYDNEY SON SPECIAL CABLES. ,v LONDON, Sept. 14. At tho British Association meeting, Dr. M'Dougall, of Oxford, submitted a new theory of laughter. Ho argued that laughter was primarily and fundamentally tiie antidote of sympathy. Sympathetic were of tho first importance for social life, but it was serious disadvantage if each man had to suffer all those minor pains from which his fellows ailed. The culrainativo effect of many slight pains would seriously lower vitality; hence social, habits required an antidote or preventive to these sympathetic pains. Nature therefore created laughter as a protective reaction against them. THE PRODUCTION OF WHEAT. TIMES —SYI/KEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. (Received Sept. 15, 8.0 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14. Speaking at tho meeting of the British Association, Professor Dixon, said it was clear that tho available proportion of the world’s wheat supply from extensive sources had’ been reached, and the supply must depend in future upon intensive farming, with its greater demands on labour. The 242 million acres at present under wheat might be increased to three hundred, thus the earth might finally bo able to feed permanently a thousand million wheat-eaters. Intensive cultivation would caijse greater equalisation in the distribution of 1 population.