SCIENCE CONGRESS.
ABORIGINAL CULTURE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 11. New Zealand is represented at the Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (the first held since 1913) by Professors Salmon and Benson. Sir Baldwin Spencer, not Professor David, is president. The presidential address dealt .mainly with the anthropology of the Australian aborigines. It declared that Australian scientists had two duties to perform, (1) to study possible aboriginal culture and (2) protection of aborigines not only from the white race, but from themselves in the new environment the whites had created and with which they were unable to cope if left to themselves. A meeting of the general council confirmed the decision to hold the next Congress at Wellington in 1923.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18074, 12 January 1921, Page 9
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121SCIENCE CONGRESS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18074, 12 January 1921, Page 9
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